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Kenneth Balfour Memorial Lectures

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Sponsored Annual Case Study Competition

Research Awards

Individual Scholarship Awards

Grants for non-research projects
 

Specific activities

Project Register: The PPEF have provided funds for the following activities.

2000
1. Physio First: Car sticker to promote public awareness of physiotherapy.

2001
2. The Spinal Injuries Association: Production of a video and accompanying handbook to educate physiotherapists and patients: "Gaining Ground – Physiotherapy following Spinal Cord Injury".

3. Jenny Wigram MCSP: A survey of low back pain in 12-14 year old students at South Dartmoor Community College. Objectives: to assess the prevalence and natural history of LBP in adolescents and find out if activity levels are associated: To research students’ perception of LBP; to publish findings. 2001
 

4. The Stroke Association: Reprint of a year’s supply of the Stroke Associations free fact-sheet "Physiotherapy after stroke".

5. The Stroke Association: Reprint of a year’s supply of the Stroke Associations free information leaflet "Stroke – a guide to your rehabilitation".

6. The Parkinson’s Disease Society: Project to develop exercise packages in the form of video, audio tape and booklet for people with Parkinson’s disease and their carers and health professionals in order to facilitate the improved management of Parkinson’s disease.

7. The Patient’s Association: "Consent to Treatment" booklet.

8. Physio First Branded Presentation Material: To maintain a consistent message using high quality material when making presentations about Physio First, physiotherapy in private practice and the benefits of physiotherapy generally.

9. Exhibition display stand for Physio First.

10. Nicola Hunter BSc MCSP MIOSH: Beating Back Pain in Heavy Manual Workers: The study concerned the provision of reactivation rehabilitation to water company workers based in East Anglia with recurrent or chronic low back pain as recommended by the Faculty of Occupational Medicine Guidelines for the Management of Back Pain at Work (2000). The study group consisted of workers with heavy manual jobs and back pain that was causing disability and time loss from work. The aim was to attain a sustainable reduction in the incidence of back pain in this group and consequential loss to employers, employees and the country.

11. The Physiotherapy Pain Association: Funding of the donation of copies of Pain Association publications to Physiotherapy Schools for student libraries.

12. Physio First Web-site development funding.

13. Physio First Patient Information Leaflets.

14. Funding for the Provision of Sportex supplement to all Physio First Members

15. 2001 OCPPP/ International Private Practitioners Association Joint conference: Eastbourne
"Physical Impairment in Persistent Whiplash Associated Disorders"
Presented by: Professor Gwendolen Jull – Australia

2002

    16. Margaret Rees MCSP. Research grant for MSc

    17. 2002 OCPPP Annual Conference Hinckley
    "Motor control and the spine: Does Science fit Clinical Practice?"
    Presented by: Dr Paul Hodges BPhy(Hons) – Australia

2003

    18. Rachael Smith MCSP. Grant to support MSc in Manual Therapy : Assessment and treatment of neuromuscular dysfunction module.

    19. Monica Kesson MCSP: Research funding for a pilot study to evaluate whether graded TFM and GAM are more effective in reducing pain in acute sprains of the lateral ligament of the ankle than grade A mobilisation alone.

    20. Jan Lawrence MCSP: Grant to attend World Rural Health Conference.

    21. Age Concern. Award for Sponsoring a new edition of "Promoting Mobility for People with Dementia" part of Age Concern’s Care Professional Handbook series written by and for physiotherapists. Sponsoring a new leaflet on the benefits of keeping supple and continuing mobility for older people.

    22. OCPPP Annual Conference Hinckley
    "Why do most people not need spinal surgery"
    Presented by: Nicholas C Birch FRCS (orth) – UK

2004

    23. PPEF and University of Brighton: Development of Standardised Data Collection System 2004 – ongoing

    24. Fleur Kitsell MCSP– Research grant to investigate the mechanics of patello-femoral joint dysfunction – 2004 on-going

    25. Annual Kenneth Balfour Memorial Lectures – Physio First Conference
    "The Medical Model of Headache"
    Presented by: Dean Watson GDAMT, MAppSc(Res) MAPA – Australia

 26. 2004 Annual PPEF Funded Lecture, PHYSIO FIRST Conference, Nottingham
"A Manual Therapy Approach to Thoracic Outlet Syndrome"
Presented by: Pete Emerson USA

2005

    27. Physio First Professional Portfolio.

    28. Annual Kenneth Balfour Memorial Lectures – Physio First Conference
    "The Hip, The Forgotten Link for Back & Knee Problems".
    Jenny McConnell – Australia

29. Annual PPEF Sponsored Lectures- Physio First Conference
"Case Studies in the Injured Runner"
Presented By: Irene S. Davis USA

    30. Dean Philips MCSP– Research grant to investigate the body’s awareness of posture in the mid-range of sagittal plane lumbo-pelvic movement in sitting in patients who have chronic low back pain and non-LBP subjects.

    31. Dr. Ian Davidson MCSP: Research grant for a quantitative observational study to assess the effect of targeted mobilisation of the Co- C3 segments on the intensity, frequency and duration of migraine (with and without aura).

    32. Nicola Hunter MCSP: Grant to attend international Private Practitioners Association Congress in Melbourne Australia to present a paper and run a workshop on her work on low back pain in manual workers. 2005

    33. Rachael Dickinson MCSP: To study what affect a proprioceptive stimulus has on a canines limb and its opposing legs in relation to Ground Reaction Forces (GRF) single leg stance time, muscle recruitment and balance rehabilitation.

    34. Lee Herrington MCSP: To support  attendance at the 8th International Scientific conference of IFOMT in Cape Town.

2006

35. Annual Kenneth Balfour Memorial Lectures – Physio First Conference Nottingham
"Anatomy of Pain and The Mismanagement of Back Pain."
Presented by: Professor Nikolai Bogduk – Australia

36. Annual PPEF Funded Lecture, Physio First Conference, Nottingham
"Pain, Do you get it? and Getting the Message to Patients."
Presented by: Lorimer Moseley - Australia

37. Annual case study competition

 

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