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STA209: 'Getting Ready For Therapy Expo 2024' with Molly Benson & Vernon Smeed of Therapy Expo · The STA Clinician Podcast

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You're listening to the Sports Therapy Association podcast, putting evidence
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back into soft tissue therapy.
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Music.
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And we are live. Welcome people to the Sports Therapy Association podcast, episode 209.
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My name is matt phillips creator of uncharted live.com and
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as always this episode is being recorded live on
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the sports therapy association youtube channel and facebook
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So we are back after a two-week summer break.
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In the last episode, the Sports Therapy Session podcast, which is episode 208,
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we brought you a debate about statutory regulation for sports therapists.
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Seems so long ago now, but that's what it was.
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It's available, as always, on all popular podcast apps and YouTube and also
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Android users. You can now get Apple podcasts on your phone.
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I have a little Google of that. It's very simple. You just go to their website,
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add it as a shortcut, and you can access Apple Podcasts on your Android phone, which is lovely.
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So, yes, statutory regulation for sports therapists is something a lot of therapists
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feel would help our industry.
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As the episode revealed, there are definitely some disadvantages as well as
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some significant barriers to it ever happening.
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At the end of that episode, we sent out an invite to
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other professional associations for sports therapists to discuss
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the points we raised and were raised by my wonderful guests
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and the live audience and hopefully we are
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planning a follow-up episode in the future where we'll
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get a few of us all together to talk around the big round table as i say you
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can find that episode i do recommend you ever listen to it there was some really
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interesting stuff on it as always just go to your favorite podcast app or if
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you want to watch it live and see the faces of our guests then it is at youtube
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and also at our website thesta.co.uk.
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Tonight episode 209 is all about Therapy Expo 2024 at the Birmingham NEC on
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Wednesday the 27th and Thursday the 28th of November.
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A little early, I hear you cry, even if it is the UK's leading event for sports
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therapists, sports rehab specialists, massage therapists, physiotherapists,
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osteopaths, chiropractors, and other MSK healthcare professionals.
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It is a little early, you might think, but it's not at all. It's actually 99
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days, which brings it much closer than you might have realised.
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And we know, and this is one of the things we're going to talk about tonight.
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Every year we get feedback from therapists who weren't able to attend,
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that maybe they didn't didn't have enough money, that they couldn't find accommodation.
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There was no train tickets left and so on and so on. And our feedback is nearly
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always the same. It has been for multiple years now.
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Book earlier. So this is why we're doing it now.
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This is why we're doing it just towards the end of August. This is your wake
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up call official for Therapy Expo.
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You have 99 days.
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Every time I say you've got 99 somethings, I want to follow it up with it, but I can't do that.
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But yeah, you've got 99 days left to to sort things
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out to get your affairs in order and hopefully join us at the
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birmingham nec on wednesday 27th and thursday 28th of
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november so tonight with me to discuss everything therapy expo 2024 what it
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can offer you and your business i'm going to bring them up very shortly i have
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i've got a great pleasure of bringing you therapy expo content producer molly
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benson also therapy expo business development manager vernon smeed also joining
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us This is Anna Maria Mazzieri,
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director of the SD School and creator of the very popular Hands-On Hub open-air
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theatre at Therapy Expo.
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And also Gary Benson, founder of the STA and creator of the equally famous and
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popular Sports Therapy Association Therapy Update Theatre at Therapy Expo.
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So we've got loads we can talk to you about. As always, people,
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if you've joined us live, then do ask questions.
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This is your chance to speak to the content manager and the business development person.
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So it's like really let those questions free. If they can't answer you,
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we'll find someone who can and we will update it as always.
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So without further ado, I'm going to switch off my phone so it stops making
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beeping noises and I shall bring up tonight's guests for Therapy Expo 2024. Getting ready.
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Music.
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Hi everybody how are you evening all hi everyone
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thank you very much for joining us everyone very excited about this i
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hope you are well particularly thank you to molly
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benson content manager and vernon smeed and
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business development manager so it's it's wonderful to have
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you two thank you very much giving up your time thank you
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we've already got loads of people i'm very nice to
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see people joining us live as well remember people if you have joined us oh
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i've got a message already uh coming up early and fresh martin
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nicolai arnoldson christensen oh my
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god throw him out throw him out it's just got a
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question here which we'll address to anna maria later on very therapy expert
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2024 related has anna maria cut her hair well we'll deal with that later on
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when we can see anna maria martin but do stick around and we'll there's a nice
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little hook there we'll bring the answer to that later on right let's start
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off molly and vernon like i say thank.
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You very much for giving up your time and this is the 11th
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i think we decided the 11th therapy expo i believe
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since it started back in 2013 in manchester
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where it was for the first two years i'm very happy
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to say the sports therapy associations have the pleasure of being
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involved in all 11 of those events and will be this year as well but
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for listeners who aren't aware of therapy expo and we always we started
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off saying hopefully at the 2000 or so people who
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listen to this podcast hopefully a load of you haven't heard
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of therapy expo otherwise we'd just be telling people already know about it
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what's happening when they already know about it so either Molly
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or Vernon what is and it's difficult to say what is Therapy
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Expo and what makes it different than from other kind
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of soft tissue therapy orientated conferences in the UK
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I think I think to answer that Matt I think Therapy
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Expo is the only I would
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say national event now which caters for cross profession
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so I think what you've got there is you've
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got a number of different medical professionals or clinical professionals
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all under one roof at the same time and it's quite separate to other events
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which could be they a lot of governing bodies sometimes have their own conferences
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with ours we cater for everybody and there is content there for all the different
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types of profession and that's as far as i'm aware that is the only event in
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the uk that caters for that.
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That's really cool to hear because i mean kind of multidisciplinary and kind of getting people
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from different professions to work together and be in the same roof
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is something we've talked about a lot on the podcast because ultimately that's
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where healthcare should and is going because
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we're catering for the needs of the patient or client as opposed to
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just giving our own services and trying to hold them to ourselves so that's that's
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a really important point that's cool molly you're nodding your head proving
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me there yeah no i said i'd have said probably along the same lines not you
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know it's multi-professional and it's not only about providing content for these
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different professions but it's about bringing them together and showing showing
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the benefits and the case studies
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of where that's worked and how we should carry that on into the future.
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So I think that's a really important takeaway from our show particularly.
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I must admit, Molly, you sound very calm and cool and collected for somebody
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who's assuming this is what your content manager means.
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You're responsible for deciding all the content across the two days on a massive
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event, which sees, I think about, what is it, 2,000 delegates appearing?
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Something like 150 plus exhibitors?
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Yes. Over 100 speakers? That's the one.
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Sorry, 2,500 delegates, around 150 exhibitors.
