Vaughan Nicholson provides details of the systematic review and meta-analysis into whether motor imagery training improves balance and mobility outcomes in older adults.

Robyn Fary, with input from Eleanor Andrews, elaborates on the mixed methods study exploring physiotherapists’ views about providing physiotherapy services to patients with severe and persistent mental illness.

In addition to other physiotherapy management of their condition, people expect to receive advice about physical activity and other health behaviours when they attend a physiotherapy clinic. Breanne Kunstler elaborates on the survey.

Allyson Flynn discusses the systematic review investigating whether home-based prescribed exercise improves balance- related activities in people with Parkinson’s disease, and has benefits similar to centre-based exercise.

Adriana Lunardi gives insights on how physiotherapist advice to older inpatients about the importance of staying physically active during hospitalisation reduces sedentary time, increases daily steps and preserves mobility.

Physiotherapists have access to a tool that can be used to motivate families despite the overwhelming challenge and distress of childhood chronic pain, writes Rebecca Fechner.

By his own admission, Professor Rob Herbert lives parallel lives. In one life he is a physiologist studying the mechanisms of contracture and he’s a clinical researcher in the other. And managing the physiology/clinical research dichotomy is just the way he likes it. 

After receiving a $15,000 Pat Cosh Trust Grant in 2018, Peter Malliaras, and a team including Terry Haines, Shannon Munteanu and PhD student Fatmah Hasani, were able to investigate the reliability and validity of assessing exercise fidelity using easily accessible telerehabilitation technology.