Australian and New Zealand Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Physiotherapy Management of People with Spinal Cord Injury

The recently developed Australian and New Zealand Clinical Practice Guidelines for the physiotherapy management of people with spinal cord injury provide over evidence-based recommendations and consensus-based opinion statements about the physiotherapy management of adults with SCI. They provide invaluable information for health professionals, people with SCI and care givers to make treatment decisions based on recommendations and statements from a representative guidelines panel. The guidelines were developed through a rigorous process whereby systematic reviews of randomised controlled trials were conducted on guideline questions. Questions were pre-determined, approved by a guideline panel and presented in PICO format (namely, Participant, Intervention, Comparison and Outcome). Over 20 meta-analyses were conducted across trials that made similar comparisons. A Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) approach was used to develop recommendations and to assess the certainty of the evidence. A Guideline Development panel made over 100 evidence recommendations and consensus-based opinion statements. The guidelines can be viewed at www.sciptguide.com.

Presenter

Dr Joanne Glinsky, APAM, is a physiotherapist with a BAppSci (Physiotherapy), MHlthSc (Neurological Physiotherapy) and a PhD. She currently works as a post-doctoral researcher at the John Walsh Centre for Rehabilitation Research and an A/Prof at Macquarie University. She has a strong interest in physiotherapy management of people with neurological conditions (including SCI) and has worked for the 20 years as a clinician and researcher in this field.

Host

Neurology, Orthopaedic and Cardiorespiratory National Groups 

Date of Live Event

17/08/2023

CPD Hours

1.0 Hour

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