Category: Clinical Research

Latest news and information from our Clinical Research Institute Team. Keeping up to date on the latest research in our field.

Lisa Pagano Receives PhD Scholarship

Posted on July 28, 2018 by - Clinical Research

We would like to congratulate Lisa, one of our physiotherapists, who has been awarded a fulltime Government Research Training Program Scholarship to complete her PhD. Lisa works at our Blacktown rooms and is currently completing her PhD at the University of Sydney. She is looking at creating a health model involving physiotherapists and GPs to help improve the diagnosis and treatment of people with a chronic lung condition called Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. We wish her all the best in her studies!

Paper Published in Musculoskeletal Science and Practice Journal

Posted on February 5, 2017 by - Clinical Research

Congratulations to John Breckenridge (our Principal Physiotherapist) on his recent publication in Musculoskeletal Science and Practice Journal.  JB’s article looks at “The development of a shoulder specific left/right judgement task: Validity & reliability”.  To read the article head to https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1UTuR8nLVhV3xS

Effect of Physical Activity in the First Five Days After Cardiothoracic Surgery Publication

Posted on January 8, 2017 by - Clinical Research

Congratulations to Sean our Principal Physiotherapist on his latest publication on the “Effect of Physical Activity in the First Five Days After Cardiothoracic Surgery” from our Cardiothoracic Clinical Research stream at Westmead Private Physiotherapy and The Clinical Research Institute. Sean would like to thank his colleagues at Westmead Private Hospital, The University of Melbourne, and The University of Jamestown Fargo, North Dakota. It’s been a great collaborative effort to get this into the open access journal, The Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine.

https://www.medicaljournals.se/jrm/content/abstract/10.2340/16501977-2165?ref=search