This branch of the APA podcast family, 'Conference Conversations', is recorded at each conference and features physios speaking directly to one another on topics of interest to the community.
What are Entrustable Professional Activities?
In this episode, Dr Mark Merolli APAM, clinical physiotherapist and Senior lecturer and research fellow at the University of Melbourne, and Dr Sonya Moore APAM MACP, a physiotherapist and Senior Lecturer & Sports Medicine Program Co-ordinator at the University of Melbourne, discuss Education and assessments and Entrustable professional activities.
11/18/2022 • 36 minutes
The importance of Movember to men's health
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 Jo Milios about some of the big issues faced by men in Australia.
This podcast is a Physiotherapy Research Foundation (PRF) initiative supported by FlexEze.
4/30/2021 • 42 minutes, 48 seconds
Talking physical activity
Clinical Associate Professor Mark Elkins, the scientific editor of Journal of Physiotherapy, chats with Dr Rachel Fuller, lecturer in marketing at Latrobe University Business School, about the positive influence physios can have in fostering, facilitating and nudging their patients to be more active.
This podcast is a Physiotherapy Research Foundation (PRF) initiative supported by FlexEze.
12/3/2020 • 25 minutes, 57 seconds
End PJ Paralysis
Dr Christina Ekegren, from the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, chats with Dr Claire Baldwin, lecturer in physiotherapy, Flinders University, and Dawn Simpson from the Menzies Institute of Medical Research, University of Tasmania, about deconditioning in the acute hospital system and the positive impacts of the End PJ Paralysis campaign.
This podcast is a Physiotherapy Research Foundation (PRF) initiative supported by FlexEze.
11/11/2020 • 34 minutes, 35 seconds
Patient education is king | talking GLA:D
Dr Christian Barton from La Trobe University, and Associate Clinical Professor, Jane Rooney, from Swinburne University, sit down with Professor Ewa Roos, from the University of Southern Denmark, to share their experiences and successes with GLA:D - Good Life with osteoarthritis in Denmark.
This podcast is a Physiotherapy Research Foundation (PRF) initiative supported by FlexEze.
10/20/2020 • 27 minutes, 29 seconds
Dementia, cognitive impairment and exercise
Clinical Associate Professor Mark Elkins, the scientific editor of Journal of Physiotherapy, chats with Professor Marco Pang, from the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, about the value of exercise in improving the lives of people with cognitive impairment and dementia.
This podcast is a Physiotherapy Research Foundation (PRF) initiative supported by FlexEze.
9/16/2020 • 14 minutes, 14 seconds
Physical activity in stroke rehabilitation
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.
This podcast is a Physiotherapy Research Foundation (PRF) initiative supported by FlexEze.
8/26/2020 • 28 minutes, 51 seconds
Back pain, imaging and overdiagnosis
In this episode, Physiotherapists Dr Adrian Traegar, Post -Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Sydney, Associate Professor Tasha Stanton University of South Australia and Dr Emma Karran Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of South Australia, they discuss why overdiagnosis is a huge problem and why it impacts are critical on our health systems.
This podcast is a Physiotherapy Research Foundation (PRF) initiative supported by FlexEze.
5/30/2020 • 47 minutes, 3 seconds
Exercise and Parkinson's disease
In this episode, Mark Elkins, the scientific editor of the Journal of Physiotherapy, interviews Allyson Flynn, a physiotherapy clinical educator at the University of Canberra, about the value of home-based exercise programs in improving the lives of people with Parkinson's disease.
This podcast is a Physiotherapy Research Foundation (PRF) initiative supported by FlexEze.
5/21/2020 • 16 minutes, 15 seconds
The importance of exercise for cancer treatment
In this episode, Dr Elise Gane, Conjoint Research Fellow at The University of Queensland and Princess Alexandra Hospital, and National Chair of the Cancer, Palliative Care and Lymphoedema Group, and Catherine Granger, Associate Professor of Physiotherapy at the University of Melbourne and Physiotherapy research lead at the Royal Melbourne Hospital take to the mic for an open discussion on some of the challenges physiotherapists face when supporting people along their cancer journey; specifically lung cancer.
