Author: Garreth

ARMA Treasurer

Could you be the new treasurer of ARMA? This is an ideal opportunity for someone who wishes to gain experience of serving as a charity treasurer. As a small charity, ARMA’s finances are relatively straightforward, so you don’t necessarily need to be a highly qualified accountant. The skills and knowledge required might have been gained through financial qualifications, running a business or previous treasurer experience.

An interest in improving health services is desirable, but we do not require any previous experience of working in health services.…

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Measuring patient outcomes using PROMs

The Institute of Osteopathy has published a case study into the use of Patient Reported Outcome Measurement (PROMs) to measure patient outcomes after osteopathic care.

There is a need for osteopaths to collect robust outcome data from their patients about the care provided, to allow reflection and promote good patient management. Patient data will help the osteopathic profession and individual osteopaths understand more about the response patients have to treatment and ultimately improve patient care.

Read the PROMs impact report here.…

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HMSA website relaunch

The new and improved hypermobility.org

The new HMSA website is something a lot of people have been working on in the background for quite some time, a process complicated by the collapse of the old site at the worst possible moment. TeamHMSA is bursting at the seams with excitement, not least because of some of the new functionality the site has, including:

  • A brand new dedicated Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder (HSD) section. 
  • Simple content submission – if you love writing about your experiences/blogging, you will be able to send content directly to us
  • Fundraisers can set up their own pages/events, and anyone can donate directly.
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MSK Pearls and Red Whale events

Versus Arthritis and Red Whale (the GP-Update course providers) are working together to bring healthcare professionals a fantastic new range of free musculoskeletal education, specifically designed to help improve your confidence and skills in supporting people with MSK conditions and to gain valuable CPD points.

Coming soon:

  • Specially curated MSK Pearls that cut through the clutter and focus on the important issues you shouldn’t miss, as well as the small things that might make your lives easier and your patients’ lives better.
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Therapy Expo 2019

BASRaT is an event partner at this year’s Therapy Expo.

Therapy professionals are under increasing pressure to help relieve the burden on frontline NHS services, dealing with patients presenting with MSK, back, and joint pain. The conference programme is dedicated to key areas including MSK, sports injuries, biomechanics and neuro rehabilitation. 

BASRaT not only has a stand at the expo, we are also holding our AGM on the second day of the conference. Therapy Expo takes place on 27  and 28 November at the NEC, find out more at www.therapyexpo.co.uk…

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Have you visited Moving Medicine yet?

Last October, Moving Medicine was launched by the Honourable Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. The free, evidence-based resources, available at movingmedicine.ac.uk support high quality conversations on physical activity across a broad range of chronic diseases including musculoskeletal pain, inflammatory rheumatic conditions and primary prevention, to mention a few.

The resources are all developed with experts, healthcare professionals and patients, and are endorsed by professional bodies and charities, including ARMA. Whether you have 1 minute, 5 minutes, or more minutes to speak with patients about physical activity, Moving Medicine will help support this. …

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Guest blog: Rethinking activity and movement in care homes

by Catherine Holmes, National Service Improvement Manager, Anchor

I was thrilled to read Sue Brown’s (CEO, ARMA) September blog and the proposed plan for an event on physical activity. The importance and benefits of staying active is already widely accepted and understood in terms of maintaining joint movement, bone and muscle strength and this is especially important for residents living in care homes. The challenge for care is to create opportunities for people with a wide variety and often multiple and complex health needs such as musculoskeletal, limited or a lack of mobility and living with dementia to keep engaged and active.…

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BOA Instructional Course

BOA Instructional Course

The BOA Instructional Course was established to help trauma and orthopaedic (T&O) surgeons to establish strong foundations for practice and assessment. We provide the opportunity for a number of Case Based Discussions (CBDs) across a range of topics but also to network and attend lectures delivered by expert clinicians. This one-day programme runs two parallel streams and provides curriculum-driven clinical updates and critical condition assessment opportunities aimed at T&O trainees and SAS surgeons. For more information please click here.…

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New chair-based exercises for people with arthritis

Arthritis Action has launched a new webpage featuring arthritis-friendly exercises using animated images (GIFs). These chair-based strength and conditioning exercises were developed in partnership with wellbeing organisation Oomph!,  mobilising different parts of the body.

The exercises were designed with the aim to recondition and build mobility and confidence in people who have not been keeping active. The can be viewed on the Arthritis Action website.