Physio+10

Following a prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment, and after experiencing depression, incontinence and other side effects, sports physiotherapist Peter placed an ad in the newspaper, inviting fellow patients to meet. This is just one example of how Peter pioneered a new field of Physiotherapy.

Peter's commitment to helping men share experiences and seek support has helped create a culture change in the treatment management for men with prostate cancer. Receiving a grant to research incontinence – a common consequence in men after prostate cancer treatment – he developed a nationally and internationally recognised program for managing patients with pelvic pain.

Peter highlights the most important thing for him right at the end of our interview and leaves us with a song. Truly a unique gentleman.

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Biography
Peter Dornan has for more than fifty-five years been a physiotherapist in the fields of sporting injuries and manipulative therapy, working with many international sporting teams, including being the inaugural physiotherapist for the Queensland rugby team, the Wallabies and the Kangaroos. He has also been an Olympic Games Advisor and Commonwealth Games physiotherapist, covering many different sports. He is a Fellow of SMA, and has written two successful books on sporting injuries, as well as designing and marketing a video exercise program. For his achievements in sport, he was awarded the Commemorative 2000 Australian Sports Medal.

In 1997, he became Founder and Convenor of the Brisbane Prostate Cancer Support Network for twenty years. In 2000 this interest in Men's Health won him the Cancer Council Queensland Travelling Fellowship to study aspects of cancer in the United States. In this regard, he successfully climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to collect material for his book Conquering Incontinence, released in 2003. Following this success, he tackled Mt Aconcagua in the Andes in 2009, and Mt Elbrus in 2013 the highest mountain in Europe. In 2009, he was awarded the Max Gardner Award for distinguished service to the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia. In 2011, he became a Director on the Board of Cancer Council Queensland.

Peter has been freelance writing for some years of fiction and nonfiction. Peter's most recent book Pelvic Pain: A Musculoskeletal Approach for Treatment was published in 2014, and upgraded in 2019.

Peter has studied classical sculpture for forty years and has works displayed in many prominent Queensland, national, and international institutions, and private collections.

In 2002 Peter was appointed as a Member of the General Division of the Order of Australia (AM).

Peter has been married to Dimity Dornan AO, a speech pathologist, for more than fifty-five years. They have two adult children, Melissa and Roderick.

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James has been a significant contributor to our profession through years of service in professional bodies, teaching at undergraduate & postgraduate levels, mentoring young clinicians, developing business owners and helping clients. But, as is the case with many conversations on Physio+10, you never know what will happen until you step through the door of opportunity and in James' case it was an invitation to head to Hollywood to write scripts for a couple of years.

Biography
James Schomburgk is one of the owners of The Second Visit, an international teaching and mentoring company, and Physio Practice Connect which connects overseas physios with Australian private practices.

The Second Visit helps physios in private practice to develop from junior to senior practitioners and become practitioners of choice in their communities through balanced, specific and targeted clinical and non-clinical education for physios in private practice. We help create happy, successful career physios who are the "go to" physios in their communities

He is a lecturer in Sports and Orthopaedic Medicine at the School of Medicine at the University of Adelaide.

He was also Director of Back in Motion Campbelltown and Valley View for 25 years.

He was the WorkCover South Australia Physio Advisor for 8 years, is an Expert Advisor to AHPRA (Australian Health Professional Registration Authority) and has been the National Chairman of MPA (Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Australia).

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Anna-Louise had 2 passions in addition to becoming a Physio. Following graduation, she realised bench warming wasn't for her (short-term patch-up), and neither were medium-term repairs, she wanted to make longer-term, habit-forming changes for her patients. So as a single mum, with 2 children under 2, she took a very bold step and created Physiocise. There was a method in her madness as Anna-Louise explains, but to place this decision in context, it was before the Physio + Pilates wave had arrived.

Anna-Louise has since taken many other bold steps, forging links, and partnerships and breaking new ground using her Physiotherapy skills and a warm smile to create products and services that didn't exist before.

Probably the closest we have to a Physio Celebrity, Anna-Louise explains how this occurred and how it ties in with her two other passions, teaching and journalism.

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Biography
Anna-Louise Bouvier is a physiotherapist and Adjunct Fellow at Macquarie University. She is also one of Australia’s best-known well-being media commentators and is a regular on many ABC radio programs including Richard Glover in Sydney. 

She is a Board Member and national Patron of Coastrek, an organisation that has raised nearly $50m for women's health initiatives.

In 1995 she founded Physiocise, an innovative practice that has now taught over 100,000 classes focused on exercise prescription and education. 

Her multi-award-winning joint venture with the ABC, Happy Body At Work saw her consulting many of Australia’s top 100 private and public sector organisations, including the ASX, Optus and CBA and many others.  She has published three best-selling books and a DVD series with ABC about creating happier bodies and was an expert on the ABC TV series Making Australia Happy and Making Couples Happy.

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Martin did all the conventional things; high school directly into Physio, worked a few years finding his clinical feet, did the hard yards warming sporting benches & completed his Masters in Sports, but then a 'we can do better' situation arose.

