Strength & Conditioning for Physiotherapists (Perth, Australia)

Name: Strength & Conditioning for Physiotherapists (Perth, Australia)
Start: 2025-05-17T09:00:00+08:00
End: 2025-05-18T17:00:00+08:00
Location: Aspire, Osborne Park

Schedule

Sat, 17 May, 2025 at 09:00 am to Sun, 18 May, 2025 at 05:00 pm

UTC+08:00

Location

Aspire, Osborne Park | Perth, WA

⭐ Early bird pricing until 30 March 2025 - book now ⭐

This 2-day course teaches fundamental skills in prescribing gym-based strength exercise programmes. A mixture of practical and theory sessions combine to give participants the confidence and competence to deliver effective rehabilitation, injury prevention and general strength programmes.

Participants will learn how to:
✅Demystify the gym & make patients feel safe getting started in the gym
✅Use behavioural approaches to facilitate commencement of exercise
✅Safely coach a broad repertoire of lower limb exercises
✅Tailor intensity, volume, rest and training frequency of resistance exercise for your patients
✅Construct safe, effective & time-efficient gym-based rehab programmes
✅Prescribe effective & safe gym programmes for older people
✅Utilise the minimum effective dose & maintenance dosages to maintain progress when patients are time pressured
The key take home messages can be readily applied to clinical practice in a variety of settings.

About Optimise Rehab:
Optimise Rehab is run by Dr Merv Travers PhD.
Merv is a Senior Research Scholar working in the area of low back pain, tendon pain and exercise rehabilitation at the School of Physiotherapy, The University of Notre Dame Australia.
Merv lectures in the Advanced Anatomy & Pathology, Applied Clinical Sports Science and Sport Rehabilitation units in the Musculoskeletal and Sports Physiotherapy Masters programmes at Curtin University, Australia. He also lectures on merging exercise and pain science in the Physiotherapy Masters programme at Aalborg University, Denmark, as well as other international engagements.
He completed his PhD at Curtin University where he also maintains an Adjunct Research Fellow role. He has a Masters of Manipulative Therapy and is a qualified strength & conditioning coach (Australian Strength and Conditioning Association - Level 2).
Merv’s clinical background includes working in professional rugby union and he provides clinical consultation for complex musculoskeletal conditions.