Tom Goom
Tom Goom is a physio who specialises in running injury and loves to run! He’s the creator of Running-physio.com a published researcher and international speaker, presenting his popular Running Repairs Course all over the world!”
Dr Jeremy Lewis
Dr Jeremy Lewis is a Consultant Physiotherapist, Professor of Musculoskeletal Research, Sonographer and Independent Prescriber. He has been awarded a Fellowship of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, which is the highest award the Society can bestow on one of its members. He has been acknowledged as one of the 5 most eminent clinicians in his profession (The UK Department of Health National AHP Clinical Expert Database). He assesses and treats patients with shoulder problems and performs ultrasound guided injections, if appropriate and required, as part of the treatment process. His main areas of clinical expertise are rotator cuff related shoulder pain (impingement syndrome / rotator cuff tendinopathy), shoulder pain syndromes and frozen shoulder.
Dr Mary O'Keeffe
Physiotherapy researcher Dr Mary O’Keeffe is the first UL graduate to receive the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship from the European Commission under Horizon 2020 and one of only 6 Irish researchers awarded a Global Fellowhsip this year. The award will enable Dr O’Keeffe to attend the George Institute for Global Health at University of Sydney, Australia, one of the top ten research institutions in the world for scientific impact. There, she will be hosted for two years by Professor Chris Maher who is the world leader in lower-back-pain research.
Robin Kerr
Robin Kerr is an Australian trained physiotherapist with 33 years of clinical experience. Her special interests lay in pelvic floor and lumbo-pelvic dysfunction. She is heavily trained in biomechanics and
gait lab running analysis, however over the last 20 years has moved towards a
focus on motion and the BPS model in the management of persistent pain. You can find more about Robin and her team here www.alchemyinmotion.com.au
gait lab running analysis, however over the last 20 years has moved towards a
focus on motion and the BPS model in the management of persistent pain. You can find more about Robin and her team here www.alchemyinmotion.com.au
Dr Sandy Hilton
Sandy graduated from Pacific University (Oregon) in 1988 with a Master of Science in Physical Therapy and a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from Des Moines University in December 2013. She has worked in multiple settings across the US with a neurologic and orthopedic emphasis including a focus in pelvic rehabilitation for pain and dysfunction. Sandy teaches and speaks internationally on the treatment of pelvic pain, and the application of pain science into clinical practice. Sandy’s clinical interest is chronic pain with a particular interest in complex pelvic pain disorders for men and women. Sandy is the co-host of Pain Science and Sensibility, a podcast on the application of research into the clinic.
Dr Joanne Kemp
Dr Joanne Kemp is a titled APA Sports Physiotherapist of 25+ years’ experience. She is a Research Fellow at the Latrobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre, Latrobe University, Australia. Joanne has presented extensively on the management of hip pain and hip pathology in Australia and internationally. Her research is focused on hip pain including FAI and early onset hip OA in young and middle aged adults, and its impact on activity, function and quality of life. She is also focused on the long-term consequence of sports injury on joint health. She has a particular interest in non-surgical interventions that can slow the progression and reduce the symptoms associated with hip pain and hip OA.
Todd Hargrove
Todd Hargrove is a Certified Feldenkrais practitioner, Certified Rolfer, and author. Todd graduated from Hamilton College in 1990 with a B.A. in Economics, and from the University of Washington School of Law in 1995 with a J.D. While working as an attorney, Todd developed chronic neck and back pain, but eliminated it through through self-education, lifestyle change and exercise. He quit the law in 2005 to become a manual and movement therapist, in order to help others in the way he helped himself. Since 2008, he has written a blog at BetterMovement.org, which focuses on applying a modern understanding of pain science and neuroscience to movement-based therapies. In 2014, he published A Guide to Better Movement: The Science and Practice of Moving with More Skill and Less Pain.
Dr Teddy Willsey
Dr. Teddy Willsey is a sports medicine focused physical therapist and private practice owner in Rockville, Maryland. Teddy has an interest in working with high level athletes and return to sport rehab. In addition to practicing PT, Teddy speaks and teaches publicly, writes and blogs regularly, and posts on social media daily. He can be found on Instagram at @strengthcoachtherapy or online at www.teddywillsey.com.