Martin is no longer a clinician, rather he runs a large business catering to rehabilitation and medically-based businesses (like you & me). This podcast episode explores how this happened and what he learned along the way.

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Biography
Martin is a Sports Physiotherapist who graduated in 1996 from Curtin Uni and completed his Masters in Sports Physio in 2000. He has worked in private practice and in the amateur and professional sports arenas since graduating and has been involved primarily in Rugby and AFL. In 2008 he and his business partner established APE Medical which is a wholesale allied health and sports medicine distributor. From humble and slow beginnings APE Medical is now one of the largest rehab and sports medicine product suppliers in Australia.

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From the moment he walked out 1/2 way through his first job interview, Nick has been forging his own path. Now 40, Nick has experienced most things associated with the business world of Physiotherapy; including going into debt to buy his first business, expanding too fast, firing too late, crunched during the GFC and creating a very popular FB group where business owners get together, share a rant + electronic coffee, discuss common business issues and problem solve.

Nick has many stories to share about how to grow your business, and I am sure that listening to this episode will provide you with much to consider if this is your niche currently or in the future.

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Biography
Nick Schuster is a 40-year-old physiotherapist, clinic owner, business coach, husband and father of 2, living in beautiful Northern Bayside Brisbane.

At age 21 he bought his first clinic on a credit card. Today he employs 25 people across 2 clinics.

In 2016 he created Ultimate Physio – a consulting business community of more than 1600 Australian private practice physio clinic owners, which is 1 in 5 across the country. He speaks to private practice physios and clinic owners daily and is at the absolute forefront of the challenges facing private practice physiotherapy in Australia today. Ultimate Physio’s flagship product is a 9-month business, leadership and personal development programme for physio clinic owners only which 69 clinic owners Australia-wide have completed since 2018 to give them more time, profit and freedom in their clinics.

He has written 3 books – one for patients in private physiotherapy clinics, one for physiotherapists, and one for clinic owners. You can view his books, courses and offerings at www.ultimate.physio .

He enjoys 90’s music (particularly Radiohead and the Smashing Pumpkins), playing the piano, MMA (his dream is to have only one MMA bout), sailing and drinking a good quality ice-cold German beer 

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You might say that Mick did it tough getting to his final dream of being a Sports Physiotherapist. With too many 'distractions' he didn't gain direct entry, and only just scraped into Exercise Physiology with a very late 'cash-only' offer. Then, after overseas travel, and on the back of his rural upbringing, he snapped up a place in a newly minted Physio program in Townsville @ James Cook University.

However, once his ball was rolling it hasn't stopped. With stints in Townsville covering rugby, Newcastle covering soccer and in Melbourne, netball, Mickha amassed a range of Sports Physiotherapy experience in a range of high-performance teams. He also developed a deliberated focus on ACL prevention and rehabilitation.

Learn how and why Mick deliberately built his social platforms as part of his business within a business plan, and where he would like to see Physio grow.
 
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Biography
Mick Hughes is the co-founder of Learn.Physio and an APA titled Sports & Exercise Physiotherapist. He has dual qualifications in Exercise Science and Physiotherapy and has recently completed a Master of Sports Physiotherapy. After spending a long time in Melbourne, he now consults at the North Queensland Physio Centre in Townsville, has a strong clinical interest in ACL injury prevention and rehabilitation, and sees a high volume of ACL injured athletes both locally and interstate/internationally via telehealth. Outside of his clinical role and sharing online education, Mick likes to take it easy and spend quality time with his wife and young family.

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By age 16, as a result of her gymnastic pursuits, Diane had an unstable ankle, 'funky' elbow and pelvic floor incontinence and so begin her interface with rehabilitation. Welcome to Physio+10 and our guest Diane Lee.  Diane is a Canadian Physiotherapist, who is known worldwide through her landmark text, The Pelvic Girdle. This book and subsequent iterations parallel our profession's musculoskeletal development. Initially focused on the joint, then incorporating myofascial slings, motor control and most recently, our understanding of emotions, the text reflects our growing understanding of how to manage complex clinical presentations.

Diane explains how;

• The current focus on RCT, SR and evidence-focused practice is eliminating clinical creativity and sapping professional passion
• It is important to focus on function, not pain and to test and retest clinical hypotheses, letting the patient's body indicate the validity of treatment
• Critical it is to develop hands-on skills and why current evidence challenging this skill's importance is flawed - you need validity before you can test reliability
• It is important for young Physios to be comfortable with discomfort and to surround themselves with their success.

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Biography
Diane is a University of British Columbia graduate in the field of rehabilitation medicine.  She is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Manipulative Therapy (CAMT), a certified practitioner of intramuscular stimulation (Gunn IMS) and certified by the Canadian Physiotherapy Association as a clinical specialist in Women’s Health. She was an instructor and chief examiner for CAMT for over 20 years. Diane is also the owner, director, and practising physiotherapist at Diane Lee & Associates, a private multi-disciplinary physiotherapy clinic in South Surrey, BC, Canada. In addition, she is the principal instructor of Learn with Diane Lee (www.learnwithdianelee.com).

