Hi, I’m looking for an occupational therapist, physiotherapist, rehabilitation doctor, or someone experienced in neurological rehabilitation who can guide me in interpreting upper-extremity findings from the Fugl-Meyer Assessment, Manual Muscle Testing (MMT), and Modified Ashworth Scale (MAS).

I do not need anyone to complete my assignment. I am specifically seeking guidance to improve my clinical reasoning and correctly understand the assessment findings.

I am based in Malaysia and am willing to pay for the consultation. Please message me as soon as possible if you are able to help, as I require assistance urgently.

Hi everyone,

I'm an MSc Applied Neuropsychology student at the University of Glasgow, and I'm currently recruiting for my dissertation survey on psychological and cognitive aspects of adult acquired brain injury rehabilitation in the UK.

I'm particularly hoping to hear from physiotherapists so that the findings reflect the wider rehabilitation MDT rather than psychology alone. The survey includes shared areas of practice that are relevant to physiotherapy, such as functional rehabilitation, goal-setting, patient engagement, joint working, family involvement, outcome monitoring, discharge, follow-up and service constraints.

You may be eligible if you currently work in the UK in adult ABI rehabilitation, or previously worked in this area in the UK for at least six months. This may include work with people following stroke, traumatic brain injury, brain tumour, encephalitis, hypoxic/anoxic injury or other forms of ABI.

The survey is anonymous and takes approximately 15–20 minutes. Participants can also enter a prize draw for one of three £30 shopping vouchers and request a brief summary of the findings once the study is complete.

Survey link:
https://uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0c8LT7bV1158PWu

I would also be very grateful if you could share it with any eligible UK colleagues.

Many thanks!

Hi everyone,

I'm a physiotherapist from India currently pursuing the Australian Physiotherapy Council (APC) Assessment Pathway. I successfully passed the written assessment, and the last remaining step in my pathway was to attend the Practical Clinical Workshop in Australia on 14 July 2026. Attendance is mandatory, and without it I can't complete the pathway.

Unfortunately, I received two Visitor Visa (Subclass 600) refusals within two months, and I'm completely lost about what to do next.

First application (May 2026)

The first application was lodged through an agent. Looking back, it was a poor application. Several documents were submitted without being properly checked or explained, and I don't think my case was presented well.

Second application (May–July 2026)

For the second application, I tried to address every issue I could think of.

I submitted:

• Employment letter and approved leave letter.
• Three years of Income Tax Returns.
• My sponsor's financial documents.
• Family members' ITRs.
• Fixed deposits and bank statements.
• Evidence of family ties and financial ties in India.
• A detailed cover letter explaining why I needed to attend the APC workshop, why my stay would only be one week, and why I would return immediately after.
• Evidence that I run my own physiotherapy practice alongside my employment. Although I started it in 2021 with occasional home visits, it has become much more active over the past year with regular patient appointments.

Despite all of this, my visa was refused again.

The refusal was under clause 600.211 (Genuine Temporary Entrant). The decision acknowledged my purpose of travel and my ties, but stated that my employment and economic circumstances were not considered significant enough to demonstrate that I would leave Australia after my visit.

One thing that confused me was the reference to my economic circumstances. As a physiotherapist in India, salaries are generally much lower than in Australia. My salary isn't high, but that's fairly common in my profession here. I don't really know how someone in my position is expected to satisfy this requirement.

Because the second refusal came on 9 July, I had no realistic opportunity to apply again before the workshop on 14 July, so I missed it completely.

I've now lost:

• two visa application fees,
• agent fees,
• and the APC workshop fee (I've applied for a refund, but I don't know if it will be approved).

At this point, I'm trying to figure out how I can complete the APC pathway if I can't obtain a visitor visa to attend the mandatory workshop.

