In these advancing roles, little is written about the clinical reasoning processes that clinicians use in managing patients with musculoskeletal pain and knowledge of these processes would advance training for new recruits to this arena.

Motor control is a popular concept within physical therapy practice and has received a significant amount of attention over the last 25 years. It has been implicitly conceived and understood by clinicians and researchers throughout this time, yet appears to differ considerably with respect to its definition and translation into clinical practice.

This new model of care is challenging physiotherapists to work in new ways, and so an understanding of these roles is timely and wil contribute to the growing knowledge regarding these practitioners and their impact.