Reducing low-value care for low back pain remains one of the biggest challenges facing hospital emergency departments. A team of researchers including physiotherapist Associate Professor Adrian Traeger is offering important insights into why changing clinician and patient behaviour is more complex than it first appears.

For physiotherapist and researcher Associate Professor Claire Baldwin, helping older adults to move more in hospital is at the centre of a much bigger public health challenge. Through research focused on physical activity, sedentary behaviour and hospital-associated functional decline, Claire is working to improve outcomes for some of the health system’s most vulnerable patients.

Germaine Tan, Lizzie Eastwood, Laura Cheung and Kirsty Kirkland of the APA Cancer, Palliative Care and Lymphoedema national group present five discussion points about cancer in men, lifestyle impacts and why physiotherapy matters.