Physiotherapists

Physiotherapists

Music Leadership Equality makers What can Busting students do? the myths Physio support Page 24 Page 16 Page 32 Issue 15 Issue Volume 23 Volume Frontline 2017 6 September THE PHYSIOTHERAPY MAGAZINE FOR CSP MEMBERS Fast-track student Meet Kadeena Cox Inside: Jobs • Physio findings • Courses • In Person Frontline • 6 September 2017 3 Contents News 10 Boost for physios who want to issue fit notes 8 Plan to help staff return to NHS after absences 8 Swansea physio breaks new clinical ground 9 Key role for physios in care of premature babies 10 Physio staff screen Special Olympics athletes 13 Fast show: student gold medalist Kadeena Cox 14 Features PROUD Tips for students on how to display leadership 16 Physios keep musicians in peak condition 24 CPD: part two in our career development series 30 13 TO BE YOUR Busting the myths surrounding equality 32 OFFICIAL Regulars 24 PARTNER Comment: your emails and views 4 Physio findings: Physiotherapy journal round-up; cancer patients 20 Views & opinions: promoting leadership; stroke grants 22 In person: Karen Middleton Neo G is proud to be an official worldwide partner of The Chartered praises students’ commitment 37 Society of Physiotherapy. As a result, all CSP members receive Networks & networking: exclusive benefits including 20% OFF* all Neo G orthopaedic products, what’s going on locally and at with free delivery straight to your clinic or patient’s address. CSP-linked professional groups 39 * Visit: www.neo-g.co.uk/pages/csp (Discount is not available at Boots) Courses & conferences: your guide to better practice 56 Recruitment: latest jobs 58 3 minutes: Claire Fordham 66 published by available at Boots Frontline is the physios’ magazine Order by 8pm and collect free from 12pm tomorrow at a store near you from the CSP, sent direct to every Available at larger Boots stores. Please see www.boots.com/ordertodaycollecttomorrow for full terms and conditions about the Order & Collect service. Mon – Sat, Geographical exclusions apply. Subject to availability. PRINTED BY WARNERS 01778 395111 member 21 times a year Untitled-3 1 24/08/2017 11:35 Frontline • 6 September 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 A warm welcome The life aquatic n @ScottBuxton Have you ever wondered what Interested in recent topical discussion? The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) physiotherapy has to do with #HIV? @darrenabrown If so, read our selection below. here’s something about this time of year spondyloarthritis guideline recognises the value of aquatic physiotherapy. explains brilliantly on physiospot. http://bit.ly/2v7X74t iCSP is our peer-led knowledge that says ‘new start’. I think it’s linked This was highlighted in Frontline’s two-part clinical update on sharing area of the website – n @RodWhiteley Great line from @Atul_Gawande to all those years at school or college spondyloarthritis (5 July and 2 August). view all our popular discussions T ‘unnecessary care often crowds out necessary when the onset of September signalled another AStretch (www.astretch.co.uk), a group of physiotherapists with a www.csp.org.uk/popular opportunity to begin again, turn the page and specialist interest and expertise in spondyloarthritis, are launching a National care, particularly when the necessary care is less perhaps ‘try harder’. Survey in partnership with the National Ankylosing Spondylitis Society remunerative’. This issue of Frontline will be distributed to Starting salary (www.nass.co.uk) and funded by the society’s research fund. AStretch n Approximately half of the every student starting a physiotherapy degree @AdamMeakins recognises there is a ‘postcode’ impact on the access, provision and mode psychological effects of exercise may be due to placebo in the NHS in the coming weeks. To all of you, we say of delivery of aquatic services for spondyloarthritis in the UK. The survey http://bit.ly/2w7kPPD Read this interesting discussion welcome to your magazine. As every member will map hydrotherapy resources across the UK to assist those affected by and debate about starting of a physiotherapy team that offers practice spondyloarthritis to find a local aquatic service. n @DrJackyDavis No reason for austerity in this salaries for band 5 posts in the placements knows, the commitment and The worrying trend of pool closures was raised at the AStretch conference country says @RichardJMurphy – we have plenty of NHS. enthusiasm shown by students is both in December. As the project lead, my recommendation is ‘use it or lose it’ money. Underfunding the NHS a political decision. Comments: 9 stimulating and reassuring. by developing specialist aquatic services for spondyloarthritis. Our survey #TalkNHS Network: Management aims to empower physiotherapists to develop their own aquatic services www.csp.org.uk/node/1070603 for spondyloarthritis in order to widen participation, in line with NICE n @genomicsedu #Personalisedmedicine will be part of routine NHS patient care. Get ahead with one of our ‘This issue of Frontline