Programme overview
Programme updated Thursday 21 July
| Time | Pre-conference workshops |
| 9.00 - 12.00pm | I've got a gut feeling - visceral masqueraders in musculoskeletal practice Laura Finucane |
| 12.00 - 1.00pm | Lunch |
| 1.00 - 2.30pm | Mind games: How the mind matters for return to sport and what you can do to help injured athletes return with confidence Dr Clare Ardern |
| 1.00 - 3.00pm | The role of mental resilience to promote self-care, resilience and overall health Prof Sharon Lawn |
| 1.00 - 4.00pm | How to add inspiratory muscle training to your toolkit: from the ICU to the community Bernie Bissett | Workshop outline |
| 3.00 - 4.30pm | Tempting titles and stylish sentences: creating impact with your academic writing Dr Clare Ardern |
| 3.00 - 4.30pm | Le Taula’: The Anchor – cultivating a sense of belonging and inclusion with Pacific peoples Oka Sanerivi |
| 4:00 - 4:45pm | Bronchiectasis in children and youth: neglected and in need of attention and action. How and why we are undertreating in Aotearoa Brigitte Eastwood & Dr Sarah Mooney |
There is at $60 fee to attend the pre-conference workshops. Sign up via the registration form.
| Time | Pre-conference sessions | ||||
| 8:00 - 9:00am | NZ Journal of Physiotherapy Editorial Team | ||||
| 9:00 - 10.00am | The art and science of health coaching Prof Grant Schofield | Supporting the sting in the tail: Screening, assessment, and management of Long COVID Sarah Rhodes and Fy Dunford | |||
| Time | Conference sessions | ||||
| 10.00 - 10.30am | Mihi Whakatau | ||||
| 10.30 - 11.30am | Welcome and conference opening | ||||
| 11.30 - 12.30pm | Marquee speaker Jennifer Ward-Lealand | ||||
| 12.30 - 1.30pm | Lunch | ||||
| 12:30pm | Interactive lunchtime session Managing psychosocial risk factors in people with low back pain: How do you want to learn? Dr Cathy Chapple, Dr Julia Hill & Assoc Prof Richard Ellis | ||||
| 12:45pm | AUT lunchtime postgraduate event | ||||
| 1.30 - 2.30pm | Keynote speaker Dr Ihirangi Heke | ||||
| Concurrent 1A | Concurrent 1B | Concurrent 1C | Concurrent 1D | ||
| 2.30 - 3.00pm | The intersection of racism and equity in Aotearoa New Zealand Ricky Bell | The place of inspiratory muscle training across various conditions: How reducing breathlessness frees our patients to do more with their lives! Bernie Bissett | Session outline | Preparing for October 1st and the proposed changes that the Accident Compensation (Maternal Birth Injury and other matters) Amendment Bill will bring Shaun Westhead | Patterns of practice observed in tele-delivered rehabilitation research: Sustaining the benefits and addressing issues Fiona Graham | |
3.00 - 3.30pm
| Tulaga vae: Physiotherapy’s Pacific past, present and future
| Preparation and support for physical activity engagement following CABG surgery: A survey of current practice in New Zealand (15 min) Dr Emily Gray Perceptions of a physical activity and text messaging programme for adults with obstructive sleep apnoea (15 min) Dr Sarah Rhodes | Opportunities for enhancing health and performance in the female "athlete"
| A hybrid model of rehabilitation in mild traumatic brain injury: A co-design process (15 min) Use of telehealth video appointments for re-assessment of lymphoedema patients: Acceptability to patients (15 min) | |
| 3.30 - 4.00pm | Afternoon tea | ||||
| 4.00 - 5.00pm | Keynote speaker Return to sport after musculoskeletal injury Dr Clare Ardern | ||||
| 5.00 - 7.00pm | Welcome reception | ||||
| Time | Conference sessions | ||||
| 8.15 - 8.30am | Welcome and housekeeping | ||||
| 8.30 - 9.30am | Keynote speaker Serious Pathology - Sharing the Journey Laura Finucane | ||||
| 9.30 - 10.10am | ACC Presentation 8 months in – my reflections on ACC: past, present and future Megan Main, CEO ACC | ||||
| 10.10 - 10.30am | PNZ Awards | ||||
| 10.30 - 11.00am | Morning tea | ||||
| Concurrent 2A | Concurrent 2B | Concurrent 2C | Concurrent 2D | Concurrent 2E | |
| 11.00 - 11.30am | Emerging: How the new health system is shaping and the role of physiotherapy
| Optimising ageing
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| He kawa whakaruruhau ā matatau Māori: Māori cultural safety and competence standard Professional Boundaries Standard (including sexual and emotional), it can be a slippery slope | Fishbowl presentation Children are not little adults but does everyone know that? (30 min)
