More than a quarter of all men can expect to get a hernia duringtheir lifetime but only a few are caused by lifting something heavy. So, with 120,000 hernia operations carried out in this country everyyear what causes them and why are they so common? Barbara Myers and her guest, surgeon Professor
Andrew Kingsnorth answeryourquenes on what the options are for the different types of hernia. Phone in on [number removed], ore-mail: checkup@bbc.co.uk Producer Paula McGrath