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A New Beginning A Meeting of Manipulative Physiotherapists

A very successful meeting of represen- tatives of the following groups took place at the invitation of the Society’s Professional Practice Committee, on May 22, 1992, at the CSP:

Association of Orthopaedic Chartered Physiotherapists

Cyriax Organisation Manipulation Association of

Chartered Physiotherapists McKenzie Institute Orthopaedic Medicine International Society of Orthopaedic Medicine

In a wide-ranging discussion, they agreed that all the groups present had a great deal in common, as well as some differences in approach, but the latter led to a healthy variety and continued develop- ment of patient management in manipula- tive therapy.

They concluded that a number of problems and challenges were common to all manipulative physiotherapists and that more co-operation between the groups, perhaps on a formal basis, would be beneficial. They now plan to feed back the conclusions reached at the meeting to their parent bodies and to meet again in September.

Groups of manipulative physiotherapists who are involved in running educational courses, or other services to their members, are invited to contact Mrs Jane Langley MCSP, professional affairs officer at the CSP.

Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease CMT International is a support group for

people with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. The organisation was founded in

Canada in 1984 and the UK branch was established two years later; it is now in contact with more than 500 sufferers and their families throughout Britain.

Advice and information are offered, with an introductory information pack and a quarterly newsletter.

Patients with this relatively rare disease (peroneal muscular atrophy or hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy) often feel isolated, and physiotherapists could help by bringing the existence of CMT Inter- national to their attention.

The secretary is Mrs Margaret Read, 121 Lavernock Road, Penarth, South Glamorgan CF6 2QG (tel 0222 709537).

Congratulations! Sheffield City Polytechnic has conferred

a Readership on Dr Anne Parry. She was formerly a Senior lecturer at the polytechnic, and is scientific editor of Physietherapy .

Taking the Strain out of Telephoning

To help telephone users avoid stress and strain while using the telephone, the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and Mercury Communications have produced a leaflet ‘Phone-wise’.

The leaflet shows how best to hold a telephone and how to avoid the dreaded ‘phone neck’ which is caused by cradling the telephone between the chin and the shoulder, leaving both hands free to do other work.

It explains to office workers that poor posture while on the phone can also lead to stiffness and various aches and pains. But starting the day with a few simple exercises can help,prevent such discomfort. The leaflet suggests a daily routine.

Theleaflet was launched at the RoSPA International Safety and Health at Work Exhibition and Congress, in Birmingham last month, where the Society had a stand.

Single copies are available by sending a 9 in by 6 in stamped addressed envelope to the Public Relations Department at the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, 14 Bedford Row, London WC1R 4ED.

Above: Elbow circling - one of a series of exercises illustrated in ‘Phone-wise‘

Below: Sarah Durham (right), Events Unif assistanf, chats to a visitor on the CSP stand at Naidex. The exhibition was held in Birmingham from May 18-20; see ‘Physiotherapy: June page 436 for a report of the CSP conference there

Courses to Order It is now 18 months since Banstead

Mobility Centre moved to its vastly improved premises at Carshalton, Surrey. The centre views training as a very important part of its role and, in con- sequence, has resumed its wheelchair study days aimed at therapists, manu- facturers and engineers; 25 people attended the two days held in May.

The centre has a large demonstration fleet comprising 43 wheelchairs, scooters and buggies. The seminars offer the opportunity to learn about the vehicles and also to try them out, gaining an insight into some of the problems.

Courses can be designed to suit specific needs, and approaches from groups and organisations are welcome. Please contact Mrs Morigue Cornwell MBE MCSP, Director, Banstead Mobility Centre, Damson Way, Orchard Hill, Queen Mary’s Avenue, Carshalton, Surrey SM5 4NR (tel 081-770 1151).

North Western Board Representative to Council By-Election

A by-election is to be held for the vacancy for the North Western Board representative on Council, caused by the resignation of Mrs Jannette Ryder.

Nomination papers are available from the Board secretary, Mrs Janette Standring, School of Physiotherapy, Manche er Royal

9WL, to whom they should be returned. The closing date will be Tuesday, September 1, 1992.

