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  • Award-winning video helps post-op hand exercises

    A team of physios and occupational therapists are making rehabilitation after complex hand surgery easier with an award-winning exercise video.

    News — 2 September 2016 - 1:18pm
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  • All systems go for ParalympicsGB physios despite fears for Games

    Physiotherapists working with ParalympicsGB athletes in Rio de Janeiro have praised facilities for British athletes despite fears that funding problems and poor ticket sales may hit this month’s Paralympic Games.

    News — 2 September 2016 - 12:14pm
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  • Suicide charity will gain from mental health physio’s desert marathon

    A mental health physio will run for six days across the desert to help raise funds for a charity that stops men from taking their own lives.

    News — 1 September 2016 - 11:50am
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  • 2018 Winter Olympics volunteering deadline is looming

    Physiotherapists wanting to volunteer as specialist helpers at the 2018 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in South Korea have only until the end of this month to submit their applications.

    News — 1 September 2016 - 9:34am
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  • Physio-led rehabilitation service hailed as model of good practice

    The work of a physiotherapist-led neuro-rehabilitation service in Essex is being held up as an example of ‘inspirational’ care in new clinical guidance.

    News — 30 August 2016 - 3:44pm
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  • Southampton NHS Trust physios digitise workbook for newly-qualified colleagues

    A respiratory physiotherapy team at a major teaching trust has pushed training into the digital age by creating an electronic workbook for its band 5 members.

    News — 25 August 2016 - 12:18pm
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  • CSP says make Paralympic athletes a priority, following budget cuts to Rio games

    The CSP has expressed concern at ‘last minute’ changes to the venues, workforce and transport for athletes and their teams, at the Paralympics in Rio.

    News — 23 August 2016 - 3:57pm
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  • Physios help develop new commissioning guidance for lymphoedema services and easy read leaflets

    Physiotherapists helped to create new guidance about lymphoedema services for adults in London, which was published on 8 August.

    News — 23 August 2016 - 12:30pm
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  • GPs need guidance to speed referrals to neuro physiotherapy, says charity report

    GPs need guidance and further training to help them assess people with neurological conditions and make effective referrals to services such as neuro physiotherapy.

    News — 23 August 2016 - 11:45am
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  • CSP chief criticises inadequate obesity strategy

    CSP chief executive Karen Middleton has accused the government of launching a childhood obesity strategy that is inadequate and insufficient.

    News — 18 August 2016 - 4:35pm
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