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  Neurological care: treating patients with brain injuries

  Robert Millett meets a physiotherapist who is part of a team that treats people with ‘locked in’ syndrome and severe brain injuries.

  

• Wales TUC hears CSP call to cut stress among NHS staff

  Wales has the UK’s highest rate of sickness absence among NHS employees, Keith Finn told the Wales TUC in a speech calling for the promotion of mental wellbeing among health service staff.

  News — 31 May 2016 - 3:03pm

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• Viewpoint

  Adviceline: consultation exercise on low back pain

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  Carley King explains the CSP’s role in channelling members’ comments into a recent consultation exercise on low back pain.

• Viewpoint

  Improving access to physiotherapy

  Tracey Loftis says that opening access to physiotherapy is one of Arthritis UK’s main priorities.

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  Is rugby in schools risky?

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  Should schoolchildren be playing 'full contact' rugby? No, says Chris Tuckett, senior physio at Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust.

  

• Cover story

  Physios in primary care: your questions answered

  The CSP has won a major victory over the role physios can play in primary care. But what does this breakthrough mean for members?

  

• CSP @ Wales TUC

  The CSP highlighted the damage of rising stress levels in the NHS at a three-day trade union conference in Llandudno this week. 

  News — 27 May 2016 - 11:24am

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• talkback

  Workout at Work: five years and still going strong

  CSP vice chair Philip Hulse has found that the benefits of CSP’s Workout at Work Days last far beyond the day itself.

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  Rehab services: are they keeping pace with better responses to major trauma?

  Thanks to an NHS-wide redesign, more people are surviving after a major trauma.

  

• Viewpoint

  What’s in a name?

  CSP head of research and development, Ruth ten Hove, says the title extended scope practitioner is unwieldly and should be replaced by one that’s e