documented on this forum, and which led to the formation of the ISRM.) I suspect that the ISRM?s focus on assessment of injuries may be why CNHC has been persuaded to accept some ISRM graduates onto its sports therapy register, even though their training has not included subjects such as hydrotherapy and electrotherapy, which I would have thought were an essential part of the training of a sports therapist. I would also have thought that there is scope for a sports therapy training provider to offer a ?bridging course? to LSSM/ISRM therapists, enabling them to learn skills such as hydrotherapy and electrotherapy, and receive more detailed training in remedial exercise programmes, without having to repeat all the remedial massage that they have already been taught? Tashanie has replied in general terms, but I was particularly interested by two of Richard?s comments: I may be reading more into these than Richard intended, but I did wonder whether these were an implicit criticism of Mel Cash. No, unlike him, I don't criticise his courses, unless of course it is to students that he has criticised my course to, and yes it always gets back to me . When I studied sport and remedial massage at LSSM (in 1999/2000) the syllabus included assessment of soft tissue injuries and assessment of joint injuries. I particularly remember a session on assessment of knee injuries where the tutor (not Mel) went through a great deal of interesting and useful information at too fast a pace and