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| 11.30 - 12.00pm | Using evidence to build back and neck pain explanations Ben Darlow | Physical activity messaging for Kiwi blokes with acquired disability Ally Calder | Physiotherapy treatment after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction improves subjective ratings of knee symptoms and function (15 min) Escalated Care Pathways - a vision for the future of Physiotherapy (15 min) | Drivers and barriers to the development of Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner roles in New Zealand (15 min) What matters most to newly qualified physiotherapists as they navigate their emerging professional identity? (15min) | It takes a Village: Enabling Thriving Māori and Pasifika Allied Health Professionals - followed by Q & A Vaea Ulima Tofi |
| 12.00 - 12.30pm | Co-designing an osteoarthritis patient guidebook for Aotearoa New Zealand: More than just pretty pictures (15 min) Co-constructing a website for people with shoulder pain and health providers (15 min)
| Cognitive and falls prevention exercise combined for people living in residential aged care (5 min) What helps or hinders falls prevention in residential aged care
| Current perspectives of New Zealand physiotherapists on rehabilitation and return to sport following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: A survey (5 min) Barriers and facilitators for physiotherapists engaging with the careway escalated care pathway pilot programme (5 min) Barriers and facilitators encountered by physiotherapists when managing patients with rotator cuff tears (5 min) Musculoskeletal chest pain prevalence in emergency department presentations: A retrospective case notes review (5 min) Moreton Dacombe-Bird
| Waka Hourua: A Bicultural Kaitiakitanga Model for Physiotherapy Practice and Professional Supervision (5 min) Utilizing Cultural Humility in the development of a Culturally Safe Workplace (5 min) Facilitating student learning of supported self-management in healthcare practice “Someone Like Anyone Else”: A Qualitative Exploration of New Zealand Health Professional Students’ Understanding of Disability (5 Min)
| Lessons Māori led early childhood centres can share to improve paediatric health service - perceptions of caregivers of Māori children attending Māori centred childcare (5 min) Family centred care – what does it mean and why physiotherapists should care (5 min) A conceptual model to enhance collaborative goal setting for children with disability in education (5 min) International Classification of Function supporting a mindset change when working with longer term disability (5 min) |
| 12.30 - 1.30pm | Lunch | ||||
| 1.30 - 2.30pm | Keynote speaker Why physiotherapists need to consider mental health when supporting people with self-management Sharon Lawn | ||||
| Concurrent 3A | Concurrent 3B | Concurrent 3C | Concurrent 3D | Concurrent 3E | |
2.30 - 3.00pm
| Teamwork and conflict management: working constructively in the ‘space between’ people
| Mobilizing transformative action in physiotherapy: privilege - critical allyship - collective liberation Stephanie Nixon | The effect of age, sex, thoracic kyphosis and height on acromiohumeral and coracohumeral distances - an ultrasonographic study (15 min) Subacromial Bursitis and Shoulder pain: Exploring the predictors for a negative anaesthetic response (15 min)
| Developing an interdisciplinary pathway of care for New Zealanders with temporomandibular disorders (15 min) Evaluating the cervical spine in concussion. A scoping review of standardised concussion evaluation tools (15 min) | Impact of Person-Centred Care on delivery of the Diabetes Community Exercise Programme (DCEP) (15 min) Implementation of a lifestyle programme for people living with type 2 diabetes: Lessons learnt (15 min) |
3.00 - 3.30pm
| Digital technology: improving access to our expertise and our services
| LGBTQAI + Health: invisible barriers to access
| Clinicians’ perspectives on interventions of a feasibility trial: an implementation-based process evaluation study (5min) Diagnosis and management of shoulder pain by New Zealand physiotherapists: a national survey (5min) Moving the wounded hand: the role of silicone in wound care (5min) | Dysfunction of the Stress Response in individuals with Persistent Post-Concussion Symptoms: A Scoping Review (5 min) Predictive factors associated with outcomes for Low Back Pain patients managed within an Escalated Care Pathway (5 min) Rodney Ford Safety Netting for Cauda Equina Syndrome. Development of Māori & Pasifika language specific red flag information (5 min) | Giving patients agency over their rehabilitation: The effectiveness of self-guided web-based interventions to improve physical activity for people with chronic health conditions: A systematic review and meta-analysis (5 min) High intensity interval training improves aerobic fitness and surgical risk stratification in abdominal cancer sufferers (5 min) A sub-maximal exercise test to predict aerobic fitness using ratings of perceived exertion in cancer sufferers taking beta-blockers (5 min) |
| 3.30 - 4.00pm | Afternoon tea | ||||
