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Key takeaways from the Home Secretary’s Statement on Asylum Reforms: 30-months permission to stay for new claims and transitional arrangements for pending cases
Oliver Oldman
4 July 2017
Mothers with Birth Injuries
A recent article appeared in the Daily Mail entitled “The great childbirth taboo” which opened up the conversation on this issue for many women. The article centred on the tears women experience after childbirth that leave them with serious injuries such as incontinence, pain and painful intercourse. Many mothers, and especially first time mothers, are not told or simply do not realise that the symptoms that they are suffering from are due to a missed or incorrectly repaired tear and instead they simply put it down to being a normal consequence of childbirth. The symptoms are so deeply personal that it is something that has been seen as too embarrassing to talk about with their GP or their families and therefore the opportunity to diagnose them gets missed. The article in the Daily Mail was a reminder that women in this situation are not alone and highlighted the importance of seeking help at the earliest opportunity.
3 July 2017
Causes of Spinal Cord Injury
This blog follows on from Richard Lodge’s first blog in the series, about the anatomy of the spine.
There are many different causes of spinal injury and this series of blogs will discuss some of the key causes. The purpose of this blog is to focus on the biggest cause of spinal injuries. Hard as it is to believe, it is actually individuals falling that makes up the most common cause of spinal cord injury
26 June 2017
Spinal Injury: an overview
Spinal Cord Injuries Awareness Day is held annually in May. One of the aims of the day was to raise awareness of the statistics concerning spinal injury (such as there are 50,000 people in the UK and Ireland living with paralysis due to a spinal cord injury) and the fact that such an injury does not mean the individual concerned has to give up.
20 June 2017
Cerebral Palsy – what do we know about the causes?
A diagnosis of cerebral palsy (CP) is usually only made after a doctor has carried out a range of specialised tests with a team of health professionals. These professionals may include neurologists, paediatricians, genetic specialists and a host of others.
22 May 2017
What price for the wind in your hair?
I recently had a conversation with an acquaintance about her choice not to wear a cycle helmet. She explained she liked the feeling of freedom, and of the wind in her hair and on her face.
