To coincide with World Asthma Day 2022, Sonia Cheng and Mitchell Taylor from the APA Cardiorespiratory national group present five discussion points about the role of physiotherapists in the management of chronic asthma.

Dementia is on the rise in Australia’s ageing population and numbers are expected to double by the middle of the century. Physiotherapy should be an essential part of care for these vulnerable patients, but many physiotherapists lack knowledge and confidence when working with people living with dementia. 

French physiotherapist Fairuz Boujibar is the lead author on a new prospective inception cohort study that investigates whether quick and simple exercise tests can predict postoperative complications among patients undergoing resection of lung cancer.

Indian physiotherapist Nehal Shah is the lead author on a long-term randomised trial of physiotherapist-supervised exercise for people with chronic Guillain-Barré syndrome.

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.

Elizabeth Moore presents a case study that demonstrates the need for longitudinal rigorous neurological surveillance in stroke populations to ensure rapid treatment of new diagnoses when coexisting with chronic neurological impairments.

Whatever challenges COVID-19 has in store, practices with robust and agile workplace policies and procedures will find it easier to meet them. Here are some tips.

Zuzana Perraton is one of 2021’s PRF Seeding Grant recipients, for a five-year follow-up study of younger people with or at risk of developing hip osteoarthritis. A conversation about the project. 

In early 2020, Peter Thomas and colleagues published a much-needed set of recommendations for physiotherapists managing adults with COVID-19 in the hospital system. Much has been learned in the meantime, so an update on their original recommendations has now been provided. Q&A with Peter Thomas.

Ashan Weerakkody’s new course explores the significant benefits of constraint-induced movement therapy for upper limb rehabilitation in stroke patients.