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ISRM | ISSUE 35 | DECEMBER 2018 E IN THIS ISSU Contents Breaking news 2 Editorial 3 Obituary 4 New home for LSSM-Southampton 5 Feature articles 6 Event Work 11 Research developments and clinical practice 16 Enhance your knowledge 21 Members’ offers 27 ISSUE 35 | ISRM NEWSLETTER | 1 Breaking news! Breaking news! How did we get here? From Mel Cash The beginning We further developed our clinical skills can perform highly effective treatments Our journey began in September 1989 so we could better meet the needs of the without using any ‘conventional’ massage when LSSM started the first Sports Massage injured clients who were coming to see us, strokes. We also include a lot more qualification in the UK. It was based on the and with this we found ourselves achieving exercise, movement, and active lifestyle first book on Sports Massage I had authored better results with a broader range of advice. We now offer a new level of and had published the year before. It was musculoskeletal problems. This opened therapy that can successfully address a a six-month course, and although it was our doors to a much wider clientele, wide range of physical issues for people of called ‘Sports Massage’, it already included with more and more non-sports people all ages and from all walks of life. some advanced techniques such as Muscle seeking our help. This was also offering Energy Technique and Soft Tissue Release. us a much better lifelong career potential. So where do we go from here? It was also the first externally validated So, in 1995 we extended the course to Our Soft Tissue Therapists are now the qualification of its kind. nine months (ten classroom weekends), only ones in the UK who are adequately In those days, Sports Massage was a with more advanced clinical skills and we trained to treat minor and chronic injuries good fun job and we were kept very re-named it ‘Sport & Remedial Massage’ using this range of advanced hands-on busy because there were not many of us (BTEC Level 4). methods. Gradually more and more of the around. But that soon changed as other general public should recognise this and schools jumped on the bandwagon, still ‘Soft Tissue Therapy’ be able to benefit from it. Doctors who see teaching basic routine massage but with The dawn of the 21st Century brought patients with these injuries have limited a bit more ‘force’, and then calling that further changes, with financial pressure options within the NHS. Most are aware ‘Sports Massage’. So there were more and on the NHS making it less able to that a long wait to see a Physiotherapist more therapists chasing the same amount fund treatment for minor and chronic who is exercise-orientated and offers of work. We were also realising that musculoskeletal injuries. At the same limited hands-on treatment, if any, may although it was a fun job, because clients time, there were also changes in the way not be the best answer. They should be mostly wanted treatments in the evenings Physiotherapists were being trained, with encouraged to consider referring these and weekends, this wasn’t giving us such reduced focus on hands-on skills and patients to our Soft Tissue Therapists, a good personal lifestyle. instead, greater emphasis on ‘exercise who have both the time and the skills to prescription’. And with fewer referrals provide the best care for them. From ‘Sport’ to ‘Remedial’ Massage from the NHS, this resulted in less Therapy… accessibility to treatment for minor and Shaping the future – our collective and As Sports Massage Therapists, we were chronic injuries. So people with these individual responsibility not trained to treat injuries, but this problems were finding it harder to find What we need now is a sustained and wasn’t stopping injured clients turning up good, effective treatment. widespread effort in raising awareness, for treatment. LSSM were the pioneers In response to this, we continued to through as many media channels as of this new profession while we were develop the Diploma Course qualification, possible. Only we, with our knowledge of still learning and developing our clinical and in 2008 extended it to a one-year the profession and our long-term future skills. To be able to treat injuries, we were formula (twelve classroom weekends) and at stake, can deliver this. We all need to told we had to become Physiotherapists, BTEC upgraded it to Level 5. Since then, ‘spread the word’ – through delivering Osteopaths or Chiropractors, but our we have further refined it with additional treatments of the highest quality, and injured clients had often been to see these assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation promoting the benefits of our profession. therapists already, yet had not found their subjects, and in 2015 the qualification was Virtually everyone in society suffers with treatment effective (not to imply that renamed ‘Soft Tissue Therapy’. minor and