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Moving Rob Endurance images Hulse challenge The CSP’s Top striker Physio aids Gobi rehab film turns physio Desert runners Page 16 Page 66 Page 32 Issue 21 Issue Volume 23 Volume Frontline 6 December 2017 THE PHYSIOTHERAPY MAGAZINE FOR CSP MEMBERS Oh yes they do! How physios keep performers on stage Inside: Jobs • Views and opinions • Courses • In person Frontline • 6 December 2017 3 Congratulations Congratulations to all physiotherapy students starting degree courses in September! to all physio students starting MSc courses in early 2018! Contents WE’RE HERE TO SUPPORT YOU News 10 Physios get the green light on fit notes Join the CSP in your 8 Latest NI first contact physio breakthrough 8 Christian Smith first term and receive Naomi Koji-Paton Robots aid stroke patients’ recovery 8 a * free pocketbook Agile collaborates with British Geriatric Society 10 worth £28.99! Physio assistant shares brittle bone experience 12 *That’s 369 pages of essential facts. Olympic physio takes the stage at Stormont 14 Features Rehab matters: the story behind CSP’s film 16 Oh yes! Physios keep Xmas shows on the road 24 CPD: breaking into a career in research 28 16 The Ultra Gobi endurance test 32 Regulars 24 Comment: your emails and views 4 Physio findings: journal latest, hip fracture, cardiac rehab 20 Views & opinions: electric bikes, older people’s care and aid to Uganda 22 In Person: why not be on council? 37 Networks & networking: what’s going on locally and at CSP-linked professional groups 39 Courses & conferences: your guide to better practice 55 Recruitment: latest jobs 60 3 minutes: footballer-turned-physio Don’t miss out- apply online today Simon Hadley Rob Hulse 66 www.csp.org.uk/apply-students published by Frontline is the physios’ magazine from the CSP, sent direct to every PRINTED BY WARNERS 01778 395111 member 21 times a year Frontline • 6 December 2017 5 Write to us Follow us Comment email your letters to on Twitter at join the debate online at Comment [email protected] @thecsp www.csp.org.uk Top Tweets icsptalk Interested in recent topical discussion? Looking forward Polio plea @Ageing_Better 41% of over 70s don’t realise strength If so, read our selection below. I recently saw the film Breathe, starring Andrew Garfield and Claire and balance exercise can help reduce risk of falls. ow.ly/ iCSP is our peer-led knowledge is the season to be jolly … so we Foy (pictured left). It’s about a real-life couple, Robin and Diana o52k30gCoyQ STX International sharing area of the website – Cavendish, who tried to live as full a life as possible after Robin thought you might enjoy a lighter look view all our popular discussions contracted poliomyelitis in 1958 and had to be kept alive on a @LaurenceVick Dave Lindorrf author of Marketplace Medicine at the role of physiotherapy in this www.csp.org.uk/popular ‘T ventilator. The couple later became advocates for disabled people. @LRB - fraud in US healthcare and the crucial lessons for our your Christmas issue of Frontline. NHS. bit.ly/2iUdttu While we’re not claiming to be Screen Having trained at the time of the last British polio epidemic, I will never forget the bright young patients whose lives would never International magazine, do check out the @thecsp Take part in the latest #PhysioPriorities survey. Tell Inappropriate referrals be the same due to this devastating disease. Although not perfect backgrounder on how the CSP’s hit film, us the top questions you need answered: www.csp.org.uk/ from care homes to I recommend this film – only 12 cases have been reported in the Rehabilitation Matters, was made. It started out priorities @LindAlliance community physio as an idea in the head of Jon Ryan, our head of world this year. In the 1950s there were 45,000 polio cases in the A member seeks feedback press and public relations, and ended as a full UK with many deaths. @RogerKerry1 ‘Knowledge does not exist in isolation but regarding referrals from care blown (well five-minute long) feature film. And At the start of my training we spent days and nights trying to exists within a social context. An exchange of knowledge homes and would like to find one with an Oscar-shortlisted director, no less make these patients comfortable – can you imagine what it must occurs through shared cultural understanding, practices out what is done to tackle (page 16). be like not being able to breathe or move? Patients had painful and assumptions and not by a mere exchange of factual inappropriate referrals. Read the cover feature to find out how limbs without muscle tone – day and night we had to carefully information. Read this from @MattLowPT bit.ly/2iW1J9T Comments: 17 physios keep performers in peak condition over position their limbs on pillows or in half plaster casts, sliding their Network: Older people