Ben Cormack
Ben Cormack owns and runs Cor-Kinetic. He is a musculoskeletal therapist with a clinical background in sports therapy, rehabilitation, pain science & exercise stretching back 15 years. He specialises in a movement & exercise based approach with a strong education component and patient centred focus.
Ben is a popular international presenter who has delivered conferences presentations and courses all over the world.
Ben is a popular international presenter who has delivered conferences presentations and courses all over the world.
Mick Hughes
Mick Hughes is a Physiotherapist & Exercise Physiologist with a very keen interest in ACL injury management and ACL injury prevention. He has previously worked within elite sporting teams such as the Collingwood Magpies Netball, Newcastle Jets U20s and NQ Cowboys U20s.
Assoc. Prof. Steve Kamper
Associate Professor Steve Kamper is a research physiotherapist at the School of Public Health, University of Sydney. He is also co-lead of the ‘Centre for Pain, Health and Lifestyle’ (https://www.centrephl.org), a practice-research partnership exploring the interaction between pain and health risk factors such as overweight, physical inactivity, smoking, alcohol misuse and mental health. Other research interests include patient expectations and placebo effects, adolescent musculoskeletal pain, research methods.
Dr Seth O’Neill
Seth is a Physiotherapy Lecturer at the University of Leicester whilst also maintaining clinical work in his own private practice. He has a PhD on tendinopathy (entitled ‘A Biomechanical Approach to Achilles Tendinopathy management’) within this Seth has identified prevalence rates of tendinopathy in UK runners and developed a greater understanding of risk factors surrounding Achilles tendinopathy. His later work has completed a more in-depth analysis of how tendinopathy affects the Plantarflexors. This has focussed on how the strength and endurance is affected and which of the Plantarflexors is most involved. This work has highlighted the involvement of the Soleus muscle in human Achilles tendinopathy. Seth has completed numerous other research projects linked to tendinopathy but also retains a strong interest in all MSK conditions. Seth feels passionately about supporting Physiotherapists to undertake further research either as standalone projects or MRes’s or PhD’s. Seth is currently examining tendon structure and changes that occur during health and disease along with Biopsychosocial interventions for tendinopathy and LBP.
Dr Bart Dingenen
Bart Dingenen (physical therapist, PhD) currently combines an academic postdoctoral position at University Hasselt (Belgium) with clinical work as a sport physical therapist in a private clinical practice (Motion to Balance, Genk). He is mainly interested in strategies to optimize prevention and rehabilitation of sports-related injuries of the lower extremity.
Christina Le
Christina Le is a physiotherapist (Glen Sather Sports Medicine Clinic) and PhD student (University of Alberta) from Edmonton, Canada. As a clinician, she primarily worked with athletes with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries. This experience has motivated her to pursue research investigating quality of life in those with ACL injuries. Find her on Twitter as @yegphysio or online at www.yegphysiotherapy.com.
Mariana Wingood
Mariana Wingood is a full time clinician and part-time educator. She is an active member of the Vermont Falls Coalition, Gerontology Society of America, and Academy of Geriatrics. Mariana’s focus is on fall prevention and exercise perscription for older adults. She has presented at a state, national conferences, and international level.
Stephen King
Stephen King is the Director of MAT – Movement Assessment Technologies and creator of The MAT.
He has a unique background, being a dual-masters qualified Physiotherapist and Osteopath, while also having undertaken further studies as a Strength and Conditioning Coach and Personal Trainer.
Find out more at www.MATassessment.com
He has a unique background, being a dual-masters qualified Physiotherapist and Osteopath, while also having undertaken further studies as a Strength and Conditioning Coach and Personal Trainer.
Find out more at www.MATassessment.com
Dr Sarah Haag
Sarah Haag is a physiotherapist and co-owner of Entropy Physiotherapy and Wellness in Chicago. At Entropy, Sarah specializes in women’s and men’s health, and on treating the spine and pelvis. She received her Doctorate of Physical Therapy and Masters of Science in Women’s Health from Rosalind Franklin University in 2008. In 2009 she was awarded a Board Certification as a specialist in women’s health (WCS). While not a researcher, she enjoys hanging out with researchers to shorten the gap between research and clinical application.
