- “I've seen this patient three times and they're not getting better — I'm not sure what to try next.”
- “There are two or three people on this week's list I'm quietly worried about.”
- “I can treat the straightforward cases. It's the ones that don't fit the textbook that throw me.”
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Improve your clinical reasoning with these presentations
Every week you treat patients who don't fit the textbook,the ones that take a lot of trial and error, hoping your treatment works and doesn't flare up their pain.
Clinical reasoning is what separates guessing from solving. It's how you assess efficiently when consult time is short, recognise what you're actually looking at, and choose treatment that fits the patient in front of you, not the last recipe that happened to work.
You'll walk out able to nail what your patient has actually presented with, and get better results because of it.
Choose the clinical reasoning area you want to improve, as the Senior Physio Educators and Presenters Simon Olivotto, Jordan Craig, David Toomey and David Pope show their reasoning on real cases, so you can:
- Assess accurately and efficiently, even in a short consult
- Recognise the clinical patterns that speed up diagnosis
- Replace treatment recipes with reasoning you can defend
- Spot the biases quietly limiting your results
- Answer "How long will it take me to recover?" with confidence

Sharpening your most important clinical tool
Stuck on patients with multiple pain areas? Simplify complex presentations and reach a clearer plan.

The journey
Move beyond recipe-based treatment and shortcut the years it usually takes to reason well.

How to avoid common clinical reasoning errors
Spot the hidden biases that quietly cap your results, and stop making the same mistakes.

Clinical patterns, part 1
Diagnose faster and more accurately by recognising the patterns recipe-based clinicians miss.

Clinical patterns, part 2
Pick up the patient features that will quietly limit, or boost, your treatment results.

Unravelling the subjective examination
Ask better questions, get the real story, and walk into the objective exam with a plan.

Unravelling the objective examination
Stop guessing what to test. Run a thorough, efficient exam that directly informs treatment.

Outcome measures — work smarter, not harder
Pick the right measures to track progress without burning time on admin.

Biopsychosocial approach
Use a biopsychosocial lens with patients you suspect need it — without dismissing their pain.

5 steps to become an evidence-informed practitioner
Cut through conflicting evidence and apply it to the patient in front of you, not the average.

How to predict your patient's recovery
Give patients realistic timelines they can plan around, and spot the ones who need escalation.

Do I need surgery? A case study
Know when to push on with conservative care, and when to refer — using a complex back case.

Clinical reasoning bootcamp and case studies
Drill your reasoning on real cases until it sticks — the patients you usually find tricky.

Secret mission, part 1
A scenario-based challenge that pressure-tests your reasoning on a real-world case.

Secret mission, part 2
Reason through a complex case alongside our team, so you have a method for next time.
Treat painful patients with confidence
Patients with acute, mechanical pain following an injury, like a hamstring muscle tear or lateral ankle ligament injury, often respond quickly to treatment. But a number go on to have ongoing pain and issues, and other patients without any clear injury have high levels of persistent pain.
Most pain courses leave you with neurotransmitters and a photo of a hand in a fire, and no idea what to do on Monday. This module is the opposite: practical strategies, real case studies, and the words to use with the patient in the room.
At the end of this module you'll treat acute and persistent pain successfully and confidently.
This module will give you the knowledge and skills to:
- Recognise and differentiate pain presentations, and tailor treatment to each
- Explain pain so it makes sense, without sounding like "it's all in your head"
- Prepare patients for flare-ups instead of fearing them
- Choose exercise that fits the patient in pain, not a cookie-cutter program
- Know when medication, injection or surgery genuinely helps, and when it doesn't
- Spot the non-musculoskeletal causes that need urgent referral

Why does it hurt? Applying pain science in clinical practice
Understand the mechanism behind the pain, so your treatment finally matches the problem.

Pain patterns 1 — differentiating causes of pain and tailoring treatment
Tell low back, bone and tendon pain apart at the door, and choose treatment to match.

Pain patterns 2 — headaches, visceral, inflammatory, vascular and cancerous sources
Catch the non-MSK pain you can quietly miss, and refer with confidence when needed.

Pain patterns 3 — tailoring treatment to your patient's presentation
Match your treatment to the actual pain presentation — not a generic protocol.

Pain — is it a sensitive conversation?
Have the pain conversation in a way that lands — without losing the patient at hello.

Opening up the hurt locker, part 1 — pain type and neurological assessment
Confidently assess the complex pain presentations that usually leave you guessing.

Opening up the hurt locker, part 2 — how to assess and measure pain
Run the assessments most clinicians skip, and manage patients with neuro symptoms safely.

You're saying it's all in my head? Explaining pain, part 1
Explain persistent pain without sounding dismissive — and without losing trust.

Marvellous metaphors and awesome analogies — explaining pain, part 2
Use analogies that get patients moving when fear of pain has been the real handbrake.

Fearful of flare-ups? Graded activity, pacing and self-efficacy
Help patients get ahead of flare-ups instead of being knocked back by them every time.

Less stress, more success with the BPS — part 1
A simple framework for the complex, multi-factor pain cases that drain your day.

