Richard Doran-Sherlock Osteopathy

30/09/2026

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“It took me years to fully appreciate the value of the lessons I have learned from the Iron. I used to think that it was my adversary, that I was trying to lift that which does not want to be lifted. I was wrong. When the Iron doesn’t want to come off the mat, it’s the kindest thing it can do ...

30/09/2026

Over the next month or so, I’m going to be working with a friend to develop my website to include a blog, through which I will be uploading all of my writing, alongside details of other projects and activities – I increasingly find social media platforms more grating, and wish to spend less time on spaces underpinned by algorithms! My newsletter is going out later today, this month’s topics include:

• Taming the Endless Scroll
• Harmful Words in Chronic Pain
• Expectation and Pain Sensation
• Calcium, Vitamin D and Fracture Risk
• Cornerstone of Healthy Ageing: Preserving Skeletal Muscle
• Urban Woodlands and Mental Health in Scotland
• Impacts of Climate-driven Yield Changes on the Affordability of Healthy Diets

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31/08/2026

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It has been a long summer in many regards – recent events in Ireland, Europe, and around the world have highlighted that our health does not exist independently from that of the environment. Several of the papers I’ve read in the last few weeks consolidate that belief, and at once offer both a s...

31/08/2026

Recent extreme events throughout Ireland, Europe, and the world have brought the impact of climate change on human health to light in ways which are hard to ignore. This month’s newsletter (going out later today) includes several papers which touch on this topic, from the impact of elevated CO2 emissions on blood chemistry, to sustainable approaches towards back pain management.
This month’s newsletter incudes
• Environmentally Sustainable Approaches to Musculoskeletal Rehab
• Environmental Physiotherapy for Chronic Spinal Pain Management: An International Modified Delphi Study
• Climate Change and Blood Chemistry
• Genetic Architecture of Fibromyalgia
• The Link Between Exposure to Traumatic Stress and Chronic Pain: The Mediation Effect of Hyperarousal Is Moderated by Sensitivity to Pain Traumatization
• Placebo Sleep – why wearables aren’t all that great
• Physical Activity and Dementia Risk
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31/07/2026

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“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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