by Ian McMillan | Jul 15, 2025 | Learning Zone, Service design, Students
First-year physiotherapy students at the University of Winchester have won praise for ‘throwing themselves’ into an innovative placement programme that ran for 10 weeks earlier this year. The undergraduates completed 60-hour placements with local organisations and...
by Ian McMillan | Jul 15, 2025 | News, Public health, Sports physiotherapy
The government should ban high-profile food companies from using sport to promote the consumption of their unhealthy products to young people, according to health and wellbeing experts. Robin Ireland, an honorary research fellow based at Glasgow University’s school of...
by Ian McMillan | Jul 11, 2025 | Chronic Illnesses, News, Older People, Research, Sports & Exercise
Being consistently physically active in adulthood is linked to a 30-40 per cent lower risk of death from any cause in later life, according to researchers who conducted a pooled data analysis of the evidence. The article, published online today (11 July) in the...
by Ian McMillan | Jul 8, 2025 | Chronic Illnesses, News, Public health, Rehabilitation
People are more likely to die within a year of having a stroke if they live in more deprived areas, according to researchers based at the University of Aberdeen. The research was funded by Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland (CHSS) and the article was published in...
by Ian McMillan | Jul 1, 2025 | Editor's Pick, Musculoskeletal, News, Rehabilitation, Research
Three researchers from the University of Winchester – two of whom are physiotherapists by background – have co-written an article that sheds light on how patients perceive diagnostic labels for musculoskeletal (MSK) pain. The trio are Stephen Martin, Matthew Smith and...
