Posts by Russell Brown
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Yes, oversuse or repetiviely straining a part of the body may be said to "cause it" but what is the thing that drives it to happen inside the body???
Top question. But not a reason to, as some people would, scorn the idea of a condition at all.
So maybe the doctors, specialists etc are taking the correct approach of first doing no harm?? (And yes, I will concede that too many painkillers may end up doing harm anyway). Rocks and hard places come to mind.
But what if doctors recommend a treatment you don't approve of, as the one quoted by the BBC did? You're in danger of trusting in doctors only so long as they refrain from saying something you disagree with.
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Russell, do you intend do give me a better idea of just what it is that i do wrong here, how i sin so quickly and ineluctably, or do you not?
I just don't have the energy for you. But if you're so offended by it, just stop posting.
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Not so much a father as a corporate pimp.
And a violent abuser with it.
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I read in the Anton article that it has been a "condition" since 1872 so according to him there is probably little dispute that it is one.
Okay. I did wonder, given your previous post. You seemed quite close to suggesting that it was an imaginary condition. I'm still not sure why you needed the quote marks there ...
My view is that just because a cause has not been found, that should not automatically invoke a need to find an "alternative approach".
That wasn't what I was saying, at all. But ... if further clinical studies (in addition to the one I cited) repeatedly found relief of symptoms from this distressing condition whose causes we don't understand, even though we also don't really understand why the treatment works ... would you still inveigh against it on principle?
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your slamming of 'Big News', and your inveigh against the BBC generally is somewhat demeaning; to you I mean.
Steady on. I love the BBC. But it's a fact that the BBC makes and commissions a great deal of excellent factual programming that other public broadcasters can't even buy because of the way its commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, operates.
Good documentaries will only be available as part of unattractive packages, or, more often, not available at all. I'm thinking of the Storyville strand (the three-parter 'The World's Biggest Chinese Restaurant' is simply brilliant) and Alan Yentob's long-running Imagine arts strand.
We're finally to get old(!) episodes of Friday Night With Jonathan Ross bunged on UKTV on Sky, though. Whoopee.
The whole sales system is basically broken.
I live in China and can tell you that the internet is a saviour; but, the BBC ranks equal if not higher, to my students and me; I listen to the BBC World Service daily, along with more than two hundred million others. What planet do you live on?
Again, steady on. The discussion wasn't about the merits of news networks per se, but about their consumer value as part of a Sky subscription.
I do pay for Sky, but BBC World is the only news channel I watch much. CNN is mostly tedious and Fox News is strictly for ironic entertainment.
Basically, unless there's a major news event on, I'm more likely to consume those channels via the internet on a story-by-story basis. But that's just me.
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P, please chill out. I think you have adequately pursued whatever point it was you had.
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I do worry that people who are in your already unbundled areas (ahem Russell ahem) don't appreciate that cabinets are effectively shutting many of the rest of us from possibly ever getting access to VDSL/etc goodness - without jumping ship that is
I'm getting cabinet-y goodness from Vodafone, as it happens, reselling Telecom goodness. Although I take your point that if Vodafone and Orcon can get cabinet access on reasonable terms, the extra-special VDSL goodness will come much sooner.
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BSD rating? I would give it 7/10. Seems to be a "regarded collection of the conventional medical fraternity" and a good list of apparent (needs checking though) references.
Checking the references and knowing what to look for is certainly the hard part, and ultimately beyond my skills.
But is this a "we don't really understand what causes the symptoms so the condition therefore can't exist" discussion? Like OOS?
That just doesn't seem very fruitful when actual doctors are telling people they have frozen shoulder, on the basis of a recognised set of symptoms, and prescribing very strong painkillers for it.
Besides, it mentions TENS and is therefore invalid ;-)
Also in the discussion that the article has " very few references of no relevance whatsoever and totally ignoring national health associations guidelines."
BSD rating: I would reluctantly give 1/10.
The condition can't exist because the Wikipedia article isn't very good? Righto ...
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Ralston v Cook, the techno mix:
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But, somehow, NZIFF programmer Sandra Reid brings home the reality-based bacon year after year. What the hell is up with that -- is it really that they can't do it, or they're not even trying?
As regards programming thathas appeared in BBC, it seems to me that the whole damn system is broken. I routinely drive the TVNZ 7 programmer mad by telling her all the stuff I've got that she can't even buy from BBC Worldwide (which is too busy selling ballroom dancing show formats to actually care).
Your best hope is that such things will turn up years later at midnight on a pay channel. But they probably won't.
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