The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust provides about 100 Australians each year the opportunity to travel overseas in search of new ideas, innovation and excellence in order to benefit the Australian community. However, four APA members awarded Churchill Fellowships in 2020 have had their international excursions to further their knowledge temporarily curtailed due to COVID-19.

As part of her Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship, UK-based physiotherapist Hannah Morley visited advanced practice services in Australia and New Zealand in early 2020, enabling her to make an international comparison of the development and implementation of advanced practice.

Despite having physiotherapy as the cornerstone of its management, very few physiotherapists know about the various forms of inflammatory myopathies. To coincide with Myositis Awareness Month, Eve Vickerson with the Myositis Association Australia speaks with APA member Ian Cooper and Peter Williams, who lives with a form of myositis that currently has no effective treatment.

Emotional distress has a bi-directional relationship with pain. Here is a case of a middle aged Aboriginal woman who presented with a nine-year history of worsening abdominal pain after surgery, was effectively bedridden, and had been experiencing worsening pain-related fainting.

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.

When conducting his PhD three years ago, Dr David Snowdon investigated the impact of elevating junior physiotherapists to improve patient outcomes after hip surgery. Here, the 2020 PRF Seeding Grant recipient discusses his research project.

Numerous countries are represented among the authors who have contributed to the April issue of Journal of Physiotherapy.

It is research grant season. All over Australia, academics, researchers and clinician–researchers are submitting applications to various funds hoping to secure support for their quest to contribute to our stock of knowledge.

Time is running out to get your applications in for the Physiotherapy Research Foundation Physio Pitchfest, to be held at the APA conference this October. To whet your appetite, InMotion speaks with Leo Ng, who won the People’s Choice Award at the inaugural event in 2019.

This systematic review found that multidisciplinary, exercise-based oncology rehabilitation programs improve some patient-level outcomes compared with usual care. Q&A with Amy Dennett.