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Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist
APA Sports Physiotherapist

Emma Colson is an APA Sports and Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist. Emma has worked with the National Women's Cycling Team and was physiotherapist appointed to cycling at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. Formerly a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine (CHESM) hip study group, Emma has a special interest in chronic back and hip pain and the use of ultrasound retraining as a treatment modality. As an elite athlete, Emma has also represented Australia at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games in the Women's Cross-Country Mountain bike event.

Qualifications:

• Ba App Sci (Physio)
• Graduate Diploma of Manipulative Physiotherapy
  – Title holder Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Association of Australia
• APA Sports Physiotherapist Title holder
• Research Fellow – University of Melbourne, Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine (CHESM). Hip joint study group.

Current Work:

• Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre - Melbourne
• Metro Spinal Clinic, Glen Eira Day Centre.

Past:

• Anatomy Demonstrator – University of Melbourne
• Physiotherapist to Australian Womens Road Cycling Team 1997 – 2000 Sydney Olympic games.
• VFL/AFL boundary umpires and AFL senior field umpires

Publications/Papers:

• 2006 “Cycling Biomechanics” in Clinical Sports Medicine 3rd edition (Brukner and Kahn), contributing author.
• 2005-2006 Co-author of the LowBackPain™ - CD-Rom: A Clinical Guide to low back pain - educational textbook.
• 2004 "The prehabilitation and rehabilitation of hip arthroscopy patients". Currently submitted to Physical Therapy in Sport.
• 2003 "Hip joint pathology: Clinical presentation and correlation between MR arthrography, ultrasound and arthroscopic findings in 25 consecutive cases". Co-author: published in Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine
• 2002  “Lumbopelvic mechanics: please discuss.” co-author: Letter to the editor: Sport Health.
• 2000 “Cycling – the biomechanics of overuse injuries and the assessment and treatment of cyclists” co-author in Clinical Sports Medicine 2nd edition (Brukner and Kahn)
• 1999 “ Ulna stress fracture in a baseball pitcher: case report and review of literature” Co – author published in The American Journal of Sports Medicine
• 1998 “The use of video in the assessment and treatment of cyclists”. A 15 minute presentation at Sports Medicine Australia conference in Adelaide October 1998
• 1997 “Outcome survey of psoas sheath injections” co-author of 15 minute presentation at Sports Medicine Australia conference in Adelaide October 1998

Recent Presentations & Seminars:

• 2006 Lecture and practical - “The use of ultrasound in physiotherapy” to Peninsula regional group.
• 2005 Lecture and practical session “The use of ultrasound in clinical practice” to Sports Physiotherapy Association – Vic Branch
• 2005 Lecture “Physiotherapy diagnosis and management of hip joint pain” to Masters of Sports Physiotherapy/musculoskeletal physiotherapy at La Trobe University

Clinical Practice :

• Olympic Park Sports Medicine Center
• Metro Spinal Clinic, Melbourne:
  www.metrospinal.com.au

Last Updated April 2008