Women with gestational diabetes mellitus want clear and practical messages from credible sources about physical activity during pregnancy. Anne Harrison highlights her qualitative study.

What is gestational diabetes?

Two months after being separated in a six-hour surgery (November 2018), twins Nima and Dawa continue to amaze and inspire medical professionals, carers and family as they reach motor development milestones that will soon see them toddling.

Learning to ride a bicycle is a rite of childhood, but for children with cerebral palsy it can be a major achievement.

Continuously working in a solo paediatric practice in one regional centre in South Australia over the past forty-nine years has led to a strong interest in the retention of allied health workers in rural and regional areas.

What is Down syndrome and how does it impact those who have it?

Down syndrome is a genetic condition.

Most people have 46 chromosomes in each of their cells; people with Down syndrome have 47.

They have an extra chromosome 21, which is why Down syndrome is also known as trisomy 21.

Judith James (nee Welch), or Judy James, as she was known to many of the children, parents and colleagues she worked with, passed away this year after a long career as a physiotherapist from the 1950s to the 1990s.

The Victoria Government Gazette of 13 August 1979 shows that she was registered as a physiotherapist, number 835, on 6 September 1954 as a 21-year-old, fittingly on her birthday.

1. Preoperative physio leads to better continence outcomes after prostatectomy

Radical prostatectomy yields excellent survival rates for men with localised prostate cancer (Røder et al 2014), but often leads to symptoms of urinary incontinence (Sacco et al 2006).

The annual incidence of anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) in Australia has risen 43 per cent from 2000 to 2015 and by 74 per cent among those under the age of 25 (Zbrojkiewicz et al 2018).

After graduating from the Doctor of Physiotherapy program at the University of Melbourne in 2013, Frances Coulston, or Free as she prefers to be called, landed her first job at the National Institute of Circus Arts, where coincidentally, she had been a circus student a decade prior.