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  • NICE issues new guidance on extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal

    Physios must inform their trust’s clinical governance leads if they want to use extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal (ECCO2R) to treat patients with respiratory failure.

    News — 7 September 2016 - 11:30am
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  • British Elbow and Shoulder Society awards fellowship to physio

    Physio Val Jones will be travelling to South Africa as part of a fellowship awarded by the British Elbow and Shoulder Society.

    News — 6 September 2016 - 3:53pm
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  • Physio’s YouTube video shows the benefits of a service for complex regional pain syndrome

    A physiotherapist from Bath has helped to produce a YouTube video about a specialist service for people with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS).

    News — 6 September 2016 - 3:35pm
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  • Embarrassment stops women seeking help for postnatal incontinence

    Almost four in 10 women who experience urinary incontinence after childbirth are self-conscious about discussing the problem with a healthcare professional, research by the National Childbirth Trust shows.

    News — 6 September 2016 - 2:57pm
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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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