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Oct 27, 2026

Health Professionals Award 2026: Pay Rates and Classifications for Podiatrists, Physios, EPs and Chiros

The award changed on 1 October 2026. This guide includes how to find your minimum rate, what Level 2 means, how existing staff moved across, and a step-by-step check for employers and employees.

Oct 26, 2026

Semaglutide and knee osteoarthritis: what the trials show

A systematic review of GLP-1 drugs for osteoarthritis found two randomised trials. The knee pain benefit comes from one of them, funded by the drug's manufacturer, in people who lost 14% of their body weight.

Oct 26, 2026

Charcot-Marie-Tooth feet were more cavovarus inside their AFOs on weightbearing CT

Twenty adults with CMT were scanned standing barefoot and in their usual AFOs. On average the foot was more cavovarus in the brace, individual feet went both ways, and nobody recorded which devices they were.

Oct 26, 2026

Mortality in the 30 days after major lower limb amputation

A meta-analysis of 52 studies and more than a million patients put 30-day mortality at 9.4%, with a plausible range of 4% to 20% between health systems and no Australian data.

Oct 26, 2026

Where the 180 steps a minute running cadence rule came from

A narrative review traces the 180 figure to observations of competitive runners, finds the heel-strike injury evidence mostly retrospective, and says cadence retraining hasn't been shown to prevent injury. All four authors sell running-biomechanics services.

Oct 26, 2026

PRP and knee cartilage: what 12 randomised trials found on MRI

Patellofemoral cartilage and bone marrow oedema improved, at low certainty. Tibial cartilage, defect progression, osteophytes and cysts didn't, and the largest saline-controlled trial found no cartilage benefit and more thinning with PRP on a secondary measure.