PPA AGM Update

For those PPA members who could not make the AGM, please find attached a range of documents, including a tribute to Vicki Harding, who is leaving the PPA Executive after 14 years of hard work!

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Tribute to Vicki Harding
AGM agenda
Officers Reports
Financial Report
2008-9 Exec Nominations
2008-9 Exec Nominations: profiles

PPA AGM Update

For those PPA members who could not make the AGM, please find attached a range of documents, including a tribute to Vicki Harding, who is leaving the PPA Executive after 14 years the hard work!

Downloads

Tribute to Vicki Harding
AGM agenda
Officers Reports
Financial Report
2008-9 Exec Nominations
2008-9 Exec Nominations: profiles

PPA and CSP Collaboration Leads to Publications

The PPA worked together with the CSP journalist Ann Sterling in the lead up to BackCare Awareness Week, and this collaboration lead to the publication of two articles about positive management strategies in back pain. These excellent articles were written by PPA executive committee member Audrey Wang, and are available via free subscription at:

http://www.healthcarerepublic.com/home/

NICE Guidelines: Draft for Chronic Low Back Pain

The draft guidelines for chronic low back pain have now been published. To view these, and to have your say, visit:

http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/index.jsp?action=byID&o=11645

Relaxation DVD in British Sign Language

North Bristol NHS Trust Pain Management Service have teamed up with a Bristol-based company, Eyegaze, and a collective of other health specialists to produce a relaxation/stress management DVD specifically for Deaf people who use BSL. If you usually offer audio recordings to support hearing people people in learning relaxation, there is finally an equivalent in BSL for your patients who are Deaf.

For further information, visit:

http://www.eyegaze.tv/health/

Osteoarthritis: National clinical guideline for care and management in adults

Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common form of arthritis and one of the leading causes of pain and disability in the UK. PPA members will be interested to read the latest guidelines, developed by the National Collaborating Centre for Chronic Conditions at the Royal College of Physicians. They can be ordered by post (see attached leaflet) or accessed via the NLH:

http://www.library.nhs.uk/GuidelinesFinder/ViewResource.aspx?resID=282226

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OA guidelines leaflet

PPA On The BBC

The PPA have recently been able to offer comment on a BBC news item.

click here to view the article.

PPA News Preview: Professor Lederman's article

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!

Physiotherapists who would like to discuss this article can do so online at the Pain Management section of iCSP: www.interactivecsp.org.uk

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The Myth of core stability (PDF Document)

ARMA

• 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:

http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_4138413

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