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Chair in Sports Physiotherapy and Head of Division of Physiotherapy Bill is the newly appointed Chair of Sports Physiotherapy and head of the Division of Physiotherapy in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Queensland. The establishment of the new Chair in Sports Physiotherapy is recognition of the future demands that will be placed on this field as the population ages and younger people undergo less incidental physical activity in their formative years. Sport and physical activity is an important area of health and well being with research required to help develop the knowledge base of the most effective ways to manage, treat and prevent injury.
Since graduating in 1980, Bill has worked in musculoskeletal and sports physiotherapy, mainly in private practice. During studying for his Sports and Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy qualifications he developed a particular interest in the underpinning evidence for physical therapies – which ones work, why and how? His PhD (2000) focused on mechanisms of spinal manipulative therapy and resulted in publication of an evidenced based theoretical model for this physical treatment.
Lately his clinical research has focused on treatments for tennis elbow and neck pain, and the evidence supporting in-shoe orthotics versus manual therapy and exercise in the management of anterior knee pain. For example, a recently completed randomised clinical trial (RCT) funded by the NHMRC and published in the BMJ has shown that an active physiotherapy treatment of joint manipulation and exercise is on the whole better than steroid injections. His team is currently completing another NHMRC funded RCT into the use of orthoses in anterior knee pain whilst commencing an ARC linkage project that is seeking to better understand the role of both exercise (cross training) and physical therapies such as tape and orthoses on neuromuscular control of the leg and foot. This project is a collaborative effort with the AIS and several international researchers/laboratories and includes a team of 4 PhD scholars and a post-doctoral fellow. His research since his PhD has been supported by approximately $4.1M in competitive research grants.
Bill has communicated his findings from his research in 69 peer reviewed publications and over 120 workshops, seminars and conference presentations, largely over the past 6 years. He has supervised 6 PhD candidates and 15 Honours students to graduation.
Bill is the co-ordinator for the coursework Master of Sports Physiotherapy program at the University of Queensland and teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate programs in musculoskeletal healthcare, focusing on lower limb and sports physiotherapy. He contributes to the publication of knowledge through service as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy, as a member of the International Editorial Panel for Manual Therapy as well as an ad hoc reviewer to a number of sport and rehabilitation journals. He is also the UQ Chair of the Medical Research Ethics Committee and Chair of the Physiotherapy Registration Board of Queensland.
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Medical: Physiotherapy, Medical: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Medical: Sports Medicine, Medical: Therapy Evaluation, Medical: Primary Care, Medical: Podiatry, Medical: Pain, Medical: Orthopedics, Medical: Injury, Medical: Health, Allied Fields, Medical: Health Care, Medical: Exercise, Medical: Chiropractic, Medical: Biomechanics, Medical: Alternative Medicine |
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