I Wish I Had Looked After My Teeth …
Care Of The Old Choppers. Teeth you query? We’re going to talk about teeth? Perhaps I should explain. The reason I began writing this book was through curiously as to whether I could be healthier now in my later years if I had done the right stuff when I was younger … and then you start having problems […]
Lyme Disease
Justin Bieber isn’t the most obvious person to get spoken about in this blog but his recent revelation that he is suffering from Lyme Disease sparked my curiosity as to what this condition involved and, as it transpires, it’s worth knowing about – especially if you enjoy activities out in the countryside or just find […]
Sepsis
PC Matt Jackson’s foot injury (above) – incurred when chasing after someone and discovering that the metal spikes on the fence he was clambering over were positioned halfway up as well as on the top – gives us the ideal opportunity to discuss sepsis. All Bobbies should have an awareness of this life-threatening condition not […]
Knees
One of the main chapters in our book on officer health is about exercise and what we can do to maintain our bodies while avoiding injury. The chapter consists of a long Q & A between Darren and police physiotherapist Mark Heffernan about all kinds of issues. In the extract below they talk about those […]
How to survive your police career
Kent Police Sergeant Darren Moor has just published what he hopes may be the ultimate guide to health for fellow officers and front-line civilian staff. “I began writing the book out of curiosity – what habits could I have adopted when I first joined the service back in 1990 which would have left me in […]
Underactive Thyroid
One of the chapters in our police health book is called “… I Thought I Felt Run Down Because Of the Shifts …” and discusses various serious conditions where fatigue is a factor but can be left undiagnosed in officers who think they are just knackered from never-ending shift work. Underactive Thyroid should be of […]
More From HTSYPC About Skin Cancer And How To Lower Your Risk
In this second blog we going to begin by talking about Melanoma and then describe some simple ways we can lower our risk generally of skin cancer. Melanoma is a condition which differs from its non-melanoma cousin in that it can spread much easier to other parts of the body (although non-melanoma can spread, that risk is […]
Skin Cancer And How To Lower Your Risk 1
Yep, HTSYPC Has Noticed That The Sun Is Out And Everyone Is Going On Leave … When I was a kid growing up during the 1970s and nothing could harm you, my family used to enjoy long camping trips around the South of France in our Bedford Dormobile – we were posh like that. A […]
Inspector Montalbano
Can we just take a moment to mourn the passing of Andrea Camilleri, the creator of the wonderful Inspector Montalbano – a police officer who lives in a house on the beach of a beautiful Sicilian village, swims every morning before work in the warm Ionian ocean, somehow manages to look good even though he’s lost all […]
…In Mice
How many times do you read headlines in the papers or social media about new research which suggests that something lowers the risk of cancer, dementia or heart disease while something else apparently raises the risk of diabetes, stroke or whatever the medical concern is this week, but then discover that this is just some initial findings of a […]