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. 

Returning to daily activity or playing sport after an ACL injury does not need to depend on surgical intervention.

Supporting junior or early career physiotherapists working in the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) space is a rewarding endeavour that is helping to grow the next generation of physiotherapists coming through. Here, several practices owners and operators discuss about how they train and educate new graduates and early career physiotherapists who support people with disabilities through the NDIS.

A systematic review on Bobath therapy and lower limb activities after stroke published in Journal of Physiotherapy late last year garnered much attention. In light of this, InMotion put some questions to Alena Scurrah, a member of the Australian Bobath Training Association.

Reforms to the current funding model for physiotherapy aged care are desperately needed—just ask those at the coalface. Lindsey Brett and Natasha Pocovi draw on some of the views of Australian physiotherapists collected anonymously as part of their study into the barriers and facilitators for physiotherapy in residential aged care facilities.

Elizabeth Moore presents a case study that demonstrates the need for longitudinal rigorous neurological surveillance in stroke populations to ensure rapid treatment of new diagnoses when coexisting with chronic neurological impairments.

Mick O’Dowd went from being a healthy, robust and fit father of two to fighting for his life in an intensive care ward in a matter of days. What started out as a sore throat turned into an infection that very nearly killed him. Mick talks to InMotion about surviving sepsis and how physiotherapy has helped him get his life back on track.

Few things in society are as important as the pursuit of equality and the closing of gaps that persist around us.

Ashan Weerakkody’s new course explores the significant benefits of constraint-induced movement therapy for upper limb rehabilitation in stroke patients.