Your trial compared various formats for delivery of exercise therapy to people with stable coronary heart disease. At what stage after a coronary event were participants enrolled in the study?

Who would benefit most from attending ‘The complete and advanced lumbar spine and pelvis’?

Physiotherapists with advanced skills and those regularly treating lumbar spine and pelvic girdle pain disorders will benefit most from attending.

Your systematic review examined the cost-effectiveness of respiratory physiotherapy interventions for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Why did you decide to tackle this topic?

International guidelines for the management of spinal pain already endorse advice as part of first-line treatment, so what were the uncertainties that led you to do this literature review?

Despite advice being recommended internationally as a treatment for spinal pain, the evidence behind that was uncertain and out of date.

For 15 years, clinician and researcher Dr Christian Barton has focused on individual exercise solutions and holistic patient education for people with persistent pain.

His passion is to have people stay physically active, especially those with difficult-to-treat long-term injuries and knee osteoarthritis.

Building toolkits for telehealth

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has given telehealth a big boost, but some clinicians lack confidence in using it.

Associate Professor Christian Barton received a Pat Cosh Trust Grant this year to develop a toolkit for clinicians treating osteoarthritis.

In 2000, Associate Professor Bernie Bissett left university wanting to work as a musculoskeletal physiotherapist.

But in her first year at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, she worked and fell in love with intensive care (ICU) physiotherapy. ‘What I loved about it is that it’s a combination of cardiorespiratory, neuro and musculoskeletal, all in one.’

Your recent study published in Journal of Physiotherapy investigated the use of exercise in people with Parkinson’s disease. Isn’t it already established that exercise is helpful in this population?