💭 "Back pain is one of the prime reasons why the doctors love us being in the Emergency Department" - Mark Cheel

👉🏻Our guest is Mark Cheel, Dip MDT, APAM. Mark graduated from Latrobe University, Melbourne in 1997 with a Bachelor of Applied Science (Physiotherapy). He currently serves as a Senior Clinician Physiotherapist (Musculoskeletal) at Barwon Health, Geelong, Australia, undertaking Primary Contact Roles in both the Emergency Department and Physiotherapy-led Specialist Clinics. Mark is also an Associate Clinical Lecturer with Deakin University School of Medicine. He obtained credentials in MDT in 2011 and completed the McKenzie Diploma Training Program in 2013. In 2016, he became part of the Teaching Faculty for McKenzie Institute Australia and educates both clinically and theoretically in the McKenzie Diploma program. Mark's expertise extends to Clinical Education, where he has supervised undergraduate students for over two decades and frequently presents to Doctors and Allied Health Clinicians on managing Musculoskeletal conditions in the Acute Setting.