Conference Programme 2025

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26 Nov 2025
    • Ethics, Professionalism & Clinical Reasoning
    Learning outcomes: How to recognise you and others are burning out and how to prevent it and achieve high performance
    • Specific Conditions
    Learning outcomes: - Clarity regarding biomechanics and how foot orthoses work - Understand functional anatomy of the foot and ankle - Appreciate variation in alignment of feet - Improve mastery of ho ...
    • Sports, Exercise & Fitness
    • Specific Conditions
    Learning outcomes: - Better understanding of the link between the main upper limb joints. - Greater appreciation on how anatomy can assist towards functional measures - Enhanced approaches towards opt ...
    • Ethics, Professionalism & Clinical Reasoning
    • Modalities & Techniques
    • Sports, Exercise & Fitness
    Learning outcomes: - Gain insight into provision of performance support care for Paralympics GB athletes at a Paralympic Games - Gain insight into some key challenges and differences of caring for ath ...
  1. Define neurosensory integration Understand why it is vital to everyone with chronic pain Learn quick and easy clinical tests for sensory deficits Learn do basic neuro sensory integration drills you ca ...
    • Ethics, Professionalism & Clinical Reasoning
  2. Professional liability insurance: is your provider fit for purpose?
    • Specific Conditions
    Learn the pathology and treatment of this common condition. Select the most effective treatments and adapt exercise for PF sufferers.
    • Sports, Exercise & Fitness
    Learning outcomes: · What is environmental hypoxia and how does it impact the body · Altitude exposure to accelerate healing in bones and connective tissue injury · Altitude training for the load comp ...
    • Ethics, Professionalism & Clinical Reasoning
    By the end of this session, delegates will be able to describe the process of differential diagnosis as a structured method for clinical decision-making in musculoskeletal practice. They will learn to ...
    • Modalities & Techniques
    - To understand the anatomy behind vocal massage therapy, and how this massage can benefit a wide variety of your clients. - Observe Emma demonstrating vocal massage techniques and how these can be in ...
    • Modalities & Techniques
    Let Anna Maria Mazzieri guide you through different massage and manual therapy techniques for lower back and hips. Discover how to work with sensory-motor integration to help your client gain back con ...
    • Specific Conditions
    • Modalities & Techniques
    • Modalities & Techniques
    Grab some free tape and join in or just come along to witness the 3 most analgesic techniques you need to be using in your clinic.
    • Specific Conditions
    Learning outcomes: - Understand how to safely progress athletes from early stage to return to performance - Learn how to correctly utilise physical qualities in the correct stage of rehabilitation - J ...
    • Specific Conditions
    • Modalities & Techniques
    This practical session will present the components of a three-stage rehabilitation program called the Shape-Up-My-Shoulder (#SUMS) Rehabilitation Program that may be considered for the majority of mus ...
    • Modalities & Techniques
    Building layers from the ground up. Starting with your feet, how we build a stronger platform through mobility and strengthening exercises. Combining the element of play and movement exploration to re ...
    • Business Growth & Career Development
    Learning Outcomes: By the end of this introductory session, participants will:   1. Understand how communication skills shape therapeutic alliance and patient outcomes. 2. Be introduced to key motivat ...
    • Business Growth & Career Development
    The no-fluff marketing plan for therapists who hate marketing
    Demystifying marketing for therapists and giving them practical steps
    • Business Growth & Career Development
    Learning outcomes: This session is for practice owners who want to feel more in control of their business and less daunted by the numbers. · Get clear on which numbers really matter in your clinic and ...
    • Business Growth & Career Development
    • Business Growth & Career Development
    • Business Growth & Career Development
    You're not a charity: how to stop undervaluing your therapy skills
    Pricing confidently and recognising the value of your service
    • Business Growth & Career Development
    Learning outcomes:This session is designed specifically for private health practitioners looking to establish a strong foundation for growth and long-term success. · Understand how to define and align ...
    • Business Growth & Career Development
    Scope of practice
    • Specific Conditions
    • Modalities & Techniques
    Trochanteric Bursitis, also known as Greater Trochanteric Pain Syndrome (GTPS) or lateral hip pain, is a common and often challenging condition to treat, particularly in middle-aged individuals and at ...
    • Specific Conditions
    • Modalities & Techniques
    This session will explore the latest evidence-based approaches to managing Achilles tendinopathy. Learn how to effectively integrate shockwave therapy into treatment plans to improve patient outcomes, ...