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And we're currently at about 80 speakers but obviously that
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number is going to go up as we confirm the rest of the content between
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now and the show so yeah how do you decide on content
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how does that happen it's quite a long process i'm
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fairly new to the show so so i mean
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i've taken over from my predecessor liam richardson i don't know obviously
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you guys know him quite well so i only started working on the
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show december 2023 so i'm
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very new to this process but we do quite a
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lengthy and in-depth research process so we start out by you
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know we get a six week period where we just supposed to
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read listen watch podcasts like this get in
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touch with people keep an eye on socials check governing bodies
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that sort of thing and stay as up-to-date as possible we also
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we also do a lot of research calls so we talk to people be
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that delegates be that speakers be that exhibitors from all
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different professions basically to get an idea of what
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sort of content they want delivered but also to get an idea of on
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the ground what sort of you know priorities and challenges are
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coming up and therefore you know how can we implement that in our
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program and make it as useful as possible and we
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also have our advisory board as you know Gary and Maria being a member on there
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it's sort of like a steering committee type thing where we present them with
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ideas that we've got for the show and ask them to help sort of guide the content
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and make sure we're on the right track and and suggest new ideas and new speakers
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as we go So it's sort of a continuous process as we go.
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Drawing on lots of different sources and making sure we're involving as many people as possible.
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So, yeah, it's quite a lengthy process.
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The advisory board is something that I find very exciting, not only because
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I'm on it, but just the other people on there. This is something which is still relatively new.
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Is it like the third year or something where you've had an advisory board involved
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in selecting speakers or a little longer than that? Yeah, it is well.
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It feels like about three years. I mean, that's really exciting because just
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for listeners who haven't quite understood the implications of that now,
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Now you are a conference who is actually,
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and it sounds crazy that this is a new idea, but you're listening to professionals
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from the industry and asking them who should we have along, as opposed to the
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old fashioned way of thinking, right, who can we bring in?
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Who's going to fill the seats? Who's going to hit those targets and things?
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So is it still something which helps you guys?
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I think one of the good things, Matt, with the advisory board is a lot of the
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professionals that are on there are coming from different backgrounds.
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Backgrounds so it's one way you haven't got
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everyone that's a sports therapist you haven't got everyone that's a physio we've
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got we've got different backgrounds of different people
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on the advisory board and that's great because what you
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tend to get is you get a much more open-minded session
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in terms of where you're going to go with content you
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know that's great then to help us guide the event is because we're coming from
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a different type of background with lots of different types profession and and
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i think that's only a positive for the event carrie what's it been like for
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you being on the advisory board is it something that she welcomed and thought
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this is a great idea or is it giving you just even more work to do.
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Yeah what i would say first matt is yeah
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this is the 11th therapy expo i attended one
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in manchester as a delegate one in a previous role but
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the sta has attended all the ones at at the nec there was a seismic shift during
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covid and after covid and that's when liam came on board and and and had conversations
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with a lot of people about the direction that the industry was moving because
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Because as we're all aware,
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we had a lot of time during the various lockdowns for online learning and research.
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And we prioritised really what was most important to us.
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And a lot of people decided that they were going to limit the amount of CPD they were doing.
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You know, probably not travel because of the expense, because they'd cut the working hours down.
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But, you know, Therapy Expo has remained really good value.
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You know all of our members who go this
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year will have bought the tickets last year because that's the cheapest way
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to do it so what we have to do is we have to buy
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our tickets one year then take advantage of the better deals on the day and
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booking tickets for next year but yeah the advisory board as vernon said it's
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multidisciplinary so we all get chance to to have a talk you know some of that's
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done individually with with molly and and and and the team some of it's done in a in a sort
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of a meeting format, but it's always respectful.
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It's, you know, it's good that all the professions are there.
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They're speaking to each other, they're networking with each other and we're
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communicating, whereas before we probably weren't.
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Communication, that's what it's all about. Anna Maria, you're also part of the advisory board.
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How's that been for you? If you welcome that, do you think it's great for our
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industry to have this relationship now, this close relationship with TherapyX1?
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Very much, but I also would like to give a shout out to, you know,
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Molly and Vernon, and obviously been fantastic.
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But to me, the key of this new kind of calling version of Therapy Expo goes
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also to Charlotte and Shelley.
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Actually, they have really welcomed ideas, researched them, and they made everybody feel valued.
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And they actually risked a few bits and pieces, like, for example, with their hands on up.
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But, you know, they actually really, you know, embraced a bit of being progressive
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and listened to the people that needed to be listened to.
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And I think they need to be mentioned because they were quite progressive,
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I think, with that thing.
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And I found the advisory board fantastic because it allows that broad wealth
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and breadth of content that reflects what our industry is.
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Is instead of being just physiocentric or osteocentric
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this this conference is not even interprofessional it's
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client-centric definitely it's a
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great one for anyone we've talked about imposter syndrome for a while i
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think i i love it for the same reasons you're giving because if therapists are
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worried or feel like i can't get onto there they've got something called msk
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there's gonna be physios there you go there and suddenly realize that all these
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people are human you know and you can speak proudly of what you've learned from
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what you do as long as you've got a a little bit of evidence-informed practice
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going on. Otherwise, you're going in for a shot.
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It's still a good place to go to. But yeah, you realise you're on the same page
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as these people who initially escaped.
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And that's got to be massively empowering, isn't it, for a therapist to walk
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away with that. Do you think, Anna?
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Very much indeed. And I love what Molly said when she said, actually,
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we're bringing them all together to network.
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And that is another strength of Therapy Expo, that they worked in a sense,
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you know, how do we get them together to have the best experience?
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Ends so it's not only about content which is you
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know as we all know it's really important but how do we
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make the content understood and for them to
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liaise between within each other and the
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fact that actually everybody i mean one day i was i was sitting there and hustling
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shane obviously but i was sitting there on today the speaker area and i seen
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uh finucane coming in and i looked at her and i went there i said oh my god
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i said i love the latest paper that you wrote about red flags,
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and I felt kind of like a bit of a celebrity struck.
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So you're able to actually liaise and talk and communicate with those people
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that you read the papers about, or the speakers.
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It's just an environment that
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drives communication, and through communication, knowledge is unlocked.
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Definitely that's really cool i like that that's the bit the soundbite's
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going to come out around maria thank you very much i'm going to use that at the end that's really
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nice everything in there ticks the box it's amazing but it
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is is such a healthy atmosphere you do really feel good over the two days which
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is something gary which i know you you pride yourself on because that's why
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you set up the sports therapy association no one should feel alone and it's
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something you you get feedback every year isn't it gary where people manage
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to go along and they start off alone and And then they meet other people and
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it's a massively empowering experience for them.
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Well, I think that's the whole idea, Matt. It's, you know, I started this to
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start a community, an association, a group of like-minded people working for
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the benefit of the association and all of its members.
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I like, you know, you said that we're all on the same page. I like to expand
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on that a bit, saying we're all reading the same book.
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We might all be on a different chapter.
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And sometimes those with imposter syndrome say, well, you know,
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what if I go and listen to somebody? and, you know, I haven't got a clue what they're talking about.
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Well, that's just part of your next chapter. You know, don't be afraid to go
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and listen to somebody who, you know, you think, oh, I like those,
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or you might dislike somebody, but go and listen to them anyway and see if they
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are that social media persona because a lot of people who are,
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you know, on social media have a persona that's not necessarily what they're like in person.
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So go and listen to them and be part of the community.
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Come and talk to us. i literally spend two days talking to people as you as
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you know i forgot one of my talks last year the year before just so didn't talk
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you power phones go you're supposed to be here i'll thank you very much yeah
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no definitely i'm just gonna i think it's because we've got a lot of people
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watching we're going to refresh the page just because my cams and.
