The Online Pain Education Network, or OPEN, provides pain management education to clinicians and health professionals, through a series of 15 online modules – the OPEN Clinical Pain Management Training Program – that lay the foundations for clinicians who work with people living with pain. 

WOMEN’S PELVIC HEALTH LEVELS 1 AND 2 – PART B 

Designed to help physiotherapists develop their practical skills and clinical reasoning in women’s health, this course aligns with content taught in the online Level 1 Women’s Pelvic Health course. 

Margaret Bullock AM, 1933–2026

In many ways, Professor Margaret Bullock APAM’s career mirrors the evolution of evidence-based physiotherapy itself. 

Pain can affect anyone – of any age or background – and the skills to treat it are relevant to all physiotherapists, regardless of their clinical focus. 

For this reason and many more, it was an obvious choice for the topic of a podcast series, Pain in Practice, hosted by Sophie Shephard MACP and Matt Fa APAM. 

Who is best suited to undertake this course? Are there any prerequisites? 

Any physiotherapist who treats either paediatric or pelvic floor patients can undertake this course; it will be appropriate for both populations. 

Emma Wise APAM is a Perth-based physiotherapist whose main focus, for the majority of her career, has been pelvic health. 

In 2010 she began a Master of Clinical Physiotherapy (Continence and Women’s Health) at Curtin University, where she developed an interest in how research and evidence translate into practice. 

Kate Newton MACP remembers the first vestibular patient she treated as a junior physiotherapist. She was working in a private neurological physiotherapy clinic and her patient had benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, a common inner ear issue. 

‘Their symptoms had resolved by the end of that session and I felt like I had a magic wand. 

‘They think you’re a magician.