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'At a time when so many people are waiting for care, not enabling new physiotherapists who want to join the NHS to do so is a missed opportunity we can fix quickly.

'Physiotherapists are trained, motivated and ready to help.' 1/2

It’s #FridayFactSheet time. For #SelfCareWeek (17–23 Nov) we’re launching our new Moving More resource. #MindBody is the theme + we’re highlighting how physical activity boosts mood, supports health and helps us stay independent. bit.ly/2tiBs9K @exerciseworks.bsky.social @helendon-rn.bsky.social

Optimizing Pelvic Organ Prolapse Management

by Padoa A, Braga A (...) Serati M et 3 al. in J Clin Med #Surgery #SurgSky #GeneralSurgery #MedSky

🪡 read our summary here
📖 read the article: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/14/20/7313

Fear of falling affects 40-73% of older adults who've fallen 😰 Creates vicious cycle: fear → activity avoidance → weakness → more falls. Evidence shows Tai Chi, Otago exercises & CBT break the cycle!

Free learning: physio-pedia.com/Fear_of_Falling 💪

🚨 New in Nature Medicine:
Co-developed intervention with patients & clinicians significantly improved quality of life at 12 months in multimorbidity.
✅ Safe
✅ Effective
✅ Patient-centered
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🌐https://www.mobilize-project.dk/?lang=en
#Multimorbidity #ExerciseTherapy

MP highlights physio role in parliamentary incontinence debate Sonia Kumar, MP for Dudley and physiotherapist, has chaired a backbench business committee debate to highlight pelvic health issues.

'Prevention, prevention, prevention is key. Physiotherapy is recommended as an integral part of women’s health, especially with pelvic floor dysfunction.'

Sonia Kumar MP highlighted incontinence as 'woefully unsupported' in the House of Commons and the key role of physiotherapy.

Spring and summer is a time when we re-assess our health and wellbeing activities (or lack of them) and to help you with this here is our POWER of #selfcare factsheet to give you some ideas. bit.ly/2tiBs9K @exerciseworks.bsky.social @rhianlast.bsky.social @adewilliams.bsky.social

Derbyshire at its best!
Walking for health, in nature. #LathkillDale

Frog on the surface of a pond, with its face reflected on the water

We're losing wildlife. Frogs, butterflies, bumblebees, hedgehogs, moths, bats, insects, birds are all declining. But if more of us take positive actions for biodiversity in our gardens, communities, landscapes and towns, we can help nature bounce back. Who's in?

New paper - The Evidence Is Clear, Exercise Is Not Better Than Antidepressants or Therapy: It Is Crucial to Communicate Science Honestly

Our new overview of the power of exercise 4 depression, trying to balance misinformation

journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal... @exerciseworks.bsky.social

Balloon and lantern releases create litter and #plasticpollution in landscapes and seas that can harm the environment, wildlife and livestock. Celebrate special occasions and loved ones by planting trees, wildflowers, or bee and butterfly gardens instead!
Pic via Keep Britain Tidy

We’ve made it to Bluesky! Please give us a follow and share - we post positive solutions offering hope for tackling the nature and climate emergencies🌱

Joe Wicks to help elderly patients get ‘fit for surgery’ with new videos The fitness star has created two new exercise videos.

Joe Wicks to help elderly patients get ‘fit for surgery’ with new videos

www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/cele...

@The_VANGUARD_EU @GeorgeMetsios @fimo18 @RogerKerry1 @UoNPhysio @astephj1 @WHO_EU @RCSEd @RCSnews @RCPhysicians

A "Which?" Guide to Parkinson's Tech As a former* technology journalist with Parkinson’s I get told about lots of gadgets designed to help people dealing with the neurological disease - and I have tried quite a few of them.

open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... congrats to Parkinson’s UK on launching its Tech Guide to Parky gadgets -here’s my review

RCP publishes updated position on physician associates working in secondary care in the medical specialties

BREAKING
Revised Royal College of Physicians of London position on Physician Associates. TL;DR: we shifted them considerably towards a safer position. It’s too little too late but a LOT better than nothing.
www.rcp.ac.uk/news-and-med...