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That will come back in due course you know
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just for the final product right so
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the other thing i wanted to
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mention but was imagine people
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listening to this now and thinking okay i want to go discounts oh
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it's too late about the news if it is we just have to tell them
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that is there are there still discounts happening what is
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the price people have to pay now um for
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a ticket yeah i mean
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there is still discounts there i mean the sta
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has a discount so if you're a member of
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the sta obviously take advantage of the discount that that's what i would say
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so you know that there is other ones that we offer but the sta always receives
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a discount set up by by gary and the event as itself so you know my advice would
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be take advantage of that what about for listeners Since we haven't kind of
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made that understandable,
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excellent choice of coming to the STA, I don't want to leave them out. What should they do?
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Join the STA. Yeah, absolutely.
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Absolutely. There you go. But no, I mean, we do have discounts,
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obviously, but they're not all the time. So it is a case of,
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you know, they're as and when.
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It's a case of check the website, see what's on offer, see when it is and keep checking.
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And the good thing with the website is obviously keep checking because it's
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updated quite regularly.
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So there's more contents on more exhibitors are on that's your chance to see
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what's happening at the event or maybe they can visit the st school website
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absolutely so we got a discount code as well i'm saying those seas people just
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got to hear what i'm asking and then just.
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Talking which actually nice of you to mention that anna i hear well i know you've
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got a nice little revamp happening to the st school.co.uk website starting on thursday is it,
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Yes, we do have. Oh, wait.
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Yes, we do have. And we're quite excited, actually, because we're launching
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this new website with new features, new functionalities.
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The hands-on app, which is the area for Therapy Expo, will have a space into the website.
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The website is actually an expression of the community that,
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you know, the ST School is and the Therapy Expo is and the STA is.
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But it's going to have way more functionalities much more
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user-friendly and hopefully not
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many spelling mistakes i'm still
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working my way through them there's still a few but i'm getting to them
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bit by bit yeah i must admit now that it's
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not secret information but i am kind of involved as a
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consultant with the st school that doesn't make me biased because you
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know i don't care what happens to anna in her life her business
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and her livelihood but i do take pride in the product she
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delivers but yeah very excited about that that'd be on thursday people
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so yeah there's discounts for that let's imagine someone can't
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get a discount okay they haven't got the was it
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60 quid to join the sda guy i think so like that let's imagine
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what price we're talking about let's not beat around the bush if someone has to pay
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full whack what are we talking about now vernon 299 if they're
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paying full amount right so the task for
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you guys now is how are those two days
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gonna make it worthwhile for.
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299 pounds i mean for
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me it's the earlier you obviously you look at
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it the cheaper it becomes because you've got that
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time to plan save and then you know the whole
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point of us being on the podcast today is to let people know you've
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got time to obviously to save those
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pennies but it but it's also about the types we
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hit on it before when we said about the community and networking this is
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the opportunity to meet not just
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other professionals within the industry but also
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exhibitors when you're talking to exhibitors this is
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your chance to get the nitty-gritty if you want
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if you want to buy a new product for your clinic or if you're
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looking at consumables this is your chance to also
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save you pennies in the long run you know
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this is where you can negotiate prices with some of these equipment
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providers or even of its courses resources this is
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your chance to learn and obviously to speak
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to these guys to engage look at research behind some of the products and you're
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asking the direct question to people as opposed to a website and that for me
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is great because it's that communication side if you can build that rapport
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with someone you know you know if you if you're buying a bit of equipment say
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you've got that opportunity to have a point of contact.
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That's really cool. Yeah. I mean, that's really good because it is a reminder
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for me, Therapy Expo, of the benefits of having face-to-face contact because
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we do live in an online world now.
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And when we buy something online, we trust the kind of views of things on Amazon
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or ChipAdvisor. So Therapy Expo, continuing that analogy, is the same thing.
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You can go along somewhere, but instead of looking at the reviews.
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You can actually talk to the 205 or 2,500 other delegates in and say,
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do you know about this? What do you think about it?
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You can go to the professional associations like yesterday and ask for information.
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You can go and listen to the speakers and go to the stand so it's a really healthy
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place to make important decisions rather than like you say Vernon spending too
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much money on something which you don't really know if it's going to help your business or not.
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Yeah and at the end of the day you know if you if
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you combine a bit of equipment there say I mean it doesn't have to
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be equipment but just to use that sort of terminology if
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you buy it at the event and it's cheaper in the long run
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you're saving money just from coming to that event so
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so for me I think that's really important and also some of the people that
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are on these stands are also clinicians so it's
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a chance to engage with people to find out the
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research behind why they even develop certain products you
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know these are the opportunities that arise for from going
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to therapy expo and then you've got on
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top of that you've got the interactive sessions the demo zones
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you've got the hands-on hub absolutely phenomenal features
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you know these are something that no other event as
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far as i'm aware does anything like it you know
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the fact that you can have an active session and
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you and it is quite an interactive session you know when you go and watch what
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anna's doing on there with with her team and even some of the now the speakers
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in the other demo zones these kind of features are great because it gives you
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a chance to get hands-on and there really isn't that many kinds of conferences
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or events where this happens very cool.
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Yeah, I was going to say, Gary, because, I mean, we know times are tough and
23:38
you spend a lot of your days talking to therapists who are having problems or having issues.
23:41
And that's one of the things you pride yourself on and listening to people and
23:44
trying a couple of solutions.
23:47
Can something, can events like Therapy Expo, can Therapy Expo,
23:51
the money you spend be returned to you?
23:55
Is it possible to turn that knowledge and those two days into a monetary reward? ward?
23:59
Well, I mean, I'm not a financial advisor or an accountant, but I do believe
24:04
that ongoing training is tax deductible.
24:06
So if you've got a business, it does offset as a business expense.
24:09
But what I would say is there is no way that you can go and be an active part of a discussion forum.
24:17
So if you go to other conventions or expos, you can't sit in a theatre with them and have a.
24:28
Experts. You know, if you go into one of the main theatres, it's a presentation
24:33
with a couple of minutes of Q&A at the end.
24:36
What we do with the STA theatre is we have our Women in Sports Therapy panel,
24:40
which was greatly received last year, and we're going to do that again,
24:43
where the audience was not, you know, completely females, but it was female-specific
24:49
questions that were asked.
24:50
It's a safe space to go and ask questions, to be part of it, to be heard.
24:55
Make me accountable. If you're paying £60 for your membership fee,
24:59
come and challenge me to see what we're doing with your money,
25:02
you know, for your benefit, for the wider profession benefit.
25:07
Now, my question has always been, where are all of the other professional associations
25:12
that represent the wider industry?
25:14
Why aren't they there? The Sports Massage Association in Vaughan went last year,
25:18
I believe the year before as well. And it's nice to see people there.
25:22
You know, people think that we're all rivals. We're not. You know,
25:25
we're colleagues within the industry.
25:26
We talk, you know, we communicate together and we're all working for the good of the industry.
25:32
So any other professional associations, if you're a member of one,
25:35
challenge them. Why aren't they at the events like these?
25:39
Great points. Molly, I mean, you're sitting there and hopefully you're hearing
25:44
things which are kind of pleasing to the ear, like it's a safe place.
25:48
It's a healthy environment.
25:50
It's a place you can get educated.
