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due to poorer sleep quality, often from medical conditions or having to get up to urinate during the night.

Is my acne worse because I eat chocolate?

Whilst chocolate itself is not a direct cause, having an unhealthy diet/lifestyle does contribute to bad skin. Therefore pubescent teenagers + junk food is not a good mix.

2RRR is Your Local Sound principally covering Ryde, Hunters Hill and Lane Cove LGAs. We broadcast on the 88.5FM band, online through 2rrr.org.au and a myriad radio apps including iHeart, TuneIn and the newly released Community Radio Plus app, amongst others, we extend our local voice to across Australia and the even the World.

Does cracking my knuckles/fingers lead to arthritis?

No, to contrary common belief. That cracking noise is caused by the bursting of bubbles in the synovial fluid (the lubrication liquid) within our joints. So though whilst not unhealthy, many bystanders hate hearing the noise.

How do I treat a snake bite or red-back spider bite?

We started as a small community radio station operating on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays and today we broadcast 24/7, mostly live. Our station premises are situated and have been for the last 35 years at the historic, if not also haunted, Henley Cottage in Gladesville.

Limbs bitten by snake bites should be immobilised with a tight bandage starting at the bite, wrapping towards the fingers/toes and then back up to the groin/shoulders (do not try and suck out the venom from the wound). Red-back spider bites should be treated with an ice pack. Call 000.

Can I use cotton buds to clean my ears?

2RRR cover many genres with an emphasis on classic rock, country, and jazz dominating an orderly program schedule. Additionally, our programming extends to 20th century nostalgia, informative lifestyle-wellbeing, local sport and multilingual programs.

Essentially, we are a Not-For-Profit organisation vested as a Co-operative and most welcoming of Members, Presenters and Volunteers, supported by a seven-member Board and station management Employees.

Gaining popularity is our youth drive-time hour Mondays to Thursdays featuring local high school students providing an insight into current musical trends such as hip-hop and electronica.

Never! It can push the wax further in the canal and further impacting it. There is also a risk of poking too far, perforating your ear drum and causing hearing loss. Instead, use wax-softening ear drops from your pharmacy or see your GP for an ear-cleaning.

If your own questions were not answered here, save them up, so you can ask the next doctor you meet at a party. Just please let them have something to eat and drink first!

We do pride ourselves on staying in touch with community groups and organisations to relay news and events as well community outreach such as presently with The Northern Centre (domestic violence & refugees) and StreetWork (kids at risk) working within our LGAs.

Imagine what you could do if you had less knee pain?

It’s important for you to know…knee pain is not something you have to “live with.” Take a moment, close your eyes and imagine what else you could do today…if you didn’t fear your knee hurting or limiting you.

ARE YOU FINDING IT HARD TO:

• Walk without pain?

• Bend your knee?

• Go up or down steps?

• Get up out of a chair?

If you’d like to know more about living with much less knee pain, then this FREE special report is perfect for you. It details solutions to help avoid surgery, maintain independence and get back to moving pain free.

FOR EXAMPLE:

• How to ease your throbbing knee pain

• Discover the little-known way to exercise - without increased knee pain.

• A simple remedy for easing knee pain that will cost you nothing - perfect to stay active and mobile

• The one thing that you can change today to dramatically improve your knee pain

We care to share a recent milestone of the 90th birthday of our Life Member, Bruce Flarrety, also celebrating 26 years on the air with Tuesday Midday Jazz, and here shown with our youngest member Chris Davis (from Lane Cove) presenting our gift to Bruce, replacing well-worn headsets with a modern pair.

For details on ways to listen, membership, program guide, volunteering, and more, please go to: 2rrr.org.au.

OR EMAIL: lanecove@weareswitch.com.au

• The safest and most effective movements to ease your knee pain

There are many options out there to treat knee pain. But, many of them require you to take pills, take dangerous injections to your knee and WORSE end up with surgery!!

If you have had enough of your knee pain and want to take control of your health and you want to get back to playing golf, walking with friends or get down to the local shops without pain, then contact us for your FREE copy of “How to stop knee pain - 5 simple secrets without having to take pain killers or see the GP”.

161 www.burnsbayphysiotherapy.com.au