Less stress, more success with the BPS — part 2
Lift your results on persistent low back pain by blending exercise, education and manual therapy.

Effective treatments or bulls#!t and quackery
Stop wasting clinic time on treatments that do not hold up, and know what actually works.

Train for pain or remain the same — exercise for painful patients
Take the guesswork out of prescribing exercise when pain is the limiting factor.

Are athletes superhuman? Part 1
Get sharper at assessing and managing pain and injury in athletic populations.

Are athletes superhuman? Part 2
Treat athletes with tendon, joint or chondral pain without sidelining them unnecessarily.

The drugs don't work. Or do they? Part 1
Talk patients through their medical options and know when to refer for meds or injections.

Medical management of pain, part 2 — analgesics and anti-inflammatories
Explain NSAIDs, opioids, steroids and muscle relaxants to patients without overstepping.

Medical management of pain, part 3 — antidepressants, anaesthetics and special meds
Know which medications help, which side-effects to watch for, and what is emerging.

Medical management of pain, part 4 — spinal cord stimulators and conclusions
Understand spinal cord stimulators for the failed-back-surgery patients you do see.

Painful conditions, part 1 — complex foot and ankle pain
Work through a real persistent ankle case so you have a method for the next one.

Painful conditions, part 2 — complex neck and widespread pain
Make sense of severe, persistent neck and widespread pain that has stalled in clinic.

Painful conditions, part 3 — headaches and neck pain, chicken or egg?
Identify which is driving which, and treat the right one first.

Upper limb neurological assessment — practical demonstrations
See the upper limb neuro exam done properly, and use it tomorrow.

Lower limb neurological assessment — practical demonstrations
Add a clean lower limb neuro exam to your toolkit through clear demonstrations.

Upper motor neurone reflexes and clinical sensory testing
For bilateral symptoms or altered sensation, know what to test and what it means.
Run the conversations that actually move patients forward
Some patients you click with instantly,others leave the room and you replay the consult in your head for the rest of the day wondering what you could have said differently.
Most of your clinical results sit on the back of one thing: did the patient actually buy in? This module gives you the language, the questions and the conversational repair work to turn awkward consults into productive ones, get athletes back to play with confidence, and look after your own career through the hard weeks.
You'll walk into every consult clearer, calmer and more in control of where the conversation goes.
Across nine presentations, David Toomey, Simon Olivotto and Paula Peralta show you the conversations they use in clinic, so you can:
- Get patients onside in the first consult, not the third
- Lift exercise adherence without nagging
- Handle difficult patients without dreading the next appointment
- Communicate with athletes through significant injuries and return to play
- Spot the early signs of burnout in yourself and act on them
- Quiet imposter syndrome and back your own clinical judgement

Effective communication — unlocking your clinical superpowers
Practical strategies and case studies that turn communication into your clinical superpower.

Mastering CPD for clinical success
The expert habits and CPD strategies that turn capable clinicians into respected ones.

Patient rehab — careless compliance to awesome adherence
Get patients to actually do the exercises, without nagging or rewriting the program every visit.

Key communication skills to overcome barriers to recovery
Help patients move past the fears and unhelpful beliefs that quietly stall their recovery.

Tough love and difficult patients
Turn the consults you dread into ones you can run with composure.

Communication with athletes, part 1
Get athletes back to play faster by handling the conversation, not just the rehab.

Communication with athletes, part 2
Guide athletes through significant injuries and treatment decisions without losing trust.

On fire or burning out, part 1
Spot the early signs of burnout in yourself and act on them before it costs you.

Imposter syndrome — on fire or burning out, part 2
Quiet the self-doubt and back your own clinical judgement.
Treat low back pain with a clear plan, not a guess
Most clinicians have a low back patient on this afternoon's list they are not sure what to do with —the irritable acute one, the recurrent flare, or the patient with nothing on the scan who is still in pain six months later.
Low back pain only looks complicated when you treat it as one thing. Once you can identify what is actually driving the patient's symptoms, the plan writes itself. This module takes you from subjective history through a structured objective exam to tailored treatment, manual therapy, exercise and education that fits the patient in front of you.
You'll walk in with a method for the low back patients you currently dread, and walk out with patients who got somewhere.
Across the module, Simon Olivotto, David Toomey and Paula Peralta show their reasoning on real low back cases, so you can:
- Take a subjective history that cuts your objective testing in half
- Run an efficient, accurate lumbar assessment
- Identify the specific drivers behind "non-specific" low back pain
- Choose manual therapy, exercise and education that actually fit each patient
- Manage irritable acute presentations without making them worse
- Treat persistent and recurring low back pain with a clear plan

Facing Physio fears of the back pain bogeyman
Address the assumptions and anxieties that quietly cap your low back results.

Specifically non-specific? Part 1
Find the diagnostic specifics hiding inside "non-specific" low back pain.

How to be more specific with treatment, part 2
Match treatment to the actual patient presentation, not a one-size protocol.

Explain diagnosis and successfully treat NSLBP, part 3
Set assessment priorities, educate the patient, and map out a clear recovery pathway.

