Clinical topics, organised around your practice.

Shoulder & Upper Arm

• Acromioclavicular joint disorders

  Rehabilitation for AC joint disorders

• Brachial plexus & neurogenic shoulder

  Parsonage-Turner syndrome (neuralgic amyotrophy), thoracic outlet syndrome, brachial plexus palsy

• Calcific tendinopathy of the shoulder

  Calcific tendinitis — shockwave therapy, barbotage and loading programmes

• Frozen shoulder (adhesive capsulitis)

  Rehabilitation for frozen shoulder

• Proximal humerus fractures

  Rehabilitation after proximal humeral and humeral head fractures, operative and conservative

• Rotator cuff related shoulder pain

  RCRSP, subacromial pain and scapular dyskinesis — loading and movement retraining

• Shoulder arthroplasty & post-surgical rehab

  Anatomic and reverse shoulder replacement, rotator cuff repair — post-operative rehabilitation

• Shoulder instability

  Traumatic and atraumatic instability, dislocation and post-stabilisation rehab

• SLAP & superior labral lesions

  Superior labral tears, biceps anchor pathology, repair and rehabilitation

• Upper limb tendon ruptures

  Rotator cuff, distal biceps, pectoralis major and triceps ruptures

Elbow

• Elbow injuries (fractures & instability)

  Radial head, olecranon and distal humerus fractures, elbow replacement, dislocation and posterolateral rotatory instability

• Lateral epicondylopathy (tennis elbow)

  Lateral elbow tendinopathy — loading programmes and load management

• Medial epicondylopathy (golfer’s elbow)

  Medial elbow tendinopathy — loading programmes and load management

Wrist & Hand

• Carpal tunnel syndrome

  Rehabilitation for carpal tunnel syndrome

• Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)

  CRPS type I and II, graded motor imagery, mirror therapy and desensitisation

• Dupuytren’s disease

  Dupuytren contracture — therapy after needle fasciotomy, collagenase and surgery

• Finger & metacarpal injuries

  Metacarpal and phalangeal fractures, volar plate injuries, thumb UCL (skier’s thumb)

• Flexor & extensor tendon injuries

  Tendon repair and rehabilitation protocols of the hand and fingers

• Hand & wrist tendinopathies

  De Quervain tenosynovitis, trigger finger and intersection syndrome

• Nerve entrapments (upper limb)

  Cubital tunnel, lacertus syndrome and radial nerve entrapment

• Peripheral nerve injuries & repair

  Nerve injury, repair and sensory re-education in the hand and upper limb

• Thumb base (CMC1) arthritis

  Carpometacarpal and trapeziometacarpal osteoarthritis — orthoses and exercise

• Wrist fractures (distal radius)

  Rehabilitation for distal radius fractures

• Wrist ligament injuries

  TFCC tears and scapholunate ligament injury and instability

Spine

• Axial spondyloarthritis

  Ankylosing spondylitis and axSpA — exercise therapy and disease management

• Cervical radiculopathy

  Rehabilitation for cervical radiculopathy

• Chronic Pain

  Pain neuroscience and management

• Low Back Pain

  Assessment and biopsychosocial care

• Lumbar disc herniation

  Rehabilitation for lumbar disc herniation

• Neck pain & whiplash

  Non-specific neck pain, cervicogenic headache and whiplash-associated disorders

• Post-surgical spine rehab

  Rehabilitation after spinal surgery

• Scoliosis & spinal deformity

  Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis and hyperkyphosis — bracing and specific exercises

• Spinal stenosis

  Rehabilitation for spinal stenosis

Hip & Pelvis

• FAI & hip labral lesions

  Femoroacetabular impingement syndrome and acetabular labral tears

• Gluteal tendinopathy

  Rehabilitation for gluteal tendinopathy

• Groin pain in athletes

  Adductor-related and inguinal groin pain, athletic pubalgia

• Hip arthroplasty rehab

  Rehabilitation and recovery after total hip replacement

• Hip osteoarthritis

  Exercise and rehabilitation for hip osteoarthritis

• Sacroiliac & pelvic girdle pain

  SIJ pain and dysfunction, pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain

