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Presented by Specialist Sports Physiotherapist Jane Rooney, the course will cover contemporary evidence based assessment and management of commonly presenting acute knee conditions. This one and a half day course is fully practical with interactive clinical problem solving. You will also provided with 4 hours of self-paced online learning, that is required to be completed prior to attending the course.

Join Jane Rooney, FACP, Specialist Sports Physiotherapist (as awarded by the Australian College of Physiotherapists in 2009) during a masterclass observation session in assessing and treating a live patient with a complex knee condition.

Participants will undertake a clinical reasoning form during the examination; participate in a Q&A session; and explore Jane Rooney's experienced clinical reasoning process, including differential diagnosis, treatment plans and prognosis.

This hour and half seminar is ideal for physiotherapists undertaking the APA Specialist or Titling training pathway, or physiotherapists wanting to improve their clinical reasoning and patient examination skills.

The masterclass is included in the full ‘The Acute Sporting Knee' course registration but can be purchased as an individual event.
Please click here to view and register for the full ‘The Acute Sporting Knee' course.

Paediatric Physiotherapy Level 1 is a wholly virtual course comprising an online self-paced component Part A, followed by a live virtual classroom Part B. It provides introductory clinical skills and knowledge to equip individuals new to working in paediatric physiotherapy. Part B has lively discussions between learners and expert presenters and the opportunity to ask questions along the way.

This live virtual session is Part B of the Paediatric Physiotherapy Level 1 course. You must attend a live virtual session in order to complete the Paediatric Physiotherapy Level 1 course.

Important note: Part A must be successfully completed before you can progress to Part B. If you register for Part B, joining details for the live virtual session will be issues once Part A is complete.

Covering advanced differential diagnosis, assessment and management of complex upper cervical spine disorders, this course builds on basic concepts and is designed to advance clinical reasoning and competency in the assessment and management of complex upper cervical spine disorders.

Participants can expect to:

• Advance their skills, differential diagnosis and sub-classification of complex upper cervical spine disorders including headache (migraine, cluster), dizziness (vestibular, cervicogenic and ophthalmologic and neurological causes), whiplash and pain classification.

• Advance their skills and competence in the assessment of complex upper cervical spine. Focus on the upper cervical spine disorders will include advanced assessment of articular, motor, sensorimotor and pain sensitivity impairments.

• Improve skills and competence in appropriate application of a broader range of interventions to manage complex upper cervical spine disorders including highly targeted and specific manual therapy and neck specific exercise. The course covers management of selected and associated head disorders including vestibular rehabilitation, graded motor imagery, management of pain sensitivity and management of complex WAD with psychological and brain related co-morbidities (eg concussion).

Complex cases are used to integrate clinical reasoning to determine diagnosis, sub-classification, contributing impairments and comprehensive, targeted management for complex upper cervical spine and head disorders

Presented by Trudy Rebbeck, specialist musculoskeletal physiotherapist with extensive university and post-graduate education experience in upper cervical spine disorders.

People who are diagnosed with ataxia present with a diverse set of symptoms that require unique symptom-specific assessment and treatment selection and execution. University teaching touches only briefly on this population hence physiotherapists are often ill-equipped to confidently manage this patient group. The aim of this course is to provide and improve the knowledge and capacity of physiotherapists to assess and treat people with ataxia across the spectrum of models of care. During this course participants will be expected to undertake / demonstrate application of assessment and treatment skills for people with ataxia via peer and patient interaction sessions.