COVID-19 is a problem, a big problem but it is a respiratory condition requiring specialist respiratory skills. Rachael Moses tells us straight exactly what we as an MSK community can do to help.

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Welcome to the penultimate Health Matters and this one touches on a very tough subject! Opioids are in the news a lot these days and there are moves away from over prescription. Where do Therapists fit into all this? How can we help both on an individual level and a population level. 

First we must understand the medications, the problems and how we can help. Helen Liddell experts guides us through all the queries and this is mandatory listening!

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The Flippin’ Pain Initiative is a public health campaign run by Connect Health and is a project that aims to bring contemporary pain understanding to the Lincolnshire community.  In February, they launched the Flippin’ Pain brand and set out to flip the understanding of a room full of people with persistent pain with the help of pain Professors Lorimer Moseley and Cormac Ryan and set up by Connect's Head of NHS Service Development Richard Pell.  

We were lucky enough to be able to send Felicity Thow with a camera and a mic to hold these three legends up for an hour on the day and even luckier that they agreed – we can’t thank Connect, Richard, Lorimer and Cormac enough for their time.  Here’s what we ended up with: a podcast about bringing pain education to the masses and our role in public health within our communities.

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We are back in 2020 with a BANG. Felicity Thow, Listeners favourite interviewer speaks to Derek Griffin about pain management, the biopsychosocial model and more in a whirlwind podcast that contains so much clinical information it will need a number of listens for certain!

2020 has an incredible line-up of guests and topics being prepared for your ears, so spread the word, make sure your colleagues are listening!

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ITS 2020! We are kicking the year off in our usual fashion as we have a team podcast. This time the 2 Jacks are joined by listener favorite Felicity Thow and Apprentice Amelia Bell-Bentley to discuss the past year, the next year and take a bash at what they think the biggest challenges facing MSK and how to fix them.

Keep your eyes and ears peeled for further Chews Media developments through 2020 and let us know what you want to heard and who you want to hear it from! If 2020 is about anything for us it is getting in contact with more of our listeners!

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WOW. Pete Moore, the original patient advocate, creator of Paintoolkit.org and all around legend was behind one of our microphones and you do not want to miss out. A broad spectrum of topics covered, no stone left unturned and tons to learn in this conversation.

A slight warning - there is some naughty words in this conversation so don't have it blaring out within earshot of any children :)

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This month we let Jack M loose on his favourite topic of Rheumatology, he brought in Mike Dare - a fellow Rheumatology Physio - to help him navigate the grey of recognising rheumatology conditions and referring them onwards. They tried to keep it as close as possible to experiences within MSK clinics to help clinicians apply the information to their clinics.

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Something a little different this month as we bring you one of the sessions from #TheBigRs conference 2019. We always look for some new ideas to bring to a conference roster and this year we introduced what we called a "sparring session". Jack and Giles discuss some points of contention in the MSK world, inevitably touch on some of the pros and cons of First Contact Physios and how the whole industry can move forwards fo the betterment of patient care.

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We just cant stop, who else do you know that puts out 4 podcasts and runs a conference in the month of October? 

We made use of Tom Jesson again before he left for America and with our packed Podcast schedule we did not want this one to get delayed. Narrative based medicine is something many of us think we do but don't do well. John and Tom have an amazing conversation which will change your practice no matter what your experience or specialism. 

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Joletta Belton has become synonymous with aticulate presentation of a "patients" experience. We first had her over to the UK to present at 2018 #TheBigRs conference and fittingly the day after 2019s conference closes here she is in yet another unmissable episode of Patient Matters.

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