Dr Jarod Hall
Dr. Jarod Hall, PT, DPT, OCS, CSCS is a physical therapist in Fort Worth, TX. His clinical focus is orthopedics and therapeutic neuroscience education. Jarod is a board certified Orthopedic Clinical Specialist and Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist. Jarod is also an adjunct instructor at the UNTHSC DPT program in the orthopedics, pain sciences, and manual therapy curricula. Dr. Hall presents continuing education at the local, state, national level and is an internationally recognized evidence based blogger.
Prof. Nicola Phillips
Prof Nicola Phillips is an Internationally Registered Sports Physical Therapist who has worked in sport and exercise for 30+ years. She leads the MSc Sport and Exercise Physiotherapy programme at Cardiff University, UK and undertakes consultancy work in the sport and exercise field. She teaches to physiotherapists internationally on rehabilitation of sports injuries, strength and conditioning principles and exercise prescription. Her research work is in the areas of motor control following injury, particularly lower limb, as well as investigating barriers and facilitators to exercise. Her doctoral studies were on functional coping following ACL injury.
Dr Bronwyn Thompson
Bronwyn Lennox Thompson initially trained as an occupational therapist, graduating from CIT in 1984. She later completed her MSc in Psychology in 1999 at Canterbury University, and in 2015 was awarded her PhD from the Department of Health Sciences at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
She has worked in pain management for most of her clinical career, with her primary focus on pain management at work. She has practiced in interdisciplinary pain management programmes, private practice, case management both for private organizations, and ACC, primary prevention and secondary prevention, and since 2002, teaching postgraduate papers in pain and pain management at Otago University.
Her main interest areas include pain and anxiety, motivation for self-management, resilience and daily coping choices.
The effect of her occupational therapy training has never fully left Bronwyn’s aims in pain management. Occupational therapy has always targeted function, or the ability to fulfill life roles despite limitations. In the same way, Bronwyn’s goals for pain management are to help people reduce the functional impact of pain and improve their engagement in living life to the full.
To find out more about Bronwyn visit www.healthskillz.co.nz
Travis Pollen
Travis Pollen is a personal trainer and PhD student in Rehabilitation Sciences at Drexel University. He holds a master’s degree in Biomechanics and Movement Science from the University of Delaware. His research interests focus on core stability, movement screening, and injury risk assessment in athletes. In addition to his scholarly activities, he maintains a blog at www.FitnessPollenator.com.
Sam Blanchard
Sam is a physiotherapist working in full time elite sport, having worked in multiple team based sports in the UK and the USA. He is a published author of theoretical models for rehabilitation as well as a contributing author in Clinical Sports Medicine 5th Ed. Sam shares his thoughts on clinical reasoning in physiotherapy and strength & conditioning via his blog post plinthsandplatforms.wordpress.com and lectures in the UK.
Dr Alison Grimaldi
Alison completed a Bachelor of Physiotherapy at the University of Queensland in 1990, a Masters of Sports Physiotherapy in 1997, and her Doctorate in Philosophy in the Field of Physiotherapy (PhD) in 2008. Her PhD studies were concerned with improving our understanding of hip muscle function and the relationship with hip joint pathology and weightbearing stimulus. These studies involved research collaboration with the European Space Agency. Alison continues to be passionate about extending our understanding of why we develop problems around the hip and pelvis, and what we can do to most effectively prevent and manage these problems. She is currently involved with research studies through the University of Queensland and University of Melbourne, co-supervises a number of PhD students, and has pioneered the use of Real Time Ultrasound technology for the assessment and retraining of muscle function around the hip & pelvis. Due to her voluntary contributions to research at the University of Queensland, Alison has been awarded the title Adjunct Research Fellow in the School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences.
It is one of Alison’s core beliefs that research should be relevant to clinical practice and helping the patients we treat every day, and that physiotherapists in the community should have access to this valuable information to allow them to transfer this knowledge into clinical practice as quickly as possible. To this end, Alison continues to publish, present and provide practical workshops for other health professionals. Alison has published a number of papers in scientific journals, has contributed detailed information freely accessible via podcasts by PhysioEdge (itunes) and the British Journal of Sports Medicine (SoundCloud), and has recently contributed to 3 leading physiotherapy and sports medicine text books.