25:53
Is this all kind of music to you? Is this exactly what as content manager you're
25:57
hoping people take from the event?
25:59
Yeah, I think so. And I think like we just talked about, obviously,
26:02
on the back end of the content production, you can see the collaboration that goes into it.
26:06
But what's really nice is when people come along and they hear these sessions
26:09
and they go to these more interactive theatres you sort of see the collaboration
26:12
as a result of that as well
26:14
which is quite a nice full circle moment but it also means that
26:17
you know like very much like Vernon said
26:20
we you know we've got the main theatres where they're you know more theoretical they're
26:23
more presentation style but we've also got the STA and
26:26
the hands-on hub where you can go along and you can be you know
26:29
you can talk to these speakers directly and you can hear the research and hear
26:32
what they're doing you know as up to date as it will ever be and then and then
26:36
ask them questions there and then on site you know they they are they are people
26:40
too so it's really nice to be able to bring the speakers and and our delegates
26:45
together and sort of show,
26:47
they're really you know they're really not that different there's a lot to be
26:51
shared and that's what we should be doing that's great and i think that's one
26:55
of the i mean i asked gary that question And I think what I'd like listeners
26:59
to realize is monetary reward does come from empowerment.
27:04
If you walk away after two days thinking, you know what, I'm pretty good at what I do.
27:09
I'm not so scared of these other professions. I can work with these other professions.
27:12
I'm going to have a phone call to that physio who I was always scared of and
27:15
go, you know what, I'm on the same chapter as you.
27:17
And I went to Therapy Expo and they thought maybe that my services could fit in.
27:21
Bam, you start that will. you're not doing the same thing over and over again
27:24
and not getting any more award of it, which is kind of the definition of insanity, isn't it?
27:27
You get a therapy expert, hopefully you come out with something to change.
27:31
You're going to do something different. You're going to open up avenues.
27:34
But I think a lot of that comes from the confidence to make the change.
27:37
And Maria, you're nodding in agreement, yeah?
27:39
No, no, no, that is stronger because how can you, it's priceless.
27:45
What you exactly said is what I was going to say. It is the networking,
27:49
it is absolutely priceless because actually networking is not only.
27:53
Communicating, collaborating with people like you
27:57
but actually you've been exposed to people
28:00
in one man band type of practices which
28:04
in our profession as soft tissue therapists or post therapists we usually are
28:08
so very isolated and all of a sudden you are in the same place with all of them
28:14
and for me the most important that some of those people like you Two,
28:19
they're actually speaking.
28:22
And this is why the hands-on app, we have a very good balance of people that
28:26
are well-known in the circuit,
28:29
but also very good clinicians that we got so much to learn from,
28:35
but they never had the opportunity to be there.
28:38
And to me, a therapist there, a massage therapist, look at me and just say,
28:42
oh, my God, she's like me. If she can do it, I can do it.
28:45
That is priceless. You know, you go away and the fire has been reignited even further.
28:50
That secondly talking about money because for me
28:53
that is a really quite important oh 300 pounds
28:56
is a lot of money so we have to look the
29:01
value we take out of that 300 pounds and the value is the fact that don't think
29:07
about just going away with extra strategies because that's what it's not what
29:11
it's all about is the fact that you are exposed to possibly talks people and topics you would not
29:20
necessarily be exposed to if you go to one course.
29:24
That, because us as content creators, what we do, we try to challenge a little
29:29
bit and go a little bit more forward and forward and forward.
29:32
So people will be exposed to things that they might not necessarily see for a long time.
29:40
So they're already, we're going to, you know, hopefully we're going to make
29:43
them way ahead of their colleagues that they don't come to Therapy Expo.
29:49
And then once you expose yourself to all of that, you say, actually,
29:52
I want to know a little bit more about that. So I'm going to go and go to that course.
29:57
So you know already who you're going to go to.
30:00
And, you know, hopefully you made the right choice and you're not wasting the
30:03
money for it. So you're saving it in something.
30:06
But also, actually, it's the value on the up-to-date knowledge.
30:11
That's why we are there and working hard behind the scenes to make sure that
30:15
the knowledge is up-to-date and we're always pushing there. But ultimately,
30:19
it's that being together that, you know, we become a model of each other.
30:27
Hey there matt phillips here sorry to interrupt the
30:30
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31:32
Matt, can I just ask Vern, what is the cheapest possible price that somebody
31:37
can attend Therapy Expo for?
31:39
So if they are hypothesising now that they pay £299 this year and they book
31:44
a ticket in advance for next year,
31:46
are the prices already set for the early early early bird prices
31:49
so how much can they you know could they get in for 100
31:52
quid next year and look at it as actually it's cost
31:55
me 200 pounds so what normally happens is
31:57
they would do that at the event so at the event you can book for the following
32:01
year so and that's obviously the cheapest way to do it but because you're you're
32:06
you're basically paying for that following year so you can do that that's not
32:09
that's not a problem to do that at the event and we actually have a delegate
32:13
section there where people can actually go and do that.
32:17
So there's a lot of options so you can go there so i get what gary's
32:19
saying you're saying that if you can't get discount this year
32:22
go there but remember that by going this year
32:25
you'll have the opportunity to pay 100 quid or something for the year
32:28
after the following year and then you divide it up you're thinking okay actually i'm
32:31
paying half of 200 pounds for
32:34
two years so yeah that's clever i like that money saving wonderful
32:37
the other thing just go on before what
32:41
anna maria was saying there you know if you look at the speakers and
32:44
educators because that's that's that's basically
32:47
what we are and i'm going to refer to something that
32:50
one of my mentors once taught me and this was going back to cricket coaching
32:53
days he said to me that knowledge is powerful but only when it's shared there's
32:59
no point as an educator having lots of knowledge and not sharing with anybody
33:03
so you go and look how motivated the speakers are how freely they They share their knowledge.
33:10
And some of them are commercially driven. Some of them are not commercially
33:13
driven. You know, they are there because they are passionate about sharing knowledge.
33:17
And that's what interests me mainly about Therapy Expo.
33:22
Yeah, that is very true. That is the quality of the speakers.
33:24
What we'll be doing, obviously, on the STA podcast between now,
33:28
not every single session, but between now and 99 days leading up to Therapy
33:31
Expo, we will be introducing the speakers we've got to give you an idea.
33:36
But yeah the common theme is a lot of the speakers thanks to the advisory board.
33:40
You know they're making a living obviously you wouldn't do it otherwise but
33:43
they are givers i mean there is a lot of
33:46
altruism going on there in fact there's a couple of speakers
33:49
even listening to us tonight shows us how we're all on the same chapter
33:52
we are joined by let's have a little look through i'm definitely so well
33:54
there's martin to start off uh martin nicolai
33:58
arnold for some christensen how's that pronunciation um who
34:01
says i'm there mainly to make sure nobody learns anything from anastan let's
34:05
not bring that that is what i get
34:08
from my colleagues in the english let's bring up his other
34:10
comments sherry networking is the result of meeting the humans
34:13
behind the word and understanding just that they're humans which is
34:17
very nice because martin who some of you might know from the
34:20
friday friday physio confession podcast he's going
34:23
to be speaking on day two i believe i remember
34:26
from my brain yeah day two therapy expo in
34:29
theater c 125 practical professionalism the paradox
34:33
of being human within a health care system so that's a
34:35
nice example of what we're talking about now and it's not all about buy this
34:39
do this we're talking about being human how that's going to affect you as a
34:44
therapist the interaction with your client or patient who's human as well and
34:48
how that's where the skills probably are going to be not so much what you're
34:51
doing it's about understanding what it is to be human and that sort of stuff and matt is going to do a.
