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The Great North Logistical Headache - Editorial - MSKMag Issue 34 · MSKMag OutLoud

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  SPEAKER_00: The Great North Logistical Headache.
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  SPEAKER_00: An editorial by me, Felicity Thau.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here in the North East of England, we are emerging from Great North Run season.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hosting the biggest half marathon in the world on our doorstep naturally creates
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  SPEAKER_00: a few more new patient appointments and a little less space on the path
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  SPEAKER_00: of your regular running route.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have done the Great North Run once, two years ago.
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  SPEAKER_00: This was also my final time doing the Great North Run,
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  SPEAKER_00: mostly because of the associated Great North logistical headache.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do not let me put you off.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is a fantastic event with a great atmosphere and tens of thousands of runners
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  SPEAKER_00: in turn raising hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity.
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  SPEAKER_00: However, in my experience, the Great North Run is one very demanding thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Great North Portaloque is quite another.
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  SPEAKER_00: Same to the Great North return bus journey, or if,
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  SPEAKER_00: unlike me,
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  SPEAKER_00: you haven't seriously pissed off your IT band and fancy it,
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  SPEAKER_00: the Great North walk to South Shields Metro Station,
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  SPEAKER_00: followed by the Great North standing room only trip back to Newcastle in the shadow
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  SPEAKER_00: of a fellow runner's Great North armpit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, I understand that an A to B half marathon route is naturally going
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  SPEAKER_00: to place you 13.1 miles away from where you started,
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  SPEAKER_00: but unfortunately what I didn't reckon with We're standing for an hour in
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  SPEAKER_00: the pouring rain in the 2024 starting pen,
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  SPEAKER_00: then an arduous 21 kilometres,
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  SPEAKER_00: then boarding what turned out to be Harry Potter's night bus,
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  SPEAKER_00: realised namely when we were practically scaling the walls of tunnels at speed,
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  SPEAKER_00: and then hammered home
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  SPEAKER_00: when I threw up some electrolytes I would rather have kept myself
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  SPEAKER_00: into my hastily emptied goodie bag.
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  SPEAKER_00: Despite the best efforts of Ernie Prang and Stan Shunpike,
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  SPEAKER_00: This journey took the same 2 hour 22 minute duration that it took me to go in
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  SPEAKER_00: the opposite direction on foot.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mention the half marathon only briefly on purpose because it was eclipsed by
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  SPEAKER_00: the logistics of the day.
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  SPEAKER_00: You deserve a medal for braving the whole day, start to finish.
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  SPEAKER_00: You deserve a new technical t-shirt for making it back home, plus or minus some bodily fluids.
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  SPEAKER_00: In this month's MSK Mag,
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  SPEAKER_00: our articles talk about the smallness of a singular appointment and
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  SPEAKER_00: the patient's label, such as runner or tight scar.
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  SPEAKER_00: The pelvic floor that has placed you back at the end of
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  SPEAKER_00: the aforementioned Great North Port de Luque, but that no one taught you about.
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  SPEAKER_00: How we can run small business hustles alongside our full-time jobs and family lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the breadth and depth of how to seek or provide a good second opinion when
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  SPEAKER_00: that singular appointment isn't going to plan.
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  SPEAKER_00: It always struck me as bizarre that sports medicine
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  SPEAKER_00: and musculoskeletal specialties deal with pain and dysfunction from head to toe in
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  SPEAKER_00: the human body,
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  SPEAKER_00: opens Gronje Donnelly,
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  SPEAKER_00: yet offer little health literacy or inclusion of the pelvic floor.
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  SPEAKER_00: In her piece,
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  SPEAKER_00: Healthcare's Best Kept Secret,
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  SPEAKER_00: The Pelvic Floor,
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  SPEAKER_00: Gronje addresses the much neglected anatomy that feels forgotten in the big event.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jonathan Bell and Claire Robertson team up to write first-rate,
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  SPEAKER_00: second opinions and share how to both ask for and provide a good one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can we follow the thread far enough back to tell why a race isn't going to plan?
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  SPEAKER_00: In Scar Skepticism,
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  SPEAKER_00: Hannah Poulton takes on the evidence to address whether there is a merit
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  SPEAKER_00: in soft tissue therapy for the treatment of scars.
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  SPEAKER_00: In an area where clinicians tend to be firmly based on one side of the argument or
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  SPEAKER_00: the other,
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  SPEAKER_00: Hannah will stretch your brain wider than the felling bypass to see
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  SPEAKER_00: the bigger picture.
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  SPEAKER_00: In an article that fits my metaphor better than most,
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  SPEAKER_00: Aidan O'Flaherty shares what he has learned from treating runners
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  SPEAKER_00: and teaching other clinicians in his running injuries course.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not just about the ITB or the Achilles,
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  SPEAKER_00: but getting into the runner psyche of the human being wedged into the trainers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Read more in Running Injury Rehab.
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  SPEAKER_00: The diagnosis is only part of the story.
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  SPEAKER_00: And finally,
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  SPEAKER_00: our own Jack March is well known for his main events,
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  SPEAKER_00: Ops Lead at Physio Matters, an organiser of Therapy Live and our masterclasses.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what about the working parts in the background that contribute
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  SPEAKER_00: to his additional business, rheumatology.physio?
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  SPEAKER_00: Incorporating some relationship as well as business advice,
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  SPEAKER_00: check it out in Every Day I'm Hustlin'.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so, as medals are hung up and training cycles are wound down,
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  SPEAKER_00: it's clear that the finish line was never the full story.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was about the training, the effort and the getting home again.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the same in the clinic room and this month's authors are all asking
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  SPEAKER_00: the same question in different postcodes.
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  SPEAKER_00: What's going on behind the small picture,
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  SPEAKER_00: the singular appointment, the singular label and the singular diagnosis?