    • Specific Conditions
    • Modalities & Techniques
    • Specific Conditions
    • Modalities & Techniques
    Recent evidence highlights extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) as an effective treatment for calcific tendinitis, particularly in the shoulder. High-energy focused ESWT has shown good outcomes in ...
    • Ethics, Professionalism & Clinical Reasoning
    • Modalities & Techniques
    In this interactive session, we will explore cases where shockwave therapy did not lead to the expected outcomes. The speaker will share personal clinical reflections on patient non-response, examinin ...
    • Specific Conditions
    • Modalities & Techniques
    Focus shockwave therapy (FSWT) serves as a non-invasive treatment for medial tibial stress syndrome (MTSS) by delivering acoustic waves to the affected area, stimulating tissue healing, increasing blo ...
    • Business Growth & Career Development
    It’s time to rethink professional roles between Regulated and Unregulated MSK professions   Synopsis:   As healthcare evolves towards a more holistic, person-centred model, it’s time to reconsider the ...
    • Ethics, Professionalism & Clinical Reasoning
    • Specific Conditions
    From flare to care: tackling inflammatory back pain and autoimmune rehab
    Rhumatology rehabilitation This talk will cover simple, evidence-based principles and guidelines for identifying and managing inflammatory back pain and autoimmune conditions, with a strong focus on t ...
    • Sports, Exercise & Fitness
    • Specific Conditions
    A review of the current position on the diagnosis and recognition of concussion with an outline of the practical ways to monitor and manage the condition in athletes and the general populationAbility ...
    • Business Growth & Career Development
    My journey into chiropractic and the future of postural excellence
    This session will take you through my journey from a secondary school teacher to a chiropractor, highlighting the transformative learning and hands-on experiences during the McTimoney chiropractic cou ...
    • Sports, Exercise & Fitness
    • Modalities & Techniques
    Game on with flossing: level up performance, bulletproof against injuries & master post-exercise recovery
    This guide, "Level Up Performance, Bulletproof Against Injuries & Master Post-Exercise Recovery," offers a holistic approach to athletic excellence. It highlights that performance isn't just about str ...
    • Sports, Exercise & Fitness
    • Modalities & Techniques
    The OptiNeck Balance Wedge: pilates and exercise application
    • Specific Conditions
    Neurophysiology: the next major breakthrough in human performance
    • Modalities & Techniques
    Increasing seated exercise in healthcare: key findings from hospital use of Cubii
    Seated exercise is a powerful and accessible way to boost patient movement in hospital and rehab settings. This session explores its benefits for recovery across a range of conditions, highlighting ke ...
    • Sports, Exercise & Fitness
    R-forces impact in high performance sporting environments
    • Ethics, Professionalism & Clinical Reasoning
    Chronic pain science made simple in practice: the move from managing to resolving
    Discover how belief, neuroscience, and real-world application come together to help individuals reclaim their lives, free from chronic pain   Traditional approaches to chronic pain often focus on mana ...
    • Specific Conditions
    • Specific Conditions
    • Modalities & Techniques
    This theoretical session will present the components of the Shape-Up-My-Shoulder (#SUMS) Rehabilitation Program that may be considered for the majority of musculoskeletal shoulder presentations. The p ...
    • Sports, Exercise & Fitness
    What healthcare can do to support people living with long term conditions into an active lifestyle.
    List of topics: Session 1: Education of healthcare providers: led by PACC programme Session 2: Conversational skills and digital innovation : led by Jean Wong and coachbot team Session 3: Removing bar ...
    • Ethics, Professionalism & Clinical Reasoning
    • Sports, Exercise & Fitness
    Working with young athletes or active kids? Then you’ll know that no two kids grow at the same rate – and that managing this well can make a big difference to performance, development, and injury risk ...
    • Modalities & Techniques
    Electrical stimulation in neurorehabilitation with STIWELL® PROFES by MED-EL
    • Ethics, Professionalism & Clinical Reasoning
    • Modalities & Techniques
    A demonstration of how one body part influences another and therefore should be considered in our intervention strategies.
    • Ethics, Professionalism & Clinical Reasoning
    • Sports, Exercise & Fitness
    • Sports, Exercise & Fitness
    • Modalities & Techniques
    This workshop outlines a clinically reasoned approach to improving skill acquisition during lower limb rehab with the use of minimal equipment.  
    • Business Growth & Career Development
    • Ethics, Professionalism & Clinical Reasoning
    • Business Growth & Career Development
    The missing link in physical and emotional recovery… The power of the mind/body connection
    In this session I’ll show you why the mind/body connection is the missing link in both leadership and physical recovery. You’ll discover how subconscious patterns can block healing even with the best ...