Infirmary, Oxford Road, Manch d ster M13

WCPT - USA The 12th International Congress of the

World Confederation for Physical Therapy will be held from June 25 to 30, 1995, in’ Washington, DC, USA. A call for papers will go out to WCPT member countries in early 1993. Additional information on registration, exhibiting and logistics will also be available early next year.

The 1995 WCPT Congress theme is: ‘Dimensions of excellence’.

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Pain and Disability: Can We Prevent Them? September 3-5, 1992, at The University of Oxford

An unusual opportunity to meet other health professionals who are interested in improving the assessment and treatment of neuro-musculoskeletal problems is arising in Oxford in September. The Physical Medicine Research Foundation (PMRF), whose headquarters are based in Vancouver, Canada, is putting on its fifth international symposium, in association with the Wessex Rehabilitation Association and the Physiotherapy Services, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford. The PMRF is a charitable foundation set up to encourage health protessionals trom all disciplines to share their expertise to try and improve the management of neuro- musculoskeletal problems.

Overseas speakers, whom I was lucky enough to have heard at previous PMRF conferences in Vancouver (1990) and Toronto (1991) are also included in the programme. Robert Salter, an orthopaedic

surgeon from Canada, an exceptionally interesting and lively speaker, will be talking and running a day workshop on the subject of continuous passive motion. Vladimir Janda, professor in neurology and rehabilitation in Prague, is also fascinating, and made a big impression on me. He will be talking at the symposium and also running a three-day workshop on ’Muscle and back pain: Assessment and treatment of impaired movement patterns and motor recruitment’.

Speakers will also include many British specialists, such as Dr Michael Adams on spinal mechanics: ‘Disc function and failure’, and Peter Wells on ‘Adverse mechanical tension in the neural system’, as well as Professor Margaret Bullock from Australia, who is well known for her book Ergonomics. The physiotherapist and the workplace.

The approach to musculoskeletal

problems is very broad-ranging and the importance of psychological processes, as well as physical ones, is emphasised by including several talks on these aspects. Dr Marty Shoemaker, a psychologist who works in both Canada and the USA, is talking on ‘Psychology of disability’ and will be running a one-day workshop. Closer to home, psychological management of chronic pain will be covered by members of the pain management programme, INPUT, St Thomas’s Hospital.

Next year, the PMRF conference is already planned to take place in Prague. If you come to Oxford this year, you may decide that you want to make sure you get there too!

Registration for the symposium and all the associated workshops, is through John Gisby at Wessex Rehabilitation Association, Odstock Hospital, Salisbury (tel 0722 336262 ext 4057).

Jennifer Klaber Moffett MSc MCSP

Director, Physiotherapy Research Unit Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford

Manipulative Therapy New Postgraduate Diploma MSc

The Manipulation Association of Chartered Physiotherapists (MACP) in conjunction with Coventry Polytechnic is launching a postgraduate diplomalMSc in manipulative therapy in September 1992, in Coventry.

On obtaining the postgraduate diploma, students (who will be eligible to become members of the MACP) may go on to achieve an MSc on successful completion

of a research dissertation. The MACP aims to develop and maintain a high standard of manipulative physiotherapy in the United Kingdom. At present there are over 400 MACP members practising in both the NHS and privately.

Miss Agneta Lando, chairman of the MACP, said: ‘This will be the only course of its kind in Europe. We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity to gain a postgraduate diplomalMSc in manipulative therapy for physiotherapists in this country and abroad.’

Dateless T-shirts The National Physiotherapy Day T-shirts

were extremely popular and members are still asking for them, even though the day has now gone.

We are therefore still producing them, but without the date. So if you would like some, please send a cheque for f5.95 per shirt and fl postage and packing to the PR department at the CSP. If you are ordering bulk supplies the postage on subsequent T-shirts is 25p.

obituary Miss Aura Louisa Forster

HonBPhty FCSP DIpTP

Aura Forster, inaugural head of the Depart- ment of Physiotherapy, The University of Queensland, Australia, died on March 18.

