Lower Limb Tendinopathy Course

Join Dr Ebonie Rio to talk tendons!  This course is conducted intermittently F2F (details below if a current course is scheduled) or you can access the evergreen course here.

This practical course will cover every aspect of lower-limb tendon assessment, including differential diagnosis and comprehensive rehabilitation.  We must be evidence-based but not recipe-driven – learn to tailor a program for every patient you see.

Ebonie has worked and researched alongside Jill Cook, Lorimer Moseley, Craig Purdam, and Sean Docking, all of whom have been responsible for groundbreaking research in pain and tendinopathy.

Ebonie is a Sports Physiotherapist at the Victorian Institute of Sport and runs a tendon clinic. Her previous clinical career has included the Australian Institute of Sport, Australian Ballet Company, Australian Ballet School, Melbourne Heart Football Club, Alphington Sports Medicine Centre, the 2006 Commonwealth Games, the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, the 2010 Singapore Youth Olympics, and the 2012 London Paralympics. She also spent 18 months travelling with Disney’s The Lion King stage show (the Melbourne and Shanghai tours).

This course will give you the skills and confidence to;

• Diagnose lower limb tendinopathy and differentiate other conditions that alter your treatment path
• Complete a thorough subjective assessment of your patient, including relevant co-morbidities, when to refer on, and how to recognise and celebrate pink flags!
• Undertake a graded objective assessment that you can tailor depending on your patient.  This will ensure you have a complete understanding of their current function and that you can develop a plan together.
• Understand who gets tendon pain? Clinical presentations of tendon pain and understanding the difference between nociception and pain using the biopsychosocial model
• Know when to use imaging with tendons, what to choose, what language to use, and how to place it in context.
• Rehabilitate lower limb tendinopathy, including tips on settling pain (for example, in season) and tips and tricks to use in your clinical treatment, know-how, and when to progress
• Isometrics? Eccentrics? HRT? The most up-to-date exercise regimes and their effectiveness in treating tendinopathy (spoiler alert – no recipe suits every patient!)
• Prescribe exercise with confidence
• Decide what adjuncts have a role in your practice
• Know what to do when they are tricky and not getting better!

An AAP Education Accredited Course. AHPRA CPD 12 hours.