Conference

Why is conference 2021 cancelled?

By August we should have been making firm plans with international speakers, the venue, the hotel for 2021, etc. but as there are still too many uncertainties regarding the ongoing effects of the pandemic, we have had to think long and hard about the feasibility of holding our conference in 2021. We have considered every eventuality, and possible scenario, and finally come to the conclusion that we could not go ahead with next year’s conference with confidence. We are sorry to have to make this decision, but we are sure that everyone will understand.

We are currently using what we have learned during COVID-19 to formulate a new and exciting Physio First project. This has involved investigating how we can provide webinars for our members, hopefully in the first instance from the speakers we had lined up for our 2021 conference. So look out for details in our bulletins, on our website and on our member only LinkedIn forum. We are confident, given the way our members have embraced new ways of working and accessing online support, that this initiative to offer a digital learning experience will be well received and seen as a way in which Physio First continues in our commitment to deliver ongoing high quality education.

In addition, we are looking at how we develop the webinar meet-ups that became a feature of the pandemic. The opportunity for members to meet up on Zoom facilitated by our Regional Officers, who are rapidly becoming our community representatives, which have proved so popular and so cathartic.

We will, of course, also continue to consider what format our annual conference may take in the years to come when the future is more certain and we have had opportunity to obtain and review feedback from you, our members.

We are confident that you will understand our reasoning for this decision, and we hope you will support our Physio First volunteer and office team as we offer what we are sure will be new and exciting ventures aimed at providing everything you need to become a thriving provider of demonstrable quality private physiotherapy within a strong, influential and trusted community’

How do I find out about the Private Physiotherapy Educational Foundation (PPEF)

Visit their website for information of the Foundation and the grants available.

[Reviewed - July 2019]

What are the past Olive Sands lectures at conference?

2010	A Global Approach to Cervical Spine Rehabilitation	Joanne Elphinston
2011	The Shoulder: Evidence Based Practice or Reinventing the Wheel	Jo Gibson
2012	Managing Lower Limb Tendinopathy	Dr Nicola Phillips
2013	Solutions for Managing Movement – Targeting the Impairment	Sarah Mottram
2014	Cervical Spine Pre-treatment Screening for Arterial Dysfunction	Professor Roger Kerry
2015	Electro Physical Agents and Tissue Repair: Can we really make a Difference?	Professor Tim Watson
2016	Exercise progression from a clinical environment to a sporting venue	Lynn Booth
2017	Athletic Low Back Pain: key considerations to ensure effective outcomes	Dr Philip Glasgow
2018	The Private Detective: A Closer Look at the Pelvic Floor in Athletes	Dr Ruth Jones
2019	The future in your hands: clinical reasoning, common sense and confidence	Joanne Elphinston

What are the past Kenneth Balfour lectures at conference?

2010	Sensorimotor Control Disturbances in Cervical Disorders Differential Diagnosis of Cervicogenic Dizziness	Dr. Julia Treleaven
2011	Knowledge, Science and Clinical Practice – What do we need to know, how do we know what we know, and what can and can’t science tell us about how to treat our Patients?	Linda-Joy Lee
2012	Ankle Sprains – Neurologically impaired for Life? Central Movement Control Implications for Rehabilitation following Lateral Ankle Injury Preparing Shoulders to fail: Limitations to Traditional Rehab and How to Lift our Game	Asst Professor Craig Allingham
2013	From Protons to Progression of Exercise – How can Conventional and Advanced MRI Applications Guide Exercise Prescription for Neck Pain?	Dr. James Elliot
2014	Diagnosis, Classification and Predication of Recovery following Whiplash Injury	Professor Michelle Sterling
2014	Unravelling the Complexities of Whiplash: A Pragmatic Approach to Clinical Assessment and Management.	Professor Michelle Sterling
2015	How do Tendons respond to load: Directing Rehabilitation by Evidence?	Professor Jill Cook
2015	Funky Treatments for Tendons: Where is the Evidence?	Professor Jill Cook
2016	Evidence informed approach to manage Chronic Tennis Elbow: injections, physiotherapy or wait it out?	Professor Bill Vicenzino
2016	Slipping the boot into Patellofemoral Pain: an evidence informed pragmatic approach	Professor Bill Vicenzino
2017	Unravelling the deep hip muscles: it’s not the size that counts but how you use them	Dr Tania Pizzari
2017	Principle-based approach to managing rotator cuff tendinopathy	Dr Tania Pizzari
2018	Advances in Neurodynamic Mechanisms	Michael Shacklock
2018	Clinical application of neurodynamic mechanisms	Michael Shacklock
2019	Physiopathology of deep fascia	Dr Antonio Stecco
2019	Fascial Manipulation	Dr Antonio Stecco

What are the past PPEF sponsored conference lectures?

