Monash University researcher Dr Luke Perraton has received a grant from the Physiotherapy Research Foundation to investigate the feasibility of a new group exercise approach to the treatment of rotator cuff-related shoulder pain. We talk to him here about the project.

Integrative acupuncture helps address the complexity of patient conditions, explains one of the presenters of this course, Paula Raymond-Yacoub.

A new questionnaire could enable clinicians to tailor the education and advice they provide to align with patients’ attitudes, which, writes Edel O’Hagan, may lead to more efficient delivery of first-line care and potentially improve patient outcomes.

Despite having physiotherapy as the cornerstone of its management, very few physiotherapists know about the various forms of inflammatory myopathies. To coincide with Myositis Awareness Month, Eve Vickerson with the Myositis Association Australia speaks with APA member Ian Cooper and Peter Williams, who lives with a form of myositis that currently has no effective treatment.

Zuzana Perraton is one of 2021’s PRF Seeding Grant recipients, for a five-year follow-up study of younger people with or at risk of developing hip osteoarthritis. A conversation about the project. 

WorkSafe Victoria recruited APA pain physiotherapists to help injured workers with complex, persistent pain recover and navigate the system.

Breast cancer-related lymphoedema (BCRL) is an inflammatory condition resulting in swelling, fibrosis, fatty tissue deposition and infections known as cellulitis (Al-Niaimi & Cox 2009, Mohammad Azhar et al 2020).

Pain is recognised as one of the leading causes of disability and disease globally, with the number of people living with pain increasing each year (Vos et al 2017).

Matthew Forster presents a uniquely complicated case of complex regional pain syndrome to highlight the heterogeneity of the condition and the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions when significant biopsychosocial factors are at play.