Low back pain: pause and consider to enact change Back pain is, quite frankly, a pain in the back…both for the people who have it and the community at large1. Despite its pervasive nature, care for those with back pain continues to diverge from best practice1,2. The fact that back pain care often diverges from […]
How accurate are Australia’s Health Star Ratings? Health Star Ratings I remember when I first moved to Australia, someone offered me a ‘nutritional’ drink. After my first sip of Milo (the nutritional drink), I reached across the table and looked at the packaging with the healthy, happy child playing soccer on the green package and […]
Smartwatch technology: Is it benefiting our health or doing more harm than good? The watch has been propelled into a new era by ‘smart’ technology. In the age of the omnipresent cellphone, the humble portable timepiece rapidly became more a fashion statement than a practicality. Now, smartwatches are sold as both an extension of the […]