2026 Exercise Training for Cardiac Conditions Course

This course will assist in applying principals of exercise training to complex cardiac cases and how to prescribe exercise for a variety of conditions

Content:

• Demographics for CR and Heart Failure in Qld: registry data

• Exercise for cardiac conditions: theory and practice overview

• Cardio-Metabolic syndromes and exercise considerations

• Heat intolerance and cardiac conditions

• Exercise considerations for patients with dysautonomia

• Pulmonary Hypertension, heart failure and exercise research

• Cardiac rehabilitation participation among First Nations patients in QLD: registry data

• CR rehabilitation in women

• Ventricular Assistive Devices as destination therapy

• Cardiomyopathies (myocarditis, pericarditis and cardiac sarcoid and amyloid): implications for exercise

• Cases discussion with panel

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 (1)

Mr William Beningfield, Physiotherapist (1)

Prof Norm Morris, Physiotherapist and Exercise Physiologist researcher (2,3)

Dr Fergus O’Connor, Exercise Scientist (3)

Ms Olivia Powrie, Exercise physiologist (4)

Ms Helen Seale, Physiotherapist Clinical Consultant (2)

Dr Emma Thomas, Centre for Health Services Research (5)

Dr Nicholas Sowden, Cardiologist (6)

Affiliations

1.Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, 2. The Prince Charles Hospital, 3. Griffith University, 4. West Moreton Hospital and Health Service, 5. University of Qld, 6. QEII Hospital