2024 Exercise Training for Cardiac Conditions Course
Event description
Content:
- High intensity interval training and cardiac populations
- Subtleties of assessment
- Physiological responses: 6-minute walk vs sit to stand tests
- Implementing sternal precautions post-surgery with “Keep your move in the tube”
- Factors affecting engagement with cardiac rehab in Qld
- Exercise Models of cardiac care and cultural considerations
- A clinical guide for assessment and prescription of exercise and physical activity in Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Frailty and exercise training
- Atrial fibrillation and exercise training
- Case studies and panel discussion
Participants:
Suitable for physiotherapists, accredited exercise physiologists and nurses with experience or an interest in exercise training and cardiology.
Attendance - In person (complimentary carparking) or via webinar (recording will be available for all participants for 30 days following the course).
Speakers
Dr Julie Adsett, Advanced Physiotherapist, Heart Failure (RBWH) & Metro North Clinician Research Fellow
Ms Samara Phillips B.Physio, MPH, Queensland Cardiac Rehabilitation Advisor, Clinical Improvement Unit Metro South Health
Ms Alison Mahoney, Acting Physiotherapy Clinical Lead, Cardiac, Surgical and Critical Care Services, The Prince Charles Hospital
Prof Norm Morris, Physiotherapist joint research Professor (Cardiothoracic) at The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane and Griffith University on the Gold Coast.
Dr Jenna Taylor, Director Centre for Research on Exercise, Physical Activity and Health Lecturer in Clinical Exercise Physiology, University of Queensland
Dr Emma Thomas, Dr Emma Thomas PhD, MPH, B.Sp.Path, NHMRC Emerging Leader, Centre for Online Health, The University of Queensland
Dr Christian Verdicchio, CEO Heart Support Australia and exercise physiologist
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