We end the week on a high having reached another super milestone - all 30 RaCeR 2 sites are now open!🌟RaCeR 2 is recruiting across the UK including 2 Welsh sites and 1 Scottish site. It's been great to meet so many friendly faces at site initiation visits over the last 18 months

I am absolutely delighted to let you know that the attached guidelines to support Follett Principles for healthcare professionals clinical academics have been published on the NHS Employers Website and UCEA Website   eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

What Happens To Patients Long Term When We Don’t Repair Their Cuff Tears? sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

As an ortho surgeon X23 years- this study is the most significant one in all of orthopedics in probably 20+ years (maybe the last one being that scoping for arthritis doesn’t work) It should be the number 1 topic among sports orthos. I have only seen silence. Why? (Link below)

#BESS2025 abstract submission closes 31 Jan - submit now - plus submit a proposal for our new video techniques session - more info at delegate-reg.co.uk/bess2025/submi… Joideep Phadnis Adam C Watts vijaybhalaik Paul Jenkins Derby Shoulder Unit Jo Winton Helen tunnicliffe Marcus Bateman

Are you interested in improving care for patients with conservatively managed proximal humerus fractures? If you are an NHS Health Care Professional with experience of treating this patient group, please join in a national focus group, EOI via link: forms.office.com/e/EfWZkBEE6b

Interesting report highlighting the decline in clinical researchers and need to reverse the trend. I’m looking forward to the follow-up report on the non-medical clinical academic workforce and career pathway… ukri.org/news/report-ca…

Huge thanks to all of our trial sites who have supported this project. Hopefully not long now until we reach our recruitment target! 🤞🏻

Grateful for the intellectual juggernauts that made this work possible! International Consensus>Etiology>Risk Factors>Diagnosis>Management of FROZEN SHOULDER Marcus Bateman Dr Rachel Chester Liesbet De Baets Jo Gibson Luise Hollmann Professor Jeremy Lewis PhD FCSP👇 tandfonline.com/eprint/6MK2H6S…

What are the research priorities (knowledge gaps) for people with atraumatic shoulder pain? This #PrioritySetting process included patients and practitioners in multiple rounds to get to an eventual top 25 ranking ➡️ ow.ly/eFir50VkjUb #Shoulder #Pain #yourJOSPT

What are the research priorities (knowledge gaps) for people with atraumatic shoulder pain? This #PrioritySetting process included patients and practitioners in multiple rounds to get to an eventual top 25 ranking ➡️ ow.ly/eFir50VkjUb #Shoulder #Pain #yourJOSPT

This first article in a seven part series presents an overview of the essential elements of the GRADE approach that has proved useful in systematic reviews, health technology assessment reports, and clinical practice guidelines bmj.com/content/389/bm…

🐰April Round-up🐰We've had 18 participants randomised over the past month. With a few months left we only need to recruit 89 more participants before we meet our recruitment target! 💪 #RaCeR2 #Physio #MSK #RotatorCuff #ClinicalTrials

Just published! Our systematic review of night splints for cubital tunnel syndrome. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…

🌞 May Round-up🌞The months are passing swiftly! June 1st signifies two years since RaCeR 2 began recruiting, and we currently have 572 participants randomized!🥳 #RaCeR2 #Physio #MSK #RotatorCuff

New ⁦BMJ_Open⁩ publication from our ⁦National Institute for Health and Care Research⁩ funded ⁦RACER 2⁩ #HTA project with Chris Littlewood @shainur22 Vijay Gc Marcus Bateman Mmoffatt408 Apostolos Fakis Bruno Mazuquin and #Tao Chen ⁦The Centre for Health Economics⁩ bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/6/e…

Sign up to the British Elbow & Shoulder Society AHP regional hubs with launch dates TBC in August/ September 💪

Fantastic #Research British Elbow & Shoulder Society session listening to the journeys of 3 Inspirational Physio Researchers 🤩🤓 Marcus Bateman Stacey Lalande David Keene #BESS2025 Joideep Phadnis Steve Gwilym LUHFT AHPs

🍦June Round-up🍦In the past month, we have randomized 23 participants. With just a few months remaining, we only need to recruit 43 additional participants to achieve our recruitment goal!😲🫣#RaCeR2 #Physio #MSK #RotatorCuff #ClinicalTrials

A momentous day for our RACER 2 study - 600 randomised participants! Thank you to everyone who has contributed!! Almost there now! racer2study.co.uk/study-progress