34:55
Practical version of that talk at the hands-on app on the one so it's going
35:01
to actually do some awfully unless we fall out beforehand do some strategies
35:08
for the hands-on app as i say you know.
35:12
Us and the vikings will uh we'll sort it very nice and you've sorted him somewhere
35:18
to sleep i believe for the night which is nice because he just no not yet after
35:21
what he said no apparently No, he is one of these.
35:24
He's Northern European, isn't he? He just kind of comes over with his log or
35:27
whatever and just thinks he's going to ride out somewhere.
35:29
And he's spurting. Yeah, but we'll find him somewhere, I'm sure.
35:33
Anyway, so yeah, and also a shout out to Tristan Attenborough,
35:36
who has proved very popular speaker in the last couple, I think two or even
35:40
three years ago, I think Tristan was speaking.
35:42
Tristan's listening to us tonight in the audience, and Tristan's going to be on day one at 9.35.
35:48
Dysfunction, vaguely specific or specifically vague. And Tristan,
35:51
for me, is a lovely example of listening to somebody who can challenge traditional
35:58
things which you might have learned.
35:59
But when you see him face to face and as a person, he does it in a wonderfully
36:03
calm way, which makes you reflect without kind of getting all your feathers
36:07
in your back kind of put up.
36:08
And not so much on social media, but that's difficult, social media.
36:11
But Tristan is somebody I would recommend you go and see in person at Therapy
36:16
Expo just to realise that he's really not like the person he comes across as on social media.
36:20
Go shake his hand, give him a hug. I mean, look, how can he look at this comment here from Tristan?
36:24
Here we go. Look, Tristan says, I'm putting it on the screen for those of you.
36:28
I love hugging all the people i see once a year and they
36:31
were always the best the best shirts of the
36:34
whole yeah definitely without a doubt yeah he's definitely
36:36
got flair yeah yeah just so anyway a
36:39
couple of speakers here and i'm just saying that because again i
36:42
think it's really useful to therapists to realize that you are going to see
36:45
speakers who are not going to just stand on the podium and not and just
36:48
speak down to you it's such they're part of the community as
36:50
well for them it's a learning experience for them they're meeting other speakers
36:53
who maybe they haven't met they've read research papers from and that's one
36:57
of the wonderful things for me i love bringing speakers together in the STA
36:59
theatre who maybe not have met each other and then suddenly they're talking
37:02
having a coffee and I'm just sitting back thinking oh matchmaker matchmaker
37:05
lovely I'm glad I did that so yeah very exciting um questions people I'm just
37:09
checking oh here we go it's a question from Charlotte S thank you Charlotte
37:13
says is there an early bird ticket price for anyone who books their ticket now.
37:17
Yes yes so it's correct me if
37:20
i'm wrong burn but i think we're at 150 plus vat at
37:23
the moment if you book before monday the 30th of september
37:26
oh jeez that's a problem shell we were saying 299 but
37:29
actually yeah so currently 150 pounds if
37:33
you book before bank holiday do it
37:36
do it do it do it do
37:38
it and i can't sing that song yes do it do it now do it good wonderful
37:43
let's see uh nicola smith has said interesting to
37:46
hear the science that goes on behind the scenes i don't know
37:49
what goes on behind the scenes yeah it's not all science but yep there's so
37:52
much that goes on behind the scenes honestly it starts with therapy experience doesn't
37:55
it yes okay right next year what you do there's a meeting i think we are polite
38:00
with each other for the first week we don't talk to each other and then we start
38:04
only meeting okay next year oh we got another speaker andrew mccauley is here
38:09
as well from procast sports medicine who's again one of i mean for For me personally,
38:13
I keep saying this like I've got some man crushing me. I haven't.
38:16
He's too short for me. I'm six foot six.
38:18
But Andrew was one of the people who I'd heard of but never met in person.
38:22
I went to see him speak. In fact, he came along to the STA Theatre to speak. And brilliant.
38:27
It was for me that was like, right, that's my speaker for Therapy Expo.
38:31
So, yeah, Andrew from Procast Sports Medicine is going to be discussing why
38:35
most patients are Italian when it comes to exercise prescription,
38:40
both on stage and in the STA Theatre. So that's going to be a great one.
38:44
It's going to be great. I really recommend that. I recommend so many of them.
38:47
But as I say, Andrew will be on the STA podcast in the lead up,
38:51
talking a little bit about that.
38:52
So you'll be able to get to know all of our speakers over the next 99 days.
38:57
One thing I did want to mention just on behalf of the STA Update Theatre,
39:01
obviously I host, but this year what we're trying to do or what we've decided to do is –.
39:08
Feedback has been that they love like we talked about before
39:11
they love the intimacy of an open end theater the same as in the hands-on hub
39:14
people really dig having that chance to
39:17
sit down two meters from the speaker who's sitting at the same level of them
39:21
discuss things throw questions and it's very it's such a nice way to learn as
39:25
well being in a theater it's kind of a little bit kind of harry potter isn't
39:29
it you're kind of sitting back there with 100 students listening and you don't
39:32
take that much in it's the little open air theaters outside where i think really Really,
39:37
that's where you can reflect, mix with other people and listen.
39:40
So the STA Theatre this year will be very much Q&A session orientated,
39:45
often with people who have been speaking in Theatre A, B or C.
39:48
And they'll be, I've tried to organise it so that they will have already been
39:52
giving their in-theatre presentation.
39:55
And then an hour or two later on, there'll be an opportunity to see them in
39:59
the STA Theatre for a chance to either catch them if you missed it,
40:03
because not everybody can get into the big theatres or otherwise just hear about
40:07
what they were talking about and be able to ask questions to them.
40:11
So you can't really see the screenshot on the page here. It's a bit small,
40:15
but the programme is being filled up wonderfully.
40:18
If you go to therapyexpo.co.uk, you can already see there's so many columns.
40:22
That's just a fraction of the, that's like the first hour or something.
40:25
You can already see and start planning. So again, if you're one of these people
40:28
thinking, I'm not quite sure if I want to go along to it, don't make any decisions
40:30
before you see the sort of content that's on there. It will surprise you,
40:33
definitely surprise you, some amazing content on there.
40:37
Matt, can I just add then that a third layer possibly to that is you've seen
40:42
somebody in one of the main theatres, you've listened to their presentation.
40:45
A couple of hours later, you can see them in one of the open theatres having
40:49
a discussion with 30 or 40 people.
40:53
And then all of the speakers are going
40:55
to be in the STA meter speaker lounge so you can
40:58
have one-to-one questionings because what tends to happen is
41:01
we get one speaker stands to the side of the lectern and
41:04
a few people asking questions the next speaker
41:07
is ready to go on so we've set aside a space this year
41:10
for meet the speakers where it'll be a really informal area
41:13
that's where I'll be based and all of the speakers are
41:16
going to do half an hour or so in the
41:19
theatre in the meet the speaker area after they've done
41:22
their presentation fantastic yeah that'd be great as well as long as they meet
41:27
the speaker who is free from any possible luggage or we're gonna have our own
41:37
storage space have have you got that.