In unadjusted analyses, the mean weekly ratio between hospital-onset and community-onset infections increased from 2.9% prior to Omicron dominance to 7.6% (95% CI, 6.0%-9.1%) during Omicron dominance. After universal masking and testing ended, it increased to 15.5% (95% CI, 13.6%-17.4%), then fell to 8.0% (95% CI, 5.0%-11.0%) following resumption of masking among health care workers. Under the adjusted Poisson model (Figure), cessation of universal masking and testing was associated with a 25% increase in hospital-onset respiratory viral infections compared with the preceding Omicron-dominant period (rate ratio [RR], 1.25; 95% CI, 1.02-1.53), and resumption of masking among staff was associated with a 33% decrease in hospital-onset respiratory viral infections (RR, 0.67; 95% CI, 0.52-0.85).

This paper is interesting for a few reasons. It shows that mask mandates in healthcare protect patients from infections, and removing mask mandates in healthcare harms patients.

A facility without a mask mandate is making a *deliberate choice* known to harm patients.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Also having read @petedyson.bsky.social’s excellent book applying behavioural science to transport - as part of these new apps let’s be really clear what information people want & how this helps them make good travel decisions. Get “it’s not just about journey times” on a poster in DfT please

Support rewilding to save Scotland’s natural resources | Letter Letter: The actor Brian Cox on how we can all play a part in urging the government to make Scotland a rewilding nation to transform its future

Great stuff by top actor Brian Cox writing in @theguardian.com - why Scotland should become the world’s first #RewildingNation, with nature recovery across 30% of land and sea. Follow the link in his letter to sign the Rewilding Nation Charter. Please share!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The graphic reality of what the current economic system (capitalism) is doing to our living planet, day in, day out: putting unimaginably diverse ecosystems en masse through a grinder to produce profits, mostly for a few.

Caring about nature, but ignoring this, makes zero sense.

❓ What are your thoughts on this? Pls consider completing our rapid survey! 🚲 🚶‍♂️ ⚽️ 🌳 🏘️

🔗 app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/sps/rapid-...

Investigator team: Joey Murphy Jo Salmon, Grant Ennis, Andrea Ramirez Varela & Jim Sallis

2024 is the 170th anniversary of the most famous public health story, John Snow and his map of cholera cases in Soho. You’ve likely heard how he heroically traced an epidemic to a single water source: the broad street pump. But that’s not how the story really ended…

#histmed #medicalhistory #medsky

'Refused service again with my guide dog, I'm done speaking out' Sean Dilley is inundated with abuse on social media whenever he posts about discrimination issues.

This is both sad and infuriating.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.

Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities and 100 times more fun.

📖 Just published ! Health at a Glance : Europe 2024

You will find the latest health stats for 38 European countries 🌍, with a special focus on health workforce shortages and the health of Europe’s ageing population.

You can download it : www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

#HealthUnion #OECD #WHO

Learning CPR on manikins without breasts puts women’s lives at risk, study finds Analysis of training models on global market found all had flat torsos with just one having a breast overlay

Excellent research by @inquisitivegyn.bsky.social highlighting another aspect of gender inequity in medicine www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The cost of not investing in the next 1000 days: implications for policy and practice Building on the evidence from the first paper in this Series highlighting the fundamental importance of healthy and nurturing environments for children's growth and development in the next 1000 days (...

New Lancet paper 'The cost of not investing in the first 1000 days'.

Cites our Cochrane review on preschool-based feeding programmes in socio-economically deprived settings.

FEED STARVING CHILDREN in a timely way. Later (when they're older) may be too late.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 🧪

Smoking and socioeconomic factors linked to acute exacerbations of COPD: analysis from an Asthma + Lung UK survey Background Understanding the factors driving acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is key to reducing their impact on human health and well-being.Methods 5997 people with...

Around a quarter of people with COPD report living in a home which is cold or damp. This roughly doubles the risk of having frequent exacerbations. bmjopenrespres.bmj.com/content/9/1/... #WorldCOPDday #LungSky #MedSky

I’ve just shared this with colleagues.

It feels as though there is so much we could do to improve people’s health, and it doesn’t all cost a huge amount of money.

Thank you for sharing it, @kellieocallaghan.bsky.social!

#MedSky
#PublicHealth
#SocialPrescribing

The photo shows a beach in Fife at sunrise on a cold morning.

Today’s early dog walk. Good for body and mind. 🌊🐕😌

We have snow! I know it can be inconvenient and chilly, even if you're wearing a woolly jumper, but every year I love the sense of childish excitement it still brings to even the oldest hearts, and the bright beauty over the hills. If you have snow today, stay safe and stick close to your flock.