Promoting non-treatment physical activity in physio practice

OA clinical standards

Grant recipient: Breanne Kunstler, APAM

Project title: Discovering the determinants of and the behaviour change techniques (BCTs) used when, promoting non-treatment physical activity (NTPA) in Australian physiotherapy practice.

Year awarded: 2016

Standards for physios in critical care

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Grant recipient: Shane Patman, FACP

Project title:  Establishing evidence-based minimum standards of practice expected for physiotherapists working within critical care in Australia and New Zealand.

Year awarded: 2012

PRF grant: Tagged Grant

Respiratory physiotherapy and intensive care

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Grant recipient: Shane Patman, FACP

Project title: The effect of physiotherapy on the prevention and treatment of nosocomial pneumonia for intensive care patients with acquired brain injury

Year awarded: 2001

PRF grant: Seeding Grant

Enhancing the readiness of new graduate physiotherapists for private practice

Graduate workplace readiness

Cherie Wells, APAM

Project title: Enhancing the readiness of new graduate physiotherapists for private practice: Academic, employer, and graduate perspectives

Year awarded: 2015

PRF grant: Tagged Grant

Understanding the relationship between contributing factors and low back pain

Persistent low back pain

Grant recipient: Kevin Wernli, APAM

Project title: Does changing movement matter? Understanding the relationship between changes in movement, pain, activity limitation and psychological factors in persistent low back pain

Year awarded: 2017

The perceptions and experiences of children with lymphoedema and their families

The perceptions and experiences of children with lymphoedema and their families

Grant recipient: Nicholas Henschke

Project title: The perceptions and experiences of children with lymphoedema and their families.

Year awarded: 2011

PRF grant: Tagged grant - Lymphoedema Association of Western Australia Research Grant

Effects of a pulmonary rehabilitation program on exercise capacity in people with COPD

Effects of a pulmonary rehabilitation program on exercise capacity in people with COPD

Grant recipient: Joshua Bishop, APAM

Project title: Effect of a pulmonary rehabilitation program of 8 weeks duration compared to 12 weeks on exercise capacity in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (PuRe Duration): A randomised controlled trial.

Year awarded: 2017

Evaluating training program to improve residents’ mobility care in nursing homes

Evaluating training program to improve residents’ mobility care in nursing homes

Grant recipient: Janice Taylor, APAM

Project title: Evaluating a physiotherapist-led training program to improve residents’ mobility care in nursing homes: A feasibility study.

Year awarded: 2013

PRF grant: Seeding grant

Contracture after spinal cord injury

Contracture after spinal cord injury

Grant recipient: Dr Joanna Diong, APAM

Project title: Contracture after spinal cord injury – a prospective cohort study.

Year awarded: 2009

PRF grant: Tagged Grant

Physiotherapy interventions for early-onset knee osteoarthritis following ACLR

Physiotherapy interventions for early-onset knee osteoarthritis following ACLR

Learn more about our PRF grant recipients and what their research entailed.

Find out more about the recipients and how they used their grants to inform the physiotherapy profession.