It’s a sad fact of life that the peer review process doesn’t guarantee the quality of studies published in scientific journals. 

What is published ranges from the scientifically robust and reliable all the way to the useless and fraudulent. 

So how is a busy clinician—who wants to stay up to date with the good stuff—to know where to spend their precious reading time? 

1. Burnout is a multifactorial workplace phenomenon 

There is no clear consensus on how to define burnout (Tomczak & Kulikowski 2023). 

It is not a medical or mental health condition. 

Dr Jillian Eyles APAM is a physiotherapist and NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow in the Osteoarthritis Clinical Research Group, Sydney Musculoskeletal Health, Kolling Institute, University of Sydney. 

Her main focus is on supporting health professionals to deliver osteoarthritis care that is recommended in clinical practice guidelines and educating consumers to ask for the care that is most appropriate for them. 

At its heart, physiotherapy research is about improving the daily lives of people who live with a variety of symptoms and concerns about access to healthcare. 

What practical strategies would you suggest are the most useful for promoting better cognitive and physical health in older adults? 

Being physically active on a regular basis. 

Activity can mean going for a walk with your grandchildren or walking to the neighbourhood coffee shop with a friend. 

Do you think the paradigm is changing for management after rotator cuff repair in Australia? 

What clinician skills do you believe are most critical for delivering very high-quality care for people with back pain? 

In my opinion, delivering high-quality care for people with low back pain requires clinicians to have a range of different skills and to know when to use each. 

What is environmental physiotherapy and why is it important? 

Environmental physiotherapy is a new way to think about physiotherapy to benefit the health of people and the planet alike. 

Why is intensity important when prescribing exercise to patients with chronic respiratory conditions? 

The physiological stimulus to the muscles and heart during exercise is dependent on intensity. 

Therefore your choice of exercise intensity matters.