It is well known that, for those people with cancer, exercise has beneficial effects on strength, cardiovascular function, fatigue and quality of life. However, the ideal mode and intensity of exercise remains unclear.

In an effort to help remedy this gap, APA member Amy Dennett’s research investigates whether there is a dose-response effect of exercise on inflammation and fatigue in adult cancer survivors. Amy chats with Associate Professor, Mark Elkins, editor of the Journal of Physiotherapy about exercise rehabilitation for cancer survivors.

Our fathers, partners, brothers and friends are facing a health crisis, yet it’s not being talked about anywhere near enough. Men are dying too young. We can’t afford to stay silent.

This Movember, we want to change the face of men’s health. To start to do so, we sat down for a chat with Men’s Health physio Dr Jo Milios about some of the big issues faced by men in Australia—including Movember Australia’s triple focus; prostate cancer, testicular cancer and mental health issues—what they mean, where to go and who to see.

Do Australian adults think that it is important for physiotherapists to provide physical activity or general health advice, and physical interventions as a service? Researchers set out to discover exactly what the Australian public expect. 

There is plenty of evidence that immobility in hospital leads to deconditioning, which can have life changing effects. To combat this, the End PJ Paralysis campaign was created. Its aim, to get hospital patients to get up, get dressed and get moving. 

Good Life with osteoArthritis in Denmark or GLA:D, is an education and exercise program developed by researchers in Denmark for people with hip or knee osteoarthritis symptoms. GLA:D has been highly successful as a model to change physiotherapy practice to being in favour of delivering evidence-based treatment. 

Currently within Australia, there are approximately 459,000 people living with dementia. Dementia affects the brains ability to perform everyday tasks. Exercise is essential for maintaining good blood flow to the brain, and may encourage new brain cell growth and survival.

In this episode, National Chair of the Neurology Group Dr Natalie Fini, Lecturer in neurological physiotherapy at the University of Melbourne, and Dr Elizabeth Lynch, Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide, chat about the vital role of physical activity in stroke rehabilitation.

In this episode, Associate Professor Tasha Stanton talks with Dr Adrian Traegar and Dr Emma Karran about why overdiagnosis is a huge problem and how it impacts our health systems.