By SEPNZ President Blair JarrattEDITORIAL

Hello, and so we step into the Autumn after a busy start to the year within SEPNZ. With Easter now here, it's hard to think we are already a 1/3 into the way of 2019. Our Symposium is now firmly behind us - all those that made the trip to Tauranga we hope you enjoyed the program. We have had excellent feedback about our speakers; especially it seems that both of Rod Whiteley's Keynote talks were exceptionally well received.

We are also setting some dates out there for our CPD program, and I urge you to look at these sooner rather than later to guarantee places on these courses. Our Level 1 sideline management has already been and gone in Dunedin, and again this was well attended. Keep an eye out on the CPD program on our website and also later in this bulletin there is further information on upcoming courses.

Each bulletin we have been introducing one of the SEPNZ Executive members so you can put a face to the name - this edition we get a quick look into Justin Lopes - SEPNZ stalwart and education committee extraordinaire. Also Emma Lattey our newest executive member picks up the app review for an excellent free app plus she also goes into the many clinical uses for this. You will all be reaching for your phone and heading to the app store after you read her review.

In this Bulletin, we embrace the message of exercise in medicine. Lou James, the Founder and CEO of PINC & STEEL International, takes us through the multiple advantages of prescribed and supervised exercise in cancer care. Like in the many other areas that Physiotherapists work in, our strength is to see the whole patient and not just their presenting issue. Lou discusses six main growing areas of exercise rehab in cancer care. Pip Sail also backs up this topic with two literature reviews. One on the effects of exercise training on physical fitness and biomarker levels for breast cancer survivors, and the other a systematic review on the impact of exercise on cancer mortality, recurrence and treatment-related adverse effects. I am sure you can guess the conclusions to these papers but it still never ceases to amaze me the power of exercise in the management of many conditions. Exercise truly is the miracle drug! It's up to us as physiotherapist's to continue to push this message in the community, to our medical professionals and to the people we interact with every day.

In our SPRINZ section physiotherapists are called upon to discuss how in New Zealand we can improve early identification and develop individualised therapy protocols for sports originated brain injury. Concussion is a hugely growing area of interest, and if you want to learn more, then please look into the SEPNZ course on concussion with Dr Stephen Kara scheduled for later this year in Auckland.

Finally Chris Bishop on behalf of ASICS discusses all the fuss around Heel counters in shoes - should you have them yes or no - you will have to read to find out ........

Until next time

Kind Regards BlairJarratt SEPNZ President