Clear, simple subjective history that leads to better treatment
Cut your objective testing in half by asking better questions up front.

Low back pain — when age, gender and sport matter
Adjust your assessment and management to the patient demographic in front of you.

Motivate patients and measure success with PROMs
Use outcome measures to motivate patients and show real recovery progress.

Five ways to streamline your lumbar objective assessment
Run a faster lumbar exam without losing the information that matters.

Lumbar assessment, part 1 — sharpen your objective assessment
A systematic lumbar exam, demonstrated step by step with the reasoning behind each test.

Lumbar assessment, part 2 — differential diagnosis
Tell lumbar, hip, sacroiliac and referred pain apart with confidence.

Lumbar assessment, part 3 — neurological and neuromechanosensitivity
A clean neuro exam for lumbar and lower limb presentations.

Lumbar assessment, part 4 — manual therapy and movement
Use movement and manual assessment to identify what is actually driving symptoms.

Lumbar assessment, part 5 — motor control, strength and endurance
Pick up the movement, control and capacity deficits that quietly feed recurrent pain.

Function, motor control and range of movement, part 1
Assess functional movement and motor control to guide rehab priorities.

Strength and endurance tests, part 2
Assess and build lumbar, hip and kinetic chain capacity that translates to recovery.

Big rocks first — tailored treatment, part 1
A framework for choosing what to treat first based on the patient in front of you.

Big rocks first — tailored treatment, part 2
Personalise treatment for the complex cases that defy a single approach.

Manual therapy, part 1 — why, when and how
Where manual therapy fits, and where it does not, in a modern low back plan.

Lumbar PAIVMs — identify and treat painful segments. Manual therapy, part 2
Refine palpation and segmental treatment for precise, effective manual therapy.

Lumbar PPIVMs — improve painful flexion, lateral flexion and rotation. Manual therapy, part 3
PPIVM techniques for restricted movement and mechanosensitivity.

Lumbar manipulation / HVT. Manual therapy, part 4
High-velocity thrust techniques, when and how to use them safely.

Clinical reasoning — how to provide effective manual therapy
Reason through manual therapy decisions on real patient scenarios.

Exercises to complement manual therapy
Pair home exercises with manual therapy so progress sticks.

Optimal exercise options for low back pain, part 1
Pick the right exercise modality and the right time to prescribe it.

Optimal exercise options for low back pain, part 2
A framework for adaptable, evidence-informed exercise selection.

Optimal exercise options for low back pain, part 3
Reduce fear and keep patients engaged with their rehab.

Acute low back exercises, part 1 — low back movement flow
A movement flow designed for highly irritable acute presentations.

Acute low back exercises, part 2 — non-low back pain flow
Modify standard exercises for flexion or extension intolerance without losing training stimulus.
Manage hand and finger injuries with confidence
Hands land on your list with a splint, a half-explained referral letter,and a patient who wants to know if they will play on the weekend.
Hands punch above their weight clinically — small joints, big consequences when management is off, and a referral pathway that is not always obvious. Hand Therapist Melissa Wallace walks you through the common presentations end-to-end, so you can splint, load and refer with confidence instead of caution.
You'll walk out with a clear management plan for every common hand presentation that lands on your list.
Across five presentations, Melissa Wallace shows you the assessment, splinting and rehab for the hand presentations you actually see, so you can:
- Manage mallet finger injuries without long-term extension lag
- Assess and treat PIP joint and thumb UCL injuries with confidence
- Make safe calls on fifth metacarpal fractures, including red flags
- Treat trigger finger with splinting, tendon gliding and load
- Settle first CMC joint OA with splinting, load and progressive strength

Hands, part 1 — hand and mallet finger injuries
Assess and treat mallet finger confidently, without long-term extension lag.
Hands, part 2 — PIP joint and thumb injuries
PIP joint ligament injuries, dislocations and thumb UCL tears — testing, splinting and rehab.

Hands, part 3 — metacarpal fractures
Manage fifth metacarpal fractures with confident splinting, mobilisation and red-flag spotting.

Hands, part 4 — trigger finger
Settle stenosing flexor tenosynovitis with splinting, tendon gliding and load.

Hands, part 5 — 1st CMC joint OA
Treat thumb CMC OA with splinting, load management and progressive strengthening.
Work up the acute knee with a calm, structured approach
A patient walks in 48 hours after an acute knee injury —swollen, guarded, and asking whether they need a scan.
Acute knee assessment is where careful clinicians earn their reputation. Pick the right special tests, sequence them well, and your diagnosis and management plan come together in one consult. This module covers ACL, MCL, LCL, PCL, posterolateral corner, meniscal and patellar dislocation presentations with a clear rehab plan for each.
You'll walk in able to assess and plan the acute knee with structure, instead of guessing.
Across the module, Clare Walsh shows you how she works up the acute knee, so you can:
- Run a systematic acute knee exam covering every key ligament
- Differentiate ACL, MCL, LCL, PCL and meniscal injuries with confidence
- Build a clear rehab plan for ACL and meniscal injuries
- Manage MCL, LCL, PCL and patellar dislocation rehab end-to-end
- Help patients make informed decisions about meniscal surgery

Acute knee injury assessment and diagnosis
A systematic approach to ACL, MCL, LCL, PCL, posterolateral corner and meniscal injuries.