the festive season, whether they are in pantos or bodies in and out of iron lungs, teaching frog breathing so that @jkruger71 Please read this blog from @pdavocabra on www.csp.org.uk/node/1099546 ballets. As one physio found out there is a lot in they could talk, and frequently being asked: please could you advocacy in physiotherapy, and the importance of reaching common between dancers and football players! scratch the end of my nose?! We must eradicate this disease all the stakeholders. It is always exciting to see these ideas Resistance training Hard to believe? Find out more on page 24. forever. discussed by the #GlobalPT community. bit.ly/2AA4uZ5 A member wants to gain more n Lyn Ankcorn, honorary secretary, CSP Retirement Association knowledge in order to start Follow us on Twitter at @thecsp incorporating a resistance- ‘Let’s look forward to another training programme within their phase three cardiac rehab positive year ahead for the Pioneering leaders As a physiotherapist by background. I What my physiotherapy Prescribing guide medical prescribers. Dr Karen programme. What would your profession, with the support of I read the article on ward managers (page lead a multidisciplinary team of nurses, training and previous experience More than 40,000 nurses, Stenner and I led the team that recommendations be? every member of the CSP’ 24, 1 November issue) with interest and support workers, physios, occupational has offered me is the skills to be pharmacists, physiotherapists, developed the Preparing to Comments: 10 excitement. It resonates with me as I have therapists and a mental health nurse. I am an effective leader. I am sure podiatrists, optometrists and Prescribe toolkit, with input from Network: Cardiac Rehab a similar role in a community team. responsible for approximately 35 people – there are others who would therapeutic radiographers can educators, researchers and policy www.csp.org.uk/node/1116637 On page 32, you’ll find the amazing story of At Airedale NHS Trust, there are two similar to a ward, but with all the exciting flourish in leadership roles – now prescribe medicines, and makers, inspired by more than a Ben Watkins, who helped support members of a collaborative care teams, each with a variables that community work offers! especially roles not previously held there are ongoing plans to extend decade of work on non-medical Hydrotherapy screening British team racing through the forbidding Gobi deputy team leader and an overarching There are challenges of blurred boundary by physios. prescribing rights to others. prescribing. It is available free of of contraindications n Desert. What an incredible experience! clinical lead. I hold the position of deputy leadership, but I have learned a lot from my Martin Welton, deputy team The University of Surrey’s charge: bit.ly/2zCAQBe Members discuss updating n And you can find the final part of our series team leader at Airedale collaborative care nursing colleagues and we now gel really leader, Airedale collaborative school of health sciences has Dr Nicola Carey, University of hydrotherapy screening forms on developing your next career move (page team, a managerial and leadership role. well and learn together. care team launched a guide to aid non- Surrey to include transdermal patches 28) – something no doubt many of you will be within a list of precautions. considering in the year ahead. Comments: 5 So have a great break, assuming you are Network: Aquatic Therapy planning some fun away from the workplace. www.csp.org.uk/node/1070528 I hope you find a bit of space to reflect on You’ve added... your achievements in 2017. Let’s look forward to another positive Fiona Fraser liked our Association of Hand days) … in a service so Karen Middleton’s latest In solutions which I believed we year ahead for the profession, with the recent article on hand Therapists and get regular stretched that clinicians person column. See www.csp. could offer. I took Karen’s Got something to say? support of every member of the CSP. therapy www.csp.org.uk/ helpful articles, learn about rarely get to have that org.uk/node/1111450 advice about seeking out Write to us or comment on articles node/1119626 noting: validated courses to help time back. To the patients’ opportunities to raise my from the latest issue of Frontline Correction clinical practice and more. benefit, at least their n I can vouch for what Karen voice, convinced we had the online. Log in at: www.csp.org.uk/ An item in Physiofindings (18 n Very well described and It is quite unacceptable, clinicians realise, albeit has shared with us. [In] 2005 answers. One of them was to frontline and then go to the current October), titled High impact exercise a thoroughly fabulous though fairly common, to their cost, the positive the writing was on the wall, approach our CEO directly.