Born in 1908 at Ballarat, Victoria, she trained in Melbourne, qualifying as a masseuse in 1933. She spent several years gaining experience in various clinics, particularly with the treatment of anterior poliomyelitis. In 1941 she joined the Army Medical Service and served on the 212 Australian Hospital Ship Wanganella making many trips to the Middle East, Singapore and New Guinea, before being posted to faciomaxillary and plastic surgery units in Australia.

On discharge from the Army in 1946, she immediately went to England where she had been awarded the Barbara Mortimer Thomas Scholarship to St Thomas’s Hospital. This was the beginning of a long association with St Thomas’s - a hospital to which she always felt she owed so much.

She went to Canada in 1948, working at the Workmen’s Compensation Rehabili- tation Clinics in Toronto and Vancouver; returning to St Thomas’s in 1951 because

she wanted to obtain a higher qualification in physiotherapy and there were nd oppor- tunities to do so in Australia at-that time. While at St Thomas’s she worked on a research project on rheumatoid arthritis for which she was awarded a Fellowship in 1953. She also obtained the Chartered Society’s Diploma for Teachers of Physiotherapy.

In 1954 Aura went to Vallejo for a six- month course in proprioceptive neuro- muscular facilitation and later gave courses on PNF in England, Ireland and Australia.

In 1956 Aura accepted an appointment as lecturer in physiotherapy at The University of Queensland. During her first years at the university there was vigorous debate as to whether the therapies should be run and taught by medical men as merely subservient to medicine or whether they also had an independent role as scientific disciplines in their own right. Aura argued logically and persuasively to various university committees that physiotherapy be developed as a subject along professional lines in close association with rather than by the direction of the medical profession. This was accepted by the university and a

separate Department of Physiotherapy was created in 1962 with Aura as its inaugural head.

Aura then set about ensuring that the physiotherapy course was designed to provide good clinical practitioners and that opportunities were made available for physiotherapists to proceed to higher degrees. She was also instrumental in starting reasearch activity in the depart- ment. The university recognised her contribution by awarding her the degree of Bachelor of Physiotherapy ‘Honoris Causa’ in 1966.

She retired as Reader in 1973 but continued her interest in the profession, travelling, lecturing and writing. During her years as a teacher she had been concerned about the lack of textbooks for physiotherapists. This led to her co- authoring Human Movement - An intro- ductory text for physiotherapy students.

Aura Forster was a great leader whose personal and professional qualities enabled her to create a new vision of what physiotherapy could become. Her influence on the profession’s development in Australia has been profound.

She was also a great human being whose sense of wonder and delightful sense of humour sustained her to the end.

Aura never married. She is survived by a niece and nephew. PG

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Physiotherapy Leaflet for Ethnic Minorities A leaflet about physiotherapy has been

translated into four Asian languages to promote health care among ethnic minorities.

‘Physiotherapy - Taking care of you and your family’ has been produced in Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi and Urdu. Copies are belng made available in Leicester and Bradford in order to focus on particular communities.

The leaflet has been produced by the

Correction Amanda Bennett at Age Concern is

responsible for co-ordinating the prepar- ations for the European Year of Elderly People and Solidarity between the Generations (1993), and not as stated in ‘Personal View’, April, page 269. We apologise to Ms Bennett.

Chartered Society of Physiotherapy with funding from the Department of Health. It describes what physiotherapists do and the con’ditions they treat, the people they treat, where they are treated and the methods used. There is also a section on physiotherapists’ preventive role.

The aim of the leaflet is to dispel some myths about physiotherapy and encourage people to seek such treatment when it is appropriate for them.

Mrs Patricia Phillips, chairman of Council, said: ‘This project should be a good test of whether health promotion literature is read and then followed up. Although limited in scope, I am certain that translating our leaflet into different languages will be shown to be of benefit. This is government money well spent.’

Copies of the leaflet are available free of charge from the CSP Public Relations Department. Please state which language is required.

