Build your clinical skills and reasoning, to quickly and accurately assess and diagnose your patients, provide effective treatment, tailored rehab programs, and get the treatment results you want.

Whether you’re an experienced or newly qualified Physio, Physical therapist or health professional that treats patients with musculoskeletal pain and sports injuries, if you’ve struggled to keep up to date with the evidence, you’ve tried different treatment approaches, and you’re still not quite getting the treatment results you want with your patients; you’re about to find what you’ve been looking for.

Why do some of your patients get better quickly and easily, and you have to battle for the smallest improvements with others?

You have success with a lot of patients, but then you have some patients that increase your stress levels, make you doubt yourself and your skills. No matter what you try, they just don’t seem to progress, and your go-to treatments hardly seem to put a dent in their pain.

Or they have multiple pain areas, and just as you seem to sort out one area, another one flares up.

You want to keep improving your assessment and treatment results.

How can you keep improving? How can you stay up to date with the evidence?

Maybe you're searching for the next article or weekend course that’ll help you crack those difficult patients. You’ve finished uni, and want to be confident you’re providing great treatment now you’re out in the workforce. You may have even thought of enrolling in a post-graduate Masters program, but aren’t sure how or when you could do it. If you’ve completed post-graduate Masters level training in musculoskeletal or sports, you still want to keep progressing your knowledge and skills, building your reputation and maybe even working towards becoming a specialist.

You can become an even better clinician and bring joy to yourself and your patients.

You’re a motivated therapist, and you love helping people fully recover from pain. You experience the fulfillment that comes with helping patients get back to life, work, sport, and the activities they enjoy.

Do you wish more of your patients fully recovered?

Sometimes it even feels like the longer you’re a therapist, the more complex patients you have on your patient list.

When you look back over your past full week, how many complex patients have you seen? How many of your patients would you have liked better results with in their session? Three? Four? More?

If that’s a normal week, that’s 100 or 150 patients in a year that you can get better treatment results with.

How would you feel if you could improve your treatment results with those 100, 150 or more patients every year? How much more satisfied will you be at the end of every week?

Along with the peace of mind and job satisfaction you’ll have as you accelerate your treatment results, you’ll develop a reputation as the “go to” therapist in your clinic and area, and word of mouth referrals that fill your list with more of the patients you like to treat.

Whether you’re an experienced therapist or new grad; student or educator; team leader or aspiring “go-to” therapist in your area….

You can experience the confidence and satisfaction that comes from being a more effective practitioner with better treatment results, right here and now with a team of experienced, highly trained and passionate Physiotherapists. They’re here, ready to help you achieve your potential with your patients.

David’s story

My 53 year old patient looked at me expectantly after I finished performing my last assessment test. All I could hear was the air-conditioning, the Physio in the next treatment rooms talking to their patient about knee osteoarthritis, my breathing, and the thoughts “How can every test be painful? I’ve done a bunch of tests, and almost every single one was painful. Now what? How am I going to tell her what’s wrong with her low back, and help her get better, when I don’t have any idea?”

It was 2001, I was a new graduate Physio performing an Outpatients rotation at the local hospital, and I felt completely out of my depth. There were too many body parts, too many questions I had to ask, too many diagnoses that I seemed to have no idea how to make, and nowhere near enough treatments that seemed to make any difference to patients' pain. It was overwhelming, mentally exhausting, and the lack of improvements in patients' pain was pretty demoralising.

I downloaded and used exercise programs in randomised control trials (RCT’s). I asked every Physio I knew for advice on assessment, treatment or specific patients, read textbooks and tried everything I learned with patients.

Conferences, weekend courses and evening lectures popped onto my radar. I enrolled on, and later started organising courses on manual therapy and muscle energy techniques, acupuncture, dry needling, anatomy, neurodynamics and pain courses.

Adding all these tools to my toolbox helped improve my treatment results, which built my confidence, but I knew there was still so much to learn.

One major challenge I faced was trying to stay up to date while living on the Central Coast of NSW, a regional area that’s a couple of hours from the closest face to face continuing education courses in Sydney.

One night in the winter of 2009 I travelled to Sydney with a couple of Physio friends for a one hour evening lecture on foot and ankle pain. The lecture was good, we had takeaway for dinner, and got home at 11pm after a 6 hour round trip.

