Critically Appraised Papers - click here :

• Serial casting versus positioning for the treatment of elbow contractures in adults with traumatic brain injury: a randomized controlled trial.
• Hip strength and hip and knee kinematics during stair descent in females with and without patellofemoral pain syndrome.

Book Reviews - click here:

• Anatomy and Human Movement Pocketbook. N Palastang, R Soames and D Palastanga
• The Book of Touch, Constance Classen (ed) 2005
• The Brain that Changes Itself. Norman Doidge 2008
• Qualitative Research for Occupational and Physical Therapists. Christine Carpenter & Melinda Suto 2008

Research Reports:

• Measuring patient-specific outcomes in musculoskeletal clinical practice: a pilot study - Cheryl Hefford, Sinead Lodge, Karen Elliott, J. Haxby Abbott - click here
• Current Australian and New Zealand physiotherapy practice in the management of patients with bronchiectasis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - Annemarie Lee, Brenda Button, Linda Denehy - click here

Scholarly Paper: The tensions of the modern-day clinical educator in physiotherapy: A scholarly review through a critical theory lens - Sarah Mooney, Liz Smythe, Marion Jones - click here .

2008 NZSP Biennial Conference Keynote Address: Autonomy and the Future of Physiotherapy - Stanley V. Paris - click here

NZSP Biennial Conference, Dunedin, April 18-20, 2008, Keynote and Invited Speakers - click here

Keynote Speakers

• Activity, Activity, Activity: Rethinking our Physiotherapy Approach to Cerebral Palsy - Damiano D
• Physiotherapists should be leaders in waging the war against inactivity induced chronic disease - Gosselink R
• Maori and Rehabilitation: what we know, filling the gaps and moving forward - Harwood M (Ngapuhi)
• Autonomy and the Future of Physiotherapy - Paris SV

Invited Speakers

• Advice, exercise and opinions in effective management of low back pain: mens sana in corpore sano? - Baxter GD
• Knees up: the role of physiotherapy in managing knee osteoarthritis - Bennell KL
• Breathing Works and Matters: Challenges and opportunities for physiotherapy - Bradley D
• The paediatric athlete: recognising the potential for serious musculoskeletal injury - Gerrard DF
• Shared views of treatment and treatment adherence: exploring perceptions of women with urinary incontinence and their health professionals - Hay-Smith EJC, Hudson S and Dean S
• The interplay between cognition and motor function during gait: pushing the locomotor boundaries - Lord S
• Understanding injury risk in a rural workforce: helping it to move forward - Milosavljevic S, Carman AB, Gregory D and Callaghan J
• “De t e rminant s o f he a l th: Ar e physiotherapists engaged?” - Reid D
• A person-centered approach for rehabilitation professionals to promote exercise and reduce secondary conditions in people with disabilities across the
  lifespan - Rowland JL
• Physiotherapists delivering what the people want in rural health with primary health care - Sheppard LA