Royal Visit The Queen Mother, who is President of The Queen Alexandra Hospital Home for Disabled Ex-Servicemen at Gifford House in Worfhing, paid her ninth visit there on April 14. She is seen left talking to the physiotherapists in the newly opened hydrotherapy pool

CSP Overview of Self-governing Trusts

A CSP overview and factfile on self- governing Trusts is now available for members in the third wave of Trusts.

Members will find the 15-page document useful to enable them to participate in the consultation period. This takes place before the granting of Trust status.

It is very important that members do become involved in the consultation process which will continue until August.

The documentation is available free of charge from Gary Kirwan, industrial relations officer at the Chartered Society.

Healthy Theme for Physiotherapist Mayor

Patricia Stewart MCSP has been installed as town mayor of West Mersea, Colchester. Mrs Stewart trained at Manchester Royal Infirmary School of Physiotherapy and until recently was community physiotherapist for West Mersea. She now works in occupational health for British Telecom.

Her experience as a physiotherapist led her to launch a campaign to provide a heated indoor swimming pool for Merse Island.

Mrs Stewart’s theme for her year as mayor is ‘Health and fitness’ which will form part of the civic service on October 18, the day dedicated to St Luke, the patron saint of medicine.

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THE CHARTERED SOCIETY OF PHYSIOTHERAPY

ST MARY’S SCHOOL OF PHYSIOTHERAPY: Graduate Diploma In Physlotherapy: K L Bathe; A T Benjamin (1); S-J Bond (1.); E J C Crowther (1); A J Culmer (1); S L Davidson (1 #); J E Eccles (1); C M Gedge (2); P Godfrey (1); T A Griffiths (l*); C J Hyde (3); S J Hynes (1); A D lllingworth; R L Keep; L M Labistour; S E Lawson (1); A P Maclnnes; J S Manners (1); C J Masters (2’); S L May; D A Nicholas; C Nocton (1); B E Storrie; C M Thyberg; C M Waugh (37; E F Wurfbain (1).

1 = 1 distinction in clinical examinations 2 = 2 distinctions in clinical examinations 3 = 3 distinctions (maximum) in clinical examinations

= Distinction - paper # = Distinction - project

THE ROBERT GORDON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CENTRE FOR PROFESSIONS ALLIED TO MEDICINE: Graduate Diploma In Physiotherapy: S Brown; M Buttle (3); L Cowan; E Forbes; L Howden; M J Minni; E Mitchell (4); M B Myrvold; I McLaren; R Parker (3, 5); K Rankin (4); J Thomson.

3 = distinction in project 4 = distinction in patient assessment 5 = distinction in clinical practice

LISTS DUBLIN SCHOOL OF PHYSIOTHERAPY: BSC Physiotherapy (Honours)

First class: A M Nimhuiri. Upper second class: K L Ging; H M Casserley; N M Keane;

C Murray; F M Pegum; L A Ross; E P Griffin; S A Sexton; C B Keyes; A M Horgan; G M Casey; T K O’Kelly.

Lower second class: B A A Coyle; M A Breen; R E Kissane; C A Purcell; B Moroney; N A Roche; J M Allis; E M Madden.

UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER, FACULTY OF SOCIAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES: BSc Physiotherapy (Honours)

First class: B C McDowell. Upper second class: S M Boone; P M Boyle; A A Brown; s

Buchanan; A Y Caldwell; A M Coalter; A M Crowe; S Dobbs; E L Donnelly; A M Dunlop; D A Fallows; F A Farley; M T M Callen; G J Grimley; S T Hoy; S L Jones; A M Kearney; S A Kelly; J E Kerr; E T Lavery; C A Liggett; C M McCabe; N E McCleery; M T McCrory; N E McCullach; A T McParland; J G McVeigh; A H Mercer; D B Mullan; U C Mulligan; E Ross; L E Steele; G K Thompson; M C Walls; S M Wilson.

Lower second class: G H Boyde; G A Callaghan; J A Craig; S M Crossey; L Dace; M L Fullerton; R E Harte; M I 0 Kelly; R Kerr; A P McKenna; A M McWilliams; J G Murphy; E J Pollock; S Sands; D S Walker.

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