For Chartered Physiotherapists and other practitioners involved in the treatment of patients with acute or chronic pain.
The Physiotherapy Pain Association (PPA) was formed to bring together and provide information for Physiotherapists with the common interest of managing patients with both acute and long term pain.
PPA On The BBC
The PPA have recently been able to offer comment on a BBC news item.
click here to view the article.
New Information Sheet for People Living with Pain
The PPA has produced a useful resource list in time for National Back Pain Awareness Week. It acts as a signpost to useful information, books and websites, all aimed at informing and empowering people who have to contend with pain on a regular basis. We hope that you find these resources of use, but of course each individual needs to find their own best management strategies for dealing with pain.
Thank you Louis
The PPA would like to thank Louis Gifford for all work he has put into editing the PPA News over the years.
We are sorry to lose him as the Editor; he will be a hard act to follow. Therefore we have decided that a team of 4-6 editors will be required. The editorial team will be lead by an editor in chief and we are delighted that Steve Robson has agreed to take on the role. We are inviting applications for sub-editors who we would like to take on a regular, but smaller responsibility in keeping PPA News moving forwards from the strong position in which Louis leaves it.
PPA News Preview: Professor Lederman's article "The Myth of Core Stability"
For the first time, an article from PPA News is available online.
This is for two reasons:
1. Professor Lederman's stimulating article merits the international readership which the PPA Website offers
2. We thought that non-PPA members should realise that they are missing out by not receiving PPA News!
To read the article, follow this link
Physiotherapists who would like to discuss this article can do so online at the Pain Management section of iCSP: www.interactivecsp.org.uk
ARMA
PPA members will be interested to find out about the work of ARMA, which is the umbrella organisation for the UK musculoskeletal community. ARMA have developed standards of care for a range of painful conditions, firmly based on the experiences of people living with the musculoskeletal conditions, which have been reviewed and endorsed by a range of user groups and professional organisations. For full details of the standards and the endorsing organisations, please visit ARMA's website www.arma.uk.net.
The standards are based on three themes:
. access to information, support and knowledge that optimise musculoskeletal health for everyone and enable self-management
. access to the right services that enable early assessment and management
. access to ongoing and responsive treatment and support.
Musculoskeletal Services Framework
The new national MSF has now been launched, and is available from www.dh.gov.uk/publications
How will it affect the provision of physiotherapy services, and how will it affect the quality of care delivered for NHS patients? If you are a member of the interactive Chartered Society of Physiotherapy website, you could start a discussion with your physiotherapy colleagues about this and any other important issues which affect the provision of treatment for patients with musculoskeletal pain.
Updated British Pain Society Guidelines
The 2006 update of the recommended guidelines the pain management programmes for adults is now available to download from the British Pain Society website: www.britishpainsociety.org
