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Affiliated Southern Cross Healthcare provider
Serving the eye needs of North Shore and Rodney for over 30 years
Purpose-built eye consulting rooms in Warkworth. Surgery available at Rodney Surgical Centre or
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Is Peak Performance Your Goal? Your nerve system co-ordinates ALL of your bodies functions
Chiropractic adjustments remove interference to your nerve system caused by spinal mis-alignment
Removal of nerve interference allows your body to function at 100% in ALL areas including: Energy levels Concentration Levels Balance Stamina Strength Co-ordination
Chiropractic for sportsProfessional athletes, “weekend warriors” and those who want to stay in shape are discovering the benefi ts of Chiropractic care.Injuries to the spine and nerve system can restrict range of motion, reduce strength, slow refl exes, shorten endurance, decrease performance and take you out of the game.Chiropractic care helps restore function to spinal joints, thus reducing interference to the nerve system. Ensuring the nerve system is functioning properly can help reduce infl ammation, restore blood supply, improve range of motion and sharpen refl exes.Normalising spinal function helps speed the healing process, or prevents the injury happening in the fi rst place. This reduces your time on the sideline.Whether you golf, play tennis, cycle, play rugby, jog or bowl, the best treatment for sports injuries is prevention.Proper spinal function is essential for peak performance at work or play.
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Dr Alana Watts Reg. Chiropractor25 Lilburn Street, Warkworth • 163 Rodney Street, Wellsford
Phone 09 425 7375 or 021 393 128
On New Year’s Day, countless Kiwis no doubt pledged to make exercise a bigger part of their lives in 2013. But to keep that brand new exercise programme on track and to make it through to 2014 in one piece, it may pay to jump online and check out ACC’s ActiveSmart website.ActiveSmart provides free, customised training advice for everyone from beginners just getting back into physical activity to serious multi-sport and marathon competitors – and it can help avoid injury in the process.“Many people who’ve been spending a bit too much time on the couch make the mistake of throwing themselves back into exercise without the right preparation,” ACC programme manager sport Isaac Carlson says.“That can end up backfiring, because if you injure yourself – say because you didn’t warm up properly – you could end up heading straight back to the very couch you’re trying to get away from.”Isaac says ActiveSmart contains a range of tools and information, from personally tailored fitness plans to warm-up and cool-down exercises, and even weather forecasts for your area so you can plan your training
Online training advice helps motivation and avoids injury
around conditions on the day.“In a way, ActiveSmart is like having your own personal, online trainer. It asks you a range of questions to find out what level of exercise is right and safe for you. Then it gives you a specific programme to follow, aimed at meeting your individual fitness goals.”ActiveSmart caters for a range of popular fitness activities including running, walking and cycling.“The advice on ActiveSmart has been provided by leading New Zealand fitness professionals so you can be assured you’re getting a training plan that’s up there with the best.”To check out ActiveSmart, visit www.activesmart.co.nz
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Dr Mark Donaldson of Eye Doctors and team perform the first cataract operation in the Rodney Surgical Centre, July 2010.
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Dr Donaldson has safely performed hundreds of small incision cataract operations at the Rodney Surgical centre since it opened in 2010.
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Phone Eye Doctors on 09 520 9689 to make an appointment to see Dr Donaldson at the Warkworth Medical Centre and the Rodney Surgical Centre.
“I highly recommend Dr Donaldson for the excellent results and attention my wife and I received during our cataract surgery.”
Mr M, Warkworth
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Removal of a cataract is the most common eye operation and one of the most common surgical procedures performed in NZ.Eye surgeon Mark Donaldson says like a camera, every eye has a lens. “When the lens clouds over it reduces the amount of light reaching the retina at the back of the eye,” he says. “This makes it difficult for you to see clearly and is called a cataract.“Cataracts develop as a normal part of the aging process but they can also develop at a younger age as a result of diabetes, following an eye injury or due to specific medications such as steroids.”The earliest symptoms can begin with glare and sensitivity to bright light or haloes around lights. Vision then typically becomes progressively more blurred, foggy, and sometimes doubled. Colours often become duller and darker.Mark says modern cataract surgery restores the eyesight lost due to cataract by removing the cloudy lens in the eye and replacing it with a clear artificial lens. The procedure itself generally takes only 10 to 20 minutes and a short two to three hour stay in hospital.A patch is worn overnight following surgery and you can resume most normal activities straight away, although patients are advised not to drive until
Eye surgeon Mark Donaldson is used to the “miraculous” change people experience after cataract surgery.
Artificial lens restores eyesight
given clearance by their surgeon. A variety of intraocular lenses are available for people having cataract surgery. “Just as there are different types of glasses, there are different types of lenses that can be inserted into the eye. The most common lenses used are single focus lenses, which give clear distance vision but usually require glasses for close vision such as reading. Other options include toric lenses, which correct astigmatism and multi-focal or accommodating lenses for those who wish to have sharp vision for distance as well as near sight without glasses.”
