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At Melbourne CBD Physiotherapy & Sports Medicine Clinic, research sits at the centre of how we practise. Our physiotherapists and sports medicine physicians don’t just consult with patients — they lead and publish clinical research, teach in postgraduate university programs, and hold active research positions with La Trobe University and The University of Melbourne.

This work spans injury and sports performance alike: tendon injury, ACL rehabilitation and return-to-sport testing, and the validation of force- and speed-based testing technologies used to profile and develop athletes. It flows directly back into what we do in the clinic — from rehabilitation programs to strength, running and performance assessments — so the methods we use reflect the most current evidence, often before it reaches wider practice.

Clinical research also depends on willing participants, and being part of a study is often a rewarding way to contribute to better care and performance outcomes for others. If you’d like to be involved in a current trial — as a patient, athlete or practitioner — we’d love to hear from you.

Current Research: One of our clinicians is recruiting physiotherapists for a tendon research study. Register your interest via the form on this page.

Research

PUBLICATIONS

The role of hip adductor and abductor muscle strength in identifying, preventing, and managing groin pain in male soccer players

  • Jackson, J. 

  • 2022

  • Journal of Australian Strength and Conditioning
Familial effects on structural changes relevant to knee osteoarthritis: a prospective cohort study. Osteoarthritis Cartilage 2015

  • Pan F, Khan H, Ding C, Winzenberg T, Martel-Pelletier J, Pelletier JP, Cicuttini F, Jones G.

  • Pan F, Khan H, Ding C, Winzenberg T, Martel-Pelletier J, Pelletier JP, Cicuttini F, Jones G.

  • Osteoarthritis Cartilage
The offspring of people with a total knee replacement for severe primary knee osteoarthritis have a higher risk of worsening knee pain over 8 years

  • Pan F, Ding C, Winzenberg T, Khan H, Martel-Pelletier J, Pelletier JP, Cicuttini F, Jones G.

  • 2016

  • Annals of Rheumatic Diseases
History of knee injury and MRI-assessed knee structures in middle- and older-aged adults: a cross-sectional study

  • Khan, H.I., Aitken, D., Blizzard, L. et al.

  • 14/08/2014

  • Clinical Rheumatology
Correlation between changes in global knee structures assessed on MRI and radiographic osteoarthritis changes over 10 years in a mid-life cohort.

  • Ijaz Khan, H., Chou, L., Aitken, D., Mcbride, A., Ding, C., Blizzard, L., Pelletier, J., Martel-Pelletier, J., Cicuttini, F.M., & Jones, G.

  • 2015

  • Arthritis Care & Research
Sport and exercise medicine in the undergraduate curriculum. Are we inspiring the next generation of sport and exercise medicine doctors and helping them overcome the barriers they face getting into the specialty?
Muscle damaging exercise increases heat strain during subsequent exercise heat stress.

  • Fortes, M. B., Di Felice, U., Dolci, A., Junglee N. A., Crockford, M. J., West, L. R., Hillier-Smith, R., Macdonald, J. H. and Walsh, P.

    Related: Muscle injuries

  • 2013

  • Medicine and Science in Sports & ExerciseMuscle damaging exercise increases heat strain during subsequent exercise heat stress.
Management of concussion in disability sport: a different ball game?

  • West, L.R., Griffin, S., Weiler, R., & Ahmed, O. H.

  • 2017

  • British Journal of Sports Medicine
Concussion knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs amongst sports medicine personnel at the 2015 cerebral palsy football world championships

  • Griffin, S., West, L.R., Ahmed, O.H., & Weiler, R. (2017)

  • 2017

  • British Journal of Sports Medicine
Under utilisation of concussion assessment tools by sports clinicians working in cerebral palsy football.

  • West, L. R., Griffin, S., Weiler, R., Win, K., & Ahmed, O. H.

  • 2017

  • Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport
Creating the dream team: introducing participatory sports and exercise medicine via ‘Patient Voices’.

  • Ahmed, O. H., Defoe, J., West, L. R., & Blake, T.

  • 2018

  • British Journal of Sports Medicine
Contact-related strain of quadratus femoris, obturator externus, and inferior gemellus in an Australian Football Player: A Case Report.

  • Girdwood, M., West, L. R., Connell, D., & Brukner, P.

  • 2019

  • Journal of  Sports Rehabilitation
Expanding the sport and exercise medicine online community and quality international education: join the SMA journey in 2021! Warm Up

  • West, L. R. & Kemp, J.

  • 2021

  • British Journal of Sports Medicine
Let us introduce ourselves, #WeAreBOSEM

  • Verhagen, E., Oliveira, F., Ahmed, O. H., Anderson, N., Badenhorst, M., Bekker, S., Belavy, D. L., Blake, T., Cao, C., Carrard, J., Chen, L., Cheng, S. W. M., Edouard, P., Harwood, A., Hendricks, S., Hespanhol, L., Kearney, R., Keohane, D., Magnani, R., Mah, D., Mavros, Y., McLeary, N., Memon, A. R., Moholdt, T., Azevedo, A. M., Nauta, J., Nicol, G., Noorbhai, H., Ogbonmwan, I., Owen, P. J., Perera, N. P., Reiman, M., Resende, R., Robinson, D. G., Rojas-Valverde, D., Sewry, N., Statuta, S., van Nassau, F., West, L. R., Wheeler, P. C., Xiao, T., & Pandya, T.

  • 2021

  • BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine
Effects of pubertal maturation on ACL forces during a landing task

  • Nasseri A, Lloyd DG, Bryant AL, Headrick J, Sayer TA, Saxby DJ

  • Accepted for publishing, to be published in 2024

  • American Journal of Sports Science