Knee & Lower Leg

• Cartilage injuries & chondropathy

  Chondral and osteochondral defects, cartilage repair, chondromalacia

• Knee arthroplasty rehab

  Rehabilitation after total and partial knee replacement

• Knee osteoarthritis

  Exercise and rehabilitation for knee osteoarthritis

• Meniscus tear

  Rehabilitation for meniscus tear

• Non-ACL ligament injuries

  Posterior cruciate, medial and lateral collateral, posterolateral corner

• Patellar instability & MPFL

  Patellar dislocation and subluxation, MPFL reconstruction rehabilitation

• Patellofemoral pain

  Rehabilitation for patellofemoral pain

Foot & Ankle

• Achilles tendinopathy

  Rehabilitation for achilles tendinopathy

• Achilles tendon rupture & repair

  Acute rupture — operative versus conservative management and functional rehab

• Ankle instability

  Rehabilitation for ankle instability

• Ankle osteoarthritis

  Ankle OA, rehabilitation after arthrodesis and total ankle replacement

• Ankle sprain

  Rehabilitation for ankle sprain

• Bone stress injuries & stress fractures

  Bone stress injury diagnosis, load management and return to running

• Foot deformities

  Flatfoot, splayfoot and cavus foot; posterior tibial tendon dysfunction

• Hallux valgus & rigidus

  Conservative management and post-operative rehabilitation of the first ray

• Plantar heel pain

  Plantar fasciopathy and calcaneal heel spur — loading, orthoses and shockwave

Other

• Prehabilitation

  Pre-operative exercise and conditioning before surgery

Stroke

• Gait rehabilitation after stroke

  Walking recovery — treadmill, robotic gait training and FES

• Physical activity & early mobilisation after stroke

  Very early mobilisation, physical activity and sedentary behaviour after stroke

• Post-stroke fatigue

  Assessment and management of fatigue after stroke

• Stroke rehabilitation

  Physical therapy rehabilitation after stroke

Parkinson's Disease

• Gait, cueing & falls prevention in Parkinson’s

  Cueing strategies, freezing of gait, balance and falls prevention

• Parkinson's disease (rehab)

  Physical therapy for Parkinson's disease

Multiple Sclerosis

• Exercise & training in MS

  Aerobic, resistance and high-intensity interval training in multiple sclerosis

• Fatigue management in MS

  Assessment and management of fatigue in multiple sclerosis

• Multiple sclerosis (rehab)

  Physical therapy for multiple sclerosis

Spinal Cord Injury

• Spasticity management & FES in SCI

  Spasticity assessment and treatment, functional electrical stimulation after spinal cord injury

• Spinal cord injury

  Physical therapy rehabilitation for SCI

Brain Injury

• Traumatic brain injury (TBI)

  Physical therapy rehabilitation after TBI

Balance & Vestibular

• Balance & falls prevention

  Balance training and falls prevention

• Vestibular rehabilitation

  Vestibular and balance rehabilitation

Rehab & Return to Performance

• ACL rehabilitation

  Rehabilitation after ACL reconstruction

• Hamstring injuries

  Hamstring strain injury, Nordic and eccentric prevention, return to play

• Patellar tendinopathy (jumper’s knee)

  Patellar tendon loading programmes and return to jumping sport

• Return to Sport

  Criteria, testing and decision making

• Sports physiotherapy (general)

  Sports injury rehabilitation

Training & Performance

• Blood flow restriction training

  BFR protocols, safety and application in rehabilitation and performance

• Conditioning & HIIT for athletes

  High-intensity interval and aerobic conditioning in sport

• Injury prevention programs

  Neuromuscular warm-up and prevention programmes such as FIFA 11+ and Nordic

• Plyometrics & jump training

  Plyometric programming, jump and landing mechanics

• Speed & sprint training

  Sprint mechanics, acceleration and maximum-velocity training

• Strength & resistance training for athletes

  Resistance training programming for athletic performance

• Training load management

  Load monitoring, acute:chronic workload and injury risk

Sport-Specific

• Overhead & throwing athletes

  Shoulder and elbow in throwing and overhead sport, pitching mechanics

• Running injuries & load management

  Running-related injury, gait retraining and running load

• Swimming athletes

  Swimmer’s shoulder, swimming injury and training load

Athlete Health

• Female athlete health

  RED-S and the female athlete triad, menstrual cycle, bone health

• Recovery strategies

  Sleep, cold water immersion, compression and active recovery in athletes

• Sport-related concussion

  Assessment, return to learn and play, sub-symptom aerobic exercise

• Youth athletes & growth-related injuries

  Adolescent athlete training and injury, apophysitis (Osgood-Schlatter, Sever’s)

• Dance injuries & prevention

  Foot, ankle, hip and spine injury in dancers — en pointe, turnout, hypermobility, screening and return to dance

• Dancer health & energy availability

  RED-S and low energy availability, disordered eating, bone health, fatigue, sleep and mental health in dancers