As good as the lecture was, a six hour round trip for a one hour lecture didn’t seem like a sustainable, effective way to stay up to date. I knew if I was struggling with this, other therapists must be struggling with the very same problem. There had to be a better way to stay up to date without any travel.

I started working on solving this issue the very next week, creating and launching Clinical Edge online education and the Physio Edge podcast in 2010. I really wanted to make it easy for Physios to access the best Physiotherapists & presenters, stay up to date with the latest evidence and develop practical skills that could be used with patients immediately.

Leading Physiotherapists and Physical therapists from around the world recorded webinar and video presentations for Clinical Edge online education, and interviews for the Physio Edge podcast.

I loved recording the Physio Edge podcast, and with more than 4 million podcast downloads to date, I’ve really enjoyed sharing clinical info with therapists all over the world.

Our Clinical Edge members loved the quality, practical nature, and ease of access of our online presentations, and I got a real feeling of satisfaction from receiving emails like this one from Tracey:

I knew that to ensure all our online presentations were current, evidence-based and clinically effective, get the most clinically relevant info from guests during podcasts, and improve my ability to successfully treat complex patients, it was time to boost my clinical reasoning and skills.

It was time for me to complete formal post-graduate Uni qualifications, and I enrolled in the Griffith University Masters of Musculoskeletal & Sports Physiotherapy. Over 2015 and 2016 I spent 30 hours or more each week completing my Masters, from home and on campus, while running Clinical Edge and a busy patient caseload, which was challenging and extremely rewarding at the same time. When adding up the costs of Uni fees, travel, accommodation and time off work, I invested somewhere around $100,000.00AUD and thousands of hours into the two year program.

Throughout my post-graduate studies, including clinical placements at the University clinic, our supervisors tested, pulled apart and helped reshape our clinical reasoning and knowledge. With both distance education and on-campus blocks each year, my clinical skills and results developed significantly. My new skills, knowledge and reasoning made treating patients really enjoyable. I looked forward to the challenge of treating complex patients, asked better questions, simplified my objective assessment and clearly understood the results of every test I performed. My patients got better results, and I felt a lot more satisfied at the end of the week.

I want you to feel that way too. To enjoy treating complex patients, asking great questions that guide your assessment, for your assessment results to be clear and guide your treatment. To give your patients clear guidance on how long their injury will take to get better, and enjoy the satisfaction that comes from great treatment results and helping patients get back to the activities they love.

Formal postgraduate musculoskeletal training can be great, however most of us have family, work or other commitments that can make it almost impossible to find the time and resources to complete postgraduate musculoskeletal training.

What if you could get access to a team of highly qualified Physiotherapists who are passionate about sharing their knowledge, clinical reasoning and skills with you? Who can help transform you into a master clinician that’s the “go to” therapist in your area, with outstanding clinical skills and knowledge? And you can achieve all this, not for $100K or more and thousands of hours, but for a tiny fraction of this time and cost.

You have this opportunity right now.

With Clinical Edge membership, you can immediately access practical clinical education from our team of expert clinicians and a wide range of international presenters, who will all help you get the treatment results you want. Your team of mentors are:

• Simon Olivotto (Specialist Musculoskeletal Physio, FACP),
• Paula Peralta (Specialist Sports & Exercise Physiotherapist, FACP),
• David Toomey (NZ Titled Musculoskeletal Physio & PhD Candidate AUT) and
• Nick Kendrick (APA Titled Musculoskeletal and Sports & Exercise Physiotherapist)

and myself, David Pope (APA Titled Musculoskeletal and Sports & Exercise Physiotherapist).

As a team we provide you with the resources you need to easily fit CPD into your life, to make the most of your time. We will help you take advantage of your breaks between patients, commuting time, develop outstanding clinical reasoning and become a well-rounded, highly skilled therapist.

