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CONTENTS OCTOBER 2013 ISSUE 38
Publisher TOR DAVIES BSc (Hons) tor@sportex.net
Art editor DEBBIE ASHER debbie@sportex.net Sub editor ALISON SLEIGH Journal watch BOB BRAMAH
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Dr Greg Whyte PhD, BSc (Hons) Editorial
OCT 2013
It’s been a busy but good year. and it’s been fantastic to reconnect
with so many of you at the events we’ve attended that have made it so busy! At the time of writing this editorial, we’re about to head up to Manchester, to the inaugural Therapy Expo and then in October we’re off to the ACPSEM conference in Glasgow. Talking to so many of you this year, has reinforced my passion for what I always set out to do with sportEX: to take the ever-growing evidence base and turn it into good solid hands on practice.
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8 Youth training4 Journal watch for young athletes
CONTENTS This quarter’s latest research
The role of strength and conditioning training programmes
This month on the blog we’ve published some research extracts on manual therapy and nerves, brought to us by softtissuetherapy.com.au, a couple of opinion pieces on the state of the manual therapy industry and we’ve launched our first ghost-written fictional character, Will Wilting. Will is a demoralized and professionally under-rated lecturer who teaches sports therapy to generally bored students somewhere in the North of England. Will is a man of unfulfilled ambition. He was briefly the bucket and sponge man for Patricroft Athletic, a Saturday afternoon pub team that got to the semi final of the Manchester Amateur Cup in 1993.... To read more about Will’s exploits come and join us on the blog - just search for Will Wilting! Enjoy!
Tor Davies, physio-turned publisher and sportEX founder
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