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ESSA online activities are a type of ESSA PD and are the recordings of ESSA webinars. To earn ESSA CPD points, you are required to successfully complete the course, including the assessment with an 80% assessment pass mark. CPD points and PD certificate are uploaded to your online ESSA profile within 30 days of successfully completing the online activities.

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Important Information:

  • Financial ESSA members receive promo codes to purchase a free ESSA online activity to the value of $30 and 1.5 CPD points every quarter and on your Birthday. These promo codes expire on 31 December 2023. Unused codes can be automatically applied to online activities in the cart by typing FREECODE into the promotional code field. If you have a promo code available this will be applied here. No refund will be provided if you purchase an online activity and still have unused promo codes.

  • To access the online activity, login to the learning management system, TopClass, after purchase. If you have difficulty finding the link, your TopClass account can be accessed here. Once you have logged in to your TopClass account you can access online activities from the ‘Go to your Learning Centre' tab. 

  • Your login to TopClass will be the same as your login to your ESSA Member account.

  • To earn the applicable ESSA CPD points, you must successfully complete the course, including the assessment, and click on 'Mark as Complete', within 60 days of registration. An 80% assessment pass mark is required.

  • Only the person who purchases the online activity is eligible to earn the applicable CPD points.

  • The ESSA TopClass User Guide can be downloaded here

  • If you have any queries regarding online activities or TopClass, please contact [email protected] for assistance.

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ESSA Standards & Compliance Online Course

ESSA Standards & Compliance Online Course

ESSA’s Standards & Compliance online course has been developed for AEPs to understand their minimum requirements for providing services within the various compensable schemes in Australia. It also inc...

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CPD Value: 5

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NDIS Fundamentals for Exercise Physiologists

NDIS Fundamentals for Exercise Physiologists

The purpose of this virtual workshop is to inform AEP’s and business owners about the role that Exercise Physiologists play within the disability sector. This is a pre-recorded self-paced learning....

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CPD Value: 2

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The Business of Exercise Physiology

The Business of Exercise Physiology

The Business of Exercise Physiology is a 19 part audio masterclass to teach Exercise Physiologists how to build a more successful business....

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CPD Value: 1.5

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Mental Health Applied Skills and Knowledge (ASK)

Mental Health Applied Skills and Knowledge (ASK)

ESSA’s first ASK professional development has been developed to build applied skills and knowledge to work in the field of mental health. This suite of PD is designed to be accessible to all our membe...

Category: Mental Health

CPD Value: 1.5 per unit

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How to Attract Ideal Online Clients

How to Attract Ideal Online Clients

In this online activity, you will learn how to attract your ideal clients so they can come into your business consistently!...

Category: Business/Career

CPD Value: 1.5

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Cuing Floor Based Pilates Exercises

Cuing Floor Based Pilates Exercises

This online activity will teach you the "34 Mat Exercises" and demonstrate how to cue them effectively....

Category: General Health/Wellbeing

CPD Value: 3.5

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Introduction to R and Analytics for Performance Sport

Introduction to R and Analytics for Performance Sport

This interactive virtual workshop will highlight the different data types which sport scientists may need to work with, and help sport scientists get started in R....

Category: Sports Science - Data Analysis

CPD Value: 3

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‘I’ll take some students’

‘I’ll take some students’

This online activity helps exercise professionals develop key skills that are foundational to running good student placements....

Category: Soft skills

CPD Value: 1.5

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ACL Injury Prevention

ACL Injury Prevention

This online activity will take you through the mechanisms of ACL injury, the current worldwide trends in ACL injuries and importantly, what we can do to reduce the risk of an ACL injury from occurring...

Category: Musculoskeletal

CPD Value: 1.5

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ACL Reconstruction - The 7 Sins of ACL Reconstruction Rehab

ACL Reconstruction - The 7 Sins of ACL Reconstruction Rehab

This online activity will take you through the 7 most common errors that the presenter sees throughout ACL rehabilitation, and gives you practical examples for each one of these errors so that you can...

