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Therapeutic Interventions and Practices

Health interventions that people want and need

The aim of this stream is to develop, apply and measure effective practices, techniques and technologies that support early intervention, prevention, optimise community participation and improve quality of life for people with disability. It includes evaluation and implementation of complex interventions related to biomedical and clinical therapeutic techniques, clinical assessment, screening practices and tools, psychosocial strategies, and family and group based programs.

New and adapted rehabilitation practices addressing clinical challenges, innovation and early intervention across of key populations: State wide Spinal Injury population, Statewide Brain Injury Population, Musculoskeletal health Persistent pain, Amputees, Early Childhood, Cardiac disability, Degenerative disability
Person-centered practice looks at respectful and dignified practices for all.

Research Stream Leaders:

Academic Lead: Clinical Lead:
Professor Michele Coppieters Kerrin Watters

Contact them at hopkinscentre@griffith.edu.au

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Featured Projects

Potential of smartphone apps to assist people with spinal cord injury

Published 24th April 2018

Evaluating the effectiveness of a multidisciplinary hypertonicity service to inform the development of a state-wide service model for management of hypertonicity post brain injury

Published 16th August 2018

Back2Work Project

Published 30th August 2018
Design and feasibility testing of a Graded Motor Imagery application to manage neuropathic pain in people with spinal cord injury

Published 4th December 2019

Effective pain management in everyday life: Developing a model of peer support for persistent pain

Published 20th July 2018

HCQ Consumer Engagement Evaluation

Published 19th March 2019
Integrating an Evidence-Based Clinical Exercise Physiology Service Model into a Comprehensive Multiprofessional Rehabilitation Service for People with Brain Impairment: An Integrated Knowledge Transla

Published 24th April 2018

ROAMM: Restoring Occupations And coMMunity participation

Published 4th December 2019

Clinical Guides: Supporting children on the Autism Spectrum with minimal verbal language

Published 20th November 2019
Assault and Brain Injury (Aabi) Project

Published 1st July 2013

HabITec: The sociotechnical space

Published 25th October 2018

Nerang Alliance

Published 7th March 2019
Compassion in rehabilitation nursing: A study of nurses’ perceptions and experiences of compassion in caring in the inpatient rehabilitation setting.

Published 28th June 2017

Profiles of Vocalisation Change in Children with Autism receiving Early Intervention

Published 17th July 2018

Adapted Physical Activity Program (APAP)

Published 28th June 2017
Predictors of Self-Rated Health Post-Injury: Findings from claimants in Queensland

Published 17th July 2018

Understanding family workload following traumatic injury

Published 17th May 2018

Developing an evidence-based framework for vocational rehabilitation in early transitional brain injury service

Published 4th June 2018
Validity testing of a new conceptual framework for rehabilitation, post spinal cord injury

Published 5th June 2017

Virtual reality as a novel therapeutic tool in tertiary persistent pain clinics: A patient perspective

Published 1st February 2019

Supporting ethical inclusion of people with acquired disability in research: consumer informed approaches

Published 1st February 2019
Evaluating the translation of the adapted physical activity program into the TRS: Application of the REAIM framework

Published 1st March 2019

Person-centred care in a digital environment: An exploration of health professional use and experience of integrated electronic medical records (ieMRs) in spinal injury rehabilitation settings

Published 28th June 2017

Exploring the experience of fatigue for people with a traumatic brain injury and their carers to inform evidence-based clinical management

Published 4th December 2019
Creating an inpatient peer support group to enhance the psychosocial functioning of brain injured patients

Published 3rd June 2013

Clinicians’ views on the facilitators and barriers that influence the provision of persistent pain management to refugees attending the Persistent Pain Clinic at PAH.

Published 1st March 2019

Optimising the delivery of persistent pain management to people with a refugee background in a multicultural context: A retrospective chart audit

Published 4th September 2017
Integrating an Evidence-Based Clinical Exercise Physiology Service Model into a Comprehensive Multiprofessional Rehabilitation Service for People with Brain Impairment: A Translation Approach

Published 31st July 2018

Participation in life after traumatic spinal cord injury – an analysis of person perceived determinants and the implications for rehabilitation

Published 28th June 2017

Impact of central obesity and body composition on energy needs and wound healing in people with spinal cord injury undergoing surgical repair of chronic pressure injuries

Published 17th May 2018
What are the factors that determine the optimal timing of physical therapy during acute inpatient rehabilitation after spinal cord injury?

Published 4th December 2019

The feasibility of using mouthpiece ventilation post-extubation for acute tetraplegia in the Intensive Care Unit

Published 28th June 2017

Singing Cords: Peer led group singing to enhance breathing, voice and wellbeing

Published 14th July 2017
Understanding family workload and capacity following catastrophic injury

Published 29th June 2017