Josephine Key
Dip. Phys. PGD. Manip. Therapy
APA Titled Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist
Principal
Clinical Services Director
Josephine graduated in physiotherapy in NSW and gained a Postgraduate Diploma in Manipulative Physiotherapy from the Cumberland College of Health Sciences – now the Faculty of Health Sciences, Sydney University.
Josephine founded the Edgecliff Physiotherapy Sports & Spinal Centre in 1985. Her long experience in clinical practice also includes senior physiotherapist roles in hospitals where she specialised in intensive care, rehabilitation and paediatric work.
Throughout her career she has lectured at postgraduate level and done extensive teaching, mentoring and writing in the field of musculoskeletal physiotherapy.
She has a particular interest in the improved understanding, recognition and remediation of movement dysfunction associated with most musculoskeletal pain disorders, in particular those relating to the spine. She has published findings of her clinical investigations on this subject and also presented these at national and international conferences.
As part of her approach to dealing more effectively with the altered control of posture and related movements found in her patients she developed the Key Moves ™ Programme of Therapeutic Exercise and Movement Classes.
Her collaborative two part paper: A model of movement dysfunction provides a classification system guiding diagnosis and therapeutic care in spinal pain and related musculoskeletal syndromes – A paradigm shift was published in 2008 in an international peer reviewed journal- Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies.
This led to her being invited to write a book for practitioners; “Back Pain: A movement problem. A clinical approach incorporating relevant research and practice”. This integrates contemporary science with the insights of extensive clinical practice. It is published internationally by Elsevier and went on sale in March 2010.
Her most recent international journal publication can be viewed and downloaded by visiting the ‘Publications’ section.
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