Our presenters

About Jane Rooney

Associate Professor Jane Rooney, FACP is a Specialist Sports and Exercise Physiotherapist (subspecialty knee) (as awarded by the Australian College of Physiotherapists in 2009)  and a Titled Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist.  

Jane has a particular interest in ACL injury management. She was awarded a prestigious Churchill Fellowship in 2016 to investigate management algorithms and non-operative management strategies for ACL injury, travelling to Europe, Scandinavia and America. This inspired a research project conducted with Dr Stephanie Filbay and team examining treatment decision making for ACL rupture from the perspective of physiotherapists and patients in Australia, in Print in Physical Therapy. The results informed a free online patient decision aid for shared decision-making following ACL injury.

Jane has been implementing the Cross Bracing protocol since 2019 and is a co-author of the published Cross Bracing case series in BSJM, 2023. She is also a co-author and the rehab protocol designer for both arms of the forthcoming multicenter RCT comparing Cross Bracing to ACL reconstruction for ACL injury management. 

Jane works as a clinician at Prahran Sports Medicine Centre, a large multi-disciplinary sports clinic, collaborating closely with many of Melbourne’s leading knee surgeons and sports physicians. working with athletes of all abilities from recreational to professional.

Jo Gibson (MCSP MSc) 

Jo Gibson is a Clinical Physiotherapy Specialist since 1995 working at the Upper Limb Unit at the Royal Liverpool Hospital and a in private practice. She worked as Squad Physiotherapist for the GB Endurance Riding Team for six years and now works on a consultancy basis with several elite sports teams regarding shoulder rehabilitation.

Jo is an associate Lecturer at the University of Liverpool and has co-developed Upper Limb Masters Modules. She lectures Nationally and Internationally about assessment and rehabilitation of the shoulder complex and has published in peer reviewed journals and written several book chapters. Jo is a member of the EUSSER board (European Society of Shoulder & Elbow Rehabilitation) and a co-founder of the International Congress of Shoulder and Elbow Therapists, which now runs tri-annually.

Follow Jo on Twitter: @ShoulderGeek1

TESTIMONIES ABOUT JO:

"Jo is a fantastic motivational and innovative lecturer with a wealth of clinical expertise that is unparalleled in the world of rehabilitative shoulder therapy. She makes the most complex issues easy to understand and is on the cutting edge of new concepts.

GLEN DAVIES

Michael shacklock
DipPhysio, MAppSc, FACP

Michael received his graduate qualification at the Auckland School of Physiotherapy in 1980, and completed a Graduate Diploma in Advanced Manipulative Therapy in 1989, and completed a Masters degree at the University of South Australia in 1993. He was awarded a Fellow of the Australian College of Physiotherapists for his monograph and international best-seller text book, Clinical Neurodynamics in 2005, and published two other books, Moving in on Pain (Elsevier) and Biomechanics of the Nervous System: Breig Revisited. Michael has authored, co-authored and mentored numerous research studies, editorials, commentaries and clinical papers in peer reviewed journals which have garnered many international awards, including Visiting Professor of the Faculty of Medicine, Barcelo University, Buenos Aires. He was a member of the International Advisory Board of the journal Musculoskeletal Theory and Practice, and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Manual and Manipulative Therapy, USA.

Michael presents keynote addresses and invited conference lectures, trains staff at elite sports medicine facilities and sports clubs, universities, hospitals and private seminars around the world. His special interests are neurodynamics, the mechanics and physiology of the nervous system as it relates to muscuskeletal function, pain and injury. His most valued interest is how to synthesise science and clinical practice using evidence and reasoning. Michael is a clinician of 35 years experience and is recognised as an international leader in the diagnosis and treatment of musculoskeletal disorders with a neural aspect.