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There are many rites of passage. Some are universal, others culture specific, or a facet of religious identity. Perhaps there are rites of passage that change over time, or are as yet unclear. When should a young person have their own mobile phone, especially when that phone is 'smart'? Perhaps that is a step too far, to see a phone as a rite of passage? Or, perhaps it signifies an erosion of the human experience of growing-up.
Mastering a bicycle is, if not a rite of passage, an experience I remember so well. An experience revisited and enjoyed even more as an adult with my own children. It really is something when the hand-lets-go, a signifier of more transitions to follow.
I learned to ride on two-wheels, in the cobbled backs that ran behind and between the rows of terraced houses. When I was aged 9-10, out on my bike I skidded and came off, trying to stop for a car. It was my fault, the driver was pretty upset too and carried me home. An X-Ray revealed I had hairline fractured of my tibia. I can remember being up so late 'The Untouchables' were on B&W TV. Back then a full-length 'pop' and crutches were required. After the pain subsided, a knitting needle was very useful. The plaster was well-scribed too. I had to attend the fracture clinic at Walton Hospital, Liverpool and still recall Dennis the ambulance gent. He was a great laugh.
Apparently, 97% of children from the richest backgrounds can ride a bike.
While only 86% of children from the poorest backgrounds are able.
This equates to 350,000 children, who would like to ride a bike but can not.
Experiences, skills MENTAL HEALTH Memory - of 'taking flight' Life skill: "It's like riding a bike!" Healthcare role model Ambulance staff 'Dennis' | Sustainability PHYSICAL HEALTH Accessibility 350,000 children would like to ride a bike. Fracture clinic Tibia |
Childhood - Friends Adult - Parenthood Cycling clubs Socialisation Social Justice Engagement - Play | Inequality 97% of children richest backgrounds can ride a bike. Only 86% of children from the poorest backgrounds |
There is an APPG for Cycling and Walking, which is also seeking to address accessibility:
British Cycling backs social justice inquiry to improve access and appeal of cycling to all
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Lyu, XC., Huang, SS., Ye, XM. et al. What influences newly graduated registered nurses’ intention to leave the nursing profession? An integrative review. BMC Nurs 23, 57 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-023-01685-zLeamy, M., Sims, S., Levenson, R. et al. Intentional rounding: a realist evaluation using case studies in acute and care of older people hospital wards. BMC Health Serv Res 23, 1341 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-10358-1Stadnicka, S.K., Zarzycka, D. Perception of the professional self-image by nurses and midwives. Psychometric adaptation of the Belimage questionnaire. BMC Nurs 22, 412 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-023-01564-7
Last month on a trip to Hay-on-Wye I picked up some back-issues of London Review of Books. Needless to say, in light of space and the clearing exercise I was very selective. The pearl of an essay cited below prompted me to wonder on the silence, quietness, lack of noise - invisibility even - of certain wards where registered nurses are present: or not? How and what data is captured and interpreted for reporting purposes and how meaning is gleaned and by whom? Making a difference in terms of patient safety and the quality of care:
("Delphic. It answers the question you ask, but it doesn’t tell you what to do.")"Call it the Jaap Stam conundrum. The story is told in Rory Smith’s entertaining book about the use of data in football, Expected Goals. Stam was a very talented but ageing central defender who had for three years been crucial to the success of Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United. Stam got into Ferguson’s bad books, and Ferguson decided to get rid of him, backed by data showing that Stam was now making fewer tackles. Stam was sold to Lazio for £16.5 million. Simon Kuper, co-author of Soccernomics (2009), about the use of numbers in football, wrote that this might have been the first deal in football based partly on data. It was, as Ferguson later admitted, a ‘bad decision’. Stam went on to have several productive years at the top of Italian football. The mistake was based on the fact that the data were Delphic. The question Man U wanted to have answered was ‘Should we keep Stam?’ Instead, the oracle answered the question ‘How many tackles is Stam making?’ But, as Smith writes,
LRB 45:18 'the best defenders do not need to make many tackles. The tackle itself is an act of last resort; great defenders intervene long before anything so tawdry is required. That Stam was making fewer tackles was not a sign that he was getting worse; if anything, it may have been a sign that his anticipation and his positioning and his reading of the game were all improving.'Football, like Mao’s China, has discovered that getting hold of the data is one thing, interpretation of the data is another. The terms ‘data’ and ‘analytics’ are used interchangeably in sport, Smith points out, but in fact the gathering of data, fuelled by surging interest from sports teams and professional gamblers, has tended significantly to outpace the intelligent analytic use of that data."