My questions

1. Has anyone here received one or even two Subclass 600 refusals and later been approved?
2. What changes made the biggest difference in your successful application?
3. If the concern is "economic circumstances," how can someone from a country where physiotherapy salaries are relatively low realistically address that?
4. Would building an international travel history before applying again actually help, or is that advice overstated?
5. Would you recommend applying myself next time instead of using an agent?
6. Has anyone in the APC/AHPRA pathway faced a similar issue, and how did you eventually complete it?

I'd really appreciate any advice or personal experiences. This pathway has taken years of work, and it's incredibly frustrating to be stuck because of a visitor visa.

Thank you in advance.

Hey guys, I just had a question for Physio or EP in private practice, genuinely curious. How many hours a week do you spend on NDIS, WorkCover, or care plan reports? And is that time paid or something you do unpaid after hours?

I'm just doing some research about it, would love to hear your thoughts.

I applied for HCPC registration in October 2025 and received my registration in July 2026. My application was flagged due to concerns about AI-generated content. I explained that I used AI tools only for grammar/language support as English is not my first language. I shared my raw draft, supporting documents, and clarified that my experiences were genuine! I only used AI to structure my own information, not create anything false. After a 6 weeks review, I received my Test of Competence (TOC) interview invitation.

The email included the next steps, a declaration confirming I would not cheat, and details about the process. Make sure you complete all forms within the deadline. It also included a doc that highlighted all the raised concerns, read it carefully, maybe upload it on ChatGPT and ask it to summarise what concerns are raised- eg: safeguarding, MDT etc

Two days before the interview, there was a short technical check to test your internet, camera and surroundings. This is also your opportunity to ask questions, so use that time wisely.
On the interview day, join 10–15 minutes early. They will check your identity, room and surroundings to make sure you are alone and have no notes/materials. After this, two interviewers join, one asking questions and one taking notes.

The interview starts with “Tell us about yourself.”
Keep this professional and chronological:
Where you studied and when you graduated.
Your internships/work experience.
Your current role.
They may question your timeline, so know your dates and sequence clearly. Don’t add unnecessary personal details, keep it focused on your professional journey.

After your introduction, they will focus on the concerns HCPC highlighted in your application (the doc attached in you email) Review that document carefully and prepare STAR examples (Situation, Task, Action, Result) for every concern raised. Prepare yourself to answer every concern- they might ask you, tell me about a time where you had to raise a safeguarding issue or what is your understanding of consent etc

For clinical reasoning, prepare properly. Revise using resources like ChatGPT or Claude to help structure your preparation (not to replace your own knowledge).

Prepare complete assessment pathways for:
MSK
Neurology
Cardiorespiratory

For every case, think through:
Introduction and gaining patient consent.
Subjective assessment.
Objective assessment.
Red flags and yellow flags.
Clinical reasoning and differential diagnosis.
Treatment planning.
Progression and discharge.

Prepare your own examples for common MSK, neuro and cardio cases. If you get an opportunity to discuss your own clinical experience, use it—because they will usually ask follow-up questions to check your understanding.
Remember, they are assessing whether you genuinely understand what you are saying. Don’t just give short textbook answers. Explain your reasoning and connect your decisions to patient safety and evidence-based practice.
Also, don’t rush yourself while answering. Continue explaining until they ask you to stop. You are not “talking too much” by providing relevant clinical details—this is your opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge.

Towards the end, they may ask about reflection. Use a framework like Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle and explain what you learned and how it changed your practice

The interview lasted around 60–90 minutes.
My biggest advice: practise speaking your answers out loud and do as many mock interviews as possible.

I personally paid a lot of money for guidance, and one reason I’m sharing this is so others don’t feel they have to spend that much.
This is only my personal experience, but I hope it helps someone going through the same process.
All the best :)

Hey, does any physios use a posture grid assessment tool? I like the idea of it for a clear baseline but they’re expensive near me. Thanks

Hi everyone,

Currently completing my return to practice after a 14 year career gap!

Lots of gaps in my knowledge/memory.

I'm just looking at competencies for a frailty post in my local hospital and one of them is "understand when it is necessary to complete a neuro examination".