• Playing-related injuries in musicians

  Playing-related musculoskeletal disorders, focal (musician’s) dystonia, nerve entrapment, instrument set-up and practice load

Pulmonary Rehabilitation

• Long COVID rehabilitation

  Rehabilitation for long COVID

• Pulmonary rehabilitation

  Rehabilitation for COPD and asthma

• Telerehabilitation (pulmonary)

  Remote, home-based and digitally supervised pulmonary rehabilitation

Respiratory Physiotherapy

• Airway clearance techniques

  PEP and oscillating PEP, chest physiotherapy, mechanical insufflation-exsufflation, autogenic drainage

• Inspiratory & respiratory muscle training

  IMT, expiratory and combined respiratory muscle training protocols

• Cardiac rehabilitation

  Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation

• Exercise prescription for chronic conditions

  Exercise prescription for chronic disease management

• Heart failure exercise rehabilitation

  Exercise training and prescription specific to heart failure

• Peripheral arterial disease & claudication

  Supervised exercise therapy and walking programmes for claudication

• ICU-acquired weakness & early mobilisation

  Critical illness polyneuropathy and myopathy, early mobilisation in intensive care

• Post-intensive care rehabilitation

  Post-intensive care syndrome — physical and functional recovery after critical illness

• Respiratory physiotherapy in ventilated patients

  Ventilator weaning, extubation and diaphragm training in mechanically ventilated patients

• Geriatric physiotherapy

  Physical therapy for older adults

• Hip fracture rehabilitation

  Recovery and weight-bearing after proximal femoral fracture in older adults

• Physical activity in dementia

  Exercise, mobility and falls management for people living with dementia

• Sarcopenia & frailty

  Resistance training and nutrition for age-related muscle loss and frailty

• Cerebral palsy: gait & motor rehabilitation

  Gross motor function, gait and spasticity management in cerebral palsy

• Congenital torticollis & plagiocephaly

  Infant torticollis, head-shape asymmetry, positioning and stretching

• Paediatric physiotherapy

  Physical therapy for children

• Preterm infants & early motor development

  Developmental follow-up, general movements assessment and early intervention

• Male pelvic health

  Post-prostatectomy incontinence and chronic pelvic pain syndrome in men

• Pelvic floor dysfunction

  Rehabilitation for pelvic floor dysfunction

• Pregnancy & postpartum rehabilitation

  Antenatal and postnatal exercise, diastasis recti, return to running

• Women's Health

  Pelvic floor, perinatal and continence

• Cancer-related fatigue

  Exercise and activity management for fatigue during and after cancer treatment

• Exercise during & after cancer treatment

  Exercise prescription, prehabilitation and safety — including with bone metastases

• Rehabilitation after cancer surgery

  Function and range of motion after mastectomy, neck dissection and tumour resection

• Breast cancer-related lymphoedema (BCRL)

  Arm, breast and trunk lymphoedema after breast cancer — decongestive therapy, compression and exercise with oedema

• Erysipelas & cellulitis in oedema

  Erysipelas and cellulitis in the oedema patient — recurrence, antibiotic prophylaxis and decongestive therapy timing

• Lipoedema

  Lipoedema and lipo-lymphoedema — conservative management and differentiation from lymphoedema

• Lower limb, head & neck and genital lymphoedema

  Non-breast lymphoedema by location — leg, head and neck, and genital oedema, primary and secondary

• Lymphoedema & lipoedema (overview)

  General decongestive therapy — manual lymphatic drainage, compression and complete decongestive therapy across oedema types

• Phleboedema & chronic venous oedema

  Chronic venous insufficiency, post-thrombotic syndrome, phlebolymphoedema and venous leg ulcers

• Lower limb amputation & prosthetic rehab

  Transtibial and transfemoral amputation, prosthetic gait training, toe and forefoot amputation

• Upper limb & hand amputation

  Upper limb and finger amputation, myoelectric and body-powered prosthetics

• Advanced Practice

  First contact and extended scope physiotherapy

• Occupational health / ergonomics

  Workplace ergonomics and occupational health

• Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)

  CRPS — graded motor imagery, mirror therapy and occupational engagement

• Dupuytren’s disease

  Post-intervention orthoses, scar management and hand function

• Finger & metacarpal injuries

  Hand fractures, volar plate and thumb UCL injuries — splinting and function

• Flexor & extensor tendon injuries

  Tendon repair rehabilitation, orthoses and return to hand function

• Hand & wrist tendinopathies

  De Quervain, trigger finger and intersection syndrome — orthoses and load advice

• Nerve entrapments (upper limb)