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Biochar and the garden by Betsy KettleHomebuilders’ permaculture/organic gardening tutorIn the 1970s, archaeologists discovered the remains of large settlements along the banks of the Amazon River. Early Spanish and Portuguese explorers had claimed these cities existed but later explorers could find no trace. Archaeologists knew that large permanent settlements needed agriculture and the soils of the Amazon jungle were not suitable for growing crops year after year. Slash-and-burn farming is productive for a year or two and then the depleted soils are abandoned. So for hundreds of years the tales of great white Amazon cities were considered a myth. That was until archaeologists discovered a rich, black, man-made soil up to 2m deep surrounding the settlements. Surprisingly, this soil — dubbed “terra preta” — was still fertile after 500 years. Scientists scrambled to find what it was made from.It was found to be made from pyrolised materials. Pyrolisation is “baking” organic materials without oxygen. Burying embers with soil when cooking a hangi pyrolises the wood from the fire. It cuts off the oxygen and charcoal is formed. The hard outer cells of the wood remain and inner parts of the cells evaporate. This leaves a light, porous, black material that can be used in the garden as a permanent form of compost. All around the world, universities are researching biochar for more reasons than soil improvement. Properly made biochar added to agricultural soils improves nutrient holding capacity, water holding capacity, drainage in clay soils, and has a liming effect. But it also has the ability to sequester carbon in the soil. For more information about what Australian and New Zealand universities are doing, visit www.anzbiochar.org or read about the Carbon Farming Initiative at www.climatechange.gov.au/cfi.With rising carbondioxide levels in the atmosphere, biochar has the potential to trap and grow the carbon in soil. Biochar seems to trap carbon in the soil in four ways: by the carbon in the charcoal itself; by creating homes for micro-organisms that take up carbon to build their bodies; by increasing plant growth which increases carbon uptake from the atmosphere; and by the micro-organisms in the soil eating up the carbohydrates the plant roots pump into the soil. It might be hard to believe, but the creation of 30 cubic centimetres of top soil using biochar can trap and hold more carbon than a 30m tree. Homebuilders’ Grow
and Eat from Your Garden courses will be using biochar made from coffee grounds as a soil improver in the March course, and discuss how to make small amounts of biochar at home in the April course. Other topics will also be covered during these two courses. Info: Tess on 425 7048 or email [email protected]
Invitation to teachersTeachers throughout the Mahurangi and Kaipara area are invited to hear education guru Kevin Honeycutt who will speak at Maungaturoto Primary School on March 1. Kevin will spend the day working with children and staff at the school, but will also run an open workshop for teachers on the theme of Trends, Tactics and Tools for 21st Century Learning at 1.30pm. He will give a keynote presentation to teachers, school whanau and interested residents at 3.30pm. Info: Phone Daniel Alcock on 09 431 8109 or [email protected]
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• Is your 2013 new years resolution to finally sort out this body of yours?• Is back and neck pain slowing you down and getting in the way of doing things you love to do?
Introducing ... New Acupuncturist Brian Lee Brian will be available in Warkworth on Wednesdays, and works closely alongside Ben to address soft tissue/muscular aspects of clients. Brian is ACC registered.
Dr Ben Bruce (B.Chiro) MNZCA
Here is a cost-effective way of seeing if chiropractic care could help get you back to 100% and living life to the fullest again!
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Warkworth practice 4 Earlsway, Warkworth Ph: 09 945 0320
Albany practice 12/44 William Pickering Dr, Rosedale, Albany Ph: 09 963 4908
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Ben is ACC registered!
Clients currently on ACC (or eligible for it) are offered a 1 hour acupuncture and deep tissue massage sessionfor an introductory surcharge of only $10! Brian Lee
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Wheels, as well as feet, will take to the hills around Matakana for the staging of the annual Matakana Fruitloop on March 2.
The popularity of the annual Matakana Fruitloop is growing every year.
Wheels join Fruitloop capers
The seven-kilometre fun run/walk through vineyards, orchards, olive groves and over farmland is organised by the Matakana Community Group to raise funds for the nearly-completed Matakana Pathway, between Matakana and Point Wells/Omaha. Proceeds from this year’s event will go towards installing a bridge over the Matakana River. Prizes are awarded for the wackiest and most original costumes, with Olympian Alison Rowe taking on the difficult task of judging this year’s event.Fruitloop organisers say ‘wheels’ are also in favour this year.“There have been some upgrades to a couple of sections of the course so we are pleased to be able to welcome ‘baby buggies/strollers’,” spokesperson Ras Sutherland says. “Strollers just need to be aware that the surface varies from sealed, to gravel, to farm field and that there are a couple of short but definite uphills and downhill sections which will require a level of fitness and control.”Also new this year will be a wheelchair
outing on a subset of the main Fruitloop course. “For this first year we intend an ‘outing’ rather than a race. The course is a three-kilometre return trip, through a beautiful estate with a private chapel at the halfway point. The chapel doors will be open so the interior can be viewed, but no entry will be available.”Wheelchair Fruitloop entrants are asked to email Fruitloop organisers for full details. Other wheels such as skateboards, cycles and standard pushchairs are not allowed and, as this is on private property, no pets/animals will be admitted.The afternoon festivities start at the Matakana Country Park with judging of the fancy costumes from 2pm to 2.30pm. The gun will be fired on the starting line at 3pm.En route there will be live music and wine tastings, coupled with spectacular views. Entertainment, food and beverage stalls will operate at the conclusion of the race. Info: www.matakanafruitloop.co.nz
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Walking invitationThe Hidden Treasures of Rodney walking group is inviting people to join it on Mondays and Fridays for an opportunity to explore the Rodney area. Each week will involve a trip to see a bush or coastal area of natural beauty and interest, including covenanted private bush, wading bird areas of the Kaipara Harbour and out-of-the-way DOC reserves. The walks are led by local outdoor enthusiast Linda Cole, who is often assisted by DOC or community group experts. Hidden Treasures of Rodney is run through Orewa College Community Education. The cost for seven days is $95. Info: Phone Linda on 421 0812.
Wellness DayWaitemata PHO is holding a free Women’s Wellness Day on Saturday March 2, at the AMI Netball Centre, 44 Northcote Road, Northcote (just off the motorway). A variety of health provider displays will be available. These will include BreastScreen, Te Ha, WONS (cervical screening), Arthritis, Waitemata DHB Asian Health Support Services, health and wellbeing talks, and activities for young children. The day will run from 10am to 3pm. Info: Lorelle George at [email protected]
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