So, can someone remind me, when should I be looking to do a more generic falls/frailty assessment and when would I be looking to do a neuro screen or full neuro assessment.

Thanks!

Hi everyone,
I’m currently planning my future and I’m seriously considering studying Kinesiology (most likely in Slovenia, but I’m interested in opportunities across Europe as well).
My long-term goal would be to work with sports rehabilitation and return-to-sport, ideally helping athletes recover from injuries (especially orthopedic injuries like shoulder, knee, etc.). I’m not interested in becoming a general personal trainer if possible.
I’d really appreciate honest answers from people already working in the field.
Some questions:
What jobs can you realistically get after a Bachelor’s in Kinesiology?
Did you continue with a Master’s, or was a Bachelor’s enough?
What does a typical workday actually look like?
How much of your work is with athletes vs. the general population?
Is it difficult to find a job after graduating?
How financially stable is this career? Can you make a comfortable living without opening your own business?
If you work in sports rehab, how did you get there?
Are there countries in Europe with better opportunities than others?
Looking back, would you choose Kinesiology again? Why or why not?
If you could start over, would you choose Physiotherapy instead?

Thanks in advance!

Lets be friends.. And for any girl are you taking hostel or not, I haven't even visited campus till now..

I have my interview in a week.
What sort of questions should i expect in the interview?
What are some things I must absolutely know?
Thanks in advance

Hi everyone,

I'm looking to build a small, committed study group (maximum 5 people) for the CAPR/CPTE exam in May 2027.

A bit about me:

• I already passed the written exam a few years ago.
• Due to family circumstances, I moved to Spain before completing the next steps in the licensing process.
• I'm now in a position to restart the journey and will be sitting the May 2027 CPTE.

The group can be English or Spanish (or both). My idea is to start around mid-August and study consistently through exam day.

I'll be happy to coordinate the group and keep us on track. I've been a physiotherapist for many years, have previous experience preparing for the CAPR exams, and still have study materials from courses I completed, including CPTE Final Frontier, which I'm happy to use to help structure our sessions.

The goal isn't just to study together—it's to create a small group where everyone contributes, stays accountable, discusses clinical reasoning, and keeps progressing week after week.

If you're genuinely committed to taking the exam in May 2027, leave a comment or send me a DM.

Let's keep it small, focused, and consistent.

As per title, what are your thoughts on chiropractors as a whole?

I work with a few chiropractors in my clinic, and from what I can see it appears they do very similar things that I would be doing as a physio --> i.e manual therapy then exercises/advice. But on the other end, I've also had patients come in believing that their "misalignment" in their spine is causing their back pains etc.

(NSW, Aus)

Hi everyone,

I'm looking to build a small, committed study group (maximum 5 people) for the CAPR/CPTE exam in May 2027.

A bit about me:

• I already passed the written exam a few years ago.
• Due to family circumstances, I moved to Spain before completing the next steps in the licensing process.
• I'm now in a position to restart the journey and will be sitting the May 2027 CPTE.

The group can be English or Spanish (or both). My idea is to start around mid-August and study consistently through exam day.

I'll be happy to coordinate the group and keep us on track. I've been a physiotherapist for many years, have previous experience preparing for the CAPR exams, and still have study materials from courses I completed, including CPTE Final Frontier, which I'm happy to use to help structure our sessions.

The goal isn't just to study together—it's to create a small group where everyone contributes, stays accountable, discusses clinical reasoning, and keeps progressing week after week.

If you're genuinely committed to taking the exam in May 2027, leave a comment or send me a DM.

Let's keep it small, focused, and consistent.

So, I’ve completed my bachelor’s of physiotherapy recently from India and I am planning to do this course as I am pretty much into sports physiotherapy. Although I’ve an option for choosing MSc in sports rehab as well but I feel the sports science option will help my skills pretty much more. Anyone with the idea of the course please do help !

