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Two major sporting events this summer in London will have 150 physiotherapists providing support to elite athletes from around the world.

A physiotherapist from Glasgow Caledonian University is to investigate the effectiveness of delivering mild electrical stimulation to the leg to reduce incontinence in care homes.

CSP members were on hand to raise the profile of physiotherapy with local decision makers at the mayor’s Newham show in East Ham, east London, on 8-9 July.

A physiotherapist is helping to develop ‘smart specs’, a virtual reality headset and an app that will help rehabilitate people with facial palsy.

Two physios treated the UK’s strongest men as they competed in a ‘Battle of Britain’ strongman event.

Electronic referrals have reduced the number of missed appointments or DNAs (did not attends) in England’s NHS by 50 per cent, the King’s Fund Digital Health and Care Congress 2017 heard.

The number of physiotherapy appointments for orthopaedic patients went down from an average of six to five after physiotherapists used Cheshire’s electronic care record.

Birmingham Children’s Hospital principal transplantation physiotherapist Jemma Mears flew out to New York to receive an outstanding achievement award from the International Rehabilitation and Transplant Association.

Conversion therapy – which aims to ‘cure’ people who are attracted to those of the same gender – should be banned in the UK.

The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency says that all people with metal-on-metal (MoM) hip replacements should receive follow-up appointments to detect adverse soft tissue reactions.