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Please stop telling people with osteoporosis not to lift anything heavy... I've heard it from docs, PTs, Trainers, etc... This might seem protective... but it's not. This risk calculation... A hip fracture in an older adult carries a one-year mortality rate of roughly 25 percent. Half of those who survive never walk independently again. That is the cost of fragility. The risk of a well-supervised, progressively loaded heavy (80-85% 1RM) strength program (LIFTMOR) is a muscle strain or a bruise. These are not equivalent risks, and treating them as equivalent, as avoidance does, is not caution. It is a decision to accept the larger risk in order to avoid the smaller one.

We have much to learn from children. Two victories: she won the match and she won when she transformed her opponent's sadness into a smile.

Joachim Trier, Danish-Norwegian filmmaker, who won an Oscar, "The world is at a moment where we are getting more information ever about the wrongdoings made towards children, with several wars going on at the moment" "I have two small kids, and to be personal for a moment" "Me and most of the people around me have been crying a lot, weekly, daily, feeling incapable of doing stuff" "Because we're seeing Palestinian children suffer" "We're seeing people in Ukraine suffer" "People in Sudan suffer" "There doesn't seem to be any accountability at the moment" "I can mention many other conflicts" "Any child that dies at war is a responsibility for all adults that elect politicians" "Dictatorships. We're in a time of strong men. What happened during the Holocaust during WWII" "My grandfather was a resistance fighter during the war" "When you're young, you think these things are far away in time, but actually, they happened quite recently and it happens again and again" "As an artist, I'm not a politician, but I do believe that we need to be more collaborative about how we protect children in conflict situations and in society in general"

@IFTA @NiamhDelmar1 @DisneyPlus @DisneyStudios @20thCenturyUK @IrelandinLA @ScreenIreland @NIScreen Congrats 🙌 👏

A huge congratulations to Ireland’s own Richard Baneham, now a three-time Oscar winner, for his incredible VFX work on Avatar: Fire & Ash! 💚

@lgatesphoto Lovely 💚💚💙💙

Boss morning at the new kit launch. Great gear ☘️

Lindsey Vonn was determined to send a message of support to USA team-mate Breezy Johnson... even when waiting to be airlifted to the hospital 🥹❤️

Thanks to all the Pulse Triathlon volunteers for making today’s event possible 👍. Congrats to Karen Seoighe on her 100th parkrun 👏👏. She is pictured with her family, who all made signs for the special occasion 😊😊! For a look at the results, see here: parkrun.ie/corkagh/result…

Hope to see you all tomorrow! Pulse Triathlon are taking over for the morning 😊. In the meantime, take a look at Nadia’s run report from last week: parkrun.ie/corkagh/news/

@DrJN_SportsMed Wow! So interesting.

Consent ✅ Runner - Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDS) and prior eating disorder High grade calcaneal stress fracture (with almost completed fracture line) - see MRI image Immobilised in Aircast boot (ACB) for prolonged period based on persistent heel pain, despite follow up MRI showing appropriate healing and regression of bone marrow oedema Patient adamant nature and location of pain now different Now - burning, ‘horseshoe shape’ around heel and radiating into lateral plantar foot (see patient's pain map; red - medial, blue - lateral) Finally, out of AirCast boot and off crutches after third MRI - but pain persisting on return to longer walks and jogging Found amitriptyline helpful in modifying what is clearly neuropathic pain in the interim OE - Calcaneal squeeze negative Tinel’s along lateral plantar nerve (LPN) and anteromedial heel (Baxter’s nerve (BN) inferior calcaneal nerve course) very provocative Images from first MRI (axial T2s) show LPN oedema and possibly BN which are immediately adjacent to the areas of calcaneal periostitis and inflammation POCUS video of hydrodissection with low potency soluble dexamethasone and local anaesthetic (note - LPN thickened at point of maximal tenderness, provoked with hockey stick probe pressure) As injecting – “Ouch! that’s the exact pain I’ve been having” At follow up pain intensity reduced by 60-70% despite tentatively weaning off amitriptyline For second hydrodissection, this time with 5DW

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@NiecyOKeeffe Good luck 🤞

Back to the hospital tomorrow to have more needles stuck into me. Sick o’this shit. Just tell me I’m fucked and leave me alone. 🙅‍♀️ But sure fuck it, I’ll have a day out. 😂

@DrJN_SportsMed Wow! Very thorough. Great case.

Consent✅ Gaelic football Longstanding posterior pain - epicentre is principally inferomedial Achilles Several pain 'culprits' on clinical assessment, MRI and ultrasound - Plantaris compressive tendinopathy (inserts very low medially in this athlete) Insertional intrasubstance Achilles tendon tear Posterior ankle impingement - signs on MRI including os trigonum and posterior recess fluid Process is critical if covering all bases in one session (see POCUS video reel)- 1. US guided diagnostic LA injection, out-of-plane approach, to posterior ankle recess (before regional anaesthesia block which would 'cloud' the diagnostic assessment) - can just make out needle tip at the deep joint line No change in pain on calf raise and hop - therefore its not the ankle joint 2. Then tibial and sural nerve block to give good regional anaesthesia around mid and distal Achilles but to avoid motor blockade (would happen if did popliteal block more proximally) 3. Once patient completely comfortable and insensate, high volume stripping of the plantaris tendon (LS) 4. Post injection TS video shows plantaris separated from main Achilles tendon body 5. Further mini scraping procedure of the plantaris- Achilles interface with wider bore needle bevel 6. Process finished with PRP injection to intrasubstance insertional Achilles tear - can see injectate passing quite a distance proximally (these occult defects are common, including in other tendons eg lateral elbow, patella tendon & plantar fascia) Post procedure - Keep area clean & dressed (multiple needle passes) Aircast boot, small heel raise Gradual wean and re-loading of Achilles under supervision of experienced lower limb physiotherapist A lot done in 45 minutes!

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@PaulaOCal @GarethOCal Happy new year guys ❤️

Happy 2026 from @GarethOCal and I ❤️ I hope every wish, hope and dream come true for you . Thank you for your love and support in so many different ways, it means the World to both of us ❤️

🚨 The official video of the Milan–Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, with the Olympic flame arriving on a snow-covered Mount Etna, is literally goosebumps Sicily, Italy 🇮🇹

@parkinsbrea Take care Brianna x

Thank you to everyone who reached out. It will take some time to process that night and my thoughts are with the victims and their families. I’m grateful to the good people I work with, who went in when everyone else was running out to do their job and do it well.

@irishelt That is just lovely ❤️

Me and the boys went for dinner last night in the Green Isle hotel. As we were ordering, a man was in front getting his own dinner. When I went to pay I was told the man paid for dessert for the boys. I went over to say thanks and he explained that he has two lads himself and

@sophiegrenham Lovely! Enjoy!

We just paid €6 for two glasses of wine. It feels like it's the year 2000 again.