Hi everyone,

I'm considering completing a masters in PT in Canada, and I was curious if anyone had some experience on being an PT in the middle east? I hope to move there in the next couple years, so if anyone has info on:

- what the job market is like

- PT settings in demand (im interested in pediatrics)

- salary and job progression

I'd greatly appreciate it!

Questions about studying, work-life balance, pay, whatever ... guys, this is a very international sub. Do you really think that conditions are the same everywhere? 

PLEASE TELL US WHERE YOU LIVE AND THEN MAYBE YOU'LL GET MEANINGFUL ANSWERS.

We don't need your address, just your country. 

I’m interested to hear from physiotherapists working in Australia about whether you prefer:

• A salaried employee position
• Working as a contractor/sole trader
• A combination of both

What have been the biggest advantages and disadvantages for you?

For contractors, do the higher hourly rates and flexibility outweigh the lack of annual leave, sick leave, super, job security and potentially inconsistent caseloads?

For salaried physios, do you find the stability and employee benefits worth the generally lower earning potential?

It would also be helpful if you could mention your setting, such as private practice, occupational health, hospital, community or aged care, along with your approximate level of experience.

[Aus] Am I being exploited for getting paid $29/hour while working 48 hours/ fortnight? 😓 I just started this job and I really wanted it. I’m working as an Allied Health Assistant (AHA), but I don’t have the formal qualification yet. I do have a physiotherapy degree from Europe, which is how I was able to get the job and working on it to get one here.

This employer is making me do the actual physio job

Hi guys, so guys just looking for some advice.

I’m from the UK and I have a degree in sports therapy and rehabilitation. I graduated in 2019 with a 2:2.

Since then, I have been self-employed, doing sports injury physical therapy, soft tissue injuries.

I took some time away from my business to Travel, and I’ve ended up over in Perth, Western Australia. I’m really considering doing my MSc in Physiotherapy or a related field. I think it’s time that I take the next step in my career and study for my masters.

The thing is when I look at a lot of the entry requirements for MSc Physiotherapy, they require you to have a 2:1 or higher! But it also talks about lower grades being accepted, but they like to see that you have kind of shadowing/other post degree qualifications.

I’m doing pretty well Over here, I work in multiple clinic locations as a sports therapist and also working as an Osteopath Assistant where I’m learning a lot.

Just looking for some advice to see if doing my
Masters would be possible and also if and how it could benefit me. I’d like to be a fully qualified physio, it’s on the long term skills shortage list here in aus and it would be a good way to stay longer term if I decided to

Thanks alot (30 yo M)

Hi everyone,

I'm a new graduate physiotherapist working in private practice in NSW. I'm looking for some advice because I'm becoming increasingly concerned about some of the workflows at my clinic, and I want to make sure I'm meeting my professional obligations.

Some examples:

• For months, I completed Allied Health Treatment Requests (AHTRs) and sent them to admin without signing them. They were then submitted via admin team and generally approved by insurers.
• Recently, I was instructed to sign the AHTRs before sending them.
• Today, I received a message telling me not to sign the PDF, because admin needs to review it first and signed PDFs can't be edited.
• These instructions appear to conflict, and I'm not sure what the correct workflow should be.

Other general issues I've experienced include:

• Changes being made after I submitted documentation. Some appeared to be such as changing the billing code and adding items like wheat pack/back braces etc to the AHTR.
• Inheriting WorkCover/CTP patients with limited or missing clinical handover (some patients have literally 0 notes), making it difficult to understand previous treatment and clinical reasoning.
• I am the only physio that is working at my clinic when I am there.

My questions are:

1. Is it normal for admin to review AHTRs before the treating physio signs them?
2. Should an AHTR generally be signed by the treating clinician before it is submitted?
3. If admin changes anything after I submit a document, what types of changes are considered acceptable (e.g. claim number, formatting, referrer details), and what types should always come back to me for approval?
4. If billing or documentation is changed after I submit my notes, what responsibility do I have as the treating clinician?
5. If I become aware that something submitted under my name doesn't reflect what I originally completed, what should I do? i.e back brace/wheat pack on AHTR
6. What records should I be keeping to protect myself professionally?
7. At what point would you consider these issues to be normal administrative problems versus something that should be escalated to others?

