Symposium: The Great Debate - To operate or not to operate? (Knee and Hip conditions)

Overview

Despite a number of current initiatives, the challenges of over treatment, over diagnosis and over imaging, possible harms by inappropriate interventions continue in modern medicine. This Symposium program includes presentations from an esteemed list of Specialist Sports and Exercise Physiotherapists as awarded by the Australian College of Physiotherapists and recognised experts, together with physicians and specialist orthopaedic surgeons and more.

Together they will share their experience and explore current research literature addressing possible advantages and disadvantages of contemporary operative versus non-operative management of commonly encountered knee and hip presentations. It also covers some of the latest research in informed decision making so you can be more confident in discussing appropriate interventions with your patients via a shared decision-making process.

View the Symposium Program and session topics here.

View the presenter biographies here.

Presenters

Prof. David Hunter, Florance and Cope Chair of Rheumatology and Professor of Medicine at University of Sydney and Royal North Shore Hospital
Prof. Tammy Hoffmann, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Bond University, Queensland
Dr Stephanie Filbay, Senior Research Fellow and Physiotherapist, Melbourne University
Dr Tom Cross, Specialist Sports and Exercise Physician, Sydney
Dr Jonas Bloch Thorlund, Professor of Musculoskeletal Health, University of Southern Denmark
Mr Nigel Hartnett, Orthopaedic Knee Surgeon, Melbourne
Dr Joanne Kemp, MACP, Associate Professor and Titled Sports and Exercise Physiotherapist, La Trobe University, Melbourne
Dr Josh Heerey, APAM, PhD, Physiotherapist, La Trobe University, Melbourne
Dr Rintje Agricola, Orthopaedic Medicine Specialist, Erasmus University, Rotterdam