Overview of the Physiotherapy Research Group
The mission of the Physiotherapy Research Group is to build the health of our communities by developing practical strategies & solutions through pragmatic physiotherapy & health research in real-world settings.
Current areas of research
Tactical Injury & Performance Risk Management (Lead: Rob Orr)
- Military
- Police
- Fire Fighters / First Responders
Paediatric Physiotherapy & Clinical Education (Lead: Nikki Milne)
- Child Health and Development
- Physical Activity
- Child Obesity / Metabolic Disease
- Clinical Education, Interprofessional Education, Action Based Learning
Clinical Physiotherapy & Clinical Education (Lead: Wayne Hing)
- Manual Therapy
- Physiotherapy in Sports & Exercise
- Clinical Education
- Physical Activity, Mobility & Rehabilitation in Acute Care and Community Settings
- Outcome Measures
Health of Communities (Lead: Rod Pope)
- Injury Prevention & Management
- Injury Surveillance
- Health Services & Other Community Assets in Health
- Physical Activity, Mobility & Participation
- Community-Based Approaches for Health
- Professor Wayne Hing
- Associate Professor Rod Pope
- Assistant Professor Rob Orr
- Assistant Professor Nikki Milne
- Assistant Professor Paige Hooper
- Assistant Professor Penelope Thurnwald
- Assistant Professor Rebecca Terry
- Assistant Professor Amanda Hannan
- Assistant Professor Natalie Rando
- Assistant Professor Kelly van der Zwan
- Assistant Professor Cherie Zischke
External
- United States Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine
- Defence Science and Technology Organisation
- University of Colorado: Colorado Springs
- Karolinska Institutet
- Australian Defence Force
- New South Wales Police Force
- Queensland Fire and Rescue Service
- Charles Sturt University
- Curtin University
- Southern Cross University
- QLD Health
- NSW Health
- Pindara Hospital
- John Flynn Hospital
- NSW Department of Education, Training & Employment
- QLD Department of Education, Training & Employment
- University of Queensland
- AUT University
- Griffith University
- Gold Coast University Hospital
- The Wesley Hospital
- Stanford University
- Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Internal
- Water-Based Research Unit
- Qualitative Research Network
- Centre for Research in Evidence Based Practice
- Rebecca Terry: Relationships between summative coursework assessments & student performance in clinical practice settings
- Amanda Hannan: High intensity aerobic and resistance interval training in supervised cardiac rehabilitation and home environments
- Kirstin MacDonald: Evaluation of the Tweed Healthy Schools Action Based Learning Program
- Jaclyn Szkwara: Medical compression garments to manage prenatal pain & in postnatal recovery
- Clare MacFarlane: Effect of orthoses on gait & mobility in children with cerebral palsy
- Katherine Doiron: Early mobilisation & functional outcome measurement in critically ill patients in the intensive care unit
- Cherie Zischke: Improving access to paediatric physiotherapy: can video technology help?
- Josephine Grigg: Biomechanics of BMX at the start gate (In conjunction with EXSCI)
- Timothy Whitehouse: The Epidemiology of injury in Australian Professional Rugby Union (In conjunction with EXSCI)
- Jo Gooderson: Evaluate current Interprofessional Student Health Team Model (ISHTM) programs, and develop an evidence based manual for implementation of ISHTM throughout Australian Schools (In conjunction with Nutrition/Dietetics)
If you are interested in research collaboration or undertaking a Higher Degree by Research in one of the areas listed above, please contact the Lead Researcher for that area to discuss your interest.