A recent recipient of a 2025 Seeding Grant is exploring the perspectives and preferences of early-career physiotherapists, employers and supervisors on support and mentoring in the foundational years of professional practice.

Whiplash injury to the neck is the most common musculoskeletal injury sustained in road traffic crashes. Marinus du Preez, Dr Christopher Papic, Hayden Garner, Dr Ana Paula Carvalho-e-Silva and Professor Trudy Rebbeck present five discussion points about physiotherapy management of whiplash.

The recent launch of the updated Stroke Clinical Care Standard, coupled with the Stroke Foundation’s Living Clinical Guidelines for Stroke Management, provides Australian physiotherapists with a comprehensive, evidence-based framework for best practice care. Here, the two sets of recommendations are examined to understand how they work together and what physiotherapists should know about them.

Researchers are looking at the factors infl uencing the community’s use of physiotherapy services for management of temporomandibular disorders.

Explore some of the latest research from the July issue of the Journal of Physiotherapy.

NeuRA’s RESOLVE-D trial is seeking experienced physiotherapists across Australia to deliver a new intervention for chronic low back pain, with training and sessions fully remunerated.

JOURNAL OF PHYSIOTHERAPY With three spots opening up on Journal of Physiotherapy’s editorial board, Professor Rana Hinman discusses her time on the board and why physiotherapists should put their hand up to join.

For physiotherapist and researcher Associate Professor Claire Baldwin, helping older adults to move more in hospital is at the centre of a much bigger public health challenge. Through research focused on physical activity, sedentary behaviour and hospital-associated functional decline, Claire is working to improve outcomes for some of the health system’s most vulnerable patients.

A recipient of a 2025 Pat Cosh Trust Strategic Grant is evaluating primary contact physiotherapy in a state-funded Victorian Urgent Care Clinic.

PHYSIOTHERAPY RESEARCH FOUNDATION The APA’s Grants Review Committee is tasked with awarding competitive research grants to Australian physiotherapy researchers. As applications open for next year’s committee, researcher Dr Nia Luxton highlights her experience as the Early Career Researcher Fellow.