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Physiotherapists are increasingly engaging in the disability sector, providing physiotherapy services for people with a range of disabilities across their lifespan. This course aims to provide physiotherapists with the knowledge, understanding and skills to provide high quality physiotherapy services to people with a range of disabilities.

In doing so, the course introduces models of practice consistent with best practice in the disability field, and highlights both commonalities and differences with other areas of physiotherapy practice. It also covers issues relating to the funding landscape within the disability sector, with a focus on the NDIS, and applies this knowledge to practice.

Disability Physiotherapy Level 1 is delivered through a blended learning model comprising three parts:
• Part A consists of seven OnDemand, self-paced modules
• Part B is a Live Virtual Classroom session – it's highly interactive and will include lively discussions between learners and expert presenters, with the opportunity to deliver a microteach and receive feedback
• Part C is a face-to-face classroom session, with practical, hands-on learning

After completing Parts A and B, the final Part (Part C – face to face) will cover:
• Manual handling and 24-hour positioning considerations for people with a disability
• Respiratory Health
• Pulling it all together

This introductory course aims to enhance the skills of clinicians in the field of musculoskeletal physiotherapy in the management of temporomandibular disorders (TMD). It presents current concepts of the syndrome including pain mechanisms and resultant pathokinematics and reviews the validated classification system of TMD and its subsets. The theoretical knowledge supports the evidence that underpins the rationale for the clinical tests used in differential diagnosis and facilitates an integrated and critical approach to management of the related structures. The practical component of the course assists participants to develop analytical skills and to apply appropriate examination and treatment techniques. Throughout the course emphasis is placed on clinical reasoning to support management decisions of the TMD subsets and on how it directs evidence-based practice.

Neurological Physiotherapy Level 1 is ideal for recent graduates, physiotherapists moving into this practice area or experienced physiotherapists wishing to undertake refresher CPD.

Part C is the final component of the wholly virtual delivery option. It covers movement analysis, clinical reasoning and intervention planning in the case study of a person with a neurological condition.

It has lively discussions between learners and expert presenters, with the opportunity to ask questions along the way.

Learners have two ways of undertaking Neurological Physiotherapy Level 1:
• Blended: online self-paced (Part A) and attending a face-to-face classroom course (Parts B & C)

or

• Wholly virtual: online self-paced (Part A & Part B) and live virtual classroom (Part C – this component)

Important note: if you have completed or wish to undertake the face-to-face classroom course, you are not required to complete the Part B On Demand modules or the Part C live virtual classroom.


Part C - live virtual session
This live virtual session is Part C of the virtual delivery option for the Neurological Physiotherapy Level 1 course. You must attend a live virtual session in order to complete the Neurological Physiotherapy Level 1 course.

Course times: Tuesday 12:45 pm registration - 5:00 pm, Wednesday 8:00 am - 5:00 pm, Thursday 8:30 am - 5:00 pm.

This course has been designed to provide an opportunity for physiotherapists to develop their practical skills and clinical reasoning associated with content taught in the online Level 2 Women's Pelvic Health Part A course.

This practical course is structured around a ‘clinical case studies' format. Physiotherapists will be guided through a number of case studies involving role play of the initial pelvic health patient interview, brainstorming differential diagnoses, choosing appropriate objective assessments to carry out, interpretation of assessment results (including sensation related bladder diary, vaginal / digital rectal examination results and reports from multidisciplinary health providers), and developing an appropriate treatment plan.

In addition, physiotherapists will have the opportunity to learn the necessary procedures (including infection control, obtaining informed consent and practical skills) required to perform internal vaginal examination and digital rectal examination for the purpose of pelvic floor assessment, as well as Transcutaneous Tibial Nerve Stimulation (TTNS) for the management of OAB.

For information regarding the vaginal and rectal examinations, please click here

This course encompasses the differential diagnosis, assessment and management of the cervical spine and shoulder. It aims to integrate research evidence with best clinical practice and is designed to improve participants' ability to differentially diagnose contributing mechanisms and impairments in patients presenting with pain in the upper quadrant, with consideration of cervical, neural and shoulder structures. A broader range of clinical examination techniques and advanced clinical reasoning and management options will be covered.