ACL and meniscal injury rehab
Treatment pathways and rehab protocols for ACL and meniscal injuries.

MCL, LCL, PCL and patellar dislocation rehab
Rehab strategies for MCL, LCL, PCL and patellar dislocation, end-to-end.
Plus over 100 additional online courses from leading clinicians
On top of the modules above, your membership unlocks a deep library of full-length online courses, in chronological release order, from clinicians around the world.

Sherlock Holmes and the case of the second strain
In the Case of the Second Strain, Sherlock Holmes aka Nick Kendrick (Sports and Musculoskeletal Physio) investigates this case study of a patient with a workplace injury, and his…

Sherlock Holmes and a case of irregular shoulder pain
Shoulder pain can result from irritation or overload of local structures, along with referral from the cervical and thoracic spine.

Sherlock Holmes and the case of lateral knee pain
In this case study presentation with Nick Kendrick, you will explore a commonly missed diagnosis in lateral knee pain, alongside the subjective history, objective assessment and…

Sherlock Holmes & the case of driving back pain
A golfer with acute onset of low back, hip and anterior thigh pain with pins and needles, and numbness.

Sherlock Holmes and the adventure of the crooked man
Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Crooked Man with Nick Kendrick We all treat patients with persistent, ongoing low back pain, however what are they key elements you need…

Sherlock Holmes and the case of the whipping neck
Whiplash patients -they can be a tricky mob to treat. Why is that? Some do amazingly, and recover really quickly, and others have lingering pain that is really hard to budge.

Sherlock Holmes and the cases of incongruous shoulders
Sherlock is on the hunt again, this time tracking down the cause of shoulder pain in two separate and seemingly unrelated patients.

Sherlock Holmes and the adventure of the devil's hamstring
Explore the case study of a high level athlete with a hamstring strain. Discover how to take your hamstring injury patients through a successful hamstring injury rehab program…

Sherlock Holmes & the solitary runner
When our patients present with pain, we’re on the lookout to identify musculoskeletal causes of pain that will respond to treatment, while keeping an eye out for serious pathology…

Sherlock Holmes and the sign of the four hypotheses
Sherlock’s journey starts off in the wrong direction, and treatment stops improving his patients' pain.

Your ultimate guide to clinical reasoning part 1 - Quick diagnosis and analytical reasoning
Our clinical reasoning needs a combination of quick recognition and analytical thinking to get the best results for our patients.

Your ultimate guide to clinical reasoning part 2 - Psychosocial focused reasoning
We often feel like the success or failure of a treatment is largely dependent on whether we are providing the “right” treatment or rehab exercises.

Your ultimate guide to clinical reasoning part 3 - Subjective assessment & unpacking patient answers
Explore how to screen for psychosocial factors in your patient interview, how to unpack your patient’s beliefs and feelings, and important areas & questions you need to include in…

Your ultimate guide to clinical reasoning part 4 - Pain patterns & clinical tests
Discover how to differentiate your patients pain into one of three types - nociceptive, neuropathic or nociplastic, and why and how to adjust your assessment & treatment depending…

Your ultimate guide to clinical reasoning part 5 - Red flags & clinically reasoned treatment plans
Discover when your patients need immediate medical attention, and red flags we need to keep an eye out for during our history and examination.

Elbow part 1 - Anatomy, assessment & differential diagnosis
Anatomy, assessment & diagnosis of elbow pain with Nick Kendrick

Elbow part 2 - Practical assessment & treatment directions
Discover how you can perform an accurate and efficient elbow assessment, and use your assessment to guide your treatment.

Elbow part 3 - Lateral elbow treatment & rehab progressions
What is the best way to treat lateral elbow pain? In this online course, you will discover treatment, exercises and progressions you can use to get great results with lateral…

Elbow part 4 - Lateral elbow pain case studies & quiz
How can you rehab a manual labourer with lateral elbow pain back to full strength and return to work? What will you do differently with an office worker with elbow pain?

Elbow part 5 - Anterior & medial elbow pain assessment & diagnosis
In this online course, you’ll find out what is causing your patient’s medial elbow pain, the tests you can perform, and how to assess your patients.

Elbow part 6 - Anterior & medial elbow treatment
Discover how to thoroughly rehab your medial and anterior elbow pain patients, and return them back to sport painfree and with stronger, more robust elbows.

Cervical spine assessment & treatment
Shoulder and upper limb pain can be referred from the cervical spine, or be due to tissue irritation in the area of pain.

Cervical spine assessment following trauma
Cervical Spine assessment following traumaThe Cervical Spine frequently cops a bit of trauma in impact sports such as rugby and ultimate fighting.