Category: Musculoskeletal

CPD Value: 1.5

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Adolescent Physical Activity

Adolescent Physical Activity

This presentation will focus on the 24-hour movement guidelines for children and young people ages 5-17, physical activity and sedentary behaviour patterns of adolescents (including changes over time ...

Category: Paediatrics

CPD Value: 1.5

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Animals in Practice: The Scope for Exercise Physiology

Animals in Practice: The Scope for Exercise Physiology

If you have ever considered “taking your dog to work”, or even advised your clients to “get a dog” in hope that they might provide motivation for regular physical activity, then this is the online act...

Category: General Health/Wellbeing

CPD Value: 1.5

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Anti-Discrimination and Inclusion in the Workplace

Anti-Discrimination and Inclusion in the Workplace

The ‘Anti-Discrimination and Inclusion in the Workplace’ presentation is designed to enhance professional readiness to tackle discrimination and promote an inclusive workplace. It is relevant to manag...

Category: Soft Skills

CPD Value: 1.5

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Asking the Right Questions Before Buying Technology

Asking the Right Questions Before Buying Technology

In this online activity, we will discuss which are the important questions to ask ourselves when preparing to buy new technology. This is a particularly important topic in current times of restricted ...

Category: Business/Career

CPD Value: 1.5

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Assessment & Exercise Management of the Rotator Cuff

Assessment & Exercise Management of the Rotator Cuff

This online activity will include the latest research findings on rotator cuff injury and dysfunction and demonstrate a progressive approach to the assessment, treatment and rehabilitation of the rota...

Category: Musculoskeletal

CPD Value: 1.5

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Assessment, Exercise and Engagement

Assessment, Exercise and Engagement

This professional development will define the different pillars of telehealth, and AEPs can structure clinical assessments, exercise prescription, education and behaviour change, and patient monitorin...

Category: Soft Skills

CPD Value: 1.5

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Athlete Mental Health

Athlete Mental Health

This online activity thoughtfully explores the evolution of athlete mental health....

Category: Mental Health

CPD Value: 1.5

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Barriers to Long-Term Weight-Loss Success

Barriers to Long-Term Weight-Loss Success

How often have you heard someone say: ‘It’s easy – you need to eat less and move more!’ This piece of advice dates back as far as Hippocrates in the fourth century BC, and not much has changed since. ...

Category: Chronic Diseases

CPD Value: 1.5

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Behaviour Change Strategies in Mental Health

Behaviour Change Strategies in Mental Health

ESSA’s first ASK professional development has been developed to build applied skills and knowledge to work in the field of mental health. This suite of PD is designed to be accessible to all our accre...

Category: Mental Health

CPD Value: 1.5

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Being Your Best, Without the Burnout

Being Your Best, Without the Burnout

Ultimate Self-Care Workshop for Exercise Professionals, their colleagues & clients....

Category: Mental Health

CPD Value: 1.5

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BFR - The Multiple Applications of Its Use

BFR - The Multiple Applications of Its Use

The online activity will have three main themes. The first section will highlight the basics of BFR, including the mechanisms and principles behind BFR. The second section will discuss contraindicatio...

Category: Sports Science - Strength Science

CPD Value: 1.5

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Biopsychosocial Exercise Interventions for Low Back Pain

Biopsychosocial Exercise Interventions for Low Back Pain

This online activity will explore the origins of traditional, biomedical exercise approaches to CLBP, in order to demonstrate the inconsistencies with current understandings of pain....

Category: Pain

CPD Value: 1.5

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Body Composition, Diet and Performance in AFL

Body Composition, Diet and Performance in AFL

In this online activity, A/Prof Adrienne Forsyth and Dr Sarah Jenner will present the results of qualitative research exploring the influence of body composition goals on AFL players' nutrition practi...

Category: Sports Science - All

CPD Value: 1.5

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Building Resilience in Kids After Pain and Injury

Building Resilience in Kids After Pain and Injury

This online activity will discuss why it is important for young children to understand how pain works, and how recovery works....