41:44
I've got barbed wire fencing going up it will be fantastic that's great news that's very good,
41:50
um charlotte s has said here hands-on hub and sda theater absolutely rammed
41:54
last year can't wait to see what's in store this time are there any new features
41:57
to look out at 30x this year that's a really good question charlotte and it
42:01
was it was totally rammed let me just bring up a few pictures here i've got
42:04
of photos from last year because it will give people an idea of,
42:09
what we're talking about if i put that on here.
42:14
Not able to blow that up. This is the hands-on hub, which is kind of normally,
42:19
I think it will be this year, kind of next to the STA update theatre in the STA stand.
42:23
A fantastic place, which Anna's
42:25
already kind of mentioned, it's devised to turn theory into practice.
42:28
But you can see from the photos, if you listen to the podcast,
42:30
then go along to YouTube now and just have a look at the photos that are coming up.
42:33
But it's a fantastic place for practical application, for asking questions,
42:37
for getting up, practicing things.
42:39
And I'll definitely recommend you have a look at some of the stuff that's going on in there.
42:42
And as you can see what a lovely photo there you see that the st school in your
42:47
photo instagram everything's catered for from anne maria who's definitely down with the kids.
42:52
And yeah like you say people were ramming it that was
42:55
the shell lions one of the most classic but yes oh
42:58
smart not because there was very different
43:02
or you know talks it's because we
43:05
we we created a space where we
43:08
shown people what being an evidence-based practitioner
43:11
practitioner means in clinical practice because we all go to those amazing conferences
43:16
we all hear so much but then when we are by ourself in our individual clinic
43:22
rooms what does that mean in clinical practice how what does that mean you know
43:27
working within an evidence-informed.
43:30
Approach for shoulder treatment and what we created is it's not only hands-on
43:36
in terms of So massage and movement, it's actually interactive and translation of what evidence is.
43:43
And this year we're bringing in quite a lot about, you know,
43:46
individual professionalism with Martin, with Joe Turner.
43:52
We're going to be talking about ADHD and neurodiversity, sensory integration.
43:58
So there are going to be quite a variety of all these topics.
44:04
Topics but what does he actually means practically for
44:07
us that's great i love that passion in yours
44:10
and we've talked about this of how can we best translate what
44:14
people hear at therapy expo into something they're going
44:16
to take home with and be able to use and that is as educators that's always
44:19
the challenge isn't it whether it's a class um or one person is
44:22
how can you get through to that person and help them resolve the information
44:25
yeah great did you just say joe turner's coming yes of course is she really
44:30
oh yeah yeah so wait because our our full agenda i think is gonna go up very
44:37
soon with the the page and everything so we're gonna,
44:43
full agenda but expect some really interesting talks apart from martin.
44:51
From norway sorry i didn't know where you're from martin of
44:53
course it's norway of course it's norway i think the other one matt is
44:56
we've also got new features as well yes this is what i wanted to
44:59
go on to yeah because so what we got so what
45:02
we've got now i mean part of that came from obviously listening to
45:05
to some of the conversation on the podcast early on was we've
45:09
also now got a new feature area which is around business advice
45:12
so we've got now if somebody wants
45:15
to go there and they're looking for insurance or if they're looking at marketing
45:18
or we've now got an area now which is almost
45:20
a business pavilion where people can go and
45:23
meet those experts and obviously speak to them about what what
45:26
they do what they might need you know it might be not
45:29
everyone's familiar with the best card machines or you know
45:32
it could be these kind of things are great things to have
45:35
for up-and-coming people that have just passed their qualification they're
45:38
looking at being a new clinician you know to
45:41
have these kind of things which which is great to see
45:44
and that comes from obviously the conversations we've had
45:47
before and Gary we've had conversations about business advice and these kind
45:52
of things now is brought to the show so that that's another great feature and
45:57
then we've got other features as well which is like the AccuCenter you know
46:00
and that's kind of been overlooked but in the past obviously now we've got so
46:04
many professions that are using acupuncture or dry needling.
46:07
Now we've got a featured area purely for that as well.
46:10
So we are kind of looking at what different types of practitioner are using
46:14
and bringing that to the show.
46:16
And then we're looking at the implementation of taking the growth of where can it go to.
46:21
So what might be the latest technology used within acupuncture?
46:25
You know, what might be the latest technique? And then we'll bring in the governing
46:29
bodies around that as well.
46:31
And it's kind of, we've got these designated areas, which are great for clinicians
46:35
because it gives them a new experience.
46:37
That's great to hear. Molly, is there anything else? What are you excited?
46:40
I mean, there's lots of new features at 3PX this year. What else do you think we should talk about?
46:44
I think, I mean, it's not sort of like a physical feature as such,
46:48
but I think in terms of building the programme this year, we've done a sort
46:51
of different structure to it.
46:53
So we focused a lot on sort of content streams and throughout my research and
46:56
with the guidance of the advisory board, we sort of collated all the content
47:00
into streams so that it would be a lot easier for people to sort of go along to the show with,
47:05
you know, this is what I want to know about and these are the sessions that apply to me.
47:08
And, you know, each, you know, each session doesn't necessarily just fit into one stream.
47:12
There's crossovers, there's all sorts, but it's something that,
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like we were talking about earlier, you know, there's a whole stream on ethics
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and professionalism, which is why Martin's talking.
47:20
But it's that sort of thing where, you know, you can follow the stream throughout
47:24
the programme and it is done in such a way that you could, you know,
47:27
in theory, just go to all the ethics and professionalism sessions because they're
47:30
staggered in such a way, that sort of thing.
47:33
So I'm really excited about sort of how that's going going to look and the
47:35
feedback we might get from that just in terms of people planning out their
47:38
day um I think one of the other streams I'm really excited for
47:41
that we've pushed a bit more this year is professional sports obviously you
47:44
know post-olympic hype and everything going on there it's something
47:47
we're really excited about and obviously we've got headline speaker Mitchell Hooper
47:51
coming along who again is is just a human being and
47:54
will be on the show floor to talk to people so we're really
47:56
really excited about that and and on and everything that's
47:59
that's going on with that and there's no molly can
48:02
i can i ask have you we spoke
48:06
last year about a search facility on the
48:08
website so if somebody wants to see dr chris
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norris for example will he be able to type it into the search bar and find out
48:15
where he's speaking what time and what theater um i don't believe you can specifically
48:20
search by name but you can search by stream that i've just mentioned so if you
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sort of go in the drop down box on the left hand side you can search by stream
48:28
and i I think there's seven, eight streams,
48:30
and each session will be tagged with whichever stream it relates to.
48:34
So you can search by that. So, for example, if you knew Chris Norris was talking
48:37
in the massage and manual therapy stream, you'd sort of filter by that and see
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his sessions come up. Good, thank you.
48:43
Let's not forget also the MSK conference, which is housed within Therapy Expo.
48:50
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Amanda and team, they've opened it up so
48:54
that people can move around between some talks of that conference and Therapy
48:58
Expo. Am I right? That's correct, yeah.
