Physio+10

Physio+10 focuses on the journeys of trailblazing Physiotherapists and today's conversation is with Jenny McConnell. Along with other famous 'M's in the MSK field (i.e., Maitland, Mulligan and McKenzie), Jenny followed a clinical passion that has helped us to better help our clients today.

In this conversation, Jenny

• Explains the origin of her interest in patellofemoral pain, and how the name 'McConnell Program' was coined
• Discusses the key challenge of client compliance and her solution - BMS
• Emphasises the importance of specialisation and 
• Details the key milestones that stand out in her long career as a physiotherapist

Biography
Jenny McConnell is a physiotherapist working in private practice in Sydney, Australia, and is a fellow of the Australian College of Physiotherapy.

Jenny has been involved in research into patellofemoral, shoulder, and lumbar spine problems. She has published widely in these areas and has lectured extensively and conducted workshops around the world on the management of chronic musculoskeletal problems – patellofemoral, lower limb, shoulder, and spine. Jenny has a visiting senior fellow position at Melbourne University.

In 2009 she received an Australia Day Honour from the Australian government being awarded a member of the Order of Australia for service to physiotherapy as a practitioner and researcher, particularly through the development of innovative musculoskeletal pain management techniques and treatment. Jenny is currently on the editorial board of the Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine, Manual Therapy as well as the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

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Physio+10 focuses on the journeys of trailblazing Physiotherapists and today's conversation is with Gwen Jull. Gwen's involvement in Physiotherapy is vas,; undergraduate, Masters, PhD., and Specialisation. Then after completing each, Gwen has pivotal roles in developing and expanding each both at UQ, College of Physiotherapist and internationally with IFOMPT.

Gwen shares her insights and memories into;

• Her role in examining Geoff Maitland for his specialisation
• Why 1975 and the first contact ethic were foundational for the Physiotherapy profession
• The ongoing relevance of her PhD research which involved probably the largest RCT trial for headache in the world (my statement, not Gwen's)
• How our focus on chronic MSK presentations should be to prevent recurrence rather than to quickly resolve the current flare

Biography
Gwendolen Jull AO, Dip Phty, Grad Dip Manip Ther, M Phty, PhD, FACP. Gwen is an Emeritus Professor in Physiotherapy at The University of Queensland, Australia. She is a specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist. Her research, teaching and clinical interests are in the field of cervical spine disorders. Her research has involved quantifying the changes in the articular, neuromuscular and sensorimotor systems with neck pain, implications for assessment and management. Gwen has published three texts, the latest being Jull G, Falla D, Treleaven J, O’Leary S (2019) Management of neck pain disorders: A research informed approach Elsevier, UK. Over her career, she has delivered over 100 Keynote or invited addresses at international and national conferences in her career and has taught extensively in the area of assessment and management of cervical musculoskeletal disorders. 

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Physio+10 focuses on the journeys of trailblazing Physiotherapists and today's conversation is with Ian Cooper. Ian's undergraduate training occurred in Scotland and he provides interesting perspectives this gave him about Physiotherapy in Australia. When at the pub, most of us sit in front of a stage, but Ian preferred being on stage playing punk rock and nearly made the big time.

Ian also shares his insights into;

• The sexual boundary between practitioner and patient
• Undergraduate university course standards 
• A potentially new research funding model, the importance of colleague respect and referral
• His current role at the Myositis Discovery Program

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Physio+10 focuses on the journeys of trailblazing Physiotherapists and today's conversation is with Dr Ebonie Rio. Ebonie started her journey after completing an undergraduate degree in human movements, before starting her Physiotherapy degree. Breaking her wrist 4 times gave her an insider understanding of what Physiotherapy involved.

In my conversation with Ebonie I learned;

• About her personal tip to be 'ridiculously persistent' in regards to following your dream,
• That strengthening a tendon isn't enough in the rehabilitation process,
• That tendons are picky about what sort of load they respond to, and
• Her thoughts on the strengths of our profession

Biography
Dr Ebonie Rio is a post doc researcher at La Trobe University having completed her PhD in tendon pain. Ebonie holds a Masters of Sports Physiotherapy and her clinical career has included comprehensive work at the Australian Institute of Sport, Australian Ballet Company, Australian Ballet School and currently the Victorian Institute of Sport.

Ebonie’s Physiotherapy experiences has included the 2006 Commonwealth Games, 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics and the 2012 London Paralympics. In addition, Ebonie spent 18 months travelling with Disney’s The Lion King stage show.

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Physio+10 focuses on the journeys of trailblazing Physiotherapists and today's conversation is with Emeritus Professor Lance Twomey, who is arguably the most influential person in regards to shaping physiotherapy education in Western Australia. 

