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Many of us have been to a physiotherapist to get help for a dodgy knee, a tiresome back or tennis elbow. They work with getting us back to moving properly and without pain. That is why physiotherapy is important in aged care; to keep residents moving the best they can.

Queensland – home to not only the nation’s champion rugby league and netball teams – but also Australia’s most ingenious health students.

Primary school students from Tara in Western Queensland will be the first to benefit from the new University of Queensland Telerehabilitation Clinic.

Sufferers of strokes, brain injuries and brain cancers will benefit from new research by The University of Queensland which has revealed a more effective therapy for language disorders.

It could be a truck driver with a bad back or a remote-area child struggling to speak or read. It could be a grandmother suffering from Parkinson’s disease or a sports competitor with a debilitating injury.

University of Queensland-led research into solutions for musculoskeletal conditions such as back pain and osteoarthritis has attracted more than $8 million from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).