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INMOTION 01 Oct, 2025

Five facts about burnout, moral injury and fatigue in physiotherapists

Ellen Lake, Dr Ryan McGrath and Irene Ais of the APA Mental Health national group present five discussion points about physiotherapy burnout and related workplace syndromes of moral injury and fatigue.

1. Burnout is a multifactorial workplace phenomenon 

There is no clear consensus on how to define burnout (Tomczak & Kulikowski 2023). 

It is not a medical or mental health condition. 

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