    • Ethics, Professionalism & Clinical Reasoning
    • Specific Conditions
  3. Rehabilitation begins with the foundation of wellbeing
    Whether mental, emotional, physical, spiritual or cognitive, true rehabilitation starts with restoring the foundation of wellbeing. AEQUIL’s Steps to Rebuild the Right Foundation for RehabilitationFré ...
    • Sports, Exercise & Fitness
    Session in partnership with FSEM
    • Ethics, Professionalism & Clinical Reasoning
    Optimising success in MSK rehabilitation: throughout the patient pathway
    This workshop explores how success in MSK rehabilitation can be optimised across the patient pathway—from the initial consultation in primary care through to specialist rehabilitation planning. Ground ...
    • Specific Conditions
    Understanding the impact of cortical disruptions for shoulder pain management Synopsis:   This session explores the growing body of neuroscience revealing that persistent shoulder pain is not merely a ...
    • Business Growth & Career Development
    Session sponsored by HMDG
27 Nov 2025
    • Ethics, Professionalism & Clinical Reasoning
    • Sports, Exercise & Fitness
    Learning outcomes: Practical and stripped-back, perfect for therapist of all experience levels and backgrounds who don’t have tech or time. Too many therapists assume you now need expensive, high-tech ...
  1. Claims and complaints: how to respond when your clients are unhappy
    • Ethics, Professionalism & Clinical Reasoning
    1. Understanding on the current provision of healthcare in the prison system 2. How MSK health and well being is managed in prisons 3. How the MSK Services integrate with the wider prison health servi ...
    • Modalities & Techniques
    • Modalities & Techniques
    Learning Objectives: Summarise the key developments in modern Shockwave Therapy technology and how they impact clinical outcomes. Differentiate between radial and focused shockwave modalities in the c ...
    • Sports, Exercise & Fitness
    • Specific Conditions
    Learning outcomes: Learn to Apply a Deeper Understanding of the Rehabilitation Process, Re-integration into training, Upper Limb & Trunk Testing to Support Training Progressions & Return to Sport
    • Modalities & Techniques
    Learning Outcomes: By the end of this introductory practical session, participants will:   1. Observe DNM techniques and understand their focus on the nervous system and skin. 2. Learn why DNM offers ...
    • Modalities & Techniques
    • Business Growth & Career Development
    Insurance: question time with David Balen
    • Business Growth & Career Development
    Stuck in the Clinic? It’s time to explore how YouTube can offer a powerful platform for professional growth. Daniel will walk you through how to get started in this short talk and then provide you wit ...
    • Business Growth & Career Development
    Ethical client retention: the overlooked key to patient outcomes and practice profitability
    • Business Growth & Career Development
    Practitioner wellbeing
    • Business Growth & Career Development
    • Ethics, Professionalism & Clinical Reasoning
    • Modalities & Techniques
    In this interactive session, we will explore cases where shockwave therapy did not lead to the expected outcomes. The speaker will share personal clinical reflections on patient non-response, examinin ...
    • Specific Conditions
    • Modalities & Techniques
    Update on pathology and management of tendon disorders of the lateral hip. Typical and atypical presentations and how to diagnose and manage. 
    • Specific Conditions
    • Modalities & Techniques
    Recent evidence highlights extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) as an effective treatment for calcific tendinitis, particularly in the shoulder. High-energy focused ESWT has shown good outcomes in ...
    • Specific Conditions
    • Modalities & Techniques
    Focus shockwave therapy (FSWT) serves as a non-invasive treatment for medial tibial stress syndrome (MTSS) by delivering acoustic waves to the affected area, stimulating tissue healing, increasing blo ...
    • Specific Conditions
    • Modalities & Techniques
    Trochanteric Bursitis, also known as Greater Trochanteric Pain Syndrome (GTPS) or lateral hip pain, is a common and often challenging condition to treat, particularly in middle-aged individuals and at ...
    • Specific Conditions
    • Modalities & Techniques
    This session will explore the latest evidence-based approaches to managing Achilles tendinopathy. Learn how to effectively integrate shockwave therapy into treatment plans to improve patient outcomes, ...
    • Ethics, Professionalism & Clinical Reasoning
    • Sports, Exercise & Fitness
    Learning Outcomes: Each patient who enters our treatment room comes with their own individual symptoms and personal fears/beliefs. As a result, it is impossible to create one standard strengthening pr ...
