For some time the Australian and New Zealand Hip Fracture Registry (ANZHFR) steering committee had been looking for a way to acknowledge services providing exemplary care to patients with a fractured neck of femur (NOF).

A large Western Australian study has developed a new model for support of Aboriginal stroke and brain injury survivors, ensuring they don’t slip through the cracks once they leave hospital.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the focus of this year’s World Physiotherapy Day is physiotherapy’s role in COVID-19 rehabilitation, both during and after the acute stage of illness.

It was in the fires of World War I that our profession was forged.

World Physiotherapy Day celebrates the unity and solidarity of the global physiotherapy community and the work physiotherapists do for their patients and the community.

The theme for 2021 is ‘Long COVID and rehabilitation’.

Professor Anne Holland, APAM, has been curious about understanding and improving treatment options for people living with chronic lung disease for nearly 30 years.

The pioneering lung researcher’s work developing and testing novel non-drug treatments and initiating new home-based pulmonary rehabilitation treatment models has advanced thoracic medicine in Australia and New Zealand.

1. Movement difficulties are highly prevalent in children with ASD

ASD is defined by deficits in social communication and the presence of restricted and repetitive behaviours, with some motor deficits acknowledged (American Psychiatric Association 2013).