play therapy (distraction ...) being outdoors: psychological impact of green symbolic play mental games - play intellectual skill, creativity imagination in play individual play child - verbalisation cognitive and character development - morality, personal ethics 'illness' norms - anhedonic addictive quality of gaming role of advertising play theology - utopia |
play senses, kinaesthetics, embodiment accessibility information at play: uncertainty, bluff, prediction - movement, strategy functional play - toys/objects activities - performance space: arena, field, theatre games / sport - physical contest gaming as work / effort / energy gaming as tech/software simulation gaming 'in' Virtual Reality (tech's role in disrupting (idealised?) play? Games/Gaming as rules/process quantitative research - evidence |
social inclusion/exclusion sociology of play (and in arts) socialisation language: "= playing field" role play :: fancy dress socio-cultural dimensions - history traditional play/games social behaviour, status, participation turn-taking, stigma (cheating) sports etiqette, 'fair play' team games (team building - work) Serres - Myth, History Harlequin - mischief | politics of play studies: oppression, marginalisation, erasure, vulnerable groups, exploitation* 'export' of games hegenomy, hierarchies software colonialism (Africa)** debates: guns in play, weapons, 'shoot em up' FROM: child's-play TO: gamesmanship whose rules, control of space? governance & politics of play economies of play 'A nation at play' media - controls - consumerism, advertising gambling THEOLOGY |
*An example - previously:
psychological trauma (or^, personal trauma) personal choice Identity Memory Motivation My.. 'Skill-set' SELF-ESTEEM Expectations: *on the field *off the field | physical trauma "Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy" motor impairment "He lost consciousness as he instinctively assumed the "fencing position" position and his fingers curled and tightened." "Bennet Omalu, the neuropathologist who discovered CTE in American football players, watched the Dolphins v Bengals game in horror. He messaged Tagovailoa, saying: .." |
social (family) trauma my children's names "[ Bennet Omalu ]... If you love your life, if you love your family, your kids - if you have kids, it's time to gallantly walk away. Go find something else to do. Tua, my brother. I love you. I love you as much as I love my son. Stop playing. Stop. Hang your helmet and gallantly walk away." 'pluralistic ignorance' |
'Plausible ignorance' Informed consent MENTAL CAPACITY High risk - High reward "Think of what is still happening in the NFL, of what is happening in rugby, and soon you reach the conclusion that players need to be protected from themselves. Something their sports are absolutely not doing." p.24. PARITY OF ESTEEM |
David Walsh, Latest NFL concussion scandal is a sickening indictment of ... Sport, The Sunday Times, October 9th, 2022, p.24. (Paper copy.)
Mr Walsh also refers to - Head On: Rugby, Dementia and Me (BBC 2 TV)
^ Person-centred?
| "Rolling resistance is a compound of two factors: hysteric and dampening losses. Hysteric loss is the energy surrendered when a soft tyre deforms; as pressure rises, deformation decreases, therefore diminishing hysteric loss." p.17. | ||
Sources:
Book - various.
Bates, D. How time lords win race against clock. Sport, Cycling, The Times, 17 September 2022, p.17.
Cycling image: c/o @DavidSBates
It has taken an age ... 2017, an invitation to write about Hodges' model, then COVID, transfer from one journal to another, a new invaluable co-author in Dr Katharina Wirnitzer without whom this paper would not have been completed. Many, many thanks are in order!
Dr Wirnitzer also provided the theme of nutrition helping to unify the discussion on the SDGs mapped to Hodges' model.
Dr Wirnitzer's work, projects and colleagues include:
The reference has been added to the blog's bibliography in the sidebar.
I am hoping for news soon on another paper concerned with psychosis, early intervention, psychosocial intervention, research methods and h2cm.
Thanks also to the referees,
Jones P, Wirnitzer K. Hodges’ model: the Sustainable Development Goals
and public health – universal health coverage demands a universal
framework. BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health 2022;0:e000254.
doi:10.1136/bmjnph-2021-000254
Mental capacity Psychic pain - traumaPersonal autonomy My choice Subjective (lived-) experience Quality of (my) life Mood - mental state (assessment) Expectations - 'desired outcome' Can't keep a job "If it's all in my head - that's what one of the doctors said - I said, if it's an imaginary pain, how is the swelling there?" Nick | Physical pain - cause not identified Injury - trauma: history - playing football Goalpost collision - snapped - posterior cruciate ligament 28 years ago On feet leg swells Leg amputation 'best' option Twelve operations to date - Still in constant pain Clinical experience specialists, advice Guidance Evidence base Aggregated outcomes |
| Brown Housebound for days Feels guilty - holding family back Living pain-free ... would be a "New lease of life" Experience & expectations of family, friends .. Holiday, spoke to a veteran four years ago .. |
Fundraising Mental Capacity Act Medical accountability Professional opinion - general outcomes NHS - "no" - 'Cosmetic'? Pain management (clinics)? Private operation £18,000 'desired outcome' |
Chappell, P. Injured man fundraises for own leg amputation, The Times, August 10, 2022, p.19.
