Pirates at Royal Cornwall Hospital

Representatives from the Cornish Pirates attended the Knowledge Spa at the Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro, at the end of April.

Team Manager Adrian Edwards and players Sam Heard and Rhodri Wells were present to help launch the Building Better Bones and Joints interactive educational exhibition, this an activity of the Bone and Joint Health Awareness Week organised by the Department of Rheumatology.

Professor Anthony Woolf was the consultant responsible for the exhibition, it hoped that a series of interactive displays would help educate students of health studies in Cornwall about bone and joint health diseases, how to stay healthy, and what modern medicine can achieve.

The exhibition put an emphasis on what can be done to prevent musculoskeletal problems from youth onwards and the importance of physical activity, avoiding sports and work-related injuries and the need for good nutrition - and included live cookery demonstrations and tastings!