ADVANCED Mastering Lower Limb Tendinopathy course -MELBOURNE November

20 hours of cutting edge clinical tendinopathy CPD delivered by clinical and research expert
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What's included?

  • 20 hrs CPD
  • Saturday & Sunday 9am-5pm
  • 4hrs pre-recorded video content
  • Delivered by Prof Peter Malliaras

   Sat 16th  & Sun 17th November,  2024

   Orthosport Victoria Institute (OSVi)
      132A Bridge Rd, Richmond VIC 3121

Peter has a respected international clinical and research profile and is consulted by many people for a second opinion regarding their tendon injuries, including elite athletes and performers (eg football, rugby, ballet, and tennis). He works as a Professor at Monash University (Australia), focusing on tendinopathy research, and sees difficult tendinopathy patients weekly in the clinic.

The 2 day face to face course will provide:

  • An up-to-date research and clinical perspective. 
  • A complete walkthrough assessment, kinetic chain and biomechanics considerations, and rehabilitation of common tendinopathies.
  • A detailed summary of Achilles, plantar fascia, tibialis posterior, patellar, proximal hamstring and gluteal tendinopathies.

The ADVANCED Mastering Lower Limb Tendinopathy course also provides:

  • Access to Peter's exercise library online: Share a comprehensive library of exercises directly with your tendinopathy patients, providing tailored exercise plans to enhance their recovery.
  • Detailed exercise progressions: Utilise extensive exercise progressions for different tendinopathies, with expert tips on selecting and advancing exercises to improve pain and restore function effectively.
  • Advanced strength and power testing: Implement advanced strength and power testing protocols with validated outcome measures to accurately assess and track your patients' progress using clinically accessible dynamometry, force plate and phone app based equipment.
  • Ultrasound imaging demonstrations: Gain insights from ultrasound imaging demonstrations for common lower limb tendinopathies, including practical tips on interpreting both MRI and ultrasound and how it can be useful for your patient care.
  • Extensive education content and resources: Access educational materials and resources, including evidence-based strategies for identifying and addressing kinesiophobia, fear and apprehension, exercise diaries and activity monitoring tools, and comprehensive education content for different presentations and tips on how to deliver it effectively. 

Whether you are a new graduate or an experienced clinician, you will come away with many answers to your questions as well as clinical gems to take away.


Learning outcomes:

  • Describe how diagnosis and assessment influence management eg pain irritability and cognitive-emotional factors
  • Discuss when and how tendon pathology influences clinical reasoning and management
  • Describe indications for imaging tendinopathy patients
  • Describe and implement biomechanics and kinetic chain considerations and assessment
  • Develop comprehensive rehabilitation strategies for common lower limb tendinopathies
  • Discuss specific strategies to maximise tendinopathy patient adherence, education and buy-in
  • Plan and implement detailed return to sports progressions for sedentary people, runners, jumpers, multi-direction sports, etc
  • Describe the management of athletes in-season as well as maintenance programs
  • Discuss when to use adjunct conservative interventions (e.g. orthotics, manual therapy) and injections in different tendinopathy presentations
  • Describe the current understanding of tendinopathy pain and how this influences management
  • Testing the spectrum of muscle and tendon function and capacity including multiple RM testing, dynamometry, hopping force plates outcomes (VALD), muscle power (musclelab, linear encoder).Develop tools you can use to accurately measure muscle and tendon function regardless of your clinical setting and equipment. 


Pre-course video content:

The online modules of video content covering tendon structure and function, pathogenesis and pain mechanisms, tendinopathy aetiology, and tendinopathy management evidence. It is essential that these are viewed prior to the course as this is assumed knowledge.The face-to-face day focuses on clinical content.

*This course is appropriate for qualified physiotherapists as well as other health professionals.

Cancellation policy:
Full refund for cancellations made at least 4 weeks prior to event, minus the cost of the online content if accessed (A$100).


Pre-course video content:

Meet the instructor

Prof Peter Malliaras

Peter Malliaras is a specialist physiotherapist and researcher from Melbourne, Australia focusing on the problem of tendinopathy. Currently, he is a Professor at Monash University Physiotherapy Department and involved in multiple tendinopathy research projects in Australia and internationally. His research focuses on understanding pain and neuromuscular impairments, and clinical trials testing the efficacy of exercise and other interventions in tendinopathy. Peter maintains a strong clinical focus, consulting to people with difficult tendinopathy presentations.  
Patrick Jones - Course author