    • Specific Conditions
    o Power the pause, how to support women to maintain lean muscle mass and stay strong-avoiding fragility, sarcopenia and osteoporosis o There is some fear-based messaging around the rate of loss of lea ...
    • Specific Conditions
    • Sports, Exercise & Fitness
    This session will cover clinical assessment, common pathologies and diagnoses, with a discussion of treatment options including rehabilitation, injection therapies and surgery.
    • Business Growth & Career Development
    My journey into chiropractic and the future of postural excellence
    This session will take you through my journey from a secondary school teacher to a chiropractor, highlighting the transformative learning and hands-on experiences during the McTimoney chiropractic cou ...
    • Modalities & Techniques
    The OptiNeck Balance Wedge: hands on treatment applications
    • Modalities & Techniques
    Transform your recovery strategy with peroneal nerve stimulation: Firefly’s proven, research-backed impact
    Firefly is transforming rehabilitation with its easy-to-use, clinically proven peroneal nerve stimulation. This non-invasive solution accelerates recovery, reduces pain, and restores movement across a ...
    • Specific Conditions
    Neurophysiology: the next major breakthrough in human performance
    • Specific Conditions
    KinetiX™ Insoles: the ultimate foot & ankle MSK toolkit
    • Modalities & Techniques
    Flossing power: accelerate physiotherapy outcomes & empower patient recovery (in-clinic & at home)
    A therapist only has two hands. Flossig allows them to apply more parameters and techniques simultaneously while treating a patient, optimizing treatment times and effects.Understand the Limitations o ...
    • Specific Conditions
    • Sports, Exercise & Fitness
    • Modalities & Techniques
    Injection therapy update
    • Ethics, Professionalism & Clinical Reasoning
    Innovative clinical reasoning in rehabilitation: challenging current approaches for superior patient outcomes
    Session Highlights: • Explore Clinical Reasoning Frameworks: Gain insights into key frameworks such as the hypothetico-deductive model, pattern recognition, and narrative reasoning. • Interactive Case ...
    • Sports, Exercise & Fitness
    This presentation explores the vital role and practicalities of multidisciplinary care in optimising health, performance and rehabilitation outcomes for athletes and clients in both sports and private ...
    • Ethics, Professionalism & Clinical Reasoning
    • Sports, Exercise & Fitness
    This presentation will highlight the critical role of interdisciplinary teamwork - spanning across all areas of rehabilitation. Drawing on real-world examples, and practical rehabilitation guidelines, ...
    • Sports, Exercise & Fitness
    • Specific Conditions
    This presentation looks at the role of intrinsic foot muscles and the windlass mechanism in both optimising athletic performance and how these principles can also be applied to function in non-athleti ...
    • Sports, Exercise & Fitness
    Session in partnership with FSEM
    • Modalities & Techniques
  2. A critical historical perspective of rehabilitation on physiotherapy
    • Modalities & Techniques
    • Sports, Exercise & Fitness
    • Modalities & Techniques
    This presentation will equip therapists with the essential principles and exercise modalities for managing patients with spinal pain from disability to performance.  
    • Sports, Exercise & Fitness
    • Sports, Exercise & Fitness
    • Ethics, Professionalism & Clinical Reasoning
    • Modalities & Techniques
    Discover how diaphragmatic release and breathing techniques can be powerful tools in post-operative and post-radiotherapy recovery. This hands-on session explores the use of gentle, targeted manual te ...
    • Sports, Exercise & Fitness
    • Ethics, Professionalism & Clinical Reasoning
    • Sports, Exercise & Fitness
    • Modalities & Techniques
    • Modalities & Techniques
    Dive into this dynamic workshop designed to equip you with advanced skills in myofascial release, trigger point therapy, and sports stretching to effectively address complex low back conditions. You’l ...
  3. AEQUIL’s steps to rebuild the foundation of wellbeing
    Explore how AEQUIL supports long-term rehabilitation by restoring the foundation of wellbeing, with real case studies from Lyme disease, OCD and mental health recovery. AEQUIL’s Steps to Rebuild the R ...
    • Ethics, Professionalism & Clinical Reasoning
    Session in partnership with GIRFT
    • Ethics, Professionalism & Clinical Reasoning
    • Modalities & Techniques
    This session, led by Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist Sarah, will dismantle the "little adult" misconception in paediatric and adolescent MSK care. Drawing on extensive experience, Sarah will highl ...
  4. Physiotherapy and rehabilitation are entering an exciting new era driven by digital innovation and artificial intelligence. In this session, we’ll cut through the hype to explore how technology is alr ...
    • Business Growth & Career Development
    Session sponsored by HMDG

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