Physio Foundations

This week on Physio Foundations Zuzana and I spoke with Dr Brooke Patterson from the La Trobe Sports and Exercise Medicine research centre about her research into knee joint health and function following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction and translating her research into the clinic. You can follow Brooke on Twitter @knee_howells This is a discussion aimed at health professionals and health...

This week on Physio Foundations I spoke with Associate Professor Cylie Williams from Monash University’s School of Primary and Allied Health Care about how podiatrists help children and adults with foot conditions, her current research projects and why we desperately need more podiatrists! Please visit @kidslegpain on Facebook and Twitter and find out how you can help kids with chronic musculoskel...

This week Zuzana and I spoke to Dr Matt King from the La Trobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre.  Matt is a physiotherapist, researcher and educator with a special interest in hip pain and biomechanics in athletes. Zuzana and I asked Matt about his PhD research on men and women with hip-related pain and the use of biomechanics to understand why some people with femoroacetabular impingem...

This week on Physio Foundations I spoke again to Narelle Dalwood from Monash University Physiotherapy. Narelle is an APA titled neurological physiotherapist and physiotherapy educator from Monash University Physiotherapy and the leader of our simulation program. Listen to episode 19 for a summary of Narelle’s background and experience. Narelle and I spoke about the benefits and challenges of using...

My guest this week is Narelle Dalwood. Narelle is an APA titled neurological physiotherapist and physiotherapy educator from Monash University Physiotherapy. Narelle and I sat down to discuss her pathway into neurological physiotherapy and the foundational knowledge and skills of an acute neurological physiotherapist. Narelle has so much knowledge and experience, I’m sure you will love hearing fro...

My guest this week is new graduate physiotherapist Brian Kim. Brian gives us an update on his experiences as a newly graduated health practitioner, including how to seek mentoring and support, how to make your own opportunities and when to ask for help. Brian talks about building rapport with people and how your experience outside the clinic can help your clinical practice in ways you may not know...

My guest this week is Scot Morrison. Scot is a board certified orthopaedic physical therapist and certified strength coach. In this conversation, Scot summarises six steps for measuring strength in clinical practice. You will learn the importance of accepting uncertainty in measurement, how to minimise error with a standardised testing routine and the importance of interpreting test findings to th...

This week on Physio Foundations I spoke to my wife and the other half of Perraton Physio, Zuzana Perraton! Zuzana spoke about her career pathway, how she identified opportunities for career development, tips for building rapport with patients and how to develop your own clinical evidence and expertise alongside your knowledge of research evidence. Enjoy, and please share the episode with a friend...

This week’s Physio Foundations podcast is part 2 of my chat with Dr Luke Nelson. This episode is full of great tips for helping clients manage their running related injuries and approach their running in a healthy way. This is a discussion aimed at health professionals. Always seek the guidance of a qualified health professional with any questions you may have regarding your health or a medical co...

This week on the Physio Foundations podcast I spoke to Dr Luke Nelson, AKA sports Chiro Luke, about the pathway he has been on from new grad practitioner, to highly experienced sports chiropractor and leader within his profession.  Luke is a sports chiropractor with a special interest in helping people manage running related injuries. He is an active member of the Australian sports rehab and sport...

This week’s Physio Foundations is part 2 of my conversation with Dr Ebonie Rio from La Trobe University. We talked about tendinopathy research; specifically, how to understand and apply research. HINT– you can’t just read the abstract!  In this episode: 0:00 Dr Ebonie Rio - Welcome to part 2 of our conversation 2:10 Isometrics and TMS – you need to read and understand the paper before applying fin...

This week on Physio Foundations I spoke with the one and only Ebonie Rio about her career pathway from physiotherapy student to being an internationally recognised practitioner, educator and researcher. Ebonie is a sports physiotherapist, physiotherapy educator and a world-leading researcher with many highly cited and highly discussed papers in the areas of tendinopathy. We discussed Ebonie’s care...

This week’s Physio Foundations is part 2 of my conversation with Mat Prior, sports and exercise physiotherapist and lecturer at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. This week Mat and I spoke about his tips for breaking into, and succeeding, in sports physiotherapy. We spoke about when doors open for you, and when you knock on doors to see if they will open. We spoke about Mat’s experiences...

This week on Physio Foundations I spoke to Mat Prior, sports and exercise physiotherapist and lecturer at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, about the pathway from student to practitioner and then physiotherapy educator. We spoke about the foundational knowledge and skills that Mat uses as a sports physiotherapist and the values instils in his students as a physio educator. This episode h...

This week's episode of Physio Foundations is part 2 of the conversation with Randall Cooper, Mick Hughes and Zuzana Perraton. Check out part 1 first for a background on Mick, Randall and Zuzana and their perspectives on working as sports physiotherapists. In this episode, Mick, Randall and Zuzana talk about how they apply their knowledge and skills to help people with their rehabilitation followin...

In this week's episode, Zuzana and I talk to specialist sports and exercise physiotherapist Randall Cooper and APA sports and exercise physiotherapist Mick Hughes from learn.physio about the foundational knowledge and skills that helped them become leaders in the field of ACL injury and management. We talk about the experiences that shaped their early careers, their pathway towards a career in spo...

This week’s episode of Physio Foundations is all about how to explain things well as a health professional. I give four tips for progressing and developing your communication skills, specifically the explanations you provide to people, with a focus on the person you are talking to, rather than yourself. In this episode: 0:00 The power of a well thought-out explanation 0:25 On this week’s episode 1...

This week’s episode of Physio Foundations is the first in a series of solo episodes helping students and new graduate practitioners develop a vision and plan for their careers. In this episode: 0:00 Your personal development journey from novice to expert 3:11 Develop yourself as a person, not just as a professional 4:00 People are coming to see you, not your CV or resume or profile 4:57 Have a pla...

Welcome to another episode of Physio Foundations, a podcast about the knowledge and skills that provide the foundation of expert physiotherapy or clinical practice. In this week’s episode I talk to specialist neurological physiotherapist and Monash university educator Professor Prue Morgan about the knowledge and skills that provide the foundation of her expertise in neurological physiotherapy. Pr...

Welcome to another episode of Physio Foundations, a podcast about the knowledge and skills that provide the foundation of expert physiotherapy or clinical practice. This week's episode is the first of my series of discussions with new graduate clinicians. I talk to Monash university physiotherapy graduate Brian Kim about the knowledge and skills that he has found most useful in his transition from...

Welcome to another episode of Physio Foundations, a podcast about the knowledge and skills that provide the foundation of expert physiotherapy or clinical practice. This week's episode is part 2 of my discussion with physiotherapist, tendon expert and researcher Associate Professor Peter Malliaras from Monash University. In part 2 of our discussion Peter builds on the foundations we laid in part 1...

Welcome to the second episode of Physio Foundations, a podcast about the knowledge and skills that provide the foundation of expert physiotherapy or clinical practice. In this episode I talk to tendon expert and researcher Associate Professor Peter Malliaras from Monash University about how he built his foundations in physiotherapy practice and research and the most important things to consider fo...

Welcome to the first episode of Physio Foundations, a podcast about the knowledge and skills that provide the foundation of expert physiotherapy or clinical practice. You can find a video version of this podcast on the Perraton Physio YouTube channel Follow Perraton Physio on Facebook , Twitter and Instagram @PerratonPhysio and @lukeperraton For a list of episodes, transcripts and associated blogs...