chronic injuries from time to these therapies don’t work, just that they This new title more accurately reflects time and they need to know that we are don’t always work). So why should we what we now do, because we are no longer the only therapists out there now who have embarked on training in the same defined by the word ‘massage’. We use are trained to treat them effectively with way, only to fail the same people? We an extensive range of alternative hands- traditional hands-on skills. needed to find our own solutions. on techniques and, when necessary, 2 | ISRM NEWSLETTER | ISSUE 35 Editorial From Tanya Ball Welcome... LSSM Southampton on the move! After London Landmarks ½ Marathon. A big A very warm welcome to all to our fifteen successful years of high quality thank you to Sarah Dunkley and Libby December 2018 ISRM Newsletter. A delivery of the LSSM STT Diploma course in Palmer for these. A selection of photos special welcome to any new students or Southampton University’s Health Sciences from various participants reflect the graduates for whom this is their first Issue. building, the course relocated to the same buzzing atmosphere and range of emotions We hope that you will find this publication Department’s new premises ‘just down of these events. A huge ‘thank you’ as informative, beneficial, and inspiring the road’ in September 2018. Details and always to all who helped, sometimes enough to contribute a story/article in the photos of the superb new venue feature stepping in at short notice and/or personal next edition! below, just ahead of the Feature articles inconvenience, on these occasions. section. For the benefit of recent members and New feature: ‘Research Development anyone who might have missed the happy Feature articles include Jon Tilt’s heart- and clinical practice’: I very much hope news, here it is again! warming story of his experience of a family that by generating thought-provoking reunion in Nepal, and first-hand account of contributions from anyone keen to ensure receiving Soft Tissue Therapy from LSSM- our patients and clients consistently Warmest CONGRATULATIONS trained local Therapist Ramji, from the continue to benefit from the latest clinically to Mel & Ruxi Cash charitable project Seeing Hands Nepal. relevant research findings, this page On the happy arrival Having graduated over four years ago, will become a regular Newsletter item of their baby boy Tanya Boardman tells of her exciting going forward. It has been germinating in DORAN but at times testing transformation from my mind for considerable time, so I am September 2018 ‘student’ to ‘professional therapist’, sharing delighted that it is finally appearing in print. valuable tips, ideas, and her ‘can-do’ attitude that should encourage and inspire Ian Pollard, who attended the recent In this Issue... any recent graduates or those perhaps a 5th International Fascia Congress in New features alongside existing ones in little apprehensive about resuming the Berlin (14th-15th November 2018), has the following pages will, I trust, add further profession after a break. been given the honour of authoring the variety and interest to the already broad Another therapist with entrepreneurial inaugural article for this section, followed range of contributions in this edition. flair, Sue Wells, narrates how a prestigious by ‘Part 1’ of a long overdue paper from career in the Ballet world and her fascination me summarising the evidence as to why, With LSSM having reached its 30th for human movement eventually led her contrary to what virtually every textbook birthday, Mel Cash has dedicated his page, successfully to completing her BTEC L5 would have you believe, psoas major is not so much to ‘Breaking News’, as to a Diploma qualification in STT, and then NOT a hip flexor… first-hand account of the School’s eventful discover the potential and appeal of history, from its humble beginnings to the Manual Lymphatic Drainage or MLD. Expand your knowledge, enhance your firmly established training provider it has Her story continues with her successive skills (CPD): Details of various 2019 CPD become today. The story demonstrates qualifications in Levels 1-3 in MLD, which (Continued professional development) how LSSM has had to adapt and at times enable her to work with severely affected opportunities can be found in this section. re-invent itself to retain its reputation as a lymphoedema or lipoedema patients, These include a range of workshops mostly pioneer and proactive and leading force for including NHS referrals. in London, Dorset, and north Hampshire, the profession. and as previously, readers will be notified Event Work: As always, readers can catch of further courses and workshops in Obituary: we pay tribute, immediately up on and draw inspiration from 2018 subsequent Newsletters and/or by group below this Editorial, to Leon Chaitow, one sports events supported by onsite ISRM email as and when appropriate.