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08.00 - 09.00 Registration, Refreshments & Trade Exhibition viewing
09.00 - 09.05 Welcome & Introduction
Session 1
09.05 - 09:15 Leonardo da Vinci, Parachutes and Evidence Based Practice.
Dr Jeremy Lewis PhD MSc (Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy) MCSP MAPA MMACP MMPA, Consultant Physiotherapist – St George’s Hospital, Visiting Reader-St George’s University of London, Research Lead -Chelsea & Westminster Hospital Foundation NHS Trust
09:15 – 09:55 'Treatments for musculoskeletal conditions: current state of play and what is on the horizon? Keynote Lecture
Dr Nadine E Foster DPhil - Senior Lecturer (Pain Management) and DoH Primary Care Career Scientist Primary Care Sciences Research Centre,Keele University, UK-
09:55 – 10:00 Questions and discussion
10.00 - 10.40 Food supplements for patients with musculoskeletal conditions. Does supplementation improve outcome?
Professor Ron Maughan - School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Loughborough University, UK
10:40 – 10:45 Questions and discussion
10:45- 11:15 Refreshments and Trade Exhibition viewing
Session 2
11.15 – 11:55 Joint manipulation. Is it all that its ‘cracked’ up to be?
Dr David Evans PhD BSc (Hons) Ost - Researcher and Registered Osteopath School of Health and Rehabilitation, Keele University and Research Centre, British School of Osteopathy
11:55 - 12:00 Questions and discussion
12:00 – 12:25 Outcome measures for LBP. What should we be using?
Elaine Maughan MSc MMACP MCSP - Head of Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy, Lambeth PCT, London, UK
12:25 – 12:30 Questions and discussion
12:30- 13:45 Lunch and Trade Exhibition viewing
Session 3
13:45 – 14:25 The neurological examination in musculoskeletal assessment; Is it reliable, is it valid?
Dr Mark Roberts MBBS – Consultant Neurologist Greater Manchester Neurosciences Centre, Hope Hospital, Salford, Manchester, UK
14:25 – 14:30 Questions and discussion
14.30 – 15:10 Achilles tendinopathy: aiming for the best outcome- tendon loading and clinical reasoning. Keynote Lecture
Dr Jill Cook PhD - Associate Professor in Musculoskeletal Health, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences Deakin University, Victoria, Australia
15:10 - 15:15 Questions and discussion
15:15- 15:45 Refreshments and Trade Exhibition viewing
Session 4
15:45– 16:15 Exercise therapy for the conservative management of full thickness tears of the rotator cuff: Is there any point? A systematic review
Dr Jeremy Lewis PhD Consultant Physiotherapist–St George’s Hospital, London.
16:15 – 16:45 Patient presentation
Assessment and management of a patient with a massive rotator cuff tear
Bobby Ainsworth MSc Consultant Physiotherapist – Torbay Hospital, South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust
16:45 - 16:50 Questions and discussion
16.50 - 17.00 Concluding remarks - Dr Jeremy Lewis PhD Consultant Physiotherapist
17:00 Conference closed