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Students will assess, plan and deliver interventions for case-studies with spinal musculoskeletal, orthopaedic, and rheumatological conditions across the lifespan. Students will formulate differential diagnoses, prioritise clinical problems and generate solutions using knowledge and skills of physiotherapy practice. Students will implement culturally safe, evidence-based treatment plans to a range of clinical case scenarios across the lifespan.

Students will generate solutions using knowledge and skills of physiotherapy practice including manual handling, tissue palpation, therapeutic massage, sport injury management, electrophysiological agents and education-based therapy applied using case scenarios. Students will learn clinical gait and posture analysis in older adults and for musculoskeletal and neurological disorders. Commonly used functional and behavioural outcome measurement tools will be applied to clinical cases.