GOOD GAME A study from University of Sydney concluded that the effect of an eight-week video game program was as good as exercise programs delivered by a physiotherapist. Lead researcher Dr Joshua Zadro, APAM, discusses these findings.

APP REVIEW Jessica Kuek, APA Disability group committee member, looks at a tool that creates exercise programs for people with injuries and disabilities.

After an illustrious career in elite-level basketball playing and coaching in the National Basketball League, Cal Bruton took his skills on the road to the Australian outback, running basketball clinics for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in remote parts of the country. Now he’s looking for support from those he credits with extending his playing career—physiotherapists. Melissa Mitchell reports.

Fiona White, director and principal physiotherapist of Own Body mobile physiotherapy and rehabilitation, discusses what it takes to go from solo mobile practitioner to running a team of 40 across three states. Melissa Mitchell reports.

A randomised trial compared water-based circuit training to other forms of exercise for people with stable coronary heart disease. Q&A with Anna Scheer.

The effects of physiotherapy for people with Down syndrome were considered in an Invited Topical Review. Q&A with Nora Shields.

Gaylene McKay is the physiotherapist both for the Australian women’s national basketball team the Opals and for the Melbourne Boomers, the team she also played in for seven years. A conversation about her parallel careers in physiotherapy and basketball.

Increasing physical activity is likely to be cost-effective in treating people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Q&A with Glenn Leemans.

A discussion with 2020 Physiotherapy Research Foundation Seeding Grant recipient Lori Forner about her research.