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Changed for Good? - Editorial - MSKMag Issue 24 · MSKMag OutLoud

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  SPEAKER_00: Changed for good?
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  SPEAKER_00: Editorial MSK Mag Issue 2024 Written by Jack Chew
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  It remains to be seen if Wicked will dominate culture in the
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  coming weeks as it did
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  SPEAKER_00: this time last year,
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  but since you lot made the mistake of enjoying and tolerating
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  my defying gravity
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  SPEAKER_00: musings back then,
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  SPEAKER_00: here I am once again with a witchifying editorial.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm in rather a ponderous,
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  SPEAKER_00: reflective and mushy mood,
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  SPEAKER_00: which usually needs no explanation,
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  but by the end of this you'll understand that I have a decent
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  reason for once.
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  Said mood has me reminiscing about how incredibly fortunate I
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  have been to work
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  SPEAKER_00: with the best and brightest in the industry.
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  For them to have given their time to our shared cause and allow
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  me to become the
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  poor man's Oprah Winfrey despite the criminal lack of a
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  specific expertise.
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  More in-person events and meetings have led to more drinks and
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  dinners which have
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  led to more drunken reminiscing with colleagues who have become
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  dear and loyal
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  SPEAKER_00: friends.
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  SPEAKER_00: 12 years is a while.
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  I started Physiomatters in 2013 aged 25 but because it has
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  flown by it is sometimes
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  easy to forget what has changed slash evolved slash matured or
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  deteriorated slash
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  SPEAKER_00: lessened slash regressed depending on who you ask.
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  SPEAKER_00: But regardless of how charitable the analysis is, one thing is for sure.
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  SPEAKER_00: The influence of people on me and my work has been profound.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason,
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  bringing something we must learn and we are led to those who
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  help us most to grow
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  SPEAKER_00: if we let them in.
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  It would be ambitious to find specific reasons for the various
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  crucial people who
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  SPEAKER_00: have entered my professional and personal life,
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  SPEAKER_00: but there are some who so obviously provide calm,
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  SPEAKER_00: stability and assurance through reliability,
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  SPEAKER_00: loyalty and kindness.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're often embodied in a different force to those who bring creative,
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  SPEAKER_00: exciting and fun energy,
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  SPEAKER_00: but on occasion special people can be all of the above.
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  Even rarer,
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  some people provide a constant in your life as a friend,
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  colleague and inspiration.
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  One such person is MSK mag editor Felicity Thao,
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  who is approaching 20 years of toleration.
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  If there is no further description of our relationship as
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  friendship in this piece,
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  it will be because it is disputed and she has edited it to
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  describe us as distant
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  SPEAKER_00: acquaintances and colleagues to avoid over-association.
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  SPEAKER_00: Alongside many other influential contributors that I am delighted to call
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  SPEAKER_00: acquaintances,
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  SPEAKER_00: when it comes to Flick,
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  SPEAKER_00: it's impossible to objectively weigh up their contributions,
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  SPEAKER_00: but fortunately that's not necessary.
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  We're all mosaics with elements of our character and behaviour
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  coloured by
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  experiences which are shaped by the people we encounter and
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  form relationships
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  SPEAKER_00: with.
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  SPEAKER_00: When we analyse particular people,
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  SPEAKER_00: projects or careers,
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  it will be mad to not recognise both the nature and nurture
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  that has influenced the
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  SPEAKER_00: individuals.
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  Crazier still would be to underestimate the contributions of
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  individual talent and
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  SPEAKER_00: the culture in which that can be flourished or restricted.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are lots of inherent balancing acts here,
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  including the recognition that we are often standing on the
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  shoulders of the giants
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  that came before us without letting the fact minimise our own
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  achievements.
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  taken too far this recognition can humble us into thinking
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  we're only lucky
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  passengers without any semblance of agency in this issue we
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  celebrate two years of
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  msk mag which i am extremely proud of and know what it has
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  taken to make it
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  successful but i assure you that is not performative humility
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  for me to recognize
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  that has been the contributions of many excellent people who
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  have made it such a
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  SPEAKER_00: fun project and mux loved publication
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  SPEAKER_00: To name a few,
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  SPEAKER_00: my wife Charlotte's eye for detail,
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  design and operational strategy means we've never missed the
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  first of the month
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  SPEAKER_00: with a glossy mag.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our staff writers,
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  SPEAKER_00: Sue Julians,
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  SPEAKER_00: Tom Jessen,
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  SPEAKER_00: Claire Robertson,
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  Joe Turner and Jonathan Bell have set the standard for the
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  bravery and impact we
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  SPEAKER_00: wanted to achieve.
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  And our 100 plus authors have proven that a monthly periodical
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  can transcend
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  SPEAKER_00: professional boundaries against the odds in service of best MSK practice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well,
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  SPEAKER_00: this has ended up being far more Oscar-speechy work than I intended,
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  SPEAKER_00: but the news is this will be my last issue as editor-in-chief,
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  and I will be handing over the baton to my good acquaintance
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  Felicity in the new
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  SPEAKER_00: year.
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  I'll still be involved behind the scenes in helping to create
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  the content as editorial director.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rest assured,
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  MSK Mag will remain a crucial part of the Physiomatters media
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  and educational
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  SPEAKER_00: offering.
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  It also means I can focus my attention on a number of game
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  changing innovations in
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  SPEAKER_00: the new year,
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  SPEAKER_00: including a huge return to form for my first born,
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  SPEAKER_00: the Physio Matters podcast,
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  SPEAKER_00: which Farouk and Fran have been doing brilliant work on.
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  SPEAKER_00: But first,
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  this month's MSK mag finishes the year and my tenure as editor
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  in chief with a
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  SPEAKER_00: flourish.
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  For me,
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  it's an exciting combination of longtime collaborators and
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  newfound starlets.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the long-suffering acquaintance column,
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  we have the wonderful Carly Gibson with an excellent piece
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  reflecting on the
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  SPEAKER_00: rehabilitation of real people in the harsh realities of real work.
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  Giles Hazan also returns to discuss the diagnostic lookouts and
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  management
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  SPEAKER_00: challenges in patients with neurodiversity and hypermobility.
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  SPEAKER_00: Cameron Tudor wrote a brilliant clinical piece on OA earlier in the year,
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  but is also a favourite thinker of mine when it comes to
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  commercial factors
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  SPEAKER_00: affecting our industry.
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  SPEAKER_00: This month, he explains how ownership matters.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now to the newcomers.
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  David Evans is an osteopath and researcher who has been around
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  long enough,
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  SPEAKER_00: whilst remaining wise enough,
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  SPEAKER_00: to repeat his state of the low back pain care survey 20 years later.
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  SPEAKER_00: He pursues the question, what has changed in 20 years?
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  SPEAKER_00: And finally,
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  Dom Smith explains how the contentious subject of diagnostic
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  ultrasound needn't be
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  SPEAKER_00: contentious.
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  SPEAKER_00: Panic not,
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  SPEAKER_00: I have not forgotten our longest serving staff writer,
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  SPEAKER_00: Glen O'Humeral,
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  who once again seeks to get us cancelled with his slash her
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  take on unreasonable
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  SPEAKER_00: adjustments.
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  I hope you enjoy this mag and have enjoyed all 24 of our issues
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  even half as much
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  as I've enjoyed making them and thank you for all so much for
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  all your feedback.
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  You're another group of people who I have the absolute
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  privilege of working with
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  SPEAKER_00: and like all those aforementioned.
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  Who can say if I've been changed for the better because if I
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  knew you I have been changed