Cervical spine motor control retraining
If you treat the cervical spine, when will motor control retraining help you achieve better results with neck pain?
The sporting neck injury and exercise prescription

Upper limb neurodynamics
What is the link between tendinopathy and neurodynamics in the upper limb? How can you distinguish if the upper limb nerves are causing symptoms that imitate a tendinopathy?

Thoracic outlet syndrome
Thoracic Outlet Syndrom (TOS) is a common condition, but is often overlooked as a cause of shoulder and arm pain.
5 Minute Physio tip - Manual therapy for the cervical spine - is it evidence based?

Acute low back pain part 1 - How to use your subjective assessment to improve your acute low back pain results
Acute low back pain is one of the most common conditions patients present with during the week. Would you like to improve your results with acute low back pain?

Acute low back pain part 2 - How to perform a great objective assessment
This online course is designed to help improve your assessment of patients with acute low back pain, so that you know exactly where and how to treat.

Acute low back pain part 3 - Initial treatment
Discover effective treatment and education strategies you can use immediately to improve your results with acute low back pain, including exercises, targeted and well-reasoned…

Acute low back pain part 4 - Treatment progression
Discover exactly what you need to include, and how to progress your treatment, so you can get great results with acute low back pain.

"Complex to clear" - Complex low back, hip & groin pain case study
How to assess, clinically reason & treat complex low back, hip & groin pain with David Pope

Low back pain and lumbar spondylolysis. How to assess, use imaging and effectively manage lumbar bone stress injuries
Explore the latest research, and find out exactly how to identify, assess and treat lumbar spondylolysis patients.

Shoulder rehabilitation for contact sports and the rugby shoulder
How can you rehabilitate your contact athletes to prepare for full return to training and play? Discover the key principles, exercises and progression to incorporate into your…

Rotator cuff assessment & treatment
Assessment & Management of the ‘Rotator Cuff’ – an evidence based approachShoulder pain is common in athletes and the general population, and in this webinar …

Exercises for rotator cuff tendinopathy
Treatment for shoulder pain incorporates exercises in the form of strengthening, control, loading or stretches.

Shoulder impact injuries
Andrew Ryan is a man that has seen a few shoulder impact injuries in his time covering rugby and now as one of the Australian Qantas Wallabies physio. In this weeks video on

AC joint rehabilitation
Acromioclavicular (AC) joint injuries are the most frequent acute shoulder girdle injuries in athletes, and require a structured rehabilitation program to get your athletes back o…

Common wrist conditions: Assessment & treatment
Patients with wrist injuries from an acute injury such as a fall or twisting injury, or chronic injuries from overload are a common Physio presentation, while wrist anatomy and…

Femoroacetabular impingement assessment & treatment
When patients present with hip and groin pain, how can you diagnose the source of symptoms? Femoroacetabular impingement syndrome (FAIS) can contribute to deep anterior groin…

Adductor & iliopsoas-related groin pain rehabilitation
Would you like a clear understanding on how best to approach extra-articular hip conditions such as adductor & iliopsoas related groin pain?The hip and groin area is often v…

Posterior hip & gluteal pain part 1 - Assessment & diagnosis
Do you find differential diagnosis with some chronic gluteal pain difficult? Would you like a clear understanding on how best to approach deep gluteal syndrome, ischio-femoral…

Posterior hip & gluteal pain part 2 - Treatment
Would you like great treatment results with gluteal pain in your general and athletic patient population?

Adductor-related groin pain rehab & return to sport progressions
This online course with Sports Physio Andrew Wallis (Physio with St Kilda AFL Football team) will help you answer your patients tough groin pain questions, diagnose what is…

Tackling groin injuries
Groin injuries are extremely common in rugby, football and other sports that involve kicking or running (as well as the ever-popular synchronised swimming and pole dancing -…

Groin pain - A case study
Groin pain can have a number of structures that are implicated, including the hip joint, hip flexors, adductors, abdominals and lumbar spine.

Anterior hip pain & labral tears
Discover common causes and biomechanics that contribute to acetabular labral tears, plus treatment strategies you can use with hip and groin pain patients

Treatment of anterior hip & groin pain
Anterior hip and groin pain is common in athletes, runners and sports that involve change of direction sportspeople.

Hip - Retraining neuromuscular function
Hip Retraining Video Series1 - Hip control, functional assessment2 - Hip ROM, Lateral knee pain, DDX of Lateral knee pain3 - Assessment of deep hip muscle function, using RTUS and…

Acetabular labral tears
What contributes to overload of the anterior hip? How can you incorporate manual therapy, motor control, postural correction and strengthening to address the factors overloading…

Acetabular labral tears - Diagnosis, surgery & postoperative rehabilitation
Discover how to diagnose acetabular labral tears, surgical approaches to labral repair/resection, and how to rehabilitate your patients postoperatively

Pelvis assessment
The pelvis is often overlooked as an area that can contribute to low back and lower limb pain and dysfunction.

Standing posture assessment
Having success with your manual therapy improving your patients in the clinic, but frustrated that their habits and posture outside the clinic are limiting their results?

Posterior thigh pain - differential diagnosis
Improve your posterior thigh pain assessment, diagnostic accuracy and confidence with this online course with Nick Kendrick.

