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by Gearoidmuar
14 Mar 2024, 9:45am
Forum: Health and fitness
Topic: Annoying chondromalacia patellae and then I tried...
Replies: 14
Views: 5127

I think now it IS patello femoral pain syndrome.

If I take it easy, it goes away. Effort seems to cause it. Easy miles don't really. I've done various exercises like VM strengthening, hamstring exercises, gluteal exercises etc. I think the real answer will come from the perfect saddle height. I've used the same height for decades, but maybe it's a little off.
by Gearoidmuar
3 Feb 2024, 8:31am
Forum: Health and fitness
Topic: Annoying chondromalacia patellae and then I tried...
Replies: 14
Views: 5127

Re: Annoying chondromalacia patellae and then I tried...

Definitely better.
Message:
Patellar tendinitis causes pain below kneecap, when bad, walking down stairs but also upstairs.
It differs symptomatically from chondromalacia patellae in that that will hurt also when you sit down for a while.
What worked for me was gentle squatting before and after easy cycling, gradually getting harder.
These soft tissue injuries have a common recovery pattern. They go, and recur but less severely until they're gone. So it's a kind of steps of stairs phenomenon. I've had that with this injury, with tennis elbow, with achilles tendinitis and with biceps tendinitis
by Gearoidmuar
1 Feb 2024, 8:38am
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: On pedantry?
Replies: 81
Views: 4558

Re: On pedantry?

The answer lies in the Blake Edwards movies with Peter Sellars, heard in the opening credits...

Ped-ant ped-ant ped-ant ped-ant ped-ant ped-ant ped-ant............... ped-ant...
by Gearoidmuar
30 Jan 2024, 7:30pm
Forum: Health and fitness
Topic: Annoying chondromalacia patellae and then I tried...
Replies: 14
Views: 5127

Re: Annoying chondromalacia patellae and then I tried...

Perfect today. Hard hilly route, 29 miles 1600 ft climbing. No reaction at all.
The natural course of recovering soft tissue injuries is a slanting jagged course. Hurts less and less till it hurts no more.
Like the steps of a stairs.
Took five months...
by Gearoidmuar
27 Jan 2024, 10:16am
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: Frame for Rohloff (with disc brakes)....
Replies: 30
Views: 1320

Re: Frame for Rohloff (with disc brakes)....

Brucey wrote: 25 Jan 2024, 2:33pm
rareposter wrote:.... Same with an EBB; the actual difference in seat tube angle or saddle height is in the order of fractions of a degree / millimetre.
sometimes fractions of a degree is the difference between one frame and another. I once rejected a handbuilt frame, in good part because the seat angle was 0.5 degrees out. I don't think I would like having an ECBB.
One of the ways to develop a problem is to know that it exists! I've been riding a ECBB Thorn bike for 15y and never knew till now that such an insurmountable difficulty had been caused by it!

Sometimes a chap should give himself a good shake!
by Gearoidmuar
13 Jan 2024, 10:51pm
Forum: Health and fitness
Topic: Cycling, carbs, the bonk and ketones - in that order
Replies: 26
Views: 2230

Re: Cycling, carbs, the bonk and ketones - in that order

There's fat burning as well. It's not all glucose and ketones. Training with low carb ramps fat and ketones up.
by Gearoidmuar
13 Jan 2024, 4:20pm
Forum: Health and fitness
Topic: Covid again!
Replies: 59
Views: 3790

Re: Covid again!

It's actually due to misguided interventions. Look at the food pyramid with no scientific basis and myplate etc. Advice for diabetics to eat carbs.
by Gearoidmuar
13 Jan 2024, 3:54pm
Forum: Health and fitness
Topic: Covid again!
Replies: 59
Views: 3790

Re: Covid again!

Biggest threat to public health these days is non-communicable diseases, main mechanism being pathological insulin resistance related to metabolic syndrome related to overweight related to a dreadful diet and absence of exercise. Results in increased mortality from cancers, heart disease, kidney disease, diabetes, stroke etc etc. Also this will increase severity of Covid, flu etc.
by Gearoidmuar
13 Jan 2024, 3:23pm
Forum: Health and fitness
Topic: Covid again!
Replies: 59
Views: 3790

Re: Masks don't work.

