repeat all the remedial massage that they have already been taught? Each year I train many ISRM members, most of whom are LSSM grads, and without fail, each one tells me that they have benefited by learning the more advanced soft tissue treatment techniques, subjective assessments, strapping/taping etc, as it has meant that they can confidently go out and treat soft tissue injuries better than before. Next year in London all of the students booked onto my bridging programme are ISRM members. This is not to say that they were no good before, because they come on with great skills, in fact, we are pretty much limiting our bridging programmes to ISRM members, because they are so well trained. Alan A well respected colleague said, when her organisation was getting slated by its sports massage members for not being able to join the sports therapy register "these people want the status of being a sports therapists, but choose the easy route of sports massage, as they don't want to put in the hard work that training as a sports therapist involves ". That is a generalisation, but there are so many people doing the most basic of training and then claiming to be able to fix all. When you can do sports massage training in 1 day and remedial massage training in 1 day (yes these courses still exist ) and then these people are calling themselves sports therapists, it is no wonder that the industry is rife with quacks