This podcast is a Physiotherapy Research Foundation (PRF) initiative supported by FlexEze.
5/21/2020 • 33 minutes, 54 seconds
Cultural awareness in physiotherapy practice
Physiotherapists Cameron Edwards, David Kelly, and Jenny Setchell discuss the complexities and sensitives of working with marginalised groups such as Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islander peoples, refugees and LGBTQI communities.
This podcast is a Physiotherapy Research Foundation (PRF) initiative supported by FlexEze.
4/19/2020 • 44 minutes, 58 seconds
Pain science transformation
This episode brings together Pain scientist, Professor Lorimer Mosley and Chair of the APA Pain group Diane Wilson for a robust conversation on all things pain. The duo discuss pain research over the past 50 years and their predictions for physiotherapy and pain science in the 20 years to come.
This podcast is a Physiotherapy Research Foundation (PRF) initiative supported by FlexEze
3/6/2020 • 47 minutes, 3 seconds
The importance of social media in health
This podcast sees former Australian Physiotherapy Association CEO Cris Massis talk with APA member Mark Merolli, who, as a social media researcher, fully comprehends the profession's connection to the digital sphere.
4/22/2016 • 19 minutes, 10 seconds
The benefits of water based exercise for pre and post-natal women
According to APA member Amanda Brearley, and her observational study published in the Journal of Physiotherapy, the buoyancy properties of water herald unique benefits for pre- and post-natal women.
In what follows, Amanda is joined by Associate Professor Mark Elkins, Editor of the Journal, as the pair elaborate on how the former's research is helping inform current best practice guidelines.
3/30/2016 • 14 minutes, 54 seconds
Professor Julie Bernhardt's AVERT trial
Associate Professor Mark Elkins and professor Julie Bernhardt The AVERT trial.
Featuring over 2000 patients from five different countries, the trial offered a unique perspective into both the burden of stroke-related disability as well as the rehabilitation interventions considered to encompass best practice.
3/30/2016 • 24 minutes, 9 seconds
Research into weight-training and lymphedema
This podcast sees Associate Professor Mark Elkins, the Journal's editor, catch up with Dr Vincent Paramanandam-the lead researcher of one of the year's winning papers-to discuss the latest research into weight-training and lymphoedema.
3/15/2016 • 13 minutes, 1 second
All about PEDro, the Physiotherapy Evidence Database
Produced on a not-for-profit basis by the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy at the George Institute, the Physiotherapy Evidence Database offers more than 32 000 randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy-for free.
This podcast sees two members of PEDro's steering committee-the APA's own Dr Anne Moseley and Professor Rob Herbert-elaborate on the past, present and future of physiotherapy research.
2/29/2016 • 15 minutes, 37 seconds
Energy balance with Professor Steven Blair
In this podcast, Professor Steven Blair is joined by APA Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist James Debenham and the two consider the significance that an individual's physical activity level plays on their overall health, society's current exercise habits, and physiotherapy's own responsibilities in this space.
1/31/2016 • 21 minutes, 49 seconds
Future of pain with Lorimer Moseley and Dianne Wilson
In this podcast, Lorimer Mosely is joined by fellow pain physiotherapist Dianne Wilson, as they discuss on the trajectory of the former's research career, including the development of his clinical philosophy and, more generally, the future of pain management.
12/2/2015 • 30 minutes, 48 seconds
Male pelvic floor and continence research
Professor Paul Hodges chats with Shan Morrison and Patricia Neumann, both specialist continence and women's health physiotherapists as awarded by the Australian College of Physiotherapists, about his latest venture, growing our understanding of the male pelvic floor, an area of research that remains 10 years behind it's female counterpart.