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leged to have been able to review it and even more excited that the copy reviewed is now mine to keep. My excitement is, however, also tinged with a slight degree of sadness and disappointment t h a t there is not an identical such publication edited and produced by similar specialists from within the British sports physiotherapy fraternity. Let’s hope that this is rectified in the not too distant future. However, notwithstanding that minor criticism, Sports Physiotherapy: Applied Science a n d Practice is a n excellent publication and does what it sets out to do, which is to allow practitioners to share t h e specific subject knowledge of all of the contributors, and to benefit from this comprehensive experience.
Graham N Smith GradDipPhys MCSP DipTP CertEd
The Gait Workbook A practical guide to clinical gait analysis by Jan Bruckner. Slack Incorporated,USA, 1998 (ISBN 1 55642 344 6). Illus. 190 pages. $30.
This is a well-thought-out book allowing students to work through both theoretical and practical aspects of gait analysis. The examples of pathological gait patterns, and the comments on the change in function that these bring, are clearly presented and provide an excellent learning tool for undergraduates and postgraduates when studying gait. I would have no difficulty in recommending this book for reading on the following courses: Physiotherapy BSc, Prosthetics and Orthotics BSc, Podiatry BSc, and MSc in health practice.
R D Richards MSc BEng ~
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Correction
The Mind Body Workout This book was reviewed on page 519 of the October issue of Physiotherapy.The third paragraph from t h e end should have started: ‘A section of specific sessions of exercises for special needs . . .’. We regret any confusion the misprint may have caused.
10-9 In The Fifth A Squash Champion’s Battle for Life by Brenda Westrup, Prosper0 Books, 46 West Street, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 lRP, 1997 (ISBN 1 84020441 5). 126 pages. €5.99.
A physiotherapist has written a deeply moving, very personal account of how she supported h e r partner, Mike, though the agonising twists of treatment for a brain tumour. The narrative is gripping but harrowing - only bearable because, fortunately, it has a happy ending. Mike was a champion squash player and in a game of squash, if the score reaches nine-all i n the fifth and final game, the result is in the balance and could go either way. 10-9 in t h e fifth is as close as you can get, hence the title. To live through the struggle all over again by writing this book must have been a trauma in itself, but a sacrifice worth making, for it will help others through the insight of a shared experience. Brenda Westrup was a middleaged mother of two teenage sons, a physiotherapist in private practice, when she joined a squash club, where she met Mike. He asked her to give him treat,ment when he injured his ankle. She does not reveal what happened in her own marriage but says she felt surprised and rather ashamed o f how she felt about this squash-playing patient. ‘Professionalism dictated t h a t I kept it very much to myself.’ When however he offered to give her squash lessons ‘as this was now away from my professional role as a physiotherapist I willingly allowed the friendship to blossom’. Four and a half years later they bought a house together. They had a wonderful life, travelling all over the United Kingdom a s Mike went round winning tournaments. Then in 1992 his game and his short-term memory deteriorated. Soon he would be normal one minute, t h e next he would look glazed and say something completely absurd and irrelevant. When t h e psychiatrist phoned to say Mike had a brain tumour, Brenda was treating a patient. ‘Suddenly her physiotherapist dissolved into a useless heap. She was wonderful, she got dressed, took all t h e names and telephone
numbers of the rest of my patients t h a t day and telephoned them herself to explain and cancel their appointments.’ Through the long months t h a t followed Brenda stayed with Mike in hospital all t h e time, washing him, watching him, now ‘feeling as institutionalised as any patient’, now innovatingly realising t h a t the best way she could get needed sleep would be if she was actually in bed with Mike, holding on to him, because then she would wake as soon as he did in the night. It is the story of the support friends gave, of professionals who were flexible. Particularly interesting, of course, are her accounts of her interactions with fellow physiotherapists in the rehabilitation of Mike. Hopes rise, hopes are dashed, hopes rise again. This is a love story which gives insight on loving and caring and illness.
Laurence Dopson
The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 Guidance for employers in the healthcare sector published by Health and Safety Executive Books, PO Box 1999, Sudbury, Suffolk CO 10 6FS. 1998.4 pages. free.
This leaflet gives healthcare specific information on reporting workrelated accidents and occupational ill health in hospitals, nursing homes and general practice. Employers and others a r e required to make reports on dangerous occurrences and accidents to employees, the self-employed, and members of the public, including patients. They also require employers to report occupatina1 ill health including infections acquired at work. Definitions a r e offered for accidents, injuries, reportable diseases and dangerous occurrences, and readers are reminded of the need to report happenings which hardly need definition - death or major injury, including t h e results of physical violence.
