Patellofemoral Pain - Assessment and Treatment Updates

Overview

Drawing on her own published research as well as others, Claire Robertson will combine this knowledge with her extensive clinical experience treating over 10,000 patients with knee pain. She will examine the latest advances in patellofemoral pain and how to effectively integrate these insights into your practice. 

Join the Orthopaedic Division of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association for this online course 'Patellofemoral Pain - Assessment and Treatment Updates'.

Learning Objectives

In this online course, you will: 

1. Utilize key revealing questions in the subjective examination.
2. State how to prioritize what to examine in the physical examination.
3. Discuss the implications of crepitus.
4. Prescribe key proximal and/ or quadricep exercises with the correct dosage.
5. Differentiate between Patellofemoral Pain (PFP) and Hoffas fat pad syndrome.  

Audience

This online course is for all rehabilitation professionals, including physiotherapists, chiropractors, athletic therapists, and kinesiologists. 

Presenter: Claire Robertson 

Claire Robertson qualified in 1994 with a BSc(hons) Physiotherapy. She has since obtained her MSc Physiotherapy, in 2003, and PGCE in 2006. Claire has worked in the NHS, academia and private practice, and currently runs a specialist patellofemoral clinic at Wimbledon Clinics. She is the only physiotherapist on the education committee for the British Patellofemoral Society.

Claire has lectured internationally and has many research papers and editorials published in internationally peer-reviewed journals. She is also a reviewer herself for Physiotherapy Research International, Physical Therapy in Sport, Clinical Anatomy and Physiotherapy. Claire runs her own post-graduate course on patellofemoral problems for physiotherapists.

In December 2012 Claire was awarded a research grant by the Physiotherapy Research Foundation to investigate the meaning of crepitus to patients with patella femoral pain syndrome.