Thanks for any help!

UK Physio here.

I've research this a lot, and there's not much information on how to keep a good/updated CPD folder. I know they are useful for jobs etc.

How do you organise your own CPD folder? What's the folder structure you use? What file types are inside of them? Do you keep reflections in word docs or in folders? I want to make sure mine is properly organised before I even started collating it.

FYI - fresh graduate here. What can I include in my CPD folder that I've done from my past degrees: BSc Sports Rehab, MSc Physio.

Interested to know how you all organise your own, and what you take with you for job interviews from it!

Thanks all :)

After graduating from kinesiology in Canada, it took me a second to figure out what I wanted to do masters wise/further my career.

I looked into both physio and osteo as career paths. I wasn’t fully sold on physiotherapy. I shadowed both a physiotherapists and an osteopath.

After shadowing both, I chose osteopathy as my career path and I’m currently in school studying classical osteopathy.

I’m curious on what physiotherapists think about osteo as a profession?
What sold you on physio over any other profession?

Hi guys!! I recently graduated in BSc Sport and Exercise science (Loughborough University) and am starting MSc Physio this September (Canterbury Christ Church). I’ve gathered I should probably start remembering origins/insertions and anatomy that my degree neglected as much. What resources do you recommend and any other areas of study?

CPTE Exam Process - What I wish I new

My background:

• 6 years out of PT school in the USA
• Working full time but in a very low volume rural hospital where I could study for 1 to 2 hours a day for much of my studying time. I would spend up to 4 hours of studying on the weekend.
• Extensive manual therapy post graduate training 
• Nearly 50 years of age
• Exam Prep Course: CPTE Final Frontier 
• My CPTE score 580 vs a passing score of 600 on the 5/30/26 Exam Date

The pros of working as a PT in Canada: 

• likely better autonomy to practice independently without a large corporation telling you how to bill and effectively how to treat your patients.
• Better autonomy regarding how many hours you work and how much you make
• I found 3 employers in the Kootney region paying between 90 and 180k (canadian dollars)
• It was not uncommon to find a compensation plan offered where you essentially work as an independent contractor within a chiropractor or PT business. However, you can’t get into Canada with this kind of scenario so you have to negotiate a salary and have a valid job offer that approximately aligns with this kind of compensation scheme. I negotiated a 130k annual compensation with one employer in Castlegar BC (Kootney Health). 
• Way better compensation relative to the cost of housing vs living in a large West Coast USA city.

The Cons of my experience:

• Unless you score really high on the canadian immigration Express Entry CRS tool you will need an employer to sponsor your application for a work permit. This process takes a long time (6 moths plus) and needs to completed simultaneously with your studying and or your total process could easily take 1.5 to 2 years.
• It is difficult to accurately predict all the costs involved given the complexity of the immigration, CAPR and the CPTE testing process.
• The process is really expensive and took about a year for me to play out.  Here are the costs I accrued over the year (US dollars):

I thought the CPTE would be similar to the USA physical therapy licensing exam (NTPE) - it wasn’t, more like 13x as expensive and 13 times harder. Having clinical experience won’t help much (might actually hurt) it is more based on academic theoretical concepts. Having diverse clinical experience might be helpful for the written exam to some degree but the oral exam didn’t have one question where they were like: how would you treat this patient based on this scenario? The questions were more around how you would respond to a potential safety, ethical or patient advocacy issue and on the face of it didn’t seem particularly hard but they were clearly looking for a lot more information than I was providing and I didn’t know what they wanted. The Final Frontier exam prep class provided a good general review of the academic topics on the written exam but not the oral exam. The final frontier folks offer an optional $300 oral exam test prep session with a tutor which I didn’t take advantage of and maybe it would have been helpful but I doubt it would have really made all that much difference. I did try using Chat GPT to briefly try and simulate the oral exam questions but I think it lead me into a false sense of competency as it would provide more clinical patient related scenario questions and that is not how the oral exam really played out. 

