Pre-conference Symposium: Measurement Tools - Meaningful or Mythical? an Update Setting the Scene Overview of the Purposes of Testing

The 4th National Paediatric Physiotherapy Conference was held over three days in Melbourne from September 10 to 12, 2001. The Conference theme, ‘Old Issues – New Focus’, was chosen to reflect our desire to re-examine, in the light of new research, some of the major issues that confront paediatric physiotherapists in their clinical practice. Special multi-disciplinary symposia on ‘Measurement Tools’ and ‘Disability and Policy in the 21st Century Refocus on an Old Issue’ were held prior to the Conference. Preand post-conference workshops addressed adolescent sporting injuries, post-traumatic health and pain, seating, spinal care for children and splinting.