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Debbie Simpson travelled to the Middle East to provide physio cover for a gruelling six-day ultramarathon.

Paediatric physiotherapy educator Sarah Westwater-Wood has been awarded a prestigious Higher Education England Senior Fellowship.

Using robotics as a rehabilitation tool is ‘helping to make physiotherapy more attractive to children’, Andreas Meyer-Heim told the Association of Paediatric Chartered Physiotherapists’ (APCP) annual conference, held in Newcastle on 13 November.

The future for children and young people with cerebral palsy is in all of our hands.

The background to a controversial decision earlier this year to drop professional insurance cover for physios working in top tier football clubs emerged at a conference last week.

Physios could be awarded thousands of pounds to help them develop products that will improve the quality of life of people with arthritis.

Adults and children with complex continence problems should be referred to a specialist service including physiotherapy, says NHS England

Older people with social care needs and multiple long-term conditions should receive multidisciplinary support, including physiotherapy.

Physios working in sport should be aware that brain damage is not the only problem associated with concussion – the risk of musculoskeletal (MSK) injury also increases significantly after concussion.

A newly-qualified physio treated water skiers as old as 80 as an international water skiing competition came to the UK.