Proximal hamstring tendinopathy and avulsion injuries - assessment & treatment masterclass
Proximal hamstring tendinopathy is common in runners and athletes. This masterclass will provide you with a complete understanding of the anatomy, pathology and presentation of…

Acute hamstring injuries
Acute Hamstring Injuries 1- Clinical assessment- Diagnosis- Mechanism of injury- Anatomy- Differential diagnosisAcute Hamstring Injuries 2- Further clinical assessment-…
Hamstring rehab for elite sprinters

Hamstring rehab protocol
Hamstring injuries are one of the most common acute injuries in the football codes, as well as other sports.

Askling's H-Test for RTP following hamstring injury
Hamstrings are commonly reinjured following returning to full training and sport, and one of the hardest decisions to make is whether your athlete is ready to return following a…

Acute knee injuries
Diagnosing and managing acute knee injuries in the early stages of injury can have a huge impact on a patients recovery and return to sport.

Accelerated conservative management of medial knee injuries
Medial knee injuries often occur in snow sports, or other sports when landing or being tackled. Different areas of the medial knee can be injured, including the deep, superficial…

Accelerated rehabilitation of medial knee injuries
Accelerated rehabilitation of medial knee injuries part 2 with Ed Richmond

Anterior knee pain diagnosis & differential diagnosis
Diagnosis of the source of your patients anterior knee pain is vital to be able to provide the specific treatment your patient needs, whether that is motor control retraining…

Anterior knee pain and the impact of load
Explore practical aspects and research around AKP and discover how to structure and tailor your treatment, so you can help your AKP patients recover, improve their load tolerance…

Advanced ACL rehab
How can you take your patients through to return to sport following an ACL reconstruction? Would you like more ideas for advanced rehabilitation progressions of your ACL patients?

MWM's for the Knee
Brian Mulligan presents MWM's for the KneeBrian developed Mobilisation with Movement (MWM), and in this video series, Brian in his always entertaining manner, will help you…

ITB syndrome
In the webinar you will discoverSources of lateral knee painSubjective clues that your patient's pain is related to their ITBPathology - what is the pathology and which…

Imaging of the knee
MRI is increasingly being used to diagnose injuries, especially around the knee. Do you know how to read an MRI? How do you show your patients the structural issues on their MRI?

Plantar fasciopathy
Plantar fasciopathy is one of the most common foot conditions, and Rob Standen, a Physiotherapist who worked with the Penrith Panthers for more than 17 years, works at Penrith…

Plantar heel pain part 1 - Assessment & diagnosis
How will you assess and differentiate PHP from other types of heel pain, so you can give your patient the treatment they need? Find out in this webinar

Plantar heel pain part 2 - Exercises & progressions
What exercises will you use with your next Plantar heel pain (PHP) patient to help your patients get back to painfree walking, running and getting out of bed?

Plantar heel pain part 3 - Additional treatment
There are a number of treatment options available for PHP, like isometric exercises, heavy slow resistance, strengthening, stretching, corticosteroid injection, extracorporeal…

Achilles tendon rupture part 1 - Assessment, diagnosis & management options
Achilles tendon ruptures have increased in frequency over the last 30 years. Over this time period it has become more common to manage Achilles tendon ruptures using conservative…

Achilles tendon rupture part 2 - Rehabilitation and return to sport
When your patient presents with an Achilles tendon rupture, what is the best way to manage and rehabilitate it?

Forefoot injuries part 1 - Assessment & treatment
Would you like a complete way to assess the foot, incorporating joint assessment, muscle testing, and functional assessment?

Forefoot injuries part 2 - Advanced injury management
The forefoot is a very common area of injury in your patients that are runners, have recently changed their footwear or taken up a new sport.

MWM's for the ankle
Ankle sprains are common in every sport, and in this presentation Brian Mulligan discusses how to improve your speed of recovery using MWM's.

Imaging of sports injuries in the foot & ankle
When should you order imaging of the foot and ankle, and if you need to order imaging, what type of imaging should you order?

Tendinopathy part 1 - Understanding tendinopathy & the current evidence
Lower limb tendinopathy comes in a bunch of flavours - gluteal, hamstring, patellar, quadriceps, plantar heel pain, Tib Post, or Achilles.

Tendinopathy part 2 - Assessment, diagnosis & red flags
Explore assessment & differential diagnosis for common tendinopathies, how to screen for red flags, and compare treatment approaches including exercise rehab, corticosteroid & PRP…

Tendinopathy Part 3 - Treatment
Explore how to use eccentrics, isometrics, isotonics and plyometrics in your tendinopathy treatment. Discover how to structure your exercise program, decide on the best rehab…

Temporomandibular disorders - anatomy, assessment & diagnosis
Would you like to improve your anatomy, understanding and assessment of the TMJ and temporomandibular disorders (TMD)?In this webinar on TMD, Dr Stephen Shaffer will help you…

Temporomandibular disorders - treatment
Discover how to treat temporomandibular disorders, including the best ways to perform joint mobilisation, therapeutic home exercise programs, self treatment and education.In this…

