Bernie Rasmussen Physiotherapy

19/06/2025

This latest from NDIS is so disheartening. The divide between Metro and regional just escalated. Our families do it tough enough

25/04/2024

Love this

07/07/2022

Interesting Read, and I am sure we will get more data as ACL injuries are now being monitored more closely

Despite its popularity, netball continually gets a bad rap for joints. Time and time again in physiotherapy clinics, we hear patients say, "I have bad knees because I used to play netball".

14/12/2021

a step towards a proactive solution

With Australians living almost 11 years in poor health on average, equating to around 13 per cent of their life, the Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA) welcomes the National Preventive Health

03/12/2021

Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common physical disability of childhood in Australia. Riding a bicycle is a popular activity for Australian children and can be a goal for children with CP.

Researchers Dr Rachel Toovey, APAM, Associate Professor Adrienne Harvey, APAM, Professor Jennifer McGinley, APAM, Professor Katherine J. Lee, Dr Sophy Shih, and Professor Alicia Spittle, APAM, aimed to determine whether a task-specific physiotherapist-led training approach is more effective than a non-specific parent-led home programme for attaining bicycle-riding goals in ambulant children with CP. This work was supported by a PRF Seeding Grant allocated to Dr Rachel Toovey in 2016.

For more information: https://australian.physio/research/prf/translation/bicycle-riding-children-cerebral-palsy

This is a Physiotherapy Research Foundation (PRF) initiative supported by PAIN AWAY AUSTRALIA, partner of the PRF.

04/06/2021

Movement impacts all learning

APA Paediatric group members Sarah Reedman and Lisa Truscott create five discussion points about physiotherapy in children and young people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). 1. Movement difficulties are highly prevalent in children with ASD ASD is defined by deficits in social communication and t...