The STOPS trial is the first high quality study to show that physiotherapy individualised to the type of back pain is more effective than guideline recommended advice in the short and long term. Read more...
STOPS Back Pain trial results
Advance Healthcare joins ePPOC
Our group is dedicated to providing the best available treatment to patients. In addition to the STOPS trial on physiotherapy we are also interested in evaluating our outcomes for people having multi-disciplinary pain management. We therefore recently joined ePPOC (electronic Persistent Pain Outcomes Collaboration) which is a new program aiming to benchmark the care of patients with persistent pain having multi-disciplinary management. Read more...
New clinic open at Dandenong
We are pleased to announce the opening of a new clinic!
For more on the new clinic in Dandenong, click here
Rebranding of Spinal Management Clinics as Advance Healthcare
For the last 20 years the Spinal Management Clinics (SMC) group has been providing multi-disciplinary Pain Management and exercise rehabilitation for patients with persistent pain. In late 2014 the founder of SMC (Jon Ford - PhD, Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist) with our Pain Doctors (Dr Barry Slon, Dr Safa Hamza and Dr Malcolm Ong) and all associated allied health practitioners (including Michael Strintzos) set up a new business... read more
Mark Round Victorian president of Australian Physiotherapy Association
Congratulations to Mark - physiotherapist at Advance Healthcare Hoppers Crossing. He has just taken on the role of President of the Australian Physiotherapy Association (Victorian Branch)
This role involves helping to shape the future of the profession, particularly with regards to referrals to specialists, referral rights for radiology and prescription of certain medications.
We look forward to seeing Mark's hard work pay off!
Mark Round is a physiotherapist at Hoppers Crossing Advance Healthcare.