In Part 2 of our conversation with Lance we;
* Learn about the science of spinal trabeculae loss and the relationship with gravity and exercise
* Get to hear what might have happened if the School of Physiotherapy had moved to UWA
* Learn the origin of Curtin’s motto 'Look Ever Forward'
* Hear his thoughts on the profession going forward.

Biography
Lance has degrees are in Teaching, Physiotherapy and Anatomy (PhD). He was awarded the Order of Australia, for his service to Education and Physiotherapy in 1996. Lance has been an academic at Curtin University of Technology since 1969. He was Head of the School of Physiotherapy from 1975 to 1989, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic Affairs) from 1990-1 994 and Deputy to the Vice-Chancellor from 1995-1997.  In March 1997, he was appointed Vice-Chancellor.  His research interests are the clinical anatomy of the spine; whiplash; back pain; and age changes of the musculo-skeletal system of the body. He is the author/co-author of six textbooks and 220 publications in scientific journals. His general interests include surfing and reading.

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Physio+10 focuses on the journeys of trailblazing Physiotherapists and today's conversation is with Emeritus Professor Lance Twomey, who is arguably the most influential person in regards to shaping physiotherapy education in Western Australia. As an early graduate of the state government diploma program established to train physiotherapists in response to the polio epidemic, Lance returned as an academic and later became the Head of School.

In Part 1 of our conversation with Lance we;
* Learn about what physiotherapy education looked like in the 1960s and 70s
* How quokkas and anthropology were early interests in Lance's development
* Learn what he considers the basis of Physiotherapy
* Learn how he quantified the difference between the normal ageing process and pathology in the lumbar spine in his PhD 

Biography
Lance has degrees are in Teaching, Physiotherapy and Anatomy (PhD). He was awarded the Order of Australia, for his service to Education and Physiotherapy in 1996. Lance has been an academic at Curtin University of Technology since 1969. He was Head of the School of Physiotherapy from 1975 to 1989, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic Affairs) from 1990-1 994 and Deputy to the Vice-Chancellor from 1995-1997.  In March 1997, he was appointed Vice-Chancellor.  His research interests are the clinical anatomy of the spine; whiplash; back pain; and age changes of the musculo-skeletal system of the body. He is the author/co-author of six textbooks and 220 publications in scientific journals. His general interests include surfing and reading.

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Physio+10 focuses on the journeys of trailblazing Physiotherapists and todays conversation is with Dr Michele Sterling, who as a clinician come researcher, has carved out an important niche in the musculoskeletal world of whiplash associated disorders (WAD).

In this conversation with Michele we;
* Learn about prognostic factors to consider for patients with WAD
* See how the management of WAD has become more sophisticated over the last 20 years
* Hear about the challenges associated with research in the current political and economic environment
* Confirm the prime role Physiotherapy has in managing musculoskeletal injuries.

Biography
Michele Sterling is Professor in the Recover Injury Research Centre, Program Lead of the Designing Better Therapies research program and Director of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) in Road Traffic Injury Recovery. She is a Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist and a Fellow of the Australian College of Physiotherapists. She is internationally recognised for her research on whiplash-associated disorders. Michele’s research focusses on the mechanisms underlying the development of chronic pain after injury, predictive algorithms for outcomes and developing effective interventions for musculoskeletal injury and pain. She has received over $13M in research funding from the NHMRC, ARC and industry partners. Michele has editorial roles with several leading journals and textbooks, and is a widely published author. She has received numerous awards for her research including the University of Queensland Foundation Research Excellence Award in 2005. Michele is an elected member of the leadership Council of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP).

Resources
Whiplash associated resources including WhipPredict
International Association for the Study of Pain

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Physio+10 focuses on trailblazing Physiotherapists  and this conversation with Dr Jo Milios is an absolute corker. Jo’s career started in the dance and yoga spheres but a spinal condition closed this door. As so often happens it also opened another door of opportunity. Lead by curiosity and by funnelling her creativity, Jo moved into and it could be said, created a completely new realm of Physiotherapy services - that being Men’s Health.

