Kelly Walsh

Ms Kelly Walsh, Senior Physiotherapist, Metro South Health Pain Rehabilitation Centre.

Kelly is an experienced senior Physiotherapist at the Metro South Pain Rehabilitation Centre. With 20 years of clinical experience, she has worked in musculoskeletal and sports physiotherapy settings before moving into the persistent pain field in 2012. Kelly further advanced her clinical skills and knowledge through her completion of a Bachelor of Behavioural Science (Honours Psychology) in 2016. Kelly is dedicated to improving patient outcomes through evidence-based treatment and individualised care. She has a keen interest in supporting patients along their pain rehabilitation journey, in particular, helping patients to understand the complexity of the pain experience, providing support and guidance to patients to facilitate a return to function and the self-management of pain conditions. Kelly is dedicated to improving pain rehabilitation and making it more patient-centred. She has been involved in research focusing on the human aspects of patient care and is currently the Principal Investigator on the research project Making interdisciplinary pain management programs more patient-centred: a qualitative study of patients’ perceptions of the Engage pain group.