BPPV (Vertigo) assessment & treatment
Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) is a common cause of vertigo, and when properly diagnosed responds very well to Physiotherapy treatment.In this video on BPPV…

Running injury assessment & treatment part 1 - How to perform a running assessment
Would you like to improve your assessment and treatment of runners? How can you perform a thorough and accurate assessment of your runners biomechanics to identify the key…

Running injury assessment & treatment part 2 - How to retrain running
This webinar is the second in a series of 3 from Dr Rich Willy on the Assessment and treatment of running injuries.Dr Rich Willy will discuss how you can incorporate your running…

Running injury assessment & treatment part 3 - Footwear and strengthening
Discover how to advise your runners on footwear, how to perform strengthening for runners, and how to incorporate a return to running program for your injured runners.This webinar…

Bone stress injuries in runners
Bone stress injuries such as Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome (shin splints) are common in runners, basketball players and other athletes.In this webinar with Tom Goom, you will gain…

Strength & conditioning in rehab part 1
Are your exercises helping your patients get stronger and build load capacity to get the treatment results you want?

Strength & conditioning in rehab part 2
Discover how to incorporate upper or lower body strength training exercises and progressions in your patients rehab program.

Strength and conditioning for youths and adolescents part 1
How can you incorporate S&C into your rehab of youth and adolescents, and help them become quick, strong, powerful and robust?

Strength and conditioning for youths and adolescents part 2
Youth athletes rapidly develop skills and fitness, and as training progresses they can face burnout, overtraining or injury, which may take months of recovery or result in…

Strength and conditioning for youths and adolescents part 3
Youth athletes that display talent in a sport may specialise early and move into development programs to maximise their athletic potential.

The Art of Communication - improving patient motivation & compliance
In this member PODCAST AUDIO series "The Art of Communication" with APA Titled Musculoskeletal and Sports Physiotherapist James Miller, you will discover how to persuade…

How to develop great patient communication skills
Communication may be the MOST IMPORTANT part of your entire patient treatment. Your communication skills make the difference between a patient connecting with you, understanding…

Dance - Movement & pre-pointe assessment
Assessing your patients' movement patterns are an essential component of identifying why they have developed their musculoskeletal pain, and helping you design their rehab…

Swimmers - Assessment
Swimming and surfing are extremely popular sports, and if your clinical practice is anything like ours, you get to treat lots of recreational and elite swimmers for acute and…

Cyclist assessment & bike setup
Cyclists are prone to overuse injuries due to the high volume nature of training, so will often spend a bit of time in the treatment room of their favourite Physio.

Mountain bike injury assessment treatment & setup
Is your treatment and exercise prescription carrying over and affecting the way your patients use their body while playing sport?

Martial arts injuries
Martial arts injuries

Weightlifting injuries
Weightlifting Injuries Video SeriesBench Press Video 1 covers the biomechanics of the most commonly performed gym exercise - the bench press.

Integrating physio & yoga
Integrating Physiotherapy and Yoga with Nichole Hamilton is a step by step video to help you incorporate yoga into your patients rehabilitation.
5 minute physio tip - Mythbusting cryotherapy and how to get better results

Case study - Cervical radiculopathy
Cervical radiculopathy involves pain in the neck that may radiate to the upper limb in a dermatomal pattern, and involve neurological symptoms such as P&N, numbness, weakness or…

Low back pain - How can you influence your patients beliefs
Discover communication strategies you can use to improve low back pain patient beliefs and your treatment results.

Anterior hip pain
What contributes to overload of the anterior hip? How can you incorporate manual therapy, motor control, postural correction and strengthening to address the factors overloading…

Femoroacetabular impingement diagnosis & management
Common symptoms, diagnosis, exercise and treatment options for Femoroacetabular impingement syndrome (FAIS)

Hamstring injuries - Evidence-based and novel approaches to prevention and treatment
Athletes involved in high speed running or kicking are susceptible to hamstring injury. Which exercises can be used in rehab or to reduce the risk of injury?

Hamstring injuries in elite sprinters
How can you progress your athletes from the acute stages of hamstring injury, right through to return to an elite level?
Hand-outs and clinic references for the patient in front of you
One-page visual references and patient hand-outs you can print or share. Pulled from across the modules so you have the right one when you need it.

How to be more specific with LBP assessment and treatment
A one-page reference for diagnosing low back pain and pinpointing the source of symptoms.

Be more specific with low back pain treatment
Visual guide for tailoring treatment to the patient in front of you.

Explain diagnosis and successfully treat NSLBP
A reference for explaining NSLBP and setting a clear treatment direction.

Take a clear low back pain subjective history
A framework for a focused subjective exam with minimal objective testing.

Low back pain myths — clinic and patient handouts
Hand-outs that bust the LBP myths quietly interfering with patient recovery.

Acute low back flow
A visual exercise guide for highly irritable acute low back presentations.

