Exploring the Shoulder: 1-Day Shoulder Masterclass

Exploring the Shoulder: 1-Day Shoulder Masterclass with Eoin Ó Conaire

Date: Saturday 1 March 2025

Time: 09:00 - 17:00 (registration from 0830)

Venue: Mater Hospital Dublin, Physiotherapy Department

Course Overview:

This practical course equips early-career physiotherapists with essential skills to accurately diagnose shoulder pain sources, assess contributing factors and choose effective treatment or referral strategies. Integrating traditional clinical reasoning with modern pain science, it provides structured, accessible methods to enhance patient outcomes immediately in clinical practice.

Learning objectives:

• Develop skills for accurate, evidence-based assessment of shoulder pain and dysfunction 
• Practice structured clinical reasoning, emphasizing collaborative decision-making with patients
• Make informed, safe clinical decisions, understanding when to manage conservatively, investigate, or refer
• Learn effective physiotherapy management strategies for shoulder disorders and understand the clinical reasoning for and efficacy of non-physiotherapy management options such as injection therapy and surgery
• Practice implementing targeted rehabilitation strategies tailored to individual recovery goals
• Gain practical skills to improve immediate clinical impact, enhancing your ability to identify key strategies for patient improvement

Aimed at:

Physiotherapists working in:

Sports and exercise

Outpatient

Private practice

Early career graduates, staff grade and new seniors

Speaker:

Eoin Ó Conaire is an award-winning chartered physiotherapist and shoulder specialist. Since qualifying from the University of Brighton with first class honours in 1999, he has gathered a huge breadth and depth of experience. This has included working at large London teaching hospitals, professional and elite sport and in private practice.

As Musculoskeletal Clinical Lead and lead Extended Scope Practitioner at Central London Community Healthcare, he developed a specialist orthopaedic triage and treatment service and worked clinically in the Upper Limb service. He also set up and ran an ultrasound-guided injection service and in collaboration with Dr. Jeremy Lewis developed and validated the first physiotherapy-led arthrographic hydrodistension service for Frozen Shoulder. In 2011 this was awarded funding from the Health Foundation Shine programme for innovations in healthcare.

Academically he has gained an MSc (Advancing Practice) with distinction from the University of Birmingham, been published in peer-reviewed journals and presented his work at international conferences. He was awarded the MACP MSc research prize in 2009 and Central London Community Healthcare therapist of the year in 2011.

In 2012 – together with Clinical Psychologist Dr. Róisín Joyce – he set up Evidence-Based Therapy Centre in Galway. They have a shared vision to develop a service which puts into practice the highest quality research evidence. This combined with their clinical expertise and an emphasis on working collaboratively with their patients can provide the best possible outcomes.

In 2013, Eoin developed the Shoulder Masterclass. This distills his considerable clinical and academic knowledge into a two-day highly practical course to help physiotherapists to improve the management of shoulder pain.

In 2021 Eoin started his PhD studies under the supervision of internationally renowned shoulder researcher Professor Filip Struyf at the University of Antwerp. You can see his publications here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eoin-O-Conaire/research

More about Eoin and his 2-day Shoulder Masterclass here:

https://www.ebtc.ie/eoin-o-conaires-shoulder-masterclass/