Gardening leaving you sore?

Perfect your posture!


Here's a piece to get you wondering about gardening, sitting, walking, housework & other challenges to the pelvis & spine.

Unusual as it sounds, the source of this piece on posture is one of UK's national newspapers, but we include it as an interest piece as it includes the risks of gardening as summer beckons. In such spirits did a couple of SPACE personnel meet over at the Gardening Show at Ingliston at the weekend amongst the exotic & the colourful exhibits on show such as these Ladys Slippers or Lilies! 

So if Weeding, digging, raking, planting and sowing all give you backache then take a look at the positions involved-often it's a bent-over posture which is held for prolonged periods whilst you tend the garden.

Come on down to SPACE in Edinburgh's West End to see how you can still look after or makeover the garden or patio but in a more comfortable manner, and learn some tips-on posture of course rather than gardening!

Great Anatomy

What a great day!

Superb learning event at the University of Glasgow Anatomy Dept sponsored by Knee & Shoulder Institute (KSI) under the tutelage of Professor Gordon Mackay.

A full house of about twenty including those seen here, Ross, Stephen, Stuart & Gordon himself, spent the day in theatre scrubs with cadavers investigating knees & shoulder or with the excellent Quinten Fogg with his anthropological and functional take on anatomy.

We learned of the role of supraspinatus in maintaining the head of humerus in gravity situations, the 3 sections to the subscapularis, the fascial sleeve of the lower leg, and the similarities of the pelvis of the male and female!

Finally the day was completed by Dominic Byrne. He dissected around the inguinal ring & conjoined tendon whilst showing exactly where the invagination of the scrotum takes the index finger when testing for sportsman's hernia. He demonstrated where the mesh would be placed, and that it would be likely to suffer 50% shrinkage.

So a great day all round. Thanks to all concerned. We can all look forward to Quinten's book in future as well as the next KSI anatomy roadshow!