https://thetimes.pressreader.com/article/282080575609624
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"Sir Ian McGeechan has led calls for radical change before a rugby union player dies on the pitch, branding the game unnecessarily dangerous and saying that World Rugby would be accused of negligence if it allows the situation to continue. In a strongly worded letter to Bill Beaumont, the World Rugby chairman, McGeechan and other British and Irish Lions greats, have urged the governing body to reduce the number of available replacements from eight to four to limit the impact that fresh players can make by coming off the bench in the final quarter." p.1. |
"Almost a quarter of professional rugby players may have brain damage, the first study of its kind suggests.Scientists used advanced brain imaging and analysis to compare elite rugby players with rowers and other noncontact athletes as well as people who played no sport.
Using methods often applied to the study of patients with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s,, the team found that rugby players had significant damage to their brain’s white matter, its 'wiring'."
The Times, Thursday July 22 2021.
Hathaway, A., Lions legends: Make rugby safer, Sport, The Times, 14 August, 2021, p.1.
Image source: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/quarter-rugby-players-brain-damage-study-0m8fzrqbg
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In health, the appliance of sport's 'win ratio' is not in dispute. We can test this! What is the satisfaction rating of the patient and family? But, let's broaden things to include the tax-payer and the patient's recovering, staying that way and becoming self-caring as far as possible. What has to be considered is the context, for example, palliative, end-of-life care and the aims of care."Eddie Jones was asked after England's quarter-final
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HIT on Vulnerable individuals
What do these words mean to you -
'Fixed'
'Odds'
'Betting'
'Terminals' ?
'Cognitive access'
Children
Gambling advertising in football
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FIXED ODDS BETTING TERMINALS
Stakes £50 or £30 or £20 or £2
£300 per minute
Physical access
HIT - the button yet again... "... not a single fixed odds betting terminal among the 35,000 or so in Britain which has ever had a losing week" Guardian |
HIT on Relationships and Families
Breakdown
Loss of Social Capital:
Crime
Job-loss
'Civil Society'
"A Government gets the
citizenry it legislates for"?
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HIT to the gambling industry
60,000 jobs
Staff training & awareness
£1.8 billion market
HIT on Tax £700 million
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As young children we may encounter 'boxing' quite early on. This first experience, which we may or may not wholly remember is undoubtedly critical to our personality and subsequent psyche. Such early experiences influence our ability to 'look after ourselves', how we deal with bullies, anxiety, the potential for conflict and develop assertiveness skills. When a 'scrap' happens it can be quite sudden, that total impact of everything out of control, sheer danger and literal impacts. The environment might be nursery, playground, cloak room and the presence of peers as onlookers can be another key factor.
In the late 1960s early 70s I found some old boxing gloves under the stairs at my nan's. I had a handful of uncles on mum's side (just two now - Uncles Tom and Ken!) and the gloves had clearly been swung and jabbed down the line. I don't count myself as a fighter, unless someone tries to push their beliefs - without invitation - down my throat. Then it will be more a case of a reflex action. The 'arc' being comprised of vomit. In the school playground I learned to talk my way out of trouble, resorting to humour at times; as you learn to deploy whatever intellect you might have judiciously. Legs are essential to a boxer:
“First your legs go. Then you lose your reflexes. Then you lose your friends”
SELF self-awareness Identity self-belief way-finding dementia - cognitive damage personality change aggression tactics strategy motivation training attitude self-discipline ethics mental health - mental capacity emotions mood Personal safety | boxing technique reflexes speed movement balance punching fitness weight, reach, statistics THE RING stamina nutrition hydration concussion sub-concussive exposure models unconscious knockout Head - Brain injuries physics: force time (duration) momentum technology - sensor equipped gloves Sports Medicine Research Headgear Safety - Evidence Medical risks |
OTHER Ethnographics Coaches <-> Boxers Mentors Support network THE STREET personal history-family History sports history trainer friends club Sporting behaviour family friends
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| Brian E. Hodges - c/o Brian's family. |
Born in Liverpool, UK.
Community Mental Health Nurse NHS, Part-time Lecturer,
Researcher Nursing & Technology Enhanced Learning
Registered Nurse - Mental Health & General
Community Psychiatric Nursing (Cert.) MMU
PG Cert. Ed.
BA(Joint Hons.) Computing and Philosophy - BIHE - Bolton
PG(Dip.) Collaboration on Psychosocial Education [COPE] Univ. Man.
MRES. e-Research and Technology Enhanced Learning, Lancaster Univ.
Live and work in NW England - seeking a global perspective.
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