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ISRM | ISSUE 32 | FEBRUARY 2017 IN THIS ISSUE Contents Breaking news 2 Editorial 3 Feature articles 4 Event work 8 Expand your knowledge... 16 Members’ offers 19 ISSUE 32 | ISRM NEWSLETTER | 1 Breaking news! Breaking news! Breaking news indeed! Acquisition of Marshcouch! From Mel Cash MARSHCOUCH As some of you already know, the former improving our training and far exceeding What Soft Tissue Therapists do? longstanding proprietor of Marshcouch, the scope of our former BTEC qualification Soft Tissue Therapists can safely assess, Nigel Marshall, recently decided to retire, for many years. The BTEC qualification treat, and rehabilitate acute or chronic and to sell his highly reputed business as a has now come into line with our training minor soft tissue1 conditions caused by going concern. and very little will actually change in our injury, sport, lifestyle stress, or illness. As A buyer was found, so the workshop closed training programme. well as addressing the primary problem, and everything was packed up to go North The new BTEC title makes Soft they analyse a wide range of other to the new owners. However, there was a Tissue Therapy a formally recognised contributing factors, enabling them very last minute change of mind when they qualification and this is an important step to provide treatment and remedial/ decided not to go ahead, but it was then far towards establishing it as a distinct new preventative exercise/lifestyle advice to too late to turn back, so Marshcouch went therapy in modern healthcare. help avert further injury, and improve out of business. This was sad news for its physical and psychological wellbeing in the many devoted customers, especially LSSM. Why Soft Tissue Therapy evolved longer term. They had used and recommended nothing Soft Tissue Therapy has evolved over many else for 25 years because it was always the years, not just because of our desire and 1 Soft Tissues – mainly the muscles, strongest and most stable couch on the passion to become better therapists, but tendons, ligaments and connective tissue. market. also in response to the changing healthcare Mel Cash had known Nigel for many years needs of the clients who seek our help. and they met up to see if there was a way We have seen how the financial strain on he could rescue the brand. Mel had a very the National Health Service has made it Introductory Marshcouch good contact in the Midlands with exactly less able to fund treatment for minor and the right experience in production, and so chronic injuries. Although considered only special price for ISRM together they have now become the proud ‘minor’ in clinical terms, these are painful members only owners of this specialised enterprise. conditions that can seriously affect quality After an inevitable pause during the of life, and if left untreated, they can lead Fixed height couch from £266 purchasing process and the setting up of to much more complex problems later on. (was £324) a new workshop, Marshcouch resumed But without NHS funding to support this Adjustable height couch from £288 production in October (2016), with the field, people increasingly have to turn to (was £354) same tried and tested couch model that the private sector for help. The couches are all individually LSSM have been using for many years. We have also seen changes in the custom made in our own workshop Prices start at £270 (+VAT), but all ISRM training of physiotherapists over recent here in the UK. You can choose students and members are eligible for a decades, which has made musculoskeletal from a range of colours and select 10% discount. For further details, please Physiotherapy become predominantly any fixed height that you want, visit www.marshcouch.com exercise-based, with limited, if any, hands- or there is a standard adjustable on treatment techniques that we use to and an extra low adjustable option such great effect in Soft Tissue Therapy. New Qualification Title as well. You could even have the We have been waiting for over three Soft Tissue Therapy has evolved to fill couch made extra wide or long years while Pearsons BTEC went through the vacuum that has developed in the if you want it. No other couch some restructuring, but we finally treatment of minor and chronic injuries supplier does this! gained approval in July 2016 for the new in mainstream healthcare today. It has qualification with the title: risen to a much higher clinical level than www.marshcouch.com BTEC Level 5 Professional Diploma in Soft the ‘sports massage’ we started off with in You can get your discount code Tissue Therapy the 1980ies, and as well as playing a much when you log in to your In practical terms, this is nothing new at all, more important role in society, it also offers ISRM account. because we have been building up to this a far more satisfying and rewarding career for a long time. We have continually been for the therapist. 