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2009 Update

2008 was a very busy year at the Neurological Teaching Centre. There were 17 short courses which is the largest number since the centre opened.

We have continued to host the very popular Introduction to Bobath weekends, which run three or four times a year, but have added a number of new courses this year.

We were very fortunate to have Mary Lynch-Ellerington Senior Bobath tutor teach an Applied Neurophysiology course last year which was very successful and we very much hope to repeat this theme.

"Shoulder Instability : What's New" (The Orthopaedic Perspective). This course, taught by internationally renowned expert in the shoulder, Jo Gibson, has been run previously and proved very popular. In fact we have so many interested people that we have already re-booked this year and requested another date as soon as Jo is available.

Another new course ran in December and proved very popular and so successful that we hope to be running it again this year. The course entitled "Manual therapy meets Bobath" was taught by Heidi Sinz who is a Senior tutor in Manual Therapy and an Advanced tutor in the Bobath concept. The course demonstrated how a detailed knowledge of skeletal structure and joint movement enhances therapy with neurological patients.

A course on Muscle Balance taught jointly by Helen Lindfield Bobath tutor and Laura Finucane, Consultant musculoskeletal therapist and a member of MACP also proved very successful and will be repeated.

We ran our first course for Physiotherapy assistants "Neurological Rehabilitation for Physiotherapy Assistants" taught by two members of MNC staff, Alison Edmonds-Nicholson and Charlotte Winstone and this was very well received and proved so successful that the tutors have been invited to repeat the course in another venue. NTC will repeat this course later this year.

The centre is also hosting courses organised by other groups eg OCPPP and there will be a course held later this year titled "Myofascial trigger points". As ever we are very grateful for the patients who volunteer to be demonstration patients for each of our courses.

Linzi and Lynne, directors of MNC/NTC, continue to have a number of teaching commitments both within and outside MNC this year.
They will be teaching in the UK at Basic and Advanced level and also in Cairo, Nepal, Portugal and Germany.

Finally some very exciting news is that 2009 will finally see the release of the first book on the Bobath Concept written by members of the British Bobath Tutors Association. Lynne and Linzi have been involved in the writing and Linzi is one of the editors and are both very happy to see that the book will finally be in the shops this summer.