David Cooper

We frequently hear the words “it’s just a concussion” on the sideline of sports fields, in our clinic rooms or even in social settings. It’s...

Physical stress and its impact on the human body has been well documented in scientific, medical, and psychiatric literature for a long time. Even low-level...

At any given time around 20 percent of adults in the workforce suffer from back pain. In addition, a survey of 3000 working-age Kiwis found...

It seems that I have been bestowed the honour of signing off my Health column for 2023 in the last issue, so here goes with...

Philosophers like Aristotle and Isaac Newton (among many others) all had one thing in common: the near obsessive desire to form a scientific method of...

The start of winter is upon us as May rolls into June – though admittedly it feels like we have already had enough rain to...

The term ‘warm-up’ usually refers to a variety of changes that the body undergoes during exercise, including changes in heart rate, breathing rate, blood flow,...

As a country we are obsessed with sport. From the All Blacks to our Silver Ferns, Blackcaps, basketball, League and Olympic sports. We love to...

Spring is upon us and we have had a few days giving us that glimmer of hope that nice sunny weather is on the way....

Last week a large review was published in the medical journal Molecular Psychiatry (The Serotonin Theory of Depression: A Systematic Umbrella Review Moncrieff J, Cooper...