2021
Exercise for hypermobility conditions. Presented by Hannah Dower AEP
An introduction for AEPs: screen, manage and teach our clients to thrive. Hypermobility may be considered a key feature of many musculoskeletal conditions, and yet its clinical relevance and consideration for exercise prescription seems to be underexplored. Like other conditions with nervous system involvement, its recent history has been occupied…
2021
Psychosocial screening for type 1 diabetes. Presented by Helen d’Emden, AdvAPD, CDE, MPhil
Anthea Talliopoulos, APD
Managing Type 1 Diabetes is demanding, requiring the performance of numerous daily tasks, including monitoring blood glucose levels, counting carbohydrate intake, taking medication, and working out an insulin regimen. This process is exhausting for individuals, can increase incidence of disordered eating, and lead to diabetes burnout. Hence, the optimisation of…
2021
Pre-term infants: long-term nutritional issues. Colleen Oliver, Neonatal Specialist Dietitian
Anthea Talliopoulos, APD
Pre-term infants are a diverse population with very different nutritional needs to infants born at full-term. As almost 9% of infants are being born pre-term in Australia, with medical and nutritional interventions drastically increasing survival rates, the importance of a neonatal dietitian is becoming increasingly recognised in meeting their nutritional…
2021
Three weight management case studies. Presented by Peta Cullis, APD.
Anthea Talliopoulos, APD
With the prevalence of obesity increasing, weight management is one of the most common reasons for dietitian referral, with health professionals having varying approaches to client management. Many of our clients are often confused and overwhelmed by the mixed messages which they receive, sometimes making it difficult for us as…
2021
Communicating for behaviour change. Presented by Sharon Curtain, Dietitian
Helping clients harness motivation and recognise strengths to achieve their health and wellbeing goals. Supporting meaningful behaviour change is a core role of exercise physiologists. Sharon offers us a calm and clear presentation of very practical skills for communicating to facilitate behaviour change in a clinical setting. Throughout we are…
2021
Nutrition in COVID wards - coping with the challenges of Delta
Dietitians Ashwini Menon and Annalise Farah both work in COVID wards at Sydney’s Royal Prince Alfred Hospital where there’s been an influx of patients with COVID - a situation predicted to increase over coming months. In this complimentary presentation, Ash and Annalise share their experiences of handling the challenges of…
2021
Blended tube feeding case studies. Presented by Lina Breik, APD and Claire Kariya, RD, Canada
Anthea Talliopoulos, APD
Although the utilisation of blended diets with enteral feeding tubes is currently not common practice amongst dietitians, nor integrated in current training, it is an area which is gaining popularity. Whilst current guidelines tend to advise against blended diets due to concerns over contamination and infection risk, tube blockages, and…
2021
Pain science in action FREE. Presented by Daniel Arbilla AEP
Principles for movement prescription A foundational, yet deep, dive into providing safe and evidence-based exercise prescription to clients who experience chronic pain. In practice, we are either incidentally seeing people who experience chronic pain, or perhaps you are interested in working with this group in a more intentional way. Pain…
2021
Blended tube feeding. Presented by Lina Breik, APD and Claire Kariya, RD, Canada
Tube fed individuals and their loved ones are quickly discovering that blended food is an option to ultra-processed commercial feeds. In the past, dietetic organisations advised against using blended diets due to concerns of blocked tubes, nutritional inadequacy and contamination. With these concerns not proving true, and because dietitians are…
2021
Explore the world while you are in lockdown
A useful list of links to museums, zoos, art galleries, story times, games, craft activities, movement videos, kid’s school lessons and more… Visit museums. Google Arts and Culture partnered with over 2,500 museums and galleries around the world to offer virtual tours of their spaces The Louvre, Paris British Museum,…