Physiotherapy academic Dr Ryan McGrath APAM has found a way to combine his two clinical passions—physiotherapy and psychology. 

Ryan’s research focuses on the intersection between mental health and physiotherapy. 

When physiotherapists talk about practice, the focus is often on treatment plans, functional goals and outcomes. 

Yet beneath every clinical encounter lies something less visible but equally powerful: the nervous system of both patient and practitioner, says Dr Polly McGee. 

1. Burnout is a multifactorial workplace phenomenon 

There is no clear consensus on how to define burnout (Tomczak & Kulikowski 2023). 

It is not a medical or mental health condition. 

October is Australia’s Mental Health Month and an opportunity to bring the country together to raise awareness about mental illness and to promote better mental health. 

One in five Australians will experience mental illness in any given year. 

Our previous three-part series looking at improving patient recovery from work injuries explored how understanding psychosocial factors can improve clinical outcomes. 

Psychological safety is a critical factor in the workplace and assessing the level of psychological safety within your practice has a very high return on investment for leaders and managers.

EXERCISE MANAGEMENT OF KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS 

Researchers from Australia, America and the United Kingdom published a narrative review outlining recent research highlights and uncertainties in the exercise management of knee osteoarthritis (OA) published in the past five years. 

The Physiotherapy Board of Australia and Ahpra play an essential role in protecting public safety and building public confidence while providing fair, consistent and empathetic regulation of health practitioners. 

Six decades of experience across sports and exercise physiotherapy, sports medicine, men’s and women’s health physiotherapy and men’s health advocacy have allowed me to observe a fair amount of male behaviour in sport and in the community in matters of health, disease and social conduct.