Continuing Education: Physiotherapy Sports Level 1

By Jamie Clough

CE- Sports PhysioSports Physiotherapy Level 1:

A lovely weekend was spent at the University of Canberra for the Sports level 1 course run by the Australian Sports Physiotherapy Association. There were a range of topics presented on, starting with an update of on-field sports injury assessment and spinal injury management – presented by current Brumbies physiotherapist Byron Field. Byron then took us through the in and outs of travel as a team physiotherapist and the interactions with other involved health professionals and team management.
Following this a sports medicine registrar doctor from the AIS took us through a presentation on tissue healing – a good update from a medical perspective. After a good spread for lunch (very important), Konrad Shultz (current Canberra Raiders physiotherapist) spent the afternoon covering sporting knee injuries, the general mechanism of different injuries and the management required in rehab.
The next morning kicked off with a presentation and hand-ons work about the shoulder – common injury presentation and rehab, led by specialist sports physiotherapist Hamish Macauley (former Wallabies physiotherapist). The shoulder is an interesting and complex joint, and Hamish did a great job covering a large topic, reminding us that shoulder function is a product of the whole body – always look at the big picture!
Following lunch (another good spread) Roslyn Penfold (APA titled Sports Physiotherapist) took us through ankle injuries in sport, before the course finished up with a review of basic taping techniques. The course covered a lot of content, and it has been good to be able to put to use what was covered on the weekend into the rehab strategies I use in the clinic

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About Jamie Clough

Jamie graduated from the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand in 2010 with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy. He spent several years working out of outpatient clinics and in the inpatient setting in Invercargill on the South Island, treating a wide variety of conditions both acute and chronic in nature. His special interests include the use of dry needling for pain relief and tissue alteration, sport specific injuries and rehabilitation, and post-operative orthopaedic rehabilitation.