by Ian McMillan | Aug 12, 2025 | Careers, On The Move
Chris Tuckett – a physiotherapist by background – has left his post as director of allied health professions (AHPs) at North East London NHS Foundation Trust to become a PHD student on a full-time basis. He took time out from his busy schedule to answer some questions...
by Ian McMillan | Aug 6, 2025 | International, News
The term ‘healthocide’ should be adopted to describe the deliberate destruction of health services and systems – something which amounts to carrying out an ‘act of war’. And medical practitioners should ‘call out’ the weaponisation of healthcare and stand...
by Ian McMillan | Aug 4, 2025 | Musculoskeletal, News, Service design
Most patients who accessed a new AI-powered physiotherapy rated their experience as being ‘equivalent or better’ than receiving traditional face-to-face physiotherapy. Flok Health, which provides same-day appointments for back pain via a smartphone app, said an...
by Ian McMillan | Jul 30, 2025 | News, Rehabilitation, Sports & Exercise
Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation lessens the severity, frequency, and recurrence of the most common form of irregular heart rhythm, atrial fibrillation (AF), according to a pooled data analysis of the available research. The results of the study, which are...
by Ian McMillan | Jul 29, 2025 | Chronic Illnesses, News, Pain, Respiratory, Uncategorised
A European team of researchers has found that chronic cough – typically defined as a cough lasting for longer than eight weeks said to affect about one UK adult in 10 – has a neurological basis. The researchers – who were based in the UK, Denmark, Finland, Denmark and...
