Physiotherapy staff in West Lothian joined forces with their patients to promote the benefits of rehabilitation for a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease awareness day.
NHS expert adviser gives approval for physios to issue fit notes
Carol Black, principal of the Newnham College, Cambridge and NHS adviser on work and disability, told Frontline that she backed the government’s strategy to enable physiotherapists to provide fit notes.
PPA study day: Beliefs and expectations can influence the effect of exercise on pain
Exercise can help people with persistent pain, but their expectations and beliefs can affect the outcome, physiotherapy clinician Ben Cormack told the Physiotherapy Pain Association study day on 26 January.
PPA study day: Physio professor outlines new model of pain
Physiotherapists need a new model of pain that takes account of a ‘predictive’ sensory and cognitive interaction, and the influence of people’s emotions and expectations.
Half of UK heart attack survivors don’t get rehab, audit finds
A national audit of cardiac rehabilitation shows that about 68,000 people who had heart attacks missed out on cardiac rehabilitation in 2015/16, nearly half (49 per cent) of those who were eligible.
