Personal Trainers

[tonto1888]

There must be bigger mugs who'll hand over their dosh or follow them on insta!!

Ive followed - and unfollowed - a lot of PTs on instagram. Some good - they still get followed - some not so good

[clarshack]

£31.67 p/m for a family membership at the local leisure centre is the best money you will ever spend. why would you pay a PT?

[clarshack]

You can't out train a bad diet, and let me tell you, I know.

Exactly this.

[square_ball]

£31.67 p/m for a family membership at the local leisure centre is the best money you will ever spend. why would you pay a PT?

We have the same - choice of 3 leisure centres and includes the gym, pool, classes, health suite, soft play for the children. Its great value.

[Estimator]

£31.67 p/m for a family membership at the local leisure centre is the best money you will ever spend. why would you pay a PT?

We have the same - choice of 3 leisure centres and includes the gym, pool, classes, health suite, soft play for the children. Its great value.

Yeah, same in mid-ulster:
£380 for the annual family membership

[clarshack]

Being a bit more agricultural down our way we'd a big fúckin cattle water trough full of ice and lots of other shit back in the day and as I nearing the end of my days I think it did me a lot of good in keeping the aches and pains at bay.

We now have our own cryospa and it gets a fair bit of use between ACL ops (another two lads had the op in October last year) and hip ops which are a thing at the minute for us and cost a bloody fortune.

I think they will continue to be a thing too. £13k approx to get a hip done atm.

[Milltown Row2]

Being a bit more agricultural down our way we'd a big fúckin cattle water trough full of ice and lots of other shit back in the day and as I nearing the end of my days I think it did me a lot of good in keeping the aches and pains at bay.

We now have our own cryospa and it gets a fair bit of use between ACL ops (another two lads had the op in October last year) and hip ops which are a thing at the minute for us and cost a bloody fortune.

I think they will continue to be a thing too. £13k approx to get a hip done atm.

People are getting hip operations at a younger age nowadays, work colleague waited 2 and half years and couldn't wait any longer as she was on two crutches and in pain, at night even worse, plus no sleep too.. spent 11 grand (5 years ago) she's a new person altogether

With the influx of HITT classes and the like, are we creating more bad than good, and if everyone ate properly and exercised (long walks) daily would we need some PT with slick hair and an IPad telling you what to do? 

Get your kids into working on replacement hips!! Fortune to be made!

I work in private medical care and we are so busy with various things (not hip related lol) that the NHS either don't do anymore or have very long waiting lists that people are not prepared to wait or deal with the poor aftercare that they provide.

Staffing is one of the main reasons for the particular area that I deal in, and its not exactly attracting NHS staff for the money they are offering. The cost of things will keep rising

[RedHand88]

Spoofers one and all.

[NAG1]

Being a bit more agricultural down our way we'd a big fúckin cattle water trough full of ice and lots of other shit back in the day and as I nearing the end of my days I think it did me a lot of good in keeping the aches and pains at bay.

We now have our own cryospa and it gets a fair bit of use between ACL ops (another two lads had the op in October last year) and hip ops which are a thing at the minute for us and cost a bloody fortune.

I think they will continue to be a thing too. £13k approx to get a hip done atm.

People are getting hip operations at a younger age nowadays, work colleague waited 2 and half years and couldn't wait any longer as she was on two crutches and in pain, at night even worse, plus no sleep too.. spent 11 grand (5 years ago) she's a new person altogether

With the influx of HITT classes and the like, are we creating more bad than good, and if everyone ate properly and exercised (long walks) daily would we need some PT with slick hair and an IPad telling you what to do? 

Get your kids into working on replacement hips!! Fortune to be made!

I work in private medical care and we are so busy with various things (not hip related lol) that the NHS either don't do anymore or have very long waiting lists that people are not prepared to wait or deal with the poor aftercare that they provide.

Staffing is one of the main reasons for the particular area that I deal in, and its not exactly attracting NHS staff for the money they are offering. The cost of things will keep rising

Exactly what the Tories want 

[imtommygunn]

The whole thing is f**ked. Can barely get near a GP never mind anything more serious.

[Milltown Row2]

The whole thing is f**ked. Can barely get near a GP never mind anything more serious.

Even when you do get there and have an appointment its leaving most people thinking, I'm not sure they have covered everything.

Wife has had a (don't know how to describe it) uncomfortable feeling under ribcage area at the side (over a year now), very active, eats very well and drinks a lot less than me! had appointment and referred for a scan, just a ultra sound one, all good nothing from that and doctor says nothing from that scan showed anything to worry about.

But still this 'discomfort' is there, so will go for a second opinion and just to settle her anxiety I suppose, but you just come away from appointments thinking, hmmmm..

Will probaly ask the local PT if he has any ideas or head of to Fermanagh and bury lay her down in the soil!

[Tony Baloney]

Young lad hurt his knee before Xmas. Went through private healthcare and seen consultant yesterday and MRI scheduled for this evening. I see some GPs are now going to offer private clinics.

There was a Rolls Royce outside the clinic yesterday and not sure if it was owned by a patient or a Consultant! Plenty of money in it but what about the people who have to wait years to be seen. Something needs to change massively and soon!

