By Dr Irwin Lim on January 22, 2012

By Dr Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist It's Chinese New Year's Eve and a time for families to get together, feast and celebrate. The Lim household is no ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on January 17, 2012

By Dr Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist Not infrequently, I see a patient who's after another opinion. Sometimes, it's after years of seeing other ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on January 11, 2012

By Dr Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist Psst! I'm going to show you mine even if you don't want to tell me yours. It ain't pretty but the measurement is what ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on January 8, 2012

The response to our Modified Schober Test demonstration was great, with over 700 views so far! Our patients with inflammatory back pain have ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on January 2, 2012

I don't often make New Year's resolutions and I don't usually tell anyone. I suppose the rules change when you blog. The resolution for 2012 is ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on December 24, 2011

By Dr Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist It's past 9pm and the 3 kids are in bed. I can still hear them trying hard to fall asleep. The Xmas offering to Santa ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on December 18, 2011

By Dr Irwin Lim My mother-in-law is the most optimistic person I have met. She always sees the brighter side of life even when clouds are overhead ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on December 14, 2011

By Dr Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist A year ago, I started this blog with the question "Why bother blogging?". Over 100 posts later, I think I have a ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on December 7, 2011

By Dr Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist We see a lot of patients with inflammatory back pain in our clinics. Some of these patients have Spondyloarthritis or ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on November 30, 2011

By Dr Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist Over 400km away. That's a long way to travel to see your specialist. And a very, very large inconvenience. We provide ...