May 2022
Hello and welcome to all of our Members. As May gallops towards June, the team here at The Society have been working on many aspects to help our Members, current and future, and I am excited to share one of them with you today. Renewals will soon be upon us (1st July), and more details will be sent to you in due course.
In recent years, the Directors have considered the setup of The Society and there had been discussions about the need, in the future, for a CEO to manage the business and help take us further towards our vision for The Society. With Professor Smith stepping down as Chair and Director in 2021, it was seen as an opportunity to develop this position as we continue to grow and evolve. I’m excited to inform you all that the ink is barely dry on appointing our new CEO, and in our next newsletter we will share some insights about her and how she will be working with Head Office, the Directors, and the Members as we push on evermore towards our vision. I am sure you will all look forward to discovering more and will give her a warm welcome.
This renewal period will be my first as your Chair. Looking back at our past renewals, we have had a steady growth in our membership each year cementing our place as a continually growing profession. When I consider the reasons why I joined the Society upon graduating in 2002, and why I continue to be a Member now, I do hope these echo some of yours. I’d love to hear from more of the Members about why they joined, and from students who will soon be graduating about why they are thinking of joining. I was asked these very same questions by some students only last week. My response was, I hope, short and meaningful:
I like to know I have a professional body behind me. I like to know I have people working on my behalf in areas I may not even know I need them to work on. Our strength is, and always will be, in who we all are as a collective of like-minded people who set out on a journey to provide the best care we could offer to people with a musculoskeletal injury. I’m proud to add MSST to the letters after my name and to tell every patient I see: “Hello, my name is Kevin, I’m a graduate Sports Therapist, how can I help you today?”
