physiotalk

7.3% 7.3% was the turn out in the recent Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Council elections. That’s just over four thousand members voting out of a membership of nearly sixty thousand physiotherapists, students and associate members. Does that surprise you? Are you concerned about the lack of engagement with the election? Or are you not particularly […]

It’s August – and so of course that means the return of the #WeActiveChallenge We hope that you started posting your #AHPsActive photos on 1st August  – and if you are reading this wondering what I am talking about, then take a look at the We Communities website to find out more (and of course […]

The next tweetchat will be on Monday 5th July at 8pm BST. The topic is on the gender balance (or possibly imbalance) in physiotherapy and how this is changing over the years – has this changed the profession and how it might be perceived outside of physiotherapy. World Physiotherapy report on each of their member […]

The tweetchat on Monday 19th July at 8pm BST is hosted by @AGILECSP AGILE is a Professional Network of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and is for therapists working with older people – whether qualified physiotherapists, assistants, students or associate members of an allied profession. AGILE’s mission is ‘To deliver the highest possible physiotherapy practice […]

With apologies for those Physiotalk followers outside of the UK, our tweetchat on Monday 21st June at 8pm BST will be focused on elections for the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) council. The ballot papers are out and the candidates statements are all available for you to read either from the booklet you are sent […]

The next #physiotalk tweetchat is on Monday 10th May at 8pm BST and is guest hosted by @PhysioSusNet: The Physio Sustainability Network is for those interested in sustainability & reducing the physiotherapy carbon footprint. The scale of the problem The World Health Organization has described climate change as “the greatest threat to global health in the 21st century” and […]

The next #physiotalk tweetchat is on Monday 29th March at 8pm BST Four of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Professional Network’s have teamed up to discuss the impact COVID-19 has had on rehabilitation services for older adults @AGILECSP, @theACPRC, @PhysioATOCP and @ACPICR. This has allowed us to cover the full spectrum of rehabilitation specialities in […]

The next #physiotalk tweetchat will be on Monday 15th March at 8pm GMT- Grab a cuppa of whatever takes your fancy and join us in a bit of self care. More and more physiotherapists are reporting signs of burnout, and is it any surprise? We know large numbers of health care workers are feeleing the […]

The next #physiotalk tweetchat will be on Monday 1st March at 8pm GMT – or as its known in our household – St Davids day! So first – have your cawl and welsh cakes (and if you don’t know what I’m talking about – take a look here!), then join us for a tweetchat all […]

The people have spoken – or at least a twitter poll did! The top choice for our next chat is to look at CPD essentials. So that is what we will focus on during the tweetchat on Mon 1st Feb at 8pm GMT. Those of you with long memories may remember that one of the […]

This #physiotalk tweetchat will take place on Monday 19th October at 8pm BST. At the start of the pandemic we had chats on our urgent responses to the COVID crisis – PPE, respiratory care, rehabilitation after ICU. Now we are settled into our roles in these areas, we know what to do even as a […]

We are hosting a physiotalk that is part of a research project – the Support after COVID study @SupportAfterCo1. The chat will be on Monday 5th October at 8pm BST. There will also be an identical chat by the We Communities team using #WeMDT on Monday 28th September as the research team are aiming to […]

Lets talk about Dementia! Our next #physiotalk tweet chat on Monday 21st September at 8pm BST will focus on physiotherapy, dementia risk and exercise for those living with dementia. Its not the first time we have chatted about dementia, but since the last one was six years ago, it seemed like a good time to […]

Its August – and so of course that means the return of the #WeActiveChallenge We hope that you have been posting your #AHPsActive photos since the start of August – and if you are reading this wondering what I am talking about, then take a look at the We Communities website to find out more […]

Are physiotherapists in a prime position to promote the vast benefits of cooking? That is the question our guest host Ben Rowles is asking ahead of our #physiotalk tweetchat on Monday 13th July at 8pm BST Physio.Kitchen is about encouraging people to cook. From a physiotherapy perspective, cooking has a wide range of benefits similar […]

The Physiotalk tweetchat on Monday 15th June is on ‘Primary Care and Community MSK services: how are you coping and how will your service have changed post-COVID19?’ and is guest hosted by @ChrisMartey As usual it will be from 8pm BST and we look forwards to people joining using the hashtag #physiotalk for the chat. The […]

The tweet chat on Monday 8th June at 8pm BST has been suggested by Emmanuel Ovola @Manni_O  who asks ‘How does lack of diversity affect the minority populations in Physiotherapy?’ The lack of diversity in physiotherapy is having a direct impact on BAME communities. The issues encountered starts within physiotherapy pre-registration education, with a study […]

Our series of Monday nights tweetchats focussed on issues linked to COVID19 continues this Monday 25th May at 8pm BST The focus this week is on the impact on private practice – an area of physiotherapy practice that has been especially hard hit during the pandemic. However, many clinics and practitioners have been fantastic innovators, […]

We moved to weekly chats in the light of the COVID19 pandemic on 23rd March – and it feels that a lot has progressed since then. Our chat on 23rd March had a focus on respiratory issues – but at that time there were only a handful of physiotherapists on the chat reporting they had […]

It has often been said that the time we are living through at the moment is unprecedented. Whatever your role in physiotherapy you are likely to have faced huge changes in where or how you work. This has the potential to take a toll on your mental health and wellbeing. The #physiotalk tweetchat on Monday […]

