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Sue Mayes has led the medical team of The Australian Ballet for over 20 years and recently finished her PhD on hip joint health in professional ballet dancers. The Australian Ballet have developed a successful approach to managing and preventing hip joint injury that has resulted in no lost-time hip joint injuries in the past 5 years and no hip joint surgery for more than 10 years. The ´hip joint in dance' course will provide a review of the current hip joint research and its application to clinical decision making and management of hip joint pain in dancers. This practical workshop will demonstrate hip joint assessment and treatment techniques and participants will learn hip exercises and exercise progressions that could be applied to any individual with hip joint pain.

Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) although not always easily recognised is not an uncommon condition. FND is a condition that shows no speciality bias, presenting across all areas of practice including Emergency Departments and Outpatient Physiotherapy practices. A patient may present with FND as the primary complaint, or it may be comorbid with other conditions.This presentation will troubleshoot features to assist with the early recognition of FND and discuss appropriate management, including common pitfalls. A series of case studies will be presented to highlight and inform Physiotherapists in their respective scopes of practice with the management of these patients.

Managing clients who are recovering from workplace injuries can be complex. Toxic workplace culture and breakdown in relationships in the workplace can impact injury recovery, mental health and negatively affect return to work.

This session will explore workplace factors that can negatively impact injury recovery, the employer's responsibility to provide a psychologically safe workplace, practical solutions for difficult conversations and who else you can refer to, or include, to promote effective injury recovery at work.

This is a live webinar.
Login instructions including link details will be sent to registrants the day before the event. If login instructions are not received (please check your inbox as well as junk/spam folders) by close of business the day before the lecture, please contact us on lizzie.vilmanis@australian.physio

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Pertinent changes in safety standards for the practice of acupuncture and dry needling will be outlined in this presentation. Relevant considerations of legal obligations and professional indemnity insurance will also be addressed in this session. This presentation is pertinent for physiotherapists utilising needling as a clinical modality or for physiotherapists or organisations employing physiotherapists that practice Acupuncture or Dry Needling.

The third revision of the ASAP Physiotherapy Guidelines for Safe Acupuncture and Dry Needling and along with the Chinese Medicine Board's Guidelines on Infection Prevention
and Control for Acupuncture and Related Practices (2023) will be discussed along with the revised Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Health Care (2024) and reviewed needle insertion guidelines from the National Health and Medical Research Council's Australian Immunisation Handbook (2025). Reference will also be made to the ADNG's six part interactive online Safety in Acupuncture and Dry Needling Module.

The Pain Physiotherapy Level 1 course outlines the key principles of Pain and Pain Management which can be immediately transferred to practice. This course presents this foundational knowledge to support physiotherapists who are new, recently graduated or experienced (across all the different disciplines) and are looking to expand, refresh and better integrate their knowledge in the area of pain physiotherapy.

The aims of this course is to:

1. Understand the burden of pain throughout society
2. Develop a biopsychosocial model for the assessment and management of pain
3. Be able to understand the need for a person-centred approach to pain assessment and management

To find out more about this course, please take a look at this video