Come celebrate the New Year with a special lecture on managing fatigue in people with multiple sclerosis: a physiotherapy perspective.
Ass/Prof James McLoughlin is a specialist neuro physiotherapist, clinical academic, and director of Advanced Neuro Rehab with over 20 years of experience who coordinates the Master of Neurological Physiotherapy degree program at Flinders University.

Physical activity and exercise have strong, established benefits for people aged 60 years and older. However, getting this population sufficiently active remains a serious problem. Health professionals need to encourage all older people, regardless of age or health condition, to engage in a regular activity program that includes cardiovascular, strength and balance components to maintain the highest levels of physical activity possible. To accomplish this, health professionals need to be aware of the dosage of exercise that is recommended, as well as barriers and enablers to exercise for older people, and take these into consideration when prescribing a program.

This presentation will summarise the latest evidence regarding exercise for older people, with particular focus on the benefits of strength training. It will also briefly explore how health professionals can better encourage and support older adults to exercise at an amount and intensity that makes a difference.

This is a recording of the 2019 Vic Branch Winter Breakfast.

This foundation course taught by Trevor Montgomery is suitable for all physiotherapists wishing to expand their clinical reasoning and treatment skill sets with the use of dry needling. The course has a large practical component with particular emphasis on safe needling practice as set out in the latest safety guidelines.

The course is designed to help practitioners integrate dry needling into their clinical approach with a view to addressing the underlying causes of some of the more common clinical presentations we treat. Having taught over 120 introductory and advanced courses for AUT, PAANZ and the APA over the last 9 years, Trevor brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to his teaching in this specialty area. The theoretical content is based on the neurophysiology of the effects of needling including local, spinal and supraspinal and the modulation of pain via its central effects. The aetiology of trigger points is explained and the most common dry needling techniques are presented.

This course has a large practical component and on completion you will gain competency to needle a wide range of acupuncture and myofascial trigger points and other musculoskeletal structures. This foundation course taught by Trevor Montgomery is suitable for all physiotherapists wishing to expand their clinical reasoning and treatment skill sets with the use of dry needling. The course has a large practical component with particular emphasis on safe needling practice as set out in the latest safety guidelines. The course is designed to help practitioners integrate dry needling into their clinical approach with a view to addressing the underlying causes of some of the more common clinical presentations we treat.

Having taught over 120 introductory and advanced courses for AUT, PAANZ and the APA over the last 9 years, Trevor brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to his teaching in this specialty area. The theoretical content is based on the neurophysiology of the effects of needling including local, spinal and supraspinal and the modulation of pain via its central effects. The aetiology of trigger points is explained and the most common dry needling techniques are presented. This course has a large practical component and on completion you will gain competency to needle a wide range of acupuncture and myofascial trigger points and other musculoskeletal structures.

We will explore indications, pitfalls, predictive capacity of imaging and guidelines regarding imaging, with reference to case examples and putting the “bio” back into the biopsychosocial, regarding imaging.

Rod is a Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist, completing the training program in 2013. Rod has both undergraduate and postgraduate physiotherapy degrees from UQ. He has worked with international sporting teams including Australian Rowing, British Rowing, British Swimming and Minardi Formula One team. He works privately at Toowong and the Princess Alexandra Hospital spinal surgical services screening clinic.

He is a UQ musculoskeletal masters program guest lecturer and APA spinal A lecturer with expertise in the management of spinal pain, TMD and rowing injuries.

PLEASE NOTE: Attendance at this course requires the completion of the Spinal Physiotherapy Part A online modules to be purchased separately via CPD4physios .

The Spinal Physiotherapy Part A (Cervical) course is a foundation course aimed at physiotherapists wanting to gain a contemporary overview of neck disorders, and develop skills in:
• interpreting patient history;
• performing a standard, comprehensive, physical examination;
• interpreting assessment findings to identify and select appropriate best practice interventions.