You can also access outstanding presentations from leading experts, including:

• Dr Mark Jones on clinical reasoning
• Dr Paul Kirwan on tendinopathy
• Dr Henrik Riel on plantar heel pain
• Andrew Wallis on groin pain
• Chris Morgan on MCL injuries
• Dr Ian Horsley on shoulder rehab
• Dr Lee Herrington on anterior knee pain
• Dr Seth O’Neill on Achilles tendon ruptures
• Dr Chris Littlewood on rotator cuff tendinopathy
• Benoy Mathew on groin pain, posterior hip & gluteal pain
• Dr Rich Willy on running injury assessment & treatment
• Dr Stephen Shaffer on TMJ disorders
• Tom Goom on bone stress injuries
• Brian Mulligan on ankle and knee MWM’s
• Dr James Linklater on imaging of the foot and ankle
• Andrew Ryan on ACL, hamstring and ACJ injuries

and many more.

We’ve created a unique educational opportunity for you. Wherever you are, whenever it suits you, you can access ongoing comprehensive, practical training in assessment and treatment of musculoskeletal and sports pain and injuries. You get all this, with access to leading Physiotherapists, not for a large upfront cost, but for an affordable monthly membership price.

Here’s some of the feedback we’ve received from Clinical Edge members….

Clinical reasoning & assessment accuracy.

Develop your clinical reasoning, assessment accuracy and differential diagnosis, so you can effectively treat simple AND complex patients. You’ll discover how to:

• Save time in your treatment sessions with a more efficient and effective objective assessment.
• Quickly hone in on essential information and assess your patients with strong clinical reasoning.
• Get clear assessment results that diagnose, identify drivers & guide your treatment, so you know exactly what to do.

Tailored treatment.

Provide effective, up to date, evidence-informed treatment, tailored to get your patients the best results possible.

Know which treatments are likely to help your individual patient at each stage of their rehab, including how and when to choose strength, conditioning, speed, plyometric, motor control or other exercises, manual therapy, neurodynamic techniques and other evidence-based treatments.

Choose specific education and load management strategies that help your patients understand what they CAN do, what will help calm their symptoms, and how long their recovery is likely to take.

Develop comprehensive rehab programs with effective exercises, manual therapy and education that help your patients get back to their sports, work and life as quickly as possible.

Reputation - Become the "go to" therapist in your area.

Stand out in your area as you build a reputation for achieving great treatment results with complex patients that leave other therapists stumped, and skyrocket your career.

Patient trust = word of mouth referrals. Increase the trust your patients have in you with your heightened skills, assessment accuracy & tailored treatment. You’ll empower your patients with knowledge, easily make decisions on what treatment will get you the best results, teach other therapists in your clinic, and become the “go-to” therapist in your area.

Start your Clinical Edge membership now to improve your clinical reasoning and assessment accuracy, provide effective tailored treatment and become the “go to” therapist in your area.

How you’ll improve your treatment results.

Clinical Edge membership includes two training streams:

1. Comprehensive practical training with the Clinical Edge team of expert clinicians.
2. Additional member webinars & video presentations from leading international presenters.

Your member resources include streaming videos, downloadable handouts, MP3’s (with Platinum membership), case studies and more, and are immediately accessible in your member dashboard after starting your free trial.

1. Comprehensive member training

Get access to an innovative new structured training approach, presentations and resources that will thoroughly develop your clinical skills and knowledge.

We’ve employed a team of expert, titled Physiotherapists who all currently work in clinical practice, are highly experienced, and passionate about their clinical work and sharing their knowledge. As a team, we’ve spent months designing and developing a training approach that includes real case studies, practical insights, physiotherapy experiences and the latest evidence to help you become an expert clinician in the most effective and efficient way possible.

Your Clinical Edge member presentations are structured into comprehensive modules, designed to progressively and efficiently improve your skills, clinical reasoning and treatment results in each important clinical area. Each module will build on previous modules to thoroughly develop your skills in all musculoskeletal and sports areas.

This structured training approach available with Clinical Edge membership has been carefully created to support you as a passionate and authentic therapist to become an outstanding clinician and expert. You’ll receive a step by step pragmatic, honest and entertaining framework to guide you through the challenges that you face daily as a front line clinician.

Clinical reasoning is the foundation for a clear and accurate assessment, simplifying complex patient presentations so you can provide effective treatment, even in short treatment sessions.

Your second comprehensive module will help you “Make sense of pain” so you can tailor your treatment to your patients pain experience & incorporate pain education without giving your patient the message "It's all in your head".

