Join experienced clinicians from the multi-disciplinary team as they discuss endocrine therapy, potential side-effects and how physiotherapy can be involved in the management of women undergoing endocrine therapy.

Introducing APHIRM: A Participative Hazard Identification and Risk Management tool for improving the risk management of musculoskeletal disorders.

Learning outcomes:

- an update on contemporary evidence on the important role of psychosocial hazards in the aetiology of MSDs
- an overview of the evidence underpinning the development of APHIRM toolkit
- the key principles for successful implementation of APHIRM toolkit
- examples of risk management plans developed with APHIRM

This lecture will help physiotherapists develop advanced communication skills in the context of treating people with cancer.

Workshop participants will be assisted to explore the challenges of communicating in complex clinical environments. The workshop will assist participants to develop a language for identifying and discussing communications skills which is a foundation for improving communication skills and patient outcomes.

Topics covered will include: common communication barriers, “micro” communication skills and default communication styles.

This course will explore the theoretical and practical sides of managing sporting injuries with an emphasis on current research. Presented topics include shoulder, ankle and knee injuries with focus specifically on ligament, tendon and muscle. Participants will also gain information on acute onfield management and travelling with a sports team, as well as a large practical component on taping techniques.

Physiotherapists frequently face challenges when treating patients with back pain, a symptom that requires differential diagnosis and skilled management.

In this one day course Dr Lynn Bardin provides clinically relevant updates including:

1. Advances in differential diagnosis and diagnostic triage of back pain (a key clinical guideline): diagnostic updates, pathways of care in primary care management and referral to medical specialists.

2. Clinically useful diagnostic palpation of the lumbar spine and pelvis (theory and practical).

3. Biomechanics, patho-anatomy and clinical reasoning in therapeutic exercise prescription for back pain, particularly where structural pathology and functional limitation need consideration (with real case examples).

A focus on advances in key components of back pain management (both theory and practical) will enable physiotherapists to progress in diagnostic knowledge and practical skills for managing back pain and to liaise efficiently with the medical profession.

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