| 4.00 - 5.00pm | Keynote speaker Five levers for a good life: eat, sleep, move, breath, cold Prof Grant Schofield | ||||
| 7.00pm - Late | Conference Dinner | ||||
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| 8.15 - 8.30am | Housekeeping and welcome | ||||
| 8.30 - 9.30am | Keynote speaker Is physical activity good or bad for the pelvic floor? Prof Kari Bø | ||||
| Concurrent 4A | Concurrent 4B | Concurrent 4C | Concurrent 4D | Concurrent 4E | |
| 9.30 - 10.00am | Enhancing wellbeing by tackling burnout Dr Fiona Moir | Focussed Symposium Pain sensitivity assessment and clinical management in musculoskeletal disorders Assoc Prof Niamh Moloney, Dr Martin Rabey , Dr Darren Beales | Adapting a qualitative descriptive rehabilitation research method to support a Māori-centred approach (15 min) Physiotherapist and patient perceptions of stratified acute low back pain care in New Zealand (15 min) | Career Pathways in Sports Physiotherapy (15 min) Clinical Exercise Physiology as part of a multi-disciplinary approach to managing chronic conditions (15 min)
| Variability of Cough Assist (MI-E) service provision across New Zealand for people with neuromuscular disorders (15 min) Dr Meredith Perry Trials and tribulations of non-incremental, clinician-led practice change – Revolution, not evolution: two case studies (5 min) Daniel Seller |
10.00 - 10.30am
| Management of women with pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain: an international Delphi study (15 min)
| Implementation of Tikanga Māori into clinical physiotherapy treatment. Experiences and Recommendations (5 min) Implementation of a First Contact Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Service in a New Zealand Emergency Department (5 min) Community Orthopaedic Triage: earlier assessment and intervention through physiotherapy-led Orthopaedic clinics (5 min) Māori therapists’ perspectives of device and programme requirements for effective upper-limb robotic rehabilitation following stroke (5 min) | Physiotherapists’ experiences of managing rugby-related concussion in the community (5 min) Practical application of injury surveillance in an elite domestic women’s cricket squad (5 min) Three shades of green - understanding injury prevalence and burden in elite New Zealand athletes (5 min)
| CAM We Do It? – Use of Cough Assist Machines in an Acute Setting (15 min)
The experiences of physiotherapists working through COVID-19 lockdowns in Aotearoa New Zealand (5 min)
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| 10.30 - 11.00am | Morning tea | ||||
| Concurrent 5A | Concurrent 5B | Concurrent 5C | Concurrent 5D | Concurrent 5E | |
11.00 - 11.30am
| Focussed Symposium Supported self- management: why it’s hot and what it's not
| Exercise in chronic pain conditions: how does it work, for whom, and how might we improve its effectiveness?
| Osteoarthritis: a side effect of living
| Using real-world data to develop a research project: Case study from across the ditch (5 min) Strategies to improve service level outcomes for low back pain in the emergency department (5 min) | Navigating the virtual world: Reliability of the triangle completion test in the real-world and in virtual reality Urinary incontinence management after stroke: An exploratory qualitative study of physiotherapy practices in Aotearoa New Zealand (15 min)
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| 11.30 - 12.00pm | Next generation physiotherapy: Functional activation using Virtual Reality in chronic pain management (15 min) Tailored versus standardized rehabilitation for patients with shoulder pain: a feasibility randomized controlled trial (15min)
| Does treatment received for hip or knee pain and osteoarthritis conform to guideline recommendations? (5 min) Service audit of optimisation of non-surgical intervention for osteoarthritic knee patients at Waitematā DHB (5 min) Learnings on the use of telehealth to deliver a multidisciplinary osteoarthritis optimisation pathway during COVID lockdown (5 min) Use of Physiotherapy Clinical Outcome Measurement in Telerehabilitation in New Zealand: A qualitative study (5 min) | Strength training as treatment for low back pain: a scoping review (5 min) A scoping review of guidelines and pathways for managing low back pain in New Zealand Where do New Zealanders with low back pain seek healthcare? (5 min)
| The impact of desire-to-void and urinary incontinence on dual-task performance during gait on older women (5 min) Visual Fixations and Visually induced dizziness: An exploratory study (5 min) Autonomic dysfunction alters heart rate responses during non-contact boxing in Parkinson’s disease (5 min)
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| 12.00 - 1.00pm | Marquee Speaker Cam Calkoen | ||||
| 1.00 - 1.15pm | Conference closing | ||||
| 1.15pm | Ice creams to finish | ||||