[NAG1]

Unfortunately it is going to be a two tier system, if in fact it isnt already.

Those who can afford to pay will get to the front of the queue those that can't will be at the back and get it when it comes around to their turn.

[gallsman]

The whole thing is f**ked. Can barely get near a GP never mind anything more serious.

I don't mean to sound like the smug fella abroad who shits on everything at home but I gave this example to a few lads at home (both North and South) and they genuinely didn't believe me. Spain is hardly a world leader in healthcare but the contrast with home shocked me.

Anyway, around the middle of August I slipped quite badly on the stairs down into my basement. They're concrete steps with a faux marble tile and a slipped quite neat the top. Managed to land the small of my back at a near perfect 45° angle onto the 90° cut of the step and then slid the whole way down to the bottom, about another 17/18 steps, bouncing the back off each one.

I was crocked for a couple of days. Getting up and sitting down was painful. Couldn't sit for more than 45 mins or so without needing to stretch out and lie down. A huge bruise on my back from my kidneys on round and the down the top of my arse cheeks developed. Being the idiot I am, I found myself getting a little bit better and a few weeks later I went on a stag. Was sore, but ok. Another few weeks later was feeling a bit of pain, about a month or 5 weeks after the fall. Decided I'd go to the doctor, for reassurance if nothing else.

Now I live in a back of beyond town in the arse end of nowhere about an hour outside Barcelona. Population a couple of thousand, max. We have our own little mini health centre with about 1.5 doctors and some nursing staff. It's a branch of a bigger centre in the nearest "big" town, population about 35,000. I decided I was going to go to doc late on a Tuesday night, so I used the public healthcare app to leave a note for reception to ask for an appointment. I got a call about 8.20 on the Wednesday morning asking what the story was and after telling her, had an appointment with the GP around 11.15. He did a few checks and figured I was largely fine and that pain and discomfort were all just deep tissue bruising and inflammation, but would need an x-ray to make sure no fracture in the coccyx. Booked me an x-ray that afternoon at the health centre (specifically not a hospital, like a massive GP but also has gynae care etc) in the equivalent of, I guess, a county town, population about 70-75,000 and a follow up for late on the Thursday morning to go over the results. Maybe a 20-25 minute drive from the house. Turned up on time, x-ray done, back home barely over an hour later. In for the results with the GP the next day, got the all clear, he prescribed some anti inflammatories and home I went.

So in the space of about 40 hours of having decided I wanted to see doctor, I'd seen my GP, had an x-ray, gone over the results, got my tablets and was back home with my feet up.

I have private health insurance through work, and pay for the rest of the family to be added to it. We almost never use it. Pregnancy and maternity care all through the public system.

[johnnycool]

The whole thing is f**ked. Can barely get near a GP never mind anything more serious.

I don't mean to sound like the smug fella abroad who shits on everything at home but I gave this example to a few lads at home (both North and South) and they genuinely didn't believe me. Spain is hardly a world leader in healthcare but the contrast with home shocked me.

Anyway, around the middle of August I slipped quite badly on the stairs down into my basement. They're concrete steps with a faux marble tile and a slipped quite neat the top. Managed to land the small of my back at a near perfect 45° angle onto the 90° cut of the step and then slid the whole way down to the bottom, about another 17/18 steps, bouncing the back off each one.

I was crocked for a couple of days. Getting up and sitting down was painful. Couldn't sit for more than 45 mins or so without needing to stretch out and lie down. A huge bruise on my back from my kidneys on round and the down the top of my arse cheeks developed. Being the idiot I am, I found myself getting a little bit better and a few weeks later I went on a stag. Was sore, but ok. Another few weeks later was feeling a bit of pain, about a month or 5 weeks after the fall. Decided I'd go to the doctor, for reassurance if nothing else.

Now I live in a back of beyond town in the arse end of nowhere about an hour outside Barcelona. Population a couple of thousand, max. We have our own little mini health centre with about 1.5 doctors and some nursing staff. It's a branch of a bigger centre in the nearest "big" town, population about 35,000. I decided I was going to go to doc late on a Tuesday night, so I used the public healthcare app to leave a note for reception to ask for an appointment. I got a call about 8.20 on the Wednesday morning asking what the story was and after telling her, had an appointment with the GP around 11.15. He did a few checks and figured I was largely fine and that pain and discomfort were all just deep tissue bruising and inflammation, but would need an x-ray to make sure no fracture in the coccyx. Booked me an x-ray that afternoon at the health centre (specifically not a hospital, like a massive GP but also has gynae care etc) in the equivalent of, I guess, a county town, population about 70-75,000 and a follow up for late on the Thursday morning to go over the results. Maybe a 20-25 minute drive from the house. Turned up on time, x-ray done, back home barely over an hour later. In for the results with the GP the next day, got the all clear, he prescribed some anti inflammatories and home I went.

So in the space of about 40 hours of having decided I wanted to see doctor, I'd seen my GP, had an x-ray, gone over the results, got my tablets and was back home with my feet up.

I have private health insurance through work, and pay for the rest of the family to be added to it. We almost never use it. Pregnancy and maternity care all through the public system.

Did you not have to pay €50 to the GP?