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.

A redesign of a physiotherapy session that educates women on how to self-manage back/pelvic pain—and associated marketing collateral—is resulting in increased engagement and an uptake in services among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women at the Women’s and Children Health Network.

APA member Karen Finnin is the Director of Online.Physio. She talks to Skye Mitchell about Australia’s first online publicly accessible private practice.

After an illustrious career in elite-level basketball playing and coaching in the National Basketball League, Cal Bruton took his skills on the road to the Australian outback, running basketball clinics for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in remote parts of the country. Now he’s looking for support from those he credits with extending his playing career—physiotherapists. Melissa Mitchell reports.

The healthcare system and the physiotherapy community will benefit from the establishment of a new Master of Physiotherapy at the University of Tasmania.