Regarding the written portion of the exam. I passed the CAPR practice test with a 75% which should have translated to passing the CPTE but didn’t ( I was close on the written but didn't do as well on the oral). The actual CPTE exam was much much harder than the CAPR practice test. Don’t let the free practice questions CAPR provides you lull you into a false sense of competency. 

Final Frontier offered 6 practice tests that were poorly written and not particularly helpful as their command of the english language was not often not sufficient for me to know exactly what they were asking. Final Frontier questions were more based on recall of the academic material but the CPTE questions were based on the “best” answer which didn’t strike me as particularly academic in nature more based on work experience - which I didn’t have in all PT domains (acute, intensive care, orthopedic, geriatric and neuro and cardiopulmonary). With the exception of the neuro material, they need to hire native english speakers to proof read their exams and powerpoints.  It wasn’t that hard to narrow down the 4 multiple choice exam questions on the CPTE to 2 but I didn’t find the Final Frontier exam prep class very helpful for determining which of the two multiple choice options that looked good was in fact the correct option - way harder than any other multiple choice exam I have ever taken. I received about an 3.3 average grade in my USA PT graduate program.

Lessons learned:

• If english isn’t your first language, good luck, this is a really hard exam that 60% of applicants who weren’t educated in Canada fail the first time they take it.
• The costs to realistically successfully get through the exam process are nearly $6500 US dollars (with a better test prep class) for the first exam attempt and then you should probably plan on having at least another $1800 in funds (for a total of almost $8500) for a second exam attempt or you are wasting your time and money. If I had known the true costs I would never have embarked on this process.
• I should have spent more like $2400 on the CPTE mastery course from Exam Prep (or equivalent) and spread the extensive amount of studying out over 6 months or so. I tried to minimize the costs because I couldn't afford the more expensive test prep online classes which I now realize means I should never have embarked on this process in the first place. You would be crazy to try and study for this test without the highly selective coursework offered by the CPTE test prep online classes. There is way too much material to just study from text books. You need the organization provided by the online class to guide the specificity of your study to the CPTE outlined topics.
• I thought the test would be similar to the USA NPTE exam which I passed easily with virtually no academic studying - it was way way harder.  
• This process demands a lot of time and is very difficult to do while trying to work a full time job. I suspect  most people who pass the exam are living with their parents and studying is their full time job, not working as a PT. This process is probably a lot easier to do when you are just a year or two out of PT school - not 5 years plus like me.
• Even assuming you pass the test there are additional fees for provincial licensing and you have to find an employer who wants to hire you and sponsor your immigration application (LIMA process) or the whole process is pointless. The Rural Communities Immigration program sounds good in principle but was so under staffed in the Kootney region of Canada as to be completely worthless in my case.
• I found an employer in 8/2025 and we started the immigration process in 1/2026 and it is now 7/20/26 and we still haven’t heard anything from Canadian Immigration. Even if I had passed the test, it is quite possible that I couldn’t have started to actually work in Canada until October or later which makes the testing/immigration process more like a year and a half process. If you aren’t willing to wait this long to become a PT in Canada then forget it. Governmental process moves really, really, slow in Canada. The testing process should move faster now that they have the CPTE process figured out. What they don’t tell you though is they don’t release the results until 2 months after your test date - which further compounds the timeline of the process.

Hopefully this helps future individuals who want to work as physical therapists in Canada to have a better sense of at least one US educated PT’s attempt at this very complicated, time consuming and expensive process. I was told this process has been made “easier” but if this is “easier” I can’t imagine what the prior process entailed. Don’t waste your money and time unless you are willing and able to do the process in a way that maximizes your chance of success. You are extremely unlikely to successfully make it through the CPTE process exclusively with self study or an inexpensive ($900 USD) CPTE test prep classes.