  Cubital tunnel and related entrapments — orthoses, activity modification

• Peripheral nerve injuries & repair

  Nerve repair, sensory re-education and functional retraining of the hand

• Splinting

  Splinting in occupational therapy

• Thumb base (CMC1) arthritis

  Carpometacarpal osteoarthritis — orthoses, joint protection and hand function

• Wrist ligament injuries

  TFCC and scapholunate injuries — orthotic management and hand function

• Cognitive rehabilitation

  Cognitive rehabilitation in occupational therapy

• Multiple sclerosis

  Occupational therapy for multiple sclerosis

• Parkinson's disease

  Occupational therapy for Parkinson's disease

• Sensory integration

  Sensory integration in occupational therapy

• Spinal cord injury

  Occupational therapy rehabilitation for SCI

• Stroke rehabilitation

  Occupational therapy rehabilitation after stroke

• Traumatic brain injury (TBI)

  Occupational therapy rehabilitation after TBI

• Mental health & occupational engagement

  Occupational therapy in mental health — participation, routine and recovery

• Sensory approaches in mental health

  Sensory modulation, sensory rooms and trauma-informed sensory strategies

• Return to work & vocational rehabilitation

  Work ability, workplace accommodation and supported employment

• Workplace ergonomics & assessment

  Workstation and job-demand assessment, workplace intervention and injury prevention

• ADL training

  Activities of daily living training

• Driving & community mobility

  Fitness-to-drive assessment, driver rehabilitation and community participation

• Home modifications

  Home modification for accessibility

• Instrumental ADL (IADL)

  Instrumental activities of daily living training

• Wheelchair & seating provision

  Wheelchair prescription, postural support and pressure-injury prevention

• Cognitive decline / dementia

  Occupational therapy for cognitive decline and dementia

• Fall prevention (ADL)

  Fall prevention in occupational therapy

• Home safety

  Home safety in occupational therapy

• Autism spectrum disorder (ADL)

  ADL training for autism spectrum disorder

• Developmental coordination disorder

  Occupational therapy for DCD

• Fine motor skills

  Fine motor skills training in occupational therapy

• Sensory processing disorder

  Occupational therapy for sensory processing disorder

• Cancer rehabilitation (OT)

  Fatigue and energy management, daily function and neuropathy after cancer treatment

• Palliative & end-of-life care

  Maintaining occupation, comfort and independence in palliative and hospice care

• Augmentative & alternative communication

  AAC systems, speech-generating devices and communication partner training

• Cleft palate & resonance disorders

  Velopharyngeal insufficiency, hypernasality and speech outcomes after cleft repair

• Gender-affirming voice

  Voice feminisation and masculinisation therapy

• Laryngectomy & alaryngeal voice

  Voice restoration after laryngectomy — tracheoesophageal puncture, electrolarynx

• Professional voice disorders

  Dysphonia, vocal fold pathology, vocal fatigue and vocal load in singers, actors, teachers and other occupational voice users

• Singing voice & vocal training

  Voice and vocal training for performers — SOVT, resonant voice, vocal warm-up and vocal function exercises

• Stuttering / fluency

  Speech therapy for stuttering

• Voice disorders

  Speech therapy for voice disorders

• Aphasia

  Speech therapy for aphasia

• Cognitive-communication disorders

  Speech therapy for cognitive-communication disorders

• Dementia (communication)

  Communication therapy for dementia

• Dysarthria

  Speech therapy for dysarthria

• Traumatic brain injury (communication)

  Communication therapy for TBI

• Dysphagia (adults)

  Speech therapy for adult dysphagia

• Dysphagia (paediatric)

  Speech therapy for paediatric dysphagia

• Head & neck cancer: swallowing & voice

  Dysphagia, voice and trismus after head and neck cancer treatment

• Instrumental assessment (FEES, VFSS)

  Instrumental swallowing assessment in speech therapy

• Swallowing rehabilitation

  Swallowing rehabilitation in speech therapy

• Ankyloglossia & breastfeeding

  Tongue-tie, frenotomy outcomes and infant feeding difficulties

• Autism spectrum (communication)

  Communication therapy for autism spectrum disorder

• Childhood apraxia of speech

  Speech therapy for childhood apraxia

• Childhood language disorders

  Speech therapy for childhood language disorders

• Early intervention

  Early intervention in speech therapy

• Speech sound disorders

  Speech therapy for speech sound disorders