by Ian McMillan | Feb 10, 2022 | On The Move
NULLPhysiotherapists who specialise in musculoskeletal care or are employed as first contact practitioners are being invited to join a two-year development programme run by the National Axial Spondyloarthritis Society (NASS). The programme, which was launched on 7...
by Ian McMillan | Feb 9, 2022 | Rehabilitation
Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspectors have praised the ‘outstanding’ examples of practice that came to light when they visited rehabilitation services provided by Virgin Care Luton at the end of last year. In an overwhelmingly positive report released...
by Ian McMillan | Feb 8, 2022 | Reflections
At the end of January, I posted a tweet about a job advertisement (now expired) in the HSJ for a director of nursing, allied health professions (AHPs) and quality. Though the title of the job was not that unusual, it still struck me that executive...
by Ian McMillan | Feb 4, 2022 | Sports & Exercise
A research team that offered rehab exercise regimes to patients with oesophageal cancer before they received chemotherapy to shrink their tumours believes the results were promising, according to a paper that was published online in the British Journal of Sports...
by Ian McMillan | Feb 2, 2022 | Pain
Adults aged 50 and over who engage in vigorous exercise at least once a week appear to have a better chance of warding off chronic musculoskeletal (MSK) pain than their less active counterparts, a paper appearing in latest edition of the open-access PLOS ONE journal...
