The Occurrence of Injuries in Ice Hockey: Approach Seems Well Off Into the Future

�� Advertise in Soft tissue therapy magazine Want to reach a targeted audience of dedicated soft tissue therapy professionals? Call 02 9929 8310 for further information or email advertising@ﬂapjack.com.au for a copy of the media kit, including rates and advertising deadlines Online advertising also available on www.softtissuetherapy.com.au Contents 3 Treatment Editor’s Anatomy Trains: myofascial meridians for the manual or movement therapist 6 Beginning from the base: Rob Granter 13 note Industry Warming up: Andrew Simmons 15 he internal debate on AMT news: AMT focuses on government recognition 17 regulating our industry Research continues in Australia with What do employers want from their employees within a Tlittle outcome or direction as yet. There are discussions occurring within at least two of remedial massage practice? 10 the associations but a coordinated national The Occurrence of Injuries in Ice Hockey: approach seems well off into the future. an investigation into an English Premier League Team 19 While we debate the necessity for regulation, the NSW Government has decided we do Olympics need some form of regulation and issued a My experience as a Soft Tissue Therapist at the Beijing Olympics NSW directive on what entities we as an – a UK perspective 24 industry need to have achieved and what we need to display within our clinics (see STT International homepage, www.softtissuetherapy.com.au, for link). This has been legislated in NSW, hence G’day from the Host City 2012 – London 26 we must abide by these rules. The private Results of recent polls on www.softtissuetherapy.com.au 26 health insurers have welcomed this mild form of regulation and some (see www.mbf. So long, Stewart Condie 27 com.au) have issued letters suggesting only those abiding by this NSW law can provide a redeemable service to their members. So 6 15 24 while we debate the necessity of regulation, the bodies around us are implementing them for us. One might argue that if we don’t design our own regulation, it will be eventually designed for us, leaving us vulnerable to uneducated opinions on our industry. Time to act. The STT conference date has been set for 2009 – it will be held 29-30 August on the shore of NSW’s Cronulla. The conference schedule will be available soon. To whet your appetite, the conference will focus on Soft Tissue Therapy eMag and not necessarily of the publisher. 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