Diane has been a keynote speaker at many conferences, has contributed chapters to several books and self-published the book The Abdominal Wall & Diastasis Rectus Abdominis (2nd edn).  Her book, The Pelvic Girdle, was first published by Churchill Livingstone in 1989, is now in its 4th edition (2011) and has been translated into multiple languages. The Thorax – An Integrated Approach was released in 2018 by Handspring Publishing. She holds the North American patent for two sacroiliac belts, The Com-Pressor, and The Baby Belly Pelvic Support. With respect to research, she continues to investigate the behaviour of the abdominal wall in women with diastasis rectus abdominis 

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This conversation was recorded with Dr Linda Khong while she was in Singapore, celebrating the Chinese New Year.

During our conversation I was struck by how Linda has traversed so many aspects of our profession; clinician + academic, private + public practice and Asian + Australian culture. 

Linda explains how she started out with the Singaporean family's dream of a degree in business and the goal of making a pot of gold when a couple of experiences changed the direction of her professional and personal life, and how they continue to be core principles today.

For young Physiotherapists considering where they want to be in 5 or 10 years professionally, Linda has some sage words of experience to share + she has a few life truths that are also worth absorbing.

A lovely conversationalist, I hope you will enjoy this delightful Physio+10 episode with Linda as much as I did.

Thank you for listening.

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Biography
Dr Linda Khong, PhD is an accredited lymphoedema practitioner, APA-titled Cancer, Lymphoedema, Gerontological and Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist and Adjunct Research Fellow. She has her own lymphoedema practice (LK Lymphoedema Centre) in Perth, WA as well as practises as a part-time senior physiotherapist at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. She is still keen and upkeeps her acute care physiotherapy on the occasional weekends at Royal Perth Hospital 

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Chris came late to Physiotherapy, via a health science degree in genetics and after 8 years of research in the UK (@ the young age of 39) decided to pivot into Physiotherapy in Perth.  What happens over the next 15 years is an extraordinary path to completing both his Masters in MSK & Sports Physiotherapy, working at one of the most advanced sports rehabilitation clinics in Canada and being the Physiotherapist for the Canadian Womens Rugby team having a crack at the World Cup.

Listen to find out how did he achieve this and what were his key decisions.
Along the way Chris provides insight into;

• The GEM program
• The importance of job selection, seeking bespoke mentoring/education
• Preparing for the Canadian entrance exam
• Why manual skills are important for a Sports, or indeed any Physiotherapist

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Biography
I graduated from Curtin University with a Graduate-Entry Masters degree in 2010, after previously having completed a degree and research in Genetics. I worked at Ascend Physiotherapy for 8 years, and meanwhile, in 2012 I started my Clinical Masters in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy, which I finished in 2013. I then went back to complete my Sports Physiotherapy Masters in 2014.

I have always been heavily involved in Sports, working largely in rugby and netball in my earlier days. I started working with the West Coast Fever in 2013, and took over as Head Physio in 2016 and 2017. In 2018 I then moved to Canada, and worked with the Canadian National Women’s Rugby Team until moving back to Perth in 2021, where I now work with the Western Australian Institute of Sport (WAIS) as an embedded Physiotherapist in the Swimming Program. In 2022 I was Head Physio for the Australian Women’s hockey team (Hockeyroos), including the Hockey World Cup and the Commonwealth Games. I was also lucky enough to work with the Australian swim team (Dolphins) at the 2022 World Short Course Championships. My next role is to work with the National Australian artistic swimming team, as well as return to rehab clinical work.d

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Physio+10 explores the journeys of trailblazing Physiotherapists and we kick off 2023 in conversation with Randall Cooper. Randall is known to many as a Specialist Sports Physiotherapist with a passion for ACL rehab, to others as the creator of PreMax and more recently as an educator and podcaster.

In our conversation Randall shares four key business tips;

1. Start small, test, and then scale
2. You don't know what you don't know. Invest in people to gain skills that are complimentary to your own, not the same
3. Clarify your short and long-term goals. Refine as you develop
4. Have a service or product that is UNIQUE and NEEDED

Randall explains why he regrets attending a Level 2 Sports Physiotherapy course and what the life lesson was that he learnt from the experience.
Plus, his best investment for under $200 and his thoughts on how we can create a more stable profession with less practitioner churn and more appropriate remuneration. So many takeaways!

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Biography
Randall is a Fellow of the Australian College of Physiotherapists, Adjunct Senior Lecturer at La Trobe University Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre, co-Author of the world’s most read sports medicine text book Clinical Sports Medicine, and regularly delivers keynote presentations at sports medical conferences around the world.Randall’s key area of expertise is the role of skin in sport. After noticing that the creams and lotions he used on his elite athletes were hampering their performance, he decided to look into what he could do to change the game. He conducted research into the area, gathered insights from his athletes and made himself an expert in the science of skincare in sport. He founded Premax in 2006, a brand now used by elite athletes and sporting clubs around the world. Premax has truly cemented itself as being synonymous with elite athletic performance.

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