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BM BSc MRCGP DRCOG Who's behind all this then?... Information on the founder of ski-injury.com
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Born and raised in the industrial
delights of Birmingham in 1966, Mike graduated in medicine from Southampton
University in 1991 and managed to escape straight away to the Scottish
Highlands. After completing general practice training in Inverness Mike headed
down under and spent two very enjoyable years working in the Emergency
Department at Albury Base Hospital in
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New
South Wales, Australia. The offer of a job as a full-time GP in Aviemore was too
tempting though and Mike has been a partner at the
Aviemore Medical Practice since July 1997. Mike is happily married to Jayne.
They have a son Matthew, two Olde English Sheepdogs - Breagha and Scarista and
another baby on the way in 2008!
Away from work, Mike
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1.Telemark skiing. Been trying this silly sport for far too long. Almost killed off in Coire Laogh Mor by the Cairngorm ski patrol - March 2001...cheers guys!
2. Flying - holder of a private pilot's licence since 1993 with a couple of hundred hours P1 under the belt. Mike's a member of Moray Flying Club based at RAF Kinloss and Highland Aero Club based at Inverness Airport. Summer in particular sees Mike and fellow loon James Hayward (both GPs - you'd think they would know better) flying off to remote islands off the west coast of Scotland. Very nearly killed himself taking off from a deceptively bumpy grass strip on the Isle of Jura - June 2000 (oops, he hadn't told Jayne about that one). Happier times above right having landed on the beach runway on the Isle of Barra after about being twarted several times by the tides.
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3.
Fine wines and not so fine beers. Several close shaves...including the Munich
Beer Festival - see left. Oh dear, oh dear. Mike is particularly fond of red
wines from Western Australian and Bordeaux - although he wouldn't say no to a
bottle of DRC or La Tache if you've got one going spare......
4. Diving. Holder of PADI Advanced
Open Water (Sunbather) ticket. Swears the remoter bits of the Red Sea are the
best diving
in the world. No near misses yet, but word has it he's off again this year.....
Mike is a lifelong lover of Old English Sheepdogs having grown up with them as a kid. He is now the proud owner of two sheepdogs of his own....Breagha born in 2002 and Scarista born in 2007.
Mike has been involved in ski injury research since 1993 and in the last eight years has waged a war of attrition to finally bring Scottish injury research up to a level with that of other countries despite no funding and a general lack of time. Mike is the UK National Secretary for both the International Society for Skiing Safety and SITEMSH (The International Society for Skiing Traumatology and Winter Sports Medicine). When he's not on duty at the medical centre, Mike spends a lot of time working as the doctor for the local CairnGorm ski patrol. The CairnGorm team have introduced several new initiatives over the last few years under Mike's guidance including the administration of intramuscular analgesia by trained ski patrollers and training in the use of the nasopharyngeal and laryngeal mask airways. Mike's recent interests have been the use of intra-nasal diamorphine for use as an on-slope painkiller, the development of a new modified scheme for the on-mountain management of potential spinal injuries and the use of an electronic stethoscope for casualty management on the mountainside. Mike acts as a specialist reviewer for several sports and emergency medicine journals.
Mike started his
first ski injury website back in early 1999 with one of the most cumbersome web
addresses you could ever imagine. Still, it was free to host but as its presence
became established on the W.W.W. more and more enquiries poured in.
In 2000, Mike took on ski-injury.com - a wise move in every sense but financial! He now spends a lot of time keeping the site site up to date and
answering e-mails from all over the world. Mike is extremely proud that ski-injury.com
has worked its way up to now be the number one listed site in Google for ski and
snowboard injuries - testimony to a lot of hard work, commendations and a very,
very patient wife..... In 2007 alone, this site received 898,905 unique visits
with 1,402,239 page visits. The
big news is that, due to its continued growth and popularity, this website will
shortly be undergoing a complete re-design and change of server. Not only will
this improve the look and functionality of the site, but it will also allow me
to add some new features and a much-requested forum. More details soon.
Mike regularly writes articles and
lectures on the topic of snow sports injuries. He has become a self-taught black
belt in Microsoft Power Point, having done battle with just about every different
version Mr Gates and Co. have ever produced. Consequently, Mike is a very experienced
speaker having been invited to give presentations to a huge variety of different
audiences both in the UK and around the world. His talks are renowned for their
mixture of humour, scientific fact and plain talking. Animated charts, hilarious video clips
and accurate time keeping are all hallmarks of a ski-injury.com presentation.
Mike is also passionate about
pre-hospital care management (road accidents, train crashes, heart attacks - that sort of
thing). Through his work as an instructor in immediate care for BASICS Education
Scotland, he has been involved in the development of new courses - training
doctors, nurses and ambulance staff in the management of common emergencies and
has written several articles on emergency care. Teaching on these courses also
gives Mike a good excuse to visit gorgeous bits of Scotland (like Stonefield
Castle Hotel in
Argyll, pictured right) helping to train fellow GPs to handle such situations.
One of the other pleasures of
such excursions is the convivial drinking of malt whisky (at places like the
Craigellachie Hotel, pictured
left, whose bar has 400+ malts on offer.....) in the company of paramedic/doctor
pals 'til the wee small hours. Difficult job but someone has to do it....
Mike maintains a hands on approoach by being on call for the Scottish Ambulance Service as an ambulance doctor frequently attending serious road accidents, medical emergencies and other incidents as part of the ambulance service response.
For more information on malt whisky, Mike recommends a visit to the Scotch Malt Whisky Society website.
Snow sports
Langran M & Selvaraj S. Increased injury risk amongst first day skiers, snowboarders and skiboarders. American Journal of Sports Medicine. 32(1): 96-103, Jan 2004.
Langran M. Skiboard Injuries - a Three-Year comparison with Alpine Skiing. Journal of ASTM International. 2004 1 (5)
Other publications
Langran M and Carlin B.
A road traffic accident simulation vehicle for training prehospital
practitioners. Emergency Medicine Journal. 2006 Apr;23(4):318-20
Langran M and Laird C. ABC of
pre-hospital care. Management of allergy, rashes and itching. Emergency
Medicine Journal. 2004 Nov; 21(6): 728-41
Langran M, Moran BJ et al.
Adaptation to a diet low in protein: effect of complex carbohydrate upon urea
kinetics in normal man. Clinical Science (Lond). 1992 Feb;82(2):191-8.
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