Byron Field looks at research investigating a clinical need for improving head injury surveillance and considers the integration of wearable technology in contact sports.

The incoming President of the Australian College of Physiotherapists, Tom McMillan FACP, has aspirations to help demystify its inner machinations and help grow the College. Here, Tom speaks with Melissa Mitchell about his passion for the profession and for promoting the College’s pathways and programs in line with its new strategic plan.

A new review shows that smart watches and other wearable activity trackers play a positive role in encouraging physical activity. 

Advertising is a useful way for you, as a provider of regulated health services, to communicate your services to assist consumers to make informed choices. However, in providing and advertising a regulated health service, you have obligations to the public to ensure that your advertisements are legally compliant.

August InMotion featured the Judges’ Award and People’s Choice Award winners from PitchFest, held virtually in April. Here we meet the four other finalists whose projects once again show the breadth of ideas among the contestants. 

A cancer exercise toolkit developed by La Trobe University researcher Amy Dennett provides education and resources to both clinicians and patients on exercise for cancer patients and survivors.

Physiotherapists Ricardo Kenji Nawa and Aléxia Gabriela da Silva Vieira and colleagues in Brazil recently published a systematic review of trials of telerehabilitation for people with COVID-19 or post-COVID conditions (more commonly known as long COVID).

Sydney physiotherapist Melissa McConaghy has received a Hesta Impact Award for the PD Warrior program she developed for people living with Parkinson’s disease. A conversation with her about the program.

In 2021, Luke Davies and colleagues published a much-needed set of core competencies for physiotherapists managing patients via videoconferencing. Luke now answers questions about his subsequent study, which establishes core competencies for physiotherapists managing patients via telephone consultations.

The electronic sports industry is booming across the globe and while physical injuries are highly prevalent in competitors, physiotherapy evidence-based practice is currently lacking. That’s something Caitlin McGee, Matthew Hwu and Kevin Ho—part of an international team that provides health and performance services for the gaming industry—want to see addressed. Here, they outline typical musculoskeletal injuries and the role of physiotherapists in esports.