Richard Doran-Sherlock Osteopathy

31/07/2026

Richard Doran-Sherlock Osteopathy Newsletter -

“A thousand days of training to develop, ten thousand days of training to polish. You must examine all this well.” ― Miyamoto Musashi 1584-1645

31/07/2026

I’ll be sending out my monthly newsletter today – this month’s topics include:

• Minimum Effective Doses for Longevity
• Ultraprocessed Food and Obesity
• Pluralism over Holism
• Acoustic Environments on Chronic Pain
• ACEs and Chronic Pain
• Beyond Biomechanics
• LIFTMOR Bone Density Study
• High Impact Physical Activity and Hip Replacements
• Asthma and Gas Stoves

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30/06/2026

Just putting together the finishing touches on this month’s newsletter – should go out later today.

This Month’s Edition:
• Risk factors for Achilles Tendonopathy in Runners
• Mindfulness Interventions for Adolescents with Chronic Pain
• Physical Activity, Obesity, and Chronic Pain
• Pain Biomarkers
• Ambient Air Pollution and Musculoskeletal Diseases
• Structural Determinants of Health – Physiotherapists (and Osteopaths, etc) can’t be Apolitical
• The Metaphor of Rewiring and Neuroplasticity

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29/05/2026

Going out this evening, this month’s newsletter covers some recent papers which provoke a challenge – there is a significant drain on the Irish health service’s budget and resources from procedures for pain which don’t seem to be based in good evidence. We urgently need better systems of care.

This Month’s Edition:
• Calcium & Vitamin D supplementation for reducing fall and fracture risk?
• Health Care Providers and Muscle Strengthening Exercises
• Partial Knee Meniscectomy Surgery
• Shoulder Pain: arthroscopic subacromial decompression
• Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS) – the new name for Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)
• Nootropics: Methylene Blue ?
• Cardiologists: how to avoid a heart attack

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30/04/2026

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“Many of the dangers we face indeed arise from science and technology—but, more fundamentally, because we have become powerful without becoming commensurately wise. The world-altering powers that technology has delivered into our hands now require a degree of consideration and foresight that has...

30/04/2026

This month’s newsletter includes a short reflection from a recent seminar, and a bunch of papers I’ve read in the last few weeks which have either motivated deeper thinking or conveniently confirm my biases!

This Month’s Edition:
• Healthpunk
• Protection from Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain
• Exercise for Depression and Anxiety
• Medical AI
• Climate Change and Physical Inactivity
• Chrono-mechanobiology
• Auditory Hyperresponsivity with Chronic Low Back Pain
• Rotator Cuff abnormalities on MRI

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31/03/2026

Richard Doran-Sherlock Osteopathy Newsletter -

I hope that as you read this, you’re doing ok. Health is not a fixed state, it’s something which emerges from being a living entity in a society, on a planet, and global events can effect the local in deeply meaningful ways. The balance of staying informed but not overwhelmed is not one I can sp...

27/11/2025

A recent Environmental Physiotherapy Association roundtable event inspired me to write the central piece of this month’s newsletter – an argument that air pollution is a significant contributory factor to low back pain. This is a topic which is not often discussed, and I’m hoping that more people working at the intersection of planetary and human health highlight it in their work and advocacy.

Other topics include:
• The History of Stone-Lifting in Ireland
• Dealing with the Volume of Medical/Health Research
• Addressing online Medical Misinformation
• What Happens When you Swallow a Piece of Lego

Putting the finishing touches on it this evening, and sending it out tomorrow.

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