will recommendations. Barriers to AStretch is keen to hear from physiotherapists involved in aquatic services FREE CPD courses now: http://socsi.in/cU2hw collaborating with be distributed to every student to support this vital piece of research. The national survey will be emailed to n @CochraneUK A great read from @GussieGrips on starting a physiotherapy degree in all physiotherapy departments in the UK this month and closes in October. NHS colleagues why she wrote a comedy show about incontinence. To get involved, email [email protected] A discussion around what is the coming weeks. To all of you, we http://bit.ly/2wIUNER normal practice for clinical leads n Melanie Martin, advanced physiotherapy practitioner @MelRheum say welcome to your magazine’ in community services across the Follow us on Twitter at @thecsp country. Comments: 14 reducing pressure areas caused by As CSP chief executive Karen Middleton says in Relieving pressure information, email me at direct more interest towards the the National Academy of Network: Effective practice contractures and deformities. her In person column (page 37), it’s good to know I have recently been impressed by an [email protected] growing body of research into the Sciences, Ms Knapton said: www.csp.org.uk/node/1067598 The mattress is controlled by a handset that ‘new blood’ is entering the profession and that innovative integral air-filled mattress and n Penny Townsend, paediatric physical changes in patients with ‘People suffering the to inflate or deflate specific tubes, but for its future is in such safe and enthusiastic hands. sleep system that some of my complex physiotherapist, Holmfirth, CFS/ME. symptoms of CFS show spikes Difficulties in people who are unable to use their hands Still on a student theme, you can find out what needs clients have used on a trial basis. West Yorkshire Foremost is the work, begun in in 17 proteins [known as They have all benefited from improved it can be used with eye gaze technology, staffing on-calls tips third-year Cardiff University student Luke Tobin 2004, by Øystein Fluge and Olaf cytokines] produced by the Members discuss staffing sleep quality, sleeping for longer periods allowing them to manage their own offers his peers on displaying leadership (page16). Chronic fatigue Mella in Norway into the effects immune system. The bigger on-call rotation and on-call and more restful sleep. The most position and pressure relief in bed. And fresh from winning three medals, including I write in response to your report of the chemotherapy drug the rises, the more severe the competencies prior to weekend impressive thing from a therapeutic angle I urge physiotherapists who work with a gold, at this summer’s Word Para Athletics on guided graded exercise self- rituximab on the B-cells of the condition.’ working, and share ideas on how is the drastic impact it has had is on clients with complex neurological needs, Championships, student Kadeena Cox describes help programmes (page 20, 2 immune system. A total of 192 patients and to cover two sites on weekdays altering their abnormal postural tone, whether paediatric or adult, to consider how she juggles an arduous athletics regime with August). Graded activity and See also bit.ly/2iJ1bXc 392 healthy controls took part and weekends. thus improving trunk symmetry and the use of these products to manage her studies at Manchester Metropolitan cognitive behavioural therapy More recently, work by in the study. Comments: 13 active functional movements. sleep, posture in bed, abnormal postural University (page14). have been the management Stanford University School of n Merryn Fergusson, private Network: Management It has also had a marked impact on tone and skin integrity. For more Elsewhere, we feature an article strategy for chronic fatigue Medicine, led by Mark Davis, practitioner, Dalry, Dumfries www.csp.org.uk/node/1066582 on the physiotherapists who keep syndrome/myalgic professor of immunology, and Galloway musicians on song physically were discussed by Sarah encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) since Falls in care homes (page 24) and on page 32, CSP Knapton. See 2011 and the PACE (Pacing, A member seeks help on a national officer Jess Belmonte bit.ly/2x0SwF4 Got something to say? graded Activity and Cognitive pilot project aimed at reducing busts some myths surrounding Did you know that the Her article in the Daily Write to us or comment on articles from behaviour therapy; a randomised Correction avoidable admissions to A&E the issue of equality. We hope CSP website contains five Telegraph states that CFS is the latest issue of Frontline online. Log in Evaluation) trial. from care homes. you enjoy your copy of Frontline. an inflammatory disease at: www.csp.org.uk/frontline and then go regularly updated blogs? See bit.ly/2iMke36 The recent The Three minutes column Comments: 26 controversy over the validity of that ‘could soon be featuring Hayley Clarke (2 to the current issue section.

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