The full program for the 2019 Tasmanian Branch Symposium is now available and features a diverse array of speakers bringing their clinical and research expertise to the day’s focus on perspectives and challenges in managing patients with chronic persistent pain.

Chris Swinburne, APAM, looks at an eight-week training program and audio adventure for beginners to improve people’s cardiovascular fitness.

Having access to some of the leading thinkers in the world of pain is helping the next generation of physiotherapists and allied health professionals deliver more effective management of persistent pain to regional and rural patients through a pioneering peer-to-peer program.

For more than 25 years Lorimer Moseley has been investigating pain in humans. His long and distinguished career has him frequently travelling the world educating the medical field and consulting government and industry bodies on pain sciences.

GOOD GAME A study from University of Sydney concluded that the effect of an eight-week video game program was as good as exercise programs delivered by a physiotherapist. Lead researcher Dr Joshua Zadro, APAM, discusses these findings.

Over the past two years, Royal North Shore Hospital (RNSH) emergency department has introduced an advanced practice physiotherapy service, utilising an evidence-based pathway to improve the clinical management of acute back pain.

Dr Panos Barlas, Jonathan Wray, Jenny Lucy, Micky Yim and Samir Somaiya present five discussion points about acupuncture and dry needling in reducing pain in musculoskeletal conditions.

This systematic review looks at the effect of advice and education on pain and disability in people with non-specific spinal pain. Q&A with Caitlin Jones.

A new Cochrane review with a companion network meta-analysis looks at the role of exercise in treatment for chronic low back pain. Q&A with Jill Hayden.