MACP Member Webinar · Manipulative Association of Chartered Physiotherapists · 13 May 2026
Invited presentation
Overview
An invited webinar for members of the Manipulative Association of Chartered Physiotherapists merging two connected questions: what AI can currently do in clinical contexts, and how practitioners can engage with it deliberately rather than reactively.
The session opens with current evidence on AI performance in clinical practice — including diagnosis, documentation, and patient communication — and addresses the instinctive “sanctuary strategies” that position practitioners as spectators rather than participants. The argument then shifts to the key practical concept: context sovereignty. Because AI systems are stateless, static, and contextless by design, the professional knowledge practitioners bring — their specialisation, patient populations, CPD trajectory, and clinical reasoning patterns — is not just valuable but structurally essential for getting useful AI outputs.
The session covers four areas:
- What frontier AI capabilities mean for physiotherapy practice, including MSK diagnosis, movement analysis, documentation, and remote care
- What AI systems lack, and why professional context is the bottleneck — not model capability
- How patients are already exercising AI agency before clinical encounters, and how practitioners can support better AI use rather than manage it as a problem
- How the therapeutic relationship is changing as both practitioners and patients develop persistent AI agents carrying their respective contexts into clinical encounters
The session closes with a concrete starting point: articulate your professional context explicitly, give patients structured prompts for pre-session AI preparation, and bring evaluative judgement — not deference — to AI outputs.
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