Physiotherapy, November 1998, vol84, no 11
leged to have been able to review it and even more excited that the copy reviewed is now mine to keep. My excitement is, however, also tinged with a slight degree of sadness and disappointment t h a t there is not an identical such publication edited and produced by similar specialists from within the British sports physiotherapy fraternity. Let’s hope that this is rectified in the not too distant future. However, notwithstanding that minor criticism, Sports Physiotherapy: Applied Science a n d Practice is a n excellent publication and does what it sets out to do, which is to allow practitioners to share t h e specific subject knowledge of all of the contributors, and to benefit from this comprehensive experience.
Graham N Smith GradDipPhys MCSP DipTP CertEd
The Gait Workbook A practical guide to clinical gait analysis by Jan Bruckner. Slack Incorporated,USA, 1998 (ISBN 1 55642 344 6). Illus. 190 pages. $30.
This is a well-thought-out book allowing students to work through both theoretical and practical aspects of gait analysis. The examples of pathological gait patterns, and the comments on the change in function that these bring, are clearly presented and provide an excellent learning tool for undergraduates and postgraduates when studying gait. I would have no difficulty in recommending this book for reading on the following courses: Physiotherapy BSc, Prosthetics and Orthotics BSc, Podiatry BSc, and MSc in health practice.
R D Richards MSc BEng ~
~
Correction
The Mind Body Workout This book was reviewed on page 519 of the October issue of Physiotherapy.The third paragraph from t h e end should have started: ‘A section of specific sessions of exercises for special needs . . .’. We regret any confusion the misprint may have caused.
10-9 In The Fifth A Squash Champion’s Battle for Life by Brenda Westrup, Prosper0 Books, 46 West Street, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 lRP, 1997 (ISBN 1 84020441 5). 126 pages. €5.99.
A physiotherapist has written a deeply moving, very personal account of how she supported h e r partner, Mike, though the agonising twists of treatment for a brain tumour. The narrative is gripping but harrowing - only bearable because, fortunately, it has a happy ending. Mike was a champion squash player and in a game of squash, if the score reaches nine-all i n the fifth and final game, the result is in the balance and could go either way. 10-9 in t h e fifth is as close as you can get, hence the title. To live through the struggle all over again by writing this book must have been a trauma in itself, but a sacrifice worth making, for it will help others through the insight of a shared experience. Brenda Westrup was a middleaged mother of two teenage sons, a physiotherapist in private practice, when she joined a squash club, where she met Mike. He asked her to give him treat,ment when he injured his ankle. She does not reveal what happened in her own marriage but says she felt surprised and rather ashamed o f how she felt about this squash-playing patient. ‘Professionalism dictated t h a t I kept it very much to myself.’ When however he offered to give her squash lessons ‘as this was now away from my professional role as a physiotherapist I willingly allowed the friendship to blossom’. Four and a half years later they bought a house together. They had a wonderful life, travelling all over the United Kingdom a s Mike went round winning tournaments. Then in 1992 his game and his short-term memory deteriorated. Soon he would be normal one minute, t h e next he would look glazed and say something completely absurd and irrelevant. When t h e psychiatrist phoned to say Mike had a brain tumour, Brenda was treating a patient. ‘Suddenly her physiotherapist dissolved into a useless heap. She was wonderful, she got dressed, took all t h e names and telephone
numbers of the rest of my patients t h a t day and telephoned them herself to explain and cancel their appointments.’ Through the long months t h a t followed Brenda stayed with Mike in hospital all t h e time, washing him, watching him, now ‘feeling as institutionalised as any patient’, now innovatingly realising t h a t the best way she could get needed sleep would be if she was actually in bed with Mike, holding on to him, because then she would wake as soon as he did in the night. It is the story of the support friends gave, of professionals who were flexible. Particularly interesting, of course, are her accounts of her interactions with fellow physiotherapists in the rehabilitation of Mike. Hopes rise, hopes are dashed, hopes rise again. This is a love story which gives insight on loving and caring and illness.
Laurence Dopson
The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 Guidance for employers in the healthcare sector published by Health and Safety Executive Books, PO Box 1999, Sudbury, Suffolk CO 10 6FS. 1998.4 pages. free.
This leaflet gives healthcare specific information on reporting workrelated accidents and occupational ill health in hospitals, nursing homes and general practice. Employers and others a r e required to make reports on dangerous occurrences and accidents to employees, the self-employed, and members of the public, including patients. They also require employers to report occupatina1 ill health including infections acquired at work. Definitions a r e offered for accidents, injuries, reportable diseases and dangerous occurrences, and readers are reminded of the need to report happenings which hardly need definition - death or major injury, including t h e results of physical violence.
Physiotherapy, November 1998, vol84, no 11