Spinal Cord Injury
Dr Joanne Glinsky - Clinical Practice Guidelines for the physiotherapy management of people with Spinal Cord Injury
Joanne Glinskey is an Associate Professor of Allied Health (Sydney Local Health District/University of Sydney) and a Senior Research fellow at the John Walsh Centre for Rehabilitation (Kolling Institute/University of Sydney). She is a physiotherapist with a BAppSci (Physiotherapy), MHlthSc (Neurological Physiotherapy) and a PhD. She has a strong interest in physiotherapy management of people with neurological conditions including Spinal Cord Injury and has worked for over 25 years as a clinician, educator and researcher in this field.
Prof Lisa Harvey - Scaling up educational initiatives in spinal cord injuries to reach a global audience
Professor Lisa Harvey (PhD) has 20 years clinical experience as a physiotherapist in the area of spinal cord injuries. She currently holds an academic position at the Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney. Most of her research focuses on putting an evidence base to widely administered physiotherapy interventions. She is currently principal investigator on a large multi-centered international clinical trial (the SCI-MT Trial) looking at the effectiveness of an intensive form of motor training provided soon after injury. She with Associate Professor Glinsky co-led the development of the Australian and New Zealand Physiotherapy Guidelines for the Management of People with Spinal Cord Injuries. She setup and continues to manage www.physiotherapyexercises.com; free online exercise prescribing software for physiotherapists. She is chair of the Scientific and Research Committee of ISCoS, and the ISCoS Working Parting overseeing www.elearnSCI.org. She is an Associate Editor for Cochrane, Section Editor for Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and recent past Editor-in-Chief of Spinal Cord. In addition, she leads the Australian Centre of the Cochrane Rehab Thematic Group. She is currently working on a project that aims to get consensus from physiotherapists on the most appropriate sets of evidence-based exercises for each of the different but common problems physiotherapists treat in people with all types of injuries and disabilities.
