Not forgetting to retrim forward off the full nose-up stop...
My understanding is that was not necessary, although it appears that manual nose-down trim input would have speeded the recovery.
@DozyWannabe
we had the aircraft recovered from a stall at FL380 within about 18,000ft using just the sidestick to recover, and about 12,000ft using the trim wheels to centre the THS plus sidestick to initiate nose-down/descent