Category: Paediatrics

CPD Value: 1.5

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Building Stronger Athletes by Breaking the Rules

Building Stronger Athletes by Breaking the Rules

This online activity provides development opportunities for ESSA professionals to build on current evidence-based practice around programming for the athlete, to programming a supportive environment t...

Category: Sports Science - Strength Science

CPD Value: 1.5

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Business Mastery for Exercise Professionals

Business Mastery for Exercise Professionals

Every health business needs to have three fundamentals in place in order to operate well. It only takes a little attention in these areas to launch or grow with confidence. This online activity presen...

Category: Business/Career

CPD Value: 1.5

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Child and Youth Mental Health

Child and Youth Mental Health

This online activity focuses on the important role of exercise physiology in mental health treatment and recovery and will explore different therapeutic approaches and relevant assessments when engagi...

Category: Paediatrics

CPD Value: 1.5

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Chronic Kidney Disease

Chronic Kidney Disease

This online activity will provide an overview of renal physiology, chronic kidney disease (CKD) development, and the effects of therapeutic treatment on disease progression and associated co-morbiditi...

Category: Chronic Diseases

CPD Value: 1.5

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Chronotropic Incompetence and Exercise Programming

Chronotropic Incompetence and Exercise Programming

This online activity will examine how to identify chronotropic incompetence and how exercise programming may be modified to allow optimal delivery....

Category: Cardiac

CPD Value: 1.5

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Clinical Reasoning

Clinical Reasoning

In this online activity, clinicians will take a deep dive into using clinical reasoning upon initial contact with a client to deduce a hypothesis regarding the client’s physiological dysfunction they ...

Category: Soft skills

CPD Value: 1.5

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Clinical vs Private Clientele: How to get the Balance Right

Clinical vs Private Clientele: How to get the Balance Right

This online activity is for ABN holders or AES and AEPs looking to build their client base. This online activity will cover; Additional marketing strategies, and tangible formulas to create effective ...

Category: Business/Career

CPD Value: 1.5

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Coaching Better Every Season

Coaching Better Every Season

In this online acitivity Anthony will delve into his real-world coaching experiences of how he has created effective strategies of developing a coaching philosophy and coaching pedagogy through his ti...

Category: Sports Science - Career

CPD Value: 1.5

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Common Causes and Management of Lateral Hip Pain

Common Causes and Management of Lateral Hip Pain

This online activity is designed to provide an overview of common causes of lateral hip pain, discussing relevant anatomy and pathophysiology, typical patient presentation and common assessments that ...

Category: Pain

CPD Value: 1.5

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Communicating With Everything But Your Voice

Communicating With Everything But Your Voice

In this online activity you will tap into your physical excellence and learn to use your eyes, your hands and your body positioning to really capture the attention of the listener....

Category: Business/Career

CPD Value: 1.5

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Communication Skills and Strategies in Mental Health

Communication Skills and Strategies in Mental Health

ESSA’s first ASK professional development has been developed to build applied skills and knowledge to work in the field of mental health. This suite of PD is designed to be accessible to all our accre...

Category: Mental Health

CPD Value: 1.5

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Considerations for Return to Sport after ACL Reconstruction

Considerations for Return to Sport after ACL Reconstruction

This online activity will provide therapists with an up-to-date overview and summation of the factors that must be considered and evaluated prior to making the decision of whether an ACLR patient is r...

Category: Musculoskeletal

CPD Value: 1.5

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Cost of Injuries in Sport and Their Prevention

Cost of Injuries in Sport and Their Prevention

Sports safety policy and practice needs to be informed by robust injury incidence and burden data. All stakeholders need to understand: • they bear the cost of the problem • they have a role in preven...

Category: Musculoskeletal

CPD Value: 1.5

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COVID-19 Exercise Guidelines

COVID-19 Exercise Guidelines

Guidelines have recently been developed in collaboration with ESSA titled, COVID-19 Exercise Guidelines. This online activity will provide an overview of recommendations provided within the guidelines...

