For more than 25 years Lorimer Moseley has been investigating pain in humans. His long and distinguished career has him frequently travelling the world educating the medical field and consulting government and industry bodies on pain sciences.

The loss of strength after a stroke is a common impairment. Davide De Sousa discusses the research that explores whether interventions involving repetitive practice improve strength in stroke patients.

APA disability group national committee members Catherine Kohlenberg and Denise Luscombe, with Bas Jansen and state committee members Prue Golland and Tamara Druery (New South Wales) and Sue Diggins (Victoria) provide five discussion points.

APA member Karen Finnin is the Director of Online.Physio. She talks to Skye Mitchell about Australia’s first online publicly accessible private practice.

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.

Over the past two years, Royal North Shore Hospital (RNSH) emergency department has introduced an advanced practice physiotherapy service, utilising an evidence-based pathway to improve the clinical management of acute back pain.

A collaborative approach between surgeons, physiotherapists, allied health primary practitioners and patients could be the key to ensuring Australia achieves best practice for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury management.

Cancer and its related treatments can lead to devastating impacts on people’s quality of life, causing significant physical and psychological impairments and increasing their risk of future chronic disease. Lead author Amy Dennett, APAM, discusses how motivational interviewing added to oncology rehabilitation did not improve moderate-intensity physical activity in cancer survivors.

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.