Physiotherapy | Strength | Pilates

Professional Education For Exercise-Based Physiotherapy

By John Contreras (APA Sports & Exercise Physiotherapist)

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Workshops for health professionals

Designed by APA Sports & Exercise Physiotherapist, John Contreras, each workshop provides health and fitness professionals with the tools and know how, to effectively assesses, plan and progress patients and clients through an evidence guided rehabilitation program towards improved movement, performance and health.

Gain the knowledge to build successful injury rehabilitation programs and exercise therapy caseload.

New Workshop Launching March 2026

Master practical exercise prescription that works with real patients and real constraints. Integrate systematic assessment, evidence-based progression, and patient engagement strategies for confident clinical practice. Bridge the gap between theory and clinical reality with frameworks designed for complex humans and busy practices.

An essential foundation for building successful movement-based practice with 18 CPD hours of immediately applicable skills.

Move from competent to confident with practical skills that create patient success.

Exercise Prescription Essentials

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Bridge The Gap from Theory to Practice

Move beyond textbook knowledge to real-world clinical mastery with workshops that integrate technical excellence with practical application—giving you the frameworks, confidence, and skills to develop a thriving exercise therapy caseload and guide your patients toward their activity goals.

2026 Workshops

Exercise Prescription Essentials

  • Bridge the gap from theory to practice. Master systematic assessment, evidence-based progression, and adherence-focused program design. Learn to work confidently with complex, real patients by understanding what drives engagement and follow-through.

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Strength Training Essentials

  • Develop comprehensive strength training expertise for rehabilitation and return to activity performance. Master resistance training principles, safe progression frameworks, and evidence-based programming for diverse patient presentations.

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Pilates Training Essentials

  • Integrate Pilates Training into your physiotherapy practice with evidence-based programming and therapeutic application. Learn floor and reformer exercises, exercise modification strategies, and systematic approaches for diverse rehabilitation presentations.

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Ways To Learn

Face to Face Workshops

Intensive, hands-on learning with direct mentorship and peer collaboration. Experience real-time practice, immediate feedback, and the energy of learning together. Perfect for those who thrive in interactive environments and want to build their professional network while mastering new skills.

Online Workshops

Comprehensive self-paced workshops you can complete around your clinical schedule. Lifetime access to video content, frameworks, and resources. Learn systematically with evidence-based modules designed for busy physiotherapists. Perfect for self-directed learners wanting flexibility.

Inservice Workshops

Upskill your entire team with on-site education. Cost-effective training that builds consistent clinical approaches across your practice while minimising time away from patient care.

  • Learn to bridge the gap between clinical competence and confident practice with exercise adherence focused program design to build and consolidate an exercise therapy caseload.

  • Develop expertise in resistance training principles, safe progression frameworks and program design for rehabilitation.

  • Integrate Pilates training into your rehabilitation practice with evidence informed exercise selection, progression, programming and application.

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Short Workshops

Strength Training the Older Adult

  • Learn safe progression strategies and technique adaptations for age-related considerations and co-morbidities with evidence informed strength training for aging populations. Master bone health optimisation, power training for falls prevention, and sarcopenia management.

Strength Training the Running Patient

  • Integrate strength and power training into running rehabilitation, injury prevention and performance enhancement. Master concurrent training methods that minimise interference effects, resistance training protocols for common running injuries and programming strategies that complement training cycles.

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Strength Training the Hypermobile Patient

  • Develop specialised approaches for hypermobile patient presentations. Understand the unique challenges and opportunities these patients present, and master the role of strength training in their rehabilitation, injury prevention, and performance. Learn how to build control and strength safely.