Curiosity to learn from peers and a desire to deepen his understanding of patient experience led Mathew Smith APAM FACP to undertake the Specialisation Training Program and achieve the highest qualification for clinical physiotherapists in Australia.

James Trotter will board a plane this month and fly to France to begin his role as physical therapies lead at the Australian Olympic team headquarters for the 2024 Summer Olympics. From the moment the plane lands on the tarmac in Paris, it will be all hands on deck.

As the Australian Olympic team geared up for the 2020 Olympics in Japan, physical therapies lead James Trotter MACP and the headquarters team were just a few weeks shy of shipping their equipment in a sea freight container to Tokyo when the world was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Spinal cord injuries (SCI) are complex injuries that affect almost every aspect of a person’s life.

An analysis by researchers from La Trobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre has shown that, following anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury and reconstruction, there was no widespread or substantial weakness of the hip or lower-leg muscles in the injured group compared to an uninjured control group and to the uninjured contralateral limb.

Katie Davies understands the positive impact physiotherapists can have with concussion management. 

Twenty years of experience in neurological rehabilitation—including vestibular management— clinical work at hospitals and clinics in Melbourne and London has honed Katie’s skills. 

Dr Andrea Mosler FACP, FASMF, a Specialist Sports and Exercise Physiotherapist (as awarded by the Australian College of Physiotherapists in 2009), will share the latest research on hip and groin pain in the female athlete when delivering the keynote presentation at the 2024 Tasmanian Branch Symposium in May.

(Charles) Philip Gabel, 1962–2024

Up until his sudden death in January this year at the age of 61, Dr Phil Gabel MACP was eagerly and enthusiastically
discussing his research and life goals with all of those lucky enough to be around him. 

To coincide with Anzac Day this month, Australian Army officer Major Emma Williams, a senior physiotherapist from 2nd Health Brigade based out of Canberra, discusses signing up, working out and practising physiotherapy in a war zone.