For Manual therapists, including Remedial massage therapists, and all Practitioners and Coaches working in Musculoskeletal care, Movement and Rehabilitation.
Why Doesn't Strengthening Always Deliver?
Your lower limb patient has been doing strengthening programmes in different versions for years, with a big emphasis on the glutes.
Sometimes they work, sometimes only partially and sometimes not at all, even when they are deemed evidence based.
Why doesn't it always deliver?
In this one-hour experiential lecture, we're moving beyond assumptions about weakness, alignment and motor control to explore the wider biomechanical and neuromuscular relationships that profoundly influence hip and lower limb control.
These are the essential unmeasurables that we are never taught, but which can transform our assessment and treatment direction.
JEMS is a dynamic systems approach to MSK rehabilitation, with a twenty-five-year history of teaching clinicians the inter-system relationships from which movement strategies emerge, and how to unravel them to restore meaningful movement maps rather than generalised muscle strength.
Understanding inter-system dynamics gets to the core of natural human function, allowing us to be more precise, more relevant and more targeted in our approach to assessment and treatment.
What You Will Explore
• The difference between functional weakness and muscular weakness
• How the autonomic nervous system affects hip function
• Why misunderstanding glute activation can compromise breathing
• How femoral and tibial rotation are critically misunderstood
• New ways to unlock a squat instead of just hoping it will improve with practice
• Why the ribs hold important clues to pelvic function
• Simple, immediately applicable techniques to use tomorrow in clinic that engage patients, initiate immediate learning and open the window for meaningful change.
Meet Your Presenter: Joanne Elphinston
Beginning her professional journey over thirty-five years ago as a physiotherapist and coach, Joanne Elphinston is a movement philosopher, performance consultant and international lecturer in rehabilitation and movement.
Her work spans elite sport, the performing arts and complex clinical rehabilitation.
Joanne is the creator of the JEMS® approach, a clinically reasoned method integrating the science and art of movement rehabilitation. Her work is used by physiotherapists internationally across diverse clinical settings, including paediatrics, neurology, falls prevention, hypermobility and sports performance.
She is currently undertaking PhD research investigating the effects of learning JEMS on practitioners' long-term job satisfaction and wellbeing in Sweden, the UK and Australia.
Joanne is also the author of several books, including Stability, Sport and Performance Movement and The Power and the Grace: A Professional's Guide to Ease and Efficiency in Functional Movement.
Hosted by the Australasian College of Soft Tissue Therapy (ACSTT)
The Australasian College of Soft Tissue Therapy (ACSTT) has been advancing clinical excellence through education since 1995. We bring world-leading educators to help practitioners stay at the cutting edge of evidence-informed clinical practice.
The Details in Summary:
- When: Tuesday November 17th, 2026 via Zoom
- Time: 7.30 - 9.00 PM AEDT (Melbourne/Sydney)
- Joanne will speak for 60 minutes & will answer your questions for a further 30 minutes.
- Cost is AUD$46.00 via ZOOM
- 1.5 hrs CPD
- You will have unlimited access to the recording of Joanne's presentation for 2 months after the live Presentation.
- You will receive the ZOOM link after Registration
- Important Note: Please check your spam folder or promotions folder if these important emails do not arrive in your inbox within 15 minutes
- If you would prefer to pay via direct bank deposit the details are:
- Account name: ACSTT BSB: 063233 Acc no: 10136823 AUD$46
- Please email me, [email protected], when you have made the deposit & I will manually enrol you in the webinar:
