South Australia & Northern Territory
2020 Meetings
- Tuesday 25th August, Understanding chronic pain, presented by David Moen
- Monday 28 September, Working from home: the new challenges for health professionals, presented by Shan Needham
AFOEM SA Educational Meetings 2020
18th August
13th October
SA Branch Council Members
Chairperson: Dr Bill Panayiaris (anzsom.sant@gmail.com)
Secretary: Navneeth Rajgopalan
Treasurer: Dr Bill Panayiaris
Education: Geoffrey Graham
Branch AGM documents
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PREVIOUS EVENTS
Permission to Move: A refreshingly simple approach to chronic pain
David Moen
Recording now available (member-only access)
Session description:
In this presentation Dave Moen will describe the clinical practice model outlined in his book, Permission to Move. With a particular emphasis on pain science education, self-efficacy theory and the modifiable factors that are likely to improve recovery. We have found that these sessions work best when there is some interaction from the audience, and welcome questions to be submitted before the presentation if possible.
Dave Moen is founder of Form Physiotherapy and Permission to Move in Adelaide, South Australia. His team work to develop and test best-practice interventions for chronic pain. After working with Prof Lorimer Moseley at the Body in Mind research group, he developed Tame the Beast; a freely available animation and podcast series that is widely used in public hospitals and pain programs internationally. Dave is currently working with insurers and public hospitals to develop telehealth interventions that seek to provide affordable, effective and early intervention for people at risk of developing persistent pain.
Working from home: the new challenges for health professionals
Shan Needham
Recording now available (member only access)
Learning objectives / content:
- To understand and apply the principals of manual handling and apply to ergonomic related workstation set ups
- To understand the challenges and changes with working from home and applying ergonomic principles to a residential space
- Introduction to correction and adjustment of the workstation to suit the needs of the worker
Pre-reading/resources
Safe Work Practice – Ergonomic Set up, Solutions to Residential Application
Shan Needham is a physiotherapist, providing manual task training for over 25 years, working across all types of industry and an accredited Manutention trainer for over the past 15 years.
Shan's role involves running manual task training sessions for staff and consulting with staff about solutions to difficult or challenging manual task and ergonomic issues.
Her passion and enthusiasm for these topics is evident during training sessions. Shan has worked across many industries including industrial, aged care, acute care, community care and understands the needs and trends amongst the healthcare workers who support the community. Shan is a wealth of information and has demonstrated her 'weight in gold' with supporting her colleagues and clients through some of the changes that 'working from home' has brought about recently