Jdsk wrote: 13 Jan 2024, 3:12pm
Gearoidmuar wrote: 10 Jan 2024, 8:01pm They just don't. If you read all the proper trials going back to before Covid, they fail. This has nothing to do with conspiracy theories or being pro or anti-vaxx etc.
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Gearoidmuar wrote: 13 Jan 2024, 8:00am In fact, most public health medical interventions don't work.
Please could you tell us what you include in that... clean drinking water, sewage, vaccination... ?

Thanks

Jonathan
Jonathan, I'm not an idiot. Was a consultant Pathologist etc.
Tell us how well dietary interventions are doing? Resoundingly well?
There is an epidemic of obesity, metabolic syndrome, mental illnesses of all types, osteoarthritis, heart disease etc.
by Gearoidmuar
13 Jan 2024, 3:05pm
Forum: Health and fitness
Topic: Covid again!
Replies: 59
Views: 3790

Re: Covid again!

What authority has Wikipedia? What it takes. It has all kinds of biases.

Many don't like Prasad because he's abrasive etc. You will also find that many who turn out to be right have been dissed in their time, if not most of them. The phenomenon which people like him smash, is the echo chamber.
Were there a value to masking, it would long ago have been confirmed.
You might say, would you have an operating theatre without masks?
Well it's been tried and the masks have no value. Do they prevent would infections? No.
by Gearoidmuar
13 Jan 2024, 2:11pm
Forum: Health and fitness
Topic: Covid again!
Replies: 59
Views: 3790

Re: Covid again!

I didn't really. There have only been two RCTs of mask wearing and Covid. Just two. One in Denmark and another in Bangladesh.
There have been loads more on Flu and on other infections. I am not uttering something which suddenly came out of my head, but the opinions of top epidemiologists in this field. Fauci e.g., is not an epidemiologist nor is Birx.
The real man to listen to in this regard is Vinay Prasad who is prof of Epid in UCLASF and has no axe to grind.
by Gearoidmuar
13 Jan 2024, 8:31am
Forum: Health and fitness
Topic: Annoying chondromalacia patellae and then I tried...
Replies: 14
Views: 5127

This persisted until a few days ago...

I'd tried everything... taking it easy, taking two weeks off, walking sideways down the stairs etc. It would come back.

Having tried the easy approach I decided to go hard at the knee itself.
I started doing Bulgarian Split squats and squatting down fully before going cycling. And after...

It's been gone for a week! Fingers crossed but I did a hard hilly route two days ago, maxing pulse at 182 and there was no reaction.
I thought I'd never get rid of this injury.
I'll let you know if it recurs, or not.
by Gearoidmuar
13 Jan 2024, 8:00am
Forum: Health and fitness
Topic: Covid again!
Replies: 59
Views: 3790

Re: Covid again!

Jdsk wrote: 12 Jan 2024, 10:51am
Gearoidmuar wrote: 12 Jan 2024, 10:42am
Jdsk wrote: 10 Jan 2024, 8:13pm There's a Cochrane Review published in January 2023:

"Do physical measures such as hand-washing or wearing masks stop or slow down the spread of respiratory viruses?"
https://www.cochrane.org/CD006207/ARI_d ... ry-viruses

To say that they just don't work greatly overstates the current level of evidence.
The evidence in such tests musn't be that you presume they work. It's the opposite. The null hypothesis.
This is highly controversial in the world of evidence-based medicine. There's also a (Bayesian) school that starts with hypotheses that seem likely to be true and sets the a priori probability accordingly.

But I don't think that this is relevant to this review or its conclusions.

And my point was about level of evidence and not overstating it when there is so much uncertainty.

Jonathan
This is not a formal comparison but these are facts, nonetheless.
Most masked country. South Korea. Also had highest percentage of population test positive.
Sweden had no masked mandates. Did as well as anyone else.

Explanation. Masks as worn by the population don't work.
In fact, most public health medical interventions don't work.
by Gearoidmuar
12 Jan 2024, 10:42am
Forum: Health and fitness
Topic: Covid again!
Replies: 59
Views: 3790

Re: Covid again!

Jdsk wrote: 10 Jan 2024, 8:13pm There's a Cochrane Review published in January 2023:

"Do physical measures such as hand-washing or wearing masks stop or slow down the spread of respiratory viruses?"
https://www.cochrane.org/CD006207/ARI_d ... ry-viruses

To say that they just don't work greatly overstates the current level of evidence.

Jonathan

Statement of interest: I've worked with one of the authors.
The evidence in such tests musn't be that you presume they work. It's the opposite. The null hypothesis.