2024 Tas Branch Symposium
The Tasmanian Branch extends a warm invitation to APA members and colleagues to attend the 2024 Annual Symposium.
The Symposium presents a dual opportunity to participate in a high-quality professional development program, and network with fellow Tasmanian physiotherapists.
The Symposium program will be supported by a number of invited local speakers.
Theme: When sex and gender matter
There will be several thought-provoking presentations throughout the day including:
- Physiotherapy and perimenopause
- Male pelvic health
- Psychosocial and socioeconomic barriers in managing chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome in men
- Athletes' knowledge of pelvic floor dysfunction and engagement with pelvic floor muscle training
Keynote Speaker: Dr Andrea Mosler FACP, FASMF
Andrea will present 'Hip and groin pain in the female athlete- not just little men!'.
Hip and groin pain represents a diagnostic challenge for clinicians due to the extensive potential sources of pain, co-existing causes of pain, and heterogenous terminology used in the literature. For women, hip/groin pain diagnosis and aetiology are further challenged by hormonal, body composition, pregnancy, and age-related changes which occur over a woman's lifespan. While female athletes appear to experience a lower burden of adductor-related groin pain than their male counterparts, women experience a disproportionate burden of hip pain throughout their lives. When women experience hip/groin pain, reduced physical activity and poor quality of life are common sequelae.
This presentation will explore the epidemiology and aetiology of the various musculoskeletal causes of hip/groin pain in women. The considerable gaps in research with women as participants will be highlighted. The potential biological, psychological, and socio-cultural reasons for hip/groin pain burden in women will be explored in this presentation.
Additional presentations and speakers:
- 'Discussing the difference between sex and gender', Niki Deiter APAM
- 'Physiotherapy for male pelvic health', Morgan Kent APAM
- 'Menopause for physiotherapists – It's hot, stiff and not that sexy', Rachel Andrew MACP, APA Continence & Women's Health Physiotherapist
- 'Toward Understanding the Lived Experience in Men with Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome (CPPS) and Barriers to Optimal Pain Management', Dr Arthur Sone-Wai Li, Clinical Psychologist
- 'Male and Female Athletes' Knowledge of Pelvic Floor Dysfunction and their Knowledge of and Engagement with Pelvic Floor Muscle Training', Jacinta Magor, Master of Physiotherapy Student
Click here to read more about these presentations.
More presenters details to come