What happens when the best evidence challenges deeply engrained beliefs, opinions, trends and systems? Kieran Richardson discusses why wholesale changes are needed to current views on ACL tears.
The 2019 Pat Cosh Trust Grants have been awarded to David Snowdon, Sze-Ee Soh and Jenna Lang. They discuss their research projects.
IMPROVING CLINICAL SUPERVISION
Dr David Snowdon has been awarded $13,600 to develop, implement and assess the effectiveness of a clinical supervision training program for physiotherapists.
This month, the 2019 Australian Pain Society 39th Annual Scientific Meeting will be held on the Gold Coast. Two physiotherapists, who will be presenting at the conference, expand on what attendees can expect from their individual sessions.
It has been described as Australian physiotherapy’s coming of age—a golden era during which saw Sydney host the 10th World Confederation for Physical Therapy Congress and the subsequent emergence of the Physiotherapy Research Foundation. Next month, the impact of those two combined events in the ‘80s will be felt on the world stage. Melissa Mitchell reports.
PRF Seeding Grant recipient Rebekah Das began her career as a rural physiotherapist and, after several major career incarnations, she now runs a small musculoskeletal physiotherapy clinic in New Delhi, India, with her husband. But she’s also taken on an educational role, as she explains to Melissa Mitchell.
With more than 30 years’ experience as a clinical practitioner, Dr Angela Fearon will present a new course entitled ‘A pragmatic approach to lateral hip pain’ on 24–25 May.
What can participants expect from this new PD offering?
Simone Dorsch recently completed a large observational study, which gives some good insights into increasing exercise practice safely and without direct therapist supervision in inpatient rehabilitation gyms.
How much of the day do people in inpatient rehabilitation typically spend doing rehabilitative exercise?
Tristan Bonnevie discusses the research that investigates whether people doing pulmonary rehabilitation via telerehabilitation can learn to transmit valid oximetry data easily.
What proportion of people with chronic lung disease receive pulmonary rehabilitation?