Our next chat is on Monday 13th April at 8pm BST. We normally have an Easter Monday special, but instead we are continuing our COVID19 themed chats. We know this Easter will be very different in many ways, and it seemed more important to continue supporting you in sharing knowledge about COVID19 than searching for […]

In last weeks #physiotalk questions were raised about Personal Protective Equipment or PPE.  Our next #physiotalk chat at 8pm BST on Monday 6th April will be focussing on the right PPE to support physiotherapists working on the frontline of the battle against COVID19 – whatever your setting. Updated guidelines have been produced on 2nd April […]

In a crisis such as the current one, many physiotherapy staff turn to their professional body and trade union for help. @TheCSP staff have been working round the clock to ensure their members get the advice and guidance they need to navigate the extraordinary circumstances in which they find themselves. This ranges from how to […]

We are moving from our usual fortnightly chats to offer an extra chat on the topic that we are all talking about – COVID19 and Coronavirus. We asked you if you wanted a chat – and you said yes. We asked you what you wanted to start with – and you said looking at how […]

The tweetchat on Monday 16th March will be focussed on how to successfully submit an abstract – and in time for #Physio20! Join us at 8pm on Monday 16th March by using the hashtag #physiotalk to search for tweets and use in your tweets. Not tweetchatted before – don’t worry there is lots of information […]

Our next #physiotalk tweetchat isn’t a chat at all! We thought as the 16th December marks exactly 6 years since our first ever Physiotalk, on 16th December 2013, then we should get into a festive and birthday mood! So instead of a chat, on 16th December we are going to hold the ‘Great Big #physiotalk […]

The next #physiotalk tweet chat will be hosted on Monday 8th July at 8.30pm BST and led by physiotherapy student @_lewadam, who is currently researching as part of his dissertation project, the beliefs and perceptions of bending and lifting in the presence of low back pain. Following on from the widely engaging chat regarding misinformation in […]

Our next #physiotalk tweetchat will be on Monday 29th April at 8.30pm BST The topic is on Misinformation in physiotherapy – so what’s that and what can we do about it? Most physiotherapists profess to be using evidence based practice – or at the very least aspire to being practitioners who use the best evidence […]

The spread of First Contact Physiotherapists (FCP) in the UK has been significant, with many areas either developing posts or fully implementing FCPs locally. There is organisational support for these roles but the roll out at some scale and pace is not without its challenges.  A quick search for physiotherapy jobs and it is obvious […]

Next week’s chat will be hosted by @ADAPT_CSP discussing international experiences. It will be on Monday 18th February at 8.30pm GMT ADAPT (Chartered Physiotherapists in International Health and Development) are a Clinical Interest Group recognised by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy. They aim to support members by facilitating the exchange of information and by this […]

The first Physiotalk of 2019 will be on Monday 7th January at 8.30pm BST. This will be our 6th year of chats and its fantastic that we are entering 2019 with a larger Physiotalk team and lots of topics to discuss! So – what is this chat all about? The National Osteoporosis Society published ‘Strong, […]

The #physiotalk tweetchat on Monday 15th October will be at 8.30pm BST and is hosted by Ian Tyrrell @IanTyrrell5 A medical device is defined by the Medicines and Healthcare Products regulatory Authority (MHRA) in DB2006 (05) as an instrument, apparatus, appliance, material or other article, whether used alone or in combination, together with any software […]

This #physiotalk chat will be hosted by Helen Caldwell @caldwell_pt at 8.30pm BST on Older Peoples day   – celebrated on 1st October every year. She says: How often have you heard from one of your older patients: ‘No falls. Well…I sometimes stumble a bit, but I wouldn’t count them as falls’? What does count as […]

In a recent speech the Health Secretary in England, Matt Hancock, called for an increase  in social prescribing saying ‘There is a growing evidence base that social prescribing can be better for patients than medicine’. But what is social prescribing, does it work, and how do we, as physiotherapists tap into the resources that are […]

Our next Physiotalk chat will be on Monday 3rd September at 8.30pm BST. The topic of the chat will mirror the theme of the upcoming World Physical Day campaign – the role that physiotherapy and physical activity has in mental health. World Physical Therapy Day is held every year on 8th September and is a […]

Looking for a new job once you have graduated can be a daunting task. We are joining with Chris Smith @Alliedhealthwfs who suggested this chat and is our guest host,  to help you with tips and advice for getting you the job you have trained so hard for. The chat will be on Monday 14th […]

Physiotalk was ‘born’ out of a Twitter conversation in 2013 and our very first chat was held in December 2013. Fast forward to April 2018 and we are just about to hold our 100th #physiotalk chat – it will be on Monday 23rd April at 8.30pm BST (we are still piloting a slight change of […]

The tweetchat on Monday 9th April will be focussed on how to successfully submit and abstract – in time for #Physio18 but of course relevant to any other conference as well! It will be at 8.30pm – we are testing a new time for chats! Physiotherapy UK 2018 is the flagship scientific conference hosted by […]

You’re stressed. Too much work. The CSP wants to communicate with you.  Tell us how? This chat on Monday 26th March is hosted by the CSP South West Regional network @cspsouthwest  but they would like to invite anyone to join in – all views welcomed as the issues will be similar wherever you work! The Chartered […]