United Kingdom | Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, Sheffield
From an acute episode through to return to play
Managing shoulder instability: from an acute episode through to return to play
By: Dr. Margie Olds
Venue; Physiotherapy Department, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, U.K.
Date: Saturday 6th September 2025
Dr Margie Olds
Venue; Physiotherapy Department, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, U.K.
Date: Saturday 6th September 2025
Early bird price: before 07/07/2025 EUSSER member £125, non-EUSSER £150
From 07/07/25: EUSSER member £150, non-EUSSER £175
Dr Margie Olds is a world leading shoulder physiotherapist, based in Auckland, New Zealand. She has extensive international experience, has worked as a physiotherapist in New Zealand, the USA, and the UK and so understand how clinicians work in different health care systems. She also has elite sports experience, was the lead therapist for British Canoeing and attended the Athens Olympic Games in 2004. Margie has since added to her successful clinical career with a research career, principally investigating shoulder instability. She attained her Master’s degree in Health Science (Hons) in 2010 which investigated active stiffness in the unstable shoulder. She has completed her PhD which investigated recurrent shoulder instability after a first time traumatic anterior shoulder dislocation (FTASD). She has developed a predictive tool (Predicting Recurrent Instability of the Shoulder (PRIS)) that can be used in the shared decision-making process to inform people with a FTASD about the likelihood of recurrent shoulder instability.
Margie loves being a clinician and continues to practice clinically at the Auckland Shoulder Clinic (www.shoulderphysio.co.nz). Her innovation and leadership led her to design a shoulder brace for people to wear on return to activity from a shoulder injury (www.flawlessmotion.com). She lives with her husband on the west coast of Auckland where they ride their bikes, kite surf and plan their next adventures.
Content
09:00 - Clinical assessment of the unstable shoulder: 1 – review assessment processes /special tests
09:30 - Diagnosis of instability - Assessment of the unstable athlete (60 minutes)
10:30 - Morning Tea
11:00 - Managing instability
11:30 – theoretical – Acute, Subacute, Advanced –Sub-Acute management -Subscapularis protocols
12:00 – LUNCH
12:45 - Subacute management – Posterior cuff protocols
1:15 – scapula assessment and treatment options with progressions
2:00 – Return to sport testing
Practical sessions
SARTS tests introduction, normative values
ASH test
HHD
3:00 – Discussion – choosing appropriate tests – which test is for which athlete?
3:30 - Close