Shruti Nambiar
Shruti Nambiar has completed her Masters in Clinical Sports Physiotherapy from Curtin University, Australia. She currently works at a private practice in Mumbai, India. She has previously worked with the Women’s Football team (Perth Glory) and as a Head Physiotherapist for Ultimate Table Tennis League, India. Her areas of interest are tendinopathies, management of chronic back pain, shoulder pathologies, and promoting evidence based practice.
Dr Carlo Wood
Carlo Wood MPT, PhD, APA Sports & MSK Physio, OCS, DNSET is an instructor for Neurodynamic Solutions and owner of a cash only clinic specializing in sports injuries (sportsandorthophysio.net). He is a manuscript reviewer for JOSPT, invited speaker to Orthopaedic conferences worldwide and also part of the US Olympic Committee’s Sports Medicine Volunteer program.
Adam Johnson
Adam has worked in full time football at both Reading FC and Millwall FC, he originally joined Brighton & Hove Albion FC as Head Academy Physiotherapist. After performing in this role for two and a half years, he progressed to take up his current role as First Team Performance Physiotherapist. This job involves devising injury prevention protocols for the whole squad and individuals. The role has led him to take an interest in injury prevention literature, and more specifically hamstring injury prevention literature.
Dr Fiona Wilson
Dr Fiona Wilson is a Chartered Physiotherapist and Associate Professor in the School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin. She has 30 years postgraduate experience and has worked in practice in the UK, South Africa and Ireland. She practices clinically specializing in exercise approaches to management. She has worked with elite and international athletes throughout her career and was Lead Physiotherapist for Rowing Ireland for 10 years. She has published and presented widely in the area of sports and exercise including a book examining the role of exercise in musculoskeletal disorders. She is active in research in the area of sport and exercise medicine with a special focus on rowing and back pain and in athlete brain health with Leinster Rugby and Rugby Players Ireland. She is also researching the effect of exercise interventions in the management of arthritis and chronic joint disorders. She is editorial board member for a number of leading Sports Medicine Journals including the British Journal of Sports Medicine and was awarded a Cochrane Fellowship in 2012. She was awarded international colours for rowing as a member of the South African team.
Linda Truong
Linda Truong is a physical therapist and PhD student at the University of Alberta, Canada. She has a special interest in ACL injuries. Linda currently works at the Glen Sather Sports Medicine Clinic as the lead physical therapist for the multidisciplinary knee team. Her research focuses on understanding the impact of non-physical needs (e.g. psychosocial) on recovery after sustaining an injury.
Nicol van Dyk
Nicol van Dyk is a physiotherapist and clinical reasearcher at the Aspetar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital in Doha, Qatar. He graduated with a BSc in Physiotherapy from Stellenbosch University in 2005, and completed his MSc in Orthopaedic Manipulative Therapy in 2010. Having worked in a number of different sporting environments, including cricket, rugby, and football, he worked as sports physiotherapist at the Sport Science Institute of South Africa before moving to Qatar in 2013. He currently occupies a role within the Aspetar injury prevention programme (ASPREV), while continuing clinical care of athletes. Nicol is an associate editor and editorial board member of British journal of sports medicine (BJSM), and enthusiastic about the role of social media in the dissemination of scientific evidence and research knowledge. As a clinical researcher with a special interest in muscle injuries and injury prevention, he has great appreciation for integrated healthcare and evidence based medicine. He completed his PhD at Ghent University, Belgium in April 2018 having investigated risk factors for hamstring injuries in professional football players.
Sam Spinelli
Sam is the owner of The Strength Therapist & Co-owner of Citizen Athletics. He works with primarily strength athletes and people pursing their fitness dreams. Additionally he focuses on educating clinicians and the public at large on health literacy.
Dr Xiaoqi Chen
Dr Chen completed her PhD at the University of Queensland in 2017 on neck pain in office workers. Her passion to bridge the gap between research and clinical practice is evident in her publications related to risk factors of neck pain, exercise, ergonomic and virtual reality gaming technology interventions for neck pain. Chen has co-authored 7 publications related to neck pain in Manual Therapy, Physical Therapy and Occupational Health journals.
Dr Ebonie Rio
Ebonie is researcher at La Trobe University and clinician currently working at the Victorian Institute of Sport. She has an interested in how understanding pain and neuroscience can improve our management of musculoskeletal conditions. She has a wealth of experience clinically working at the AIS, winter Olympics and Australian Ballet.
