Join renowned tendon expert, Dr Ebonie Rio (La Trobe University), in Perth for a practical course on lower limb tendinopathy.
Proudly delivered in partnership with AAP Education, this practical course, led by Dr Ebonie Rio, will cover every aspect of lower limb tendon assessment, including differential diagnosis and complete rehabilitation.
This course will give you the skills and confidence to:
- Diagnose lower limb tendinopathy and differentiate other conditions that alter your treatment path
- Complete a thorough subjective assessment of your patient, including relevant co-morbidities, when to refer on, and how to recognise and celebrate pink flags!
- Undertake a graded objective assessment that you can tailor depending on your patient. This will ensure you have a complete understanding of their current function and can come up with a plan together.
- Understand who gets tendon pain? Clinical presentations of tendon pain and understanding the difference between nociception and pain using the biopsychosocial model
- Know when to use imaging with tendons, what to choose, what language to use, and how to place it in context.
- Rehabilitate lower limb tendinopathy, including tips on settling pain (for example, in season) and tips and tricks to use in your clinical treatment, know-how, and when to progress
- Isometrics? Eccentrics? HRT? The most up-to-date exercise regimes and their effectiveness in treating tendinopathy (spoiler alert – no recipe suits every patient!)
- Prescribe exercise with confidence
- Decide what adjuncts have a role in your practice
- Know what to do when they are tricky and not getting better!
Presenter
Dr Ebonie Rio
Dr Ebonie Rio (La Trobe University) has worked and researched alongside Jill Cook, Lorimer Moseley, Craig Purdam, and Sean Docking, who have all been responsible for groundbreaking research in pain and tendinopathy.
Ebonie is a Sports Physiotherapist at the Victorian Institute of Sport and runs a tendon clinic. Her previous clinical career has included the Australian Institute of Sport, Australian Ballet Company, Australian Ballet School, Melbourne Heart Football Club, Alphington Sports Medicine Centre, the 2006 Commonwealth Games, the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, the 2010 Singapore Youth Olympics, and the 2012 London Paralympics. She also spent 18 months travelling with Disney’s The Lion King stage show (the Melbourne and Shanghai tours).
Program
Friday 29 August 2025
4.45pm – 5.00pm – Registration opens
5.00pm – 8.00pm – Presentation
Saturday 30 August 2025*
8.45am – 5.00pm – Complete day of presentations and practicals
*Full catering provided
Registration
- SEPA members: $780.00
- AAP Education members: $780.00
Due to the limited number of registrations available, registrations are exclusive to SEPA and AAP Education members.