49:00
Yes, because again, this year the title is, or the theme is... Inequalities.
49:07
Inequalities, yes. Yeah, bridging the gap. Bridging the gap.
49:10
And again, Amanda, she's another great educator and clinician that wants to
49:16
see that really strong collaboration.
49:19
And she worked really, really hard with that. So let's give it a shout out, I think.
49:25
That's great. That's really significant as well, isn't it? That shows,
49:28
because sometimes it is a struggle, isn't it, being an educator?
49:30
And every time you think you've taken a step forwards, it's kind of,
49:33
you read something on normally social media and it's three steps back.
49:36
But when you think now we've got a major conference where the MSK is open,
49:41
physios have opened their doors to sports therapists. What the hell's going on?
49:45
That's what it's all about, isn't it? I think what happened,
49:49
Matt, if you remember for the last two years, we collate feedback and some of
49:52
the feedback that we were getting were, I can't believe the quality of the content
49:56
in a sports therapy theatre.
49:58
That's why they've opened their doors. It's not letting us in.
50:01
They want to see what we do. Yeah, absolutely.
50:04
I was going to say the same. I was going to say the same, though,
50:07
because last year we did the panel with Amanda.
50:11
Literally, it was a last-minute thing. It's like, Amanda, sit down.
50:14
It was me, me, Sarah, Amanda.
50:18
And actually, it really opened up how she wasn't aware of our standards,
50:26
our views, our approach to care.
50:29
Several times we have to actually, you know, kind of correct her because of
50:34
those very old views around massage therapy.
50:37
But at the same time, you know, for a lot of people, they may realize what physiotherapy is,
50:45
so where they're coming from and how can you do that unless you are in an open conference
50:52
and and progressive conference like therapy x
50:55
well that was wonderful you know because yeah it was
50:57
amazing that's cool that could be really significant i
51:00
think that's gonna be one of the things i'm gonna notice and take away from
51:03
this year i'm very excited by that just that multi-disciplinary approach
51:07
actually happening i mean the dream of putting something from
51:09
theory into actual practice i think that's really cool i think
51:12
maybe it'd be that there'll be an episode there for martin on the friday
51:15
physio confession podcast he could do something like i used to think
51:18
non-aligned head depressions was shit or something and then he could confess
51:21
that being a physio obviously went through his mind but now he can realize actually
51:25
there's some good stuff going on there so there you go there's a little podcast
51:28
session for you martin post therapy expo you can use that title if you want
51:32
wonderful where are we it's 8 56 so we've talked about accessibility.
51:37
We've talked we kind of talked about how now is the time to start booking when
51:41
things like accommodation is is not everyone can go for two days if you can
51:46
i think that's another time another Another reason for looking now is that accommodation
51:50
is not just cheaper now, it's just available now.
51:53
Yeah, I would look as early as possible for things like accommodation and don't
51:57
rule out things like Airbnbs, you know.
51:59
But the thing that I always think about is check the conference programme.
52:05
Look at what day, if you can only go for one day, look at what's on and when.
52:10
You know, and at least then you're always going to get something from that event.
52:14
But that conference program is kind of like worth its weight in gold.
52:19
It's a bit something that I would be definitely looking constantly and even
52:23
right up to the event in case anything changes.
52:26
Just have a look and see what time people are on and where and what's the best
52:29
route to get to it, you know, and maximize your time that you can be at the
52:33
actual event itself because there is so much to see and do.
52:37
You don't want to be overwhelmed, shall we say. so
52:40
as long as you've already made a plan of what you want to go
52:43
and see and when you can do it that's always
52:46
something that i would try and follow great advice
52:49
what i would say what i would say about accommodation matt
52:52
is don't be you know if you're traveling by car book your parking in advance
52:57
because it's cheaper and then look for accommodation that's about 20 minutes
53:02
outside of the nec if you try and book in the nec it's astronomically priced
53:06
so we we've got Got an Airbnb just at the back of the runway,
53:09
if you remember the aviation fuel from 5 a.m. in the morning.
53:12
But we're back in there this year after last year's escapade.
53:16
But yeah, don't be afraid to look in places like Solihull and Coventry just outside.
53:21
It's 20 minutes travel, but you're halving the price.
53:25
And maybe even if you are part of a particularly supported professional association,
53:29
don't do it all by yourself.
53:31
You know, start a post in your association, whether you're in the Hands-On Hub,
53:34
whether you're in the STA, wherever you are.
53:36
Just say, look, guys, if there's five of us going and looking for accommodation,
53:39
why don't we do an Airbnb?
53:40
Airbnb, if you book now, could be shockingly amazing.
53:44
Not always. I woke up to a few things down the side of my bed that I don't even think of ever again.
53:48
But if you do find a good place and it's cheap, you know, you get a palace for five of you.
53:53
So yeah it's the only experience of sitting around ordering
53:56
your wagamama or whatever else that you
53:59
know any other brand but me and sarah quite like our wagamama
54:02
few glasses of wine no bottle sorry few glasses
54:05
of wine we see what we learned
54:10
what we heard what we want to go and see that
54:13
is invaluable that is but this is
54:16
where knowledge is unlocked only listening you
54:20
don't learn you learn by evaluating and by
54:23
discussing it by which again sorry i
54:27
sounds terrible but when you come in pop into
54:30
the hands-on app and you can pick up our cpd
54:33
booklet where we created a
54:36
cpd reflective journal that follows
54:39
one of the accepted reflective processes where
54:45
you can actually note down some of the
54:48
feelings or like some of the evaluation which actually
54:51
you can then use it as evidence for your
54:54
cpd journal i like to you know
54:57
which talks to to choose apart from the hands-on app obviously but i just want
55:03
to if you don't mind read the the the quote from fannyman that we have put on
55:07
our cpd journal they says there is no learning without having to pose a question
55:12
and the question requires doubt.
55:15
So if I would say, you know, one of the things to start doing now,
55:19
oh my God, the picture of me, one of the things that you start doing now is thinking.
55:24
What do I not know? What is it that I am missing?
55:29
What is it that my client, not only about you, what is it that my clients could
55:34
be benefiting from? What are those type of injuries?
55:38
And then build it out of what, once we realize what we do not know,
55:43
that's where we're then seeking new knowledge.
55:46
And then obviously you can get all of that from the hands-on episode.
55:48
You know, apart from Matt. From the SJ Theatre.
55:52
From the SJ Theatre, sorry. remember the ladder by the way i forget just just
55:56
in case now everybody knows garen is to remember the ladder okay remember i
56:01
take it every year anna because i i'm not vertically challenged i could reach
56:06
that i thank you for your benefit i'm just i'm just.
56:13
I'm just working out a marketing invoice for the
56:15
sts st school because you've got 17 minutes of
56:18
presents on my podcast it's true yeah we'll get out and get much
56:23
better very exciting very exciting so
56:27
there we go people nine o'clock i think we have
56:29
hopefully the intention of this episode was to
56:32
give advice on any barriers you think
56:35
you're feeling why you can't go obviously we all
56:38
love the two days and we're i don't know we could there's nothing really at
56:43
the moment bad to say about it and you can listen to previous shows it is a
56:47
fantastic opportunity for the reason we've listed but we do understand in today's
56:51
times in particular it's tough and even the 150 pounds which.