In this conversation with Jo we learn;

• The benefit of curiosity
• Be willing to say yes and step outside of the current box
• The importance of seeking out new experiences and honing in on those that excite you
• If you can’t find something, adapt known knowledge and create it yourself
• Links between hard (penile) health and heart health

Biography

Principal Physiotherapist with a special interest in Men’s Health, Yoga & Pilates. Jo graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Physiotherapy) from Curtin University , Western Australia in 1993 recently completed a PhD at the University of Western Australia’s School of Sport Science, Exercise & Health. As a private practice MSK Physiotherapist with more than 15 years PT experience, Jo was invited by her Urologist brother to establish a Men’s Health service to treat his prostate cancer patients in 2005. The decade since then has resulted in Jo treating over 3000 prostatectomy patients , over 500 chronic pelvic pain patients and 100’s of men with Erectile Dysfunction and a dire recognition that Men’s Health is far behind Women’s Health. Presentations at international conferences include, 2011’s Australia New Zealand Urological Society meeting , 2014’s Asia- Pacific Sexology Conference in Brisbane, Poster Presentation at 2014’s World Congress Prostate Cancer Conference, Podium presentations in Men’s Health at WCPT15 in Singapore and Cape Town 2017. Men’s Health courses are also taught by Jo in Australia with ‘Mastering the Martians’ team, consisting of Craig Allingham, Stuart Baptist and Peter Dornan. In 2016/17 Jo delivered Men’s Health workshops to Physiotherapists in UK, Ireland, Portugal, New Zealand and South Africa. Jo established the Men’s Health Physiotherapy Facebook group in 2014 which currently hosts over 2000 international Physiotherapists. A 24 hour Men’s Health twitter chat hosted by the APA attracted more than 3 million views in Men’s Health Week 2015. Finally, Jo established PROST! Exercise 4 Prostate Cancer, a not for profit community education and ex

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Today's guest on Physio+10 is Trish Wisbey-Roth. Being one of 10, there was no silver spoon for Trish when it came to her education or becoming a physiotherapist, and early undergraduate and post graduate career experiences saw her almost give up Physiotherapy. However, determination and a goal to help people saw these obstacles pass into the rearview mirror as Trish moved forward in her career.

On today's podcast Trish talks about;

• the toughest time in her life that occurred on the eve of her graduation
• managing elite athletes and the importance of addressing the psychosocial components of their injuries
• the importance of 'fake it till you make'
• the benefits of working within a group of like minded professionals 

Biography
Trish is a skilled Australian Physiotherapist with over 30 years’ experience. She completed both a Post Graduate Sports Physiotherapy Masters and Specialisation exams and is now a Sports Physiotherapy Specialist in the hip & lumbo-pelvic region. Trish has been involved with Australian sporting teams at the National, World Championship and Olympic level. In 2018 Trish help head up and oversee the Commonwealth Games Polyclinic situated within the Games village which saw in excess of 200 athletes per day.

Trish lectures extensively in the areas of diagnosis and rehabilitation of lumbar-pelvic and hip regions with emphasis on differential diagnosis and effective manual treatment and exercise prescription. She has developed online learning courses ”A Graduate differential diagnosis Roadmap series” in conjunction with the APA. In 2020 Trish launched a 12-month online “Graduate and interactive learning series” involving live webinars with face to face and internet audience. Series covers lumbar, thoracic and cervical spine, pelvis and hip kinematics assessment/treatment and exercises. 

Trish has also been involved with a low back pain research team with articles published in British Journal of Sports Medicine. She is currently collaborating with research bodies and Medical specialists investigating effective treatment interventions for lumbo pelvic pain and hip muscle recruitment in exercise.
In  2014 Trish wrote her first book 'The Back Pain Personal Health Plan: Bounce back Edition', which has evolved into The Physio Accelerator, an online learning platform with the goal of helping Physios to not only excel at their job but also to love their career. If you would like to find out more, head to www.thephysioaccelerator.com and https://www.facebook.com/thephysioaccelerator/

Trish continues to work clinically and

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Today's guest on Physio+10 is Sarah Key, Physiotherapist to the British Royal family, author of several self help spinal books and creator of the Sarah Key Masterclass spinal courses that are taught in Australia and UK.

On today's podcast Sarah talks about ;

• What she learnt from apprenticing under Gregory Grieve
• How an Israeli yogi bear inspired her to start treating with her feet and 
•  The concept of 'crafting your career'

Biography:
Sarah Key is one of the world's leading experts and authors in the treatment of back pain. She is the acclaimed author of several popular books on back pain and has been in print since 1986. Sarah runs breakthrough health retreats on proactive health and back pain treatment in both New South Wales (Australia) and Cornwall (UK). Sarah also teaches graduate physiotherapists in her Levels 1, 2 and 3 'Masterclasses: The Biomechanical Treatment of Back Pain'.  The Theory elements of her teaching are delivered online after which participants get together with her for Practical Adjunct sessions.  These are currently held in the UK and Australia (Sydney & Perth).
In 2003, Sarah was made a Member of the Victorian Order by the Queen.

Further Information:
Masterclass Lumbar Courses

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