Get immediate access to the clinical reasoning and making sense of pain modules, where you’ll discover:

• How to assess patients comprehensively and efficiently, to get a clear diagnosis and understanding of what you need to include in your treatment and patient education.
• How to use your objective assessment to design an effective treatment plan & rehab program for great results.
• 5 common errors that kill your treatment results.
• The five things you should never say to a patient. Say these things to your patients and you’re sure to slam the handbrake on your patients' recovery.
• Why some of your patients aren’t responding to your rehab program, and why a lot of therapists are prescribing ineffective exercises.
• Why your explanation of pain is so important, and why most therapists oversimplify or overcomplicate their explanation.
• Why you ”lose your patient” with your explanation, and how to get them back when you’ve lost them.
• Why patients commonly lose confidence and trust in their Physio, and what you need to do to keep or regain their trust.
• Why exercising pain free or into pain is one of the most important decisions you can make for each patient, and why most therapists get it wrong.
• How to use exercises to reduce pain rather than increase pain.
• Why some of your exercises flare up your patients' pain, other exercises reduce their pain, and how you can choose the right exercises.
• Why “cookie cutter” exercise programs don’t work for most patients, and how you can provide customised exercise programs.

You’ll get immediate access to comprehensive modules containing practical presentations, case studies, and demonstrations, plus all future presentations and modules as they are released by the Clinical Edge team of expert clinicians.

2. Additional member resources.

Access a library of webinars and practical video demonstrations from leading presenters that will take you through how to assess and treat musculoskeletal pain and sports injuries throughout the body, including low back pain, neck and TMJ pain, knee pain and injuries, foot and ankle injuries, shoulder and lateral elbow pain, wrist and hand injuries. All presentations are available now with Clinical Edge membership, giving you the knowledge and skills you need to successfully treat your patients.

You can progress through your comprehensive member training, dramatically improving your clinical reasoning and skills with help from your team of clinical experts.

With access to both pathways at once - comprehensive training AND presentations from international presenters, you can enjoy whatever resources you need to improve your treatment of all areas of the body.

Accelerate your treatment results

Clinical Edge membership will help you develop your unique strengths, personality and skills to boost your treatment results.

Start your free trial now to improve your skills, master the elements of successful treatment, and enjoy the fulfillment of reaching your potential.

Let’s sum it up - here’s everything that’s included in your Clinical Edge membership.

Comprehensive practical member training

Presentations, demonstrations and case studies designed to fully develop your clinical reasoning and skills, in an easy to follow format that gets results with your patients.

Additional member resources & presentations

Webinars and practical demonstrations from leading presenters that take you through assessment and treatment of pain and injury in each area of the body.

Provide evidence of completed CPD for your registration

Provide evidence of your continuing professional development (CPD) with automated certificates for online presentations, and records of videos, webinars, and podcasts you complete.

Q&A video calls with the Clinical Edge team

Ask the Clinical Edge team questions, get feedback, and continue to boost your treatment results.

MP3 audio downloads of all presentations for all Platinum members.

Download the handouts and MP3 audio files, so you can listen to presentations while you’re commuting, exercising, doing housework, or at any other time that suits you. Once you’ve downloaded the handouts and MP3 audio files, they’re yours to keep.

BJSM full access for all Platinum members

Download and save full BJSM research articles from past or present journals with Platinum membership to keep yourself up to date with the latest evidence.

Support

Enjoy a smooth, easy online learning journey, and overcome any technical challenges you face with the help of the responsive Clinical Edge customer support team via the website chat.

How much is membership in your currency?

Click on Platinum or Gold membership to see an estimate of how much membership is in your currency.

Monthly or annual membership prices are in AUD (Australian dollars), conversion prices and any bank fees are based on the daily currency exchange rate, which will vary depending on the exact rate set by your bank.

Here’s proof that Clinical Edge membership works

You're at the decision making point

You can either continue down the path of least resistance, the path you’ve already been traveling, or you can choose the road less traveled. The path of least resistance will probably result in you getting the same outcomes you’ve always received.

But if you want something different to happen, if you want to change the direction of your treatment, and the results you get with your musculoskeletal pain and sports injury patients, you’ll need to do something different. Make a new choice, and pursue new treatment results, satisfaction and confidence.

Click the “Start my free trial now” button below for your 7 day risk free trial, fill out the order form, and get immediate access to the entire Clinical Edge member resources. Clinical Edge membership has everything you need to get great results with your patients now.