Patryk is my new physio treating my scoliosis. We are having sometrouble trying to teach him about my ME though. I'm sure he means wellbut its a difficult juggling act trying to manage two conditions with completely different treatment requirements; with Scoliosis yoursupposed to undergo extensive physio to correct the bone structurewhilest one of the basic symptoms of ME is a very negative responce to overexertion.
He was hoping that a gradual increase in exercise might actually help my ME as typically in ordinary people who are recovering from illness it does due to increased blood flow, etc. However in my long
experience of ME this is not the case for me!
We had trouble persuading him to do home visits at all as I'm not well enough for car drives atm. He didn't think he could do a proper job at my house. However we have managed to persuade and hopefully it'll only be tempory. I hope he is pleased with the little recommended exercises I have managed to do
Saturday, 16 July 2011
Sunday, 10 July 2011
The welfare of lab animals
Even if the XRMV scandal hasn't successfully proved anything about the cause and genuiness of ME (as furthur studies and reports keep saying the original study was faulty), it has certainly proven in my mind how inefficiant biomedical research using animals is.
a) Because of the risk of contamination
b) because of the risk of animal disease spreading to humans
The UK government is currently holding a public consultation on how to implement a new EU Directive into UK law.
Not only is vivisection inefficiant if this EU Directive was translated word for word into UK law it could lower lab animals welfare due to the fact the spefications of the directive are lower than current UK standards. To quote the RSPCA 'animals may undergo more suffering and pain, inhumane methods of killing may be allowed and many labs could go years without being inspected! We cannot let this happen!
The government could easily allow our higher standards to remain, however we believe they are cutting standards just to reduce regulation!'
Please voice your opinion on this important issue before 5th of September, even if you agree with vivisection!
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/cons-2009-animals-research/
a) Because of the risk of contamination
b) because of the risk of animal disease spreading to humans
The UK government is currently holding a public consultation on how to implement a new EU Directive into UK law.
Not only is vivisection inefficiant if this EU Directive was translated word for word into UK law it could lower lab animals welfare due to the fact the spefications of the directive are lower than current UK standards. To quote the RSPCA 'animals may undergo more suffering and pain, inhumane methods of killing may be allowed and many labs could go years without being inspected! We cannot let this happen!
The government could easily allow our higher standards to remain, however we believe they are cutting standards just to reduce regulation!'
Please voice your opinion on this important issue before 5th of September, even if you agree with vivisection!
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/cons-2009-animals-research/
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