2010	Diagnosis, Classification and Prediction of Recovery Following Whiplash Injury. Unravelling the Complexities of Whiplash: A pragmatic Approach to Clinical Assessment and Management	Asst. Professor Michelle Stirling
2011	Pain, the Brain and Motor Control Incontinence, Back Pain and Breathing Disorders: An Inseparable Triad?	Professor Paul Hodges
2012	Selective Functional Movement Assessment: An Algorithmic Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment Golf Fitness Screen: Preventing Injury and Improving Performance	Dr. Michael Voight
2014	What Underlies Persistent Low Back Pain?	Professor Peter O’Sullivan
2014	A Cognitive Functional Approach to Management of Persistent Low Back Pain?	Professor Peter O’Sullivan
2015	Multidirectional instability of the shoulder? What is it? Does PhysiotherapyWork?	Lyn Watson
2015	Principles of Rehabilitation – An Evidence and Pathological based approach to selection of Exercises for Shoulder Rehabilitation.	Lyn Watson
2016	Mechanotherapy: how it underpins every musculoskeletal physiotherapy treatment	Karim Khan
2017	Low back pain: matching the treatment to the patient	Professor Paul Hodges
2017	Men's health: a new bastion of physiotherapy	Professor Paul Hodges
2018	'Cervicogenic Headache’: useful… or an ‘intellectual straitjacket’?	Dean Watson
2018	Alternating headache: C2-3 Disc... innocent or guilty?	Dean Watson
2019	Multidimensional framework for assessing and treating persistent low back pain: application of the techniques	Mary O’Keeffe
2019	Multidimensional framework for assessing and treating persistent low back pain: assessing and identifying	Mary O’Keeffe

Has Physio First considered alternative conference venues?

Yes.

During our education sub committee’s annual post-conference meeting in June 2018, we reviewed the findings of the project ‘to investigate and consider options for the Physio First conference for the future to include alternative venues and if considered cogent to produce a Project Plan to implement these changes to our 2020 conference.’

Within this project plan we had incorporated the feedback and requirements of our members, including investigating the feasibility of new locations such as Manchester, London and Birmingham.

Below is a small extract of the research undertaken by our team to consider other venues and compare the EMCC with others of the same calibre. After much investigation, including a review of the location, value for money, how well it met our criteria, and member feedback across multiple platforms, we concluded that the venue best suited for all of our requirements remained the East Midlands Conference Centre. For this reason, we will remain at the EMCC for 2019 and 2020 conference.

The EMCC enables us to deliver an annual conference with a quality onsite hotel, parking facilities (80% of 2018 conference delegates travelled to Nottingham by car), major travel links (motorways, nearby train station etc.), tiered theatre and exhibition space that has contributed to the success of our conferences for the last 14 years and we look forward to returning in 2019 with a new format.

Venue	Region	Onsite car parking	Tiered lecture theatre	Separate exhibition	Onsite / nearby accommodation	Good train links	Nearest major airport	Capacity
East Midlands Conference Centre	Trent				Adjacent Orchard Hotel	Nottingham Train Station	East Midlands Airport	500
Heart of England Coventry	Midlands		x	Outdoor marquee	x	x	Birmingham International	650
University of Birmingham Conference Centre	Midlands					New Street Station 15 minute drive	Birmingham International	419
Athena Leicester Converted Odeon cinema	Trent	120 cars only	Seating on different levels (partially tiered)	Potentially	Nearby Ramada	Leicester station 10 min walk	East Midlands Airport	950
Manchester Conference Centre	Mercia	x			Nearby hotel offers discount	Piccadilly Train Station 6 minute walk	Manchester	280
Leicester Conferences	Trent		x		Halls of residence	Leicester Station 10 min drive	East Midlands Airport	300
Hilton Watford	London		x		200 onsite	Watford Junction	Luton Airport	375
Warwick Conferences	Midlands		x		Halls of Residence	Canley train station 6 min drive	Birmingham International	400
Vox Conference Centre Part of the ‘Resorts World’ building near NEC	Midlands		x		Halls of residence	Birmingham International 5 minute walk	Birmingham International (literally next door)	900
Holywell Park Conference Centre Loughborough	Trent				Burleigh Court hotel 10-minute walk	Loughborough train station 16 min drive	East Midlands Airport	200 in tiered theatre 280 in un-tiered theatre
Donington Park Race Circuit East Midlands	Trent		x	x	x	x	East Midlands Airport (literally next door)	600
National Conference Centre (NCC) outside Birmingham	Midlands		x		7-minute drive	Birmingham International 6 min drive	Birmingham International	1,400
Whittlebury Hall	Oxford		x		254 onsite	x	Birmingham International	500
Bolton Arena	Mercia		x		250 onsite	Horwich Parkway	Manchester Airport	9,000
Holiday Inn Birmingham Airport	Midlands		x		239 onsite	Birmingham International 6 min drive	Birmingham International	600
Hilton Deansgate Manchester	Mercia	x	x	On separate floors	279 onsite	Deansgate / Piccadilly nearby	Manchester Airport	600
Midland Hotel Manchester	Mercia	x	x		312 onsite	Deansgate / Piccadilly nearby	Manchester Airport	700
Crowne Plaza Stratford Upon Avon	Midlands		x		259 onsite	Stratford Upon Avon station 7 min drive	Birmingham International	550
The Tower Hotel London	London	x	x		801 onsite	Tower Hill Underground station	London City/Heathrow	550
Royal National Hotel	London	x	x		1,630	Euston Station	London City / Heathrow	717
Liverpool Convention Centre	Mercia	x			658 onsite	Liverpool James Street	Liverpool John Lennon	1,350
University of Preston	Mercia	x		20 exhibitors only	x	Preston	Blackpool / Manchester	450

[Reviewed - July 2019]