2 | ISRM NEWSLETTER | ISSUE 32 Editorial From Tanya Ball Welcome... The second announcement is a ‘Mel- Bodywork and Movement Therapies, A very warm welcome to our winter style tale’ of the somewhat unlikely and Marshcouch – now under Mel 2017 ISRM Newsletter, and a special twist of events that resulted in him Cash’s new joint ownership. welcome to any new student Members becoming the proud joint-owner for whom this is their first Issue. We of highly reputed therapy couch *** Newsletter contributions – please hope that you will find this publication manufacturers Marshcouch. get writing now! *** sufficiently informative, helpful and inspiring to contribute a story/article Feature articles once again include My grateful thanks as always to all in the next edition! a faithful update about the charity contributors to this Issue. Given the project Seeing Hands Nepal from relative shortage of material received ever dedicated Sue Ainley, and an – specially with regard to ‘Feature ISRM Newsletter format – reminder insightful, informative clinical piece articles’ – however, I am appealing to For the benefit of our new Members, from LSSM London Tutor Jo Chatfield, each of you not wait for ‘somebody please note that our mid-year about her experience of and helpful else’ to send in a report, story, case newsletter editions are published tips for working with patients with study or anything else of interest. online only, followed by an extended Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Both stories So please get writing now! hard copy format for the winter Issue. are generously illustrated by photos. Thank you! Any non-obsolete material from the electronic editions is reproduced Event Work: Catch up on 2016 events Please note that the submission in the published Issue of the same supported by ISRM volunteers, deadline for the spring/summer year. Members can access previous including several first-hand accounts 2017 issue is articles, case studies, etc. dating back of the London Marathon experience Friday 28th April 2017, from the spring 2009 edition to date. as well as reports from the Ride thank you. A very grateful ‘thank you’ to ISRM London Surrey 100 and the Tonbridge website manager Martin Docherty for ½ Marathon. A big thank you to Tracy Please keep sending your newsletter his continued efforts in making our Harris, Sam Roberts, Helena Martin, contributions to me at: website ever more user-friendly and Nicola Ralph for these. Once again, [email protected] informative. an abundance of photos adds to the flavour of these events. A huge ‘thank you’ as always to all who helped, In this Issue... sometimes stepping in at short notice and/or personal inconvenience, on Mel Cash makes two significant these occasions. announcements in his ‘Breaking News’ page: one, pertaining to ISRM’s Expand your knowledge, enhance long-awaited success in securing your skills (CPD): Full details of known approval from BTEC for a new / confirmed 2017 CPD (Continued qualification entitled, ‘BTEC Level 5 professional development) at the time Professional Diploma in Soft Tissue of writing are available in this edition. Therapy’ in July 2016. This is a major achievement for our profession, as it Members’ special offers: I am testifies externally and objectively to delighted to remind ISRM members the superiority in quality and scope of about the various preferential training provided by ISRM-accredited offers available to us from schools, compared to other options in Physique Management Company the country. (www.physique.co.uk), the Journal of ISSUE 32 | ISRM NEWSLETTER | 3 Feature Articles Seeing Hands Nepal update From Rob & Sue Ainley, Founders In 2015, two massive earthquakes, and outside in thunderstorms for the first few philanthropic organisation that supports over 300 subsequent aftershocks left days but soon everyone was able to get community tourism-based projects. a humanitarian disaster in their wake. to the safety of their villages. 8,714 people died , 470,000 houses were destroyed and 2.8 million displaced. Now Nepal is being crippled by severe With the government failing to mobilise and protracted fuel and gas shortages as aid, our team in Nepal engaged in a anti-government protesters continue to number of different DIY relief efforts and blockade the Indian border. Prices have our friends and supporters acted fast to risen to astronomical levels and people raise funds to support their efforts. In are queuing for days to get fuel and gas. total we donated over £3000 and used The winter has been cold this year too, those funds in the following ways: and long power cuts add to the woes. Chiran is running the student selection process and has invited interested blind Percentage of funds used for different Getting gas for our heaters has been people to fill in forms, shortlisting 30 so causes in Nepal difficult but thankfully the few guests we far for formal interviews.