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This course aims to help physiotherapists augment and consolidate their competence across the key areas of differential diagnosis and evidence-informed management of people with low back pain. This aligns with 'Deliberate Practice' - the process of embracing opportunity to grow in professional skill and knowledge. Clinical Reasoning is underpinned by Clinical Anatomy and, together with selected Clinical Examination tests, is used by physiotherapists in clinical decision-making about treatment or management strategies for low back pain.

Neurological Examination of patients can be challenging due to wide variability in clinical presentation, therefore this aspect of Clinical Examination receives focused attention in this course. Accuracy around neurological findings is imperative to identify deficits to which treatment can be directed, to differentiate neuropathic, nociceptive or nociplastic pain, for reports to doctors and to step up care to meet the Australian Clinical Care Standards for low back pain. Therapeutic exercise is a key tool in the challenge to help patients embrace self-efficacy strategies that can reduce their pain and improve their quality of life, therefore this course includes an Exercise Workshop session informed by research and clinical reasoning.

To facilitate contextual learning a detailed case presentation is used in the final session. This allows for integration of the day's learning and to comprehensively pull together evidence-informed aspects of patient management. This includes: diagnosis, appraisal of evidence, radiology, pain science education, strategic sign- and symptom-based treatment, self-management strategies, selecting and teaching exercises, habit stacking, documenting change and reporting to healthcare colleagues.

This course is designed to improve your existing knowledge and skills developed from the Paediatric Level 1 course and/or established during your own clinical practice. The Paediatric Level 2 course offers an opportunity to refine your clinical reasoning skills from infancy to adolescence and apply these to skills to numerous paediatric conditions.

Using a case-based approach, you will learn about many different assessment tools and their applicability to age, conditions and settings. Intervention approaches will also be taught alongside decision making regarding applicability to the goals and needs of a paediatric patient and their family. The Paediatric Level 2 course also includes principles of health promotion, sporting performance and musculoskeletal assessment and management.

The Neurological Physiotherapy Level 2 Course is at Intermediate level aligned to the Competence Framework.

A physiotherapy practitioner at this level can independently manage clients with more complex presentations. It would suit physiotherapists:
- With some years of experience in this area of practice
- Who have undertaken relevant further learning or qualification in this area of practice

The Course uses a mix of teaching and learning approaches with a focus on active learning and learner-centred strategies. These include PowerPoint presentations, practicals and facilitated case-based group discussions. Within the Course, participants will apply and demonstrate their enhanced knowledge, and translate this into practical application. A range of case studies and practical sessions will allow the presenters to work within their experience.

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

Physiotherapists are increasingly using dry needling for pain management and thereby improving function in conjunction with other physiotherapy approaches. This structured course meets the national APA and AHPRA recommendations for physiotherapists to practice dry needling safely for musculoskeletal conditions and sports injuries.

The sound knowledge of indications and contraindications for dry needling requires appropriate assessment and treatment skills. This course is designed to provide physiotherapists an opportunity to improve knowledge and skills of dry needling, and make them aware of guidelines for safe dry needling practices in a range of musculoskeletal conditions.

The Dry Needling Physiotherapy Level 1 course consists of two separate parts:

• Part A consists of seven recorded lectures and is self-paced online learning. On completion of Part A, participants will have a good knowledge of the theory, research and safety considerations of dry needling. Part A is a pre-requisite for the Part B face-to-face practical course. It is also valuable as refresher training or CPD.

• Part B face to face, practical course. This course will assume the knowledge gained from Part A. Through group discussion, presentations and a written theory evaluation during the practical, this course will ensure participants can safely needle a range of body areas and conditions.

A visual representation of the structure of this course can be found in this diagram.