On-demand: Bridging Movement and Medicine: Integrating Sports, Rheumatology, and Rehabilitation

Watch this recording of Bridging Movement and Medicine: Integrating Sports, Rheumatology, and Rehabilitation, an exploration of how exercise, physical activity and rehabilitation can transform outcomes for people living with musculoskeletal and chronic diseases. Bringing together leading experts in rheumatology, rehabilitation and sports & exercise medicine, this event will examine the growing evidence and clinical importance of movement, exercise and rehabilitation across rheumatology, chronic musculoskeletal disease, and sports and exercise medicine (SEM).

As healthcare systems increasingly recognise physical inactivity as a major contributor to poor health outcomes, clinicians are being challenged to move beyond generic lifestyle advice and develop practical, evidence-based strategies to support long-term movement, function, and quality of life in patients with chronic conditions. This event addresses this, with top experts sharing contemporary approaches to exercise prescription, behaviour change, load management and rehabilitation.

This is the on-demand recording of the in-person meeting, Bridging Movement and Medicine: Integrating Sports, Rheumatology, and Rehabilitation, taking place on Friday 4 September 2026. Register to attend the in-person meeting here.

By watching this recording, you will:

• Gain confidence in prescribing and adapting exercise for complex patients with rheumatological and musculoskeletal conditions.
• Learn practical, evidence-based approaches to integrating “movement as medicine” into everyday clinical care.
• Hear interdisciplinary perspectives from specialities rarely brought together in one platform: rheumatology, rehabilitation, sports and exercise medicine and physiotherapy.
• Connect and collaborate across disciplines through valuable networking, discussion, and shared learning with national experts.

Aims of the meeting:

• To provide healthcare professionals with contemporary, evidence-based knowledge on the role of exercise, physical activity, and rehabilitation in the management of rheumatological and chronic musculoskeletal conditions.
• To equip attendees with practical clinical strategies for integrating rehabilitation and exercise principles into patient care to improve function, outcomes, and quality of life.
• To develop confidence in applying interdisciplinary approaches from sports and exercise medicine, rehabilitation, and rheumatology within clinical practice.

Learning outcomes:

• Describe the role of movement and exercise as therapeutic interventions in rheumatology and rehabilitation practice
• Identify and apply practical approaches to managing sedentary behaviour and promoting long-term physical activity engagement in patients with chronic conditions
• Apply principles from sports and exercise medicine to improve rehabilitation outcomes in chronic musculoskeletal disease
• Evaluate the relationship between physical activity, bone health, menopause and musculoskeletal wellbeing
• Discuss emerging evidence on the anti-inflammatory and systemic effects of exercise in clinical medicine

Who should attend?

This event is aimed at:

• Consultants in rheumatology, sports medicine and rehabilitation
• GPs interested in musculoskeletal medicine
• Resident doctors
• Nurse specialists and allied health professionals working or interested in rheumatology, sports & exercise medicine, rehabilitation, musculoskeletal medicine, physiotherapy or occupational therapy.

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