Mastering meniscal tears
A patient-facing visual for treatment decisions after a meniscal injury.
Learning from clinicians who still treat patients every week
The Clinical Edge team behind the modules above. Each is a working clinician with the credentials, the case load and the teaching chops to back it up.

David Pope
APA Titled Musculoskeletal and Sports Physiotherapist · Founder

Simon Olivotto
Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist · 19+ years

Dr David Toomey
Senior Physiotherapist · Acute injury to persistent pain

Paula Peralta
Specialist Sports and Exercise Physiotherapist · Olympic and Paralympic teams

Nick Kendrick
APA Titled Sports and Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist

Jordan Craig
APA Titled Sports and Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist · 10+ years

Melissa Wallace
Accredited Hand Therapist · MSc Hand Therapy

Clare Walsh
Sports Physiotherapist · 20 years from grassroots to Olympic
What members say.
Real notes from working clinicians, in their own words.
Clinical Edge is one of my main sources for furthering the clinical knowledge and skills for both myself and my staff. The well-laid-out and easy-to-use site covers a great range of musculoskeletal conditions, their assessment and treatment. It is like having access to great in-services any time you need them.
Since I became a member, I have refined my skills as a PT. I have seen even better results for my patients. Thank you for your contribution to our profession.
Clinical Edge has been an integral support for me and my local practice, signposting me to the best up-to-date evidence, revitalising and making practice fun.
This helps to cut out the unnecessary stuff we tend to do and focus on what is important and ensure good clinical outcomes for patients.
30 minutes a week is enough.
You do not need a study weekend. You do not need to clear your evenings.
The members who get the most out of Clinical Edge are not the ones with the most spare time. They are the ones who put 30 useful minutes into it on a Tuesday between patients. You will not watch everything. Nobody does. But you will watch the things that matter for the patients in front of you.
- 01Between patientsA 5 to 15 minute module section, on the topic you are seeing most this week.
- 02On the drive homeAn MP3 of a presentation while you are commuting, walking the dog, or at the gym.
- 03Before a tricky appointmentA quick library search to refresh on the assessment you planned.
- 04Once a monthA live Q&A call where you can bring a real case from your list.
Try it for 14 days. If it's not for you, we'll refund you.
I am confident that within two weeks of joining, you will have already used something with a patient. If that is not how it goes for you, email us within 14 days and we will refund your membership, less a $10 AUD administration fee. This guarantee is available to first-time members only; if you have held a Clinical Edge membership before, it does not apply.
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This is not for everyone.
- You are looking for a quick-fix exercise list or a magic protocol
- You're currently unable to spend time on deliberate learning.
- You do not currently treat musculoskeletal or sports injury patients
- You work exclusively in a population we do not cover such as paediatric neurology, stroke, or cardiac rehab
- You are not registered to practice or undergoing training to become qualified to practice.
- You don't currently have the funds to invest in your clinical development. To help with this, we have a lot of great free resources that you can enjoy and benefit from.
- You treat musculoskeletal or sports injury patients regularly and want to be better at it
- You would rather understand the reasoning than memorise the protocol
- You had a patient on your list this week you could not make sense of
- You want to walk into your next complex patient feeling sharper, not anxious
- You are prepared to be wrong about a patient, learn, and try something different
- You want practical training you can use the same week, presented by clinicians who actually treat patients
- You would rather learn in 15-minute chunks than wait six months for the next course
Why I built Clinical Edge.
“How can every test be painful? Now what? How am I going to tell her what is wrong with her low back, and help her get better, when I do not have any idea?”

That is what was going through my head in 2001, sitting across from a 53-year-old patient on a musculoskeletal outpatients rotation at the local hospital. New graduate Physio. Completely out of my depth. All I could hear was the air-conditioning, the next room's conversation, and the scratch of my own pen as I tried to come up with an assessment and treatment plan.
That feeling of staring at a patient and not knowing what to do is what Clinical Edge exists to solve. It is the same feeling members tell us drove them to sign up. It does not fully go away with one weekend course, or a textbook, or a Google search at 11pm on a Sunday.
I started Clinical Edge in 2010, after running face-to-face courses as Sports Edge Physio, because I was sick of six-hour round trips to Sydney for one-hour evening lectures. If travel and time were getting in the way of my own learning, they were getting in the way of yours too. Practical, evidence-informed training you can fit between patients, presented by clinicians still treating patients. That was the idea. It still is.
In 2015 and 2016 I completed a Masters in Musculoskeletal and Sports Physiotherapy at Griffith. $100K, two years, fully worth it. Since then, I have built a team of titled Physios who all currently work in clinical practice and bring their real cases into the modules.
Clinical Edge exists so you can get the most useful parts of post-grad training without the $100K, the travel, or the two years away from your life. And so you can stop having that now what moment in the treatment room.
Common questions.
Because the work does not get easier in three months and your patients are in the room this week. Most members tell me they wish they had joined earlier. The 14-day money-back guarantee means you can start now, risk-free.
You can keep doing what you have been doing.
Or you can spend 30 minutes a week, for less than the cost of one weekend course a year, and walk into next week's complex patient with a clearer head and a sharper plan.
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