People with urinary incontinence often suffer in silence, not knowing who to turn to or how to find help. World Continence Week, 17–23 June, brings into focus the impact that urinary incontinence has on many lives, and why it is important to seek help. This month, InMotion speaks with physiotherapy practitioners, educators and researchers who are the at frontline of change in treating this debilitating condition.

The Physiotherapy Research Foundation and the advocacy team at the APA came together last year to decide which research topic would be the most beneficial in advocating for the physiotherapy profession. Fortuitously, they settled on telehealth.

With his course ‘Mastering Lower Limb Tendinopathy’ delivered in an online setting, Peter Malliaras outlines the importance of practical application when learning theory.

The relationship between an ethics committee and ethical research is intrinsic. Emre Ilhan and Cathy Said, who sit on university and hospital ethics committees respectively, share their insights. 

Completing her undergraduate physiotherapy degree in 2005 at Curtin University in Western Australia, Susie Stinton, APAM, is a Perth-based physiotherapist who works part-time practising in a private hand therapy clinic while undertaking her PhD, via distance, through the University of Sydney.

This systematic review finds that for people on hemodialysis who cannot voluntarily exercise, intradialytic neuromuscular electrical stimulation improves functional capacity and muscle strength. Here is a Q&A with Professor Pedro Valenzuela. 

​The April issue of the Journal of Physiotherapy includes an Invited Topical Review on physiotherapy management of sciatica. Here is a Q&A with Professor Raymond Ostelo.

Trish Wisbey-Roth is a prolific educator and is the  creator and teacher of the ‘3D assessment and treatment of the lumbar spine and pelvis’ course to be  held 25–26 July.

Editor Clinical Associate Professor Mark Elkins summarises the research in the latest issue of the Journal of Physiotherapy.

The TEXT4myBACK team outline their study to assess if education and advice delivered by text message will help people with low back pain self-manage and improve their health outcomes.