56:56
We'll make sure it goes into the show notes. If you get that before Monday bank
56:59
holiday, then just have a think.
57:02
Can we just confirm that date? Because Molly did say the 30th of September.
57:06
Yes, the Monday, the 30th of September. So not the coming bank holiday at the
57:10
end. Okay, that's great.
57:11
So, okay, so actually we're talking now. If you listen to this podcast,
57:14
I'll get it uploaded as soon as I can.
57:15
You are looking at a realistic price of £150 for two days, plus accommodation and that.
57:20
But hopefully we've given you advice on looking for accommodation,
57:24
recommendations sorting out travel where to park and things like that and
57:27
and talking to other people don't do it by yourself don't you
57:30
know try to just this is where a professional association
57:33
or like a group like hands on hub on facebook
57:36
or whatever it is master support group talk to other people and communicate
57:39
and you can turn something which seems like impossible into
57:42
reality and and i can't promise you will
57:45
benefit from it but i tell you what it will definitely be
57:48
a an eye-opening experience for you um and
57:51
also the other thing which we reiterate over the years is if
57:53
you do arrive there by yourself then go along
57:57
to the hands-on hub or go along to the sta update theater because now
58:00
you know the voices and if you go to youtube you'll see the faces they're not
58:03
too scary actually me and gary can be quite scary and jake as well we
58:05
are all over six foot six so maybe start off with the hands-on hub because then
58:09
you won't feel intimidated and then work your way over to the sta theater once
58:13
you've got a little bit more confidence and just prepare to lift your head up
58:17
another couple of people but what I'm saying is in a long-winded way is we're
58:20
all there to support you as are the staff there everybody there are really friendly it's a therapist.
58:27
Conference for sure definitely Mark for just for diversity tick boxing we are
58:32
having some short stuff on the SGA stand this year are we really,
58:36
yeah yeah I thought that quote was covered by over the road for me Scott oh
58:41
Scott okay that's fine yeah,
58:44
just say quick hello to me who's in the audience.
58:47
Hi, Shelley. We must catch up with yourself and Charlotte.
58:50
And Emmy has admitted to procuring a ladder last year on your behalf.
58:55
Anna Maria. Fantastic. Thanks for joining us, Shelley. Yes, Shelley Williams
58:59
says, Charlotte, my team, and I can't see the other names. Hidden.
59:03
Charlotte, myself and my team are looking forward to welcoming you all to the
59:06
Expo this year. And Anna Maria, love your hair. Thank you.
59:10
Fantastic. Thanks, Shirley. Thanks for joining us. So, yeah, there you go, people.
59:13
If you've got any questions, then go to YouTube and leave them in the comments there.
59:17
I want the reason we kind of sing and dance more about YouTube than Facebook
59:20
is YouTube stays there for longer and the comments are there. It comes up in Google.
59:24
So if you've got any questions, stick them in the YouTube comments.
59:26
I guarantee we will get back to you and other people might chime in as well.
59:30
So let's use YouTube as like of the hub, not to take, steal that from you,
59:35
Anna, but the hub for questions for Therapy Expo.
59:39
Or like I say, go to one of the very popular Facebook groups like Hands on Hub
59:42
or STA or something like that and ask them there.
59:46
Well, that was very enjoyable. I'm looking forward to listening to it back to
59:49
this myself. Anything else I've missed out or Molly or Vernon,
59:51
anything else you'd like to add?
59:53
I think the other one, the only thing I'd mention would be the poster zone.
59:56
I think, Anna, you're quite in with what we do there. So, I mean,
1:00:00
that would be a good one if you wanted to just explain that quickly,
1:00:03
because I know you've had quite a big part.
1:00:05
So the Post-it Zone is live. So if there is any of you that wants to present
1:00:12
from cases to a paper that you're writing or a study that you're doing,
1:00:20
if you're doing your bachelor's or even just a case study,
1:00:24
if you have something interesting, do go on to the Therapy Expo Post-it Zone.
1:00:29
The amazing protocols written down.
1:00:34
Everybody can do it. You don't have to be an academic.
1:00:37
You don't have to be, you have to be a clinician. You just have to be a therapist.
1:00:41
And it's all very, very well explained. And if anybody's interested,
1:00:45
please contact me and I can explain better.
1:00:50
We're going to be presenting actually a couple of papers out of one recent study
1:00:55
and something else. So more people.
1:00:59
More clinicians in vocational training present cases and stronger our presence
1:01:11
within the table of other professionals will be.
1:01:17
Do not think that only university educated practitioners can present posters or do research.
1:01:25
Search wonderfully inclusive fantastic right we're
1:01:29
going to roll this up thank you for everybody who joined us live
1:01:33
in the live lounge i've just bring
1:01:36
up a couple nikki mansfield thank you for joining us nikki nikki says that's
1:01:39
been thing he's clever i've been going since 2016 and what i've wanted from
1:01:42
the expo has changed each year over that time considering the biggest challenges
1:01:45
how to manage my time stream sounds super helpful very cool and nikki being
1:01:50
from that neck in the woods says accommodation is way cheaper in Coventry than in Broome.
1:01:54
Handy hint from a Covlas, especially considering the NEC isn't actually in Broome.
1:01:58
It's halfway between Cov and Broome. There you go. So yeah, advice there.
1:02:01
Sarah Jones says, I'm banking on Waggers again this year. Thank you, Sarah, for adding that.
1:02:07
But like we say, other fast food outlets. Can I say that the hands-on app will
1:02:11
not exist unless Sarah will be there because they're the only one who's keeping
1:02:16
the hands-on app going and me alive, to be honest.
1:02:21
Matt it's true there's some wonderful people there,
1:02:24
The two things I'm looking forward to this year the most now is meeting Martin.
1:02:29
I feel he's a kindred spirit. That's a common thing.
1:02:32
Yeah. And I'm looking forward to seeing how much furniture Anna Maria is taking.
1:02:38
That's always, yeah. Because with Amanda, we are planning a little bit of a fire pit.
1:02:44
And so, yeah. Fire pit. How wonderful.
1:02:50
Excellent. Right, people. Thanks so much for joining us. if you
1:02:53
listen to the podcast then thank you very much as always it's doing
1:02:56
wonderfully healthily but tonight's question really
1:02:59
is yes we get like two two and a half thousand downloads but how
1:03:02
many of you actually go to therapy expo so we'd love to have some feedback maybe
1:03:06
if this episode has enticed you to actually go
1:03:08
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1:03:14
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1:03:16
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1:03:19
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1:03:23
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1:03:27
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1:03:44
we'll hopefully see a few of you next time thank you to my speakers
1:03:47
all my guests on my speakers that's happening in
1:03:50
november thank you to my guests tonight uh molly benson vernon smeed and marie
1:03:54
matzio and gary benson and yeah we'll see you all soon take care is there a
1:03:58
relationship with gary benson and molly benson i just realized that oh i'm glad
1:04:02
you brought that up i forgot to mention it yeah just in case anybody is thinking
1:04:05
there's nothing incestuous going on here we none of us are related that we know okay
1:04:10
as far as we know prove us wrong maybe be take care everyone.
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Music.