Category: COVID-19

CPD Value: 1.5

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Creating a Thriving Private Practice

Creating a Thriving Private Practice

Owning a private practice is no different to running any business, requiring you to wear many hats and understand all aspects of running a business on top of being a qualified practitioner and focusin...

Category: Business/Career

CPD Value: 1.5

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Developing Culture

Developing Culture

This online activity will explore the multifaceted aspects that assist in the development of a culture of performance in elite professional sporting teams....

Category: Business/Career

CPD Value: 1.5

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Diastasis Recti

Diastasis Recti

This presentation provides a thorough understanding of the physiology & assessment for common pathophysiology diastasis recti (DRAM) as well as some of the research supporting the rehabilitation of th...

Category: Women's Health

CPD Value: 1.5

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Dissecting Arteries: SCAD & Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

Dissecting Arteries: SCAD & Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD) and vascular Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (vEDS): how AEPs can work with these clients safely and effectively....

Category: Cardiac

CPD Value: 1.5

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Eastern Breath - Modern Knowledge

Eastern Breath - Modern Knowledge

Yoga and Qigong breathing exercises for Exercise Physiologists...

Category: General Health/Wellbeing

CPD Value: 1.5

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Ecological Dynamics of Spin Bowling

Ecological Dynamics of Spin Bowling

This presentation will focus on three studies being conducted as part of a PhD project at Cricket Australia aiming to highlight the adaptive behaviour that can be attributed to the environment. There ...

Category: Sports Science - Skill Acquisition

CPD Value: 1.5

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Educating Female Athletes on the Menstrual Cycle

Educating Female Athletes on the Menstrual Cycle

There are at least six distinctive hormonal profiles that may occur at key points during the lifecycle of a female athlete. Furthermore, up to 80% of Australian female athletes have used one or more a...

Category: Sports Science - Physiology

CPD Value: 1.5

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Effect of Exercise on Cardiac Structure and Function

Effect of Exercise on Cardiac Structure and Function

Exercise training causes cardiac adaption in order to better cope with the demand for increased cardiac output that exercise requires. Cardiac structure and function change as a result of training, an...

Category: Cardiac

CPD Value: 1.5

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Eight Investments That Work for Physical Activity

Eight Investments That Work for Physical Activity

Too few people around the world are physically active enough to reap the public health, wealth, and wellbeing benefits. As a result, everyone everywhere must unite around a shared goal to get the worl...

Category: Exercise Science

CPD Value: 1.5

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ESSA Position Stand Update: Exercise and Hypertension

ESSA Position Stand Update: Exercise and Hypertension

This online activity provides an overview of the update to the 2009 ESSA Position Statement on Exercise and Hypertension....

Category: Cardiac

CPD Value: 1.5

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ESSA Position Statement: Exercise Medicine in Cancer Mgmt

ESSA Position Statement: Exercise Medicine in Cancer Mgmt

This online activity highlights the new evidence in support of exercise post-cancer and the strengths and limitations of the wider oncology and exercise evidence base....

Category: Oncology

CPD Value: 1.5

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ESSA Position Statement: Hip/Knee Osteoarthritis

ESSA Position Statement: Hip/Knee Osteoarthritis

This online activity will provide an overview of the updated ESSA Position Statement on exercise and physical activity for people with hip/knee osteoarthritis. It will overview the current evidence fo...

Category: Chronic Diseases

CPD Value: 1.5

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Disclaimers:

  • All accredited persons, regardless of any professional development completed/ attended must refer to their accreditation’s Scope of Practice/Standards, and only treat/practice within the same.
  • ESSA confirms that at the date of release, this professional development meets the requirements of the ESSA Continuing Professional Development Points Guidelines. The information contained in this professional development is of a general nature only, and while every effort and care has been taken to ensure that all representations are accurate as at the date of its release, ESSA accepts no legal liability for any loss or damage suffered as a result of any information provided in this professional development.
  • ESSA recommends that its members seek appropriate independent professional advice specific to their particular purposes and circumstances (including the provision of medical advice to patients) before relying on it.

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