Today's interview is with physiotherapist Dr Julia Treleaven (Koala Award) who has extensive experience as a researcher and clinician in the field of concussion, WAD and dizziness. Julia talks about the flexibility of work, the skills that experienced clinicians bring to the clinical table and what she considers the most important piece of advice for new graduates.
Biography
Julia is a Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Queensland. She has been researching whiplash and neck pain since 2000 and in 2004 completed her PhD focusing on the necks influence on sensorimotor control. Julia has continued her research in this area in idiopathic neck pain, headache, the elderly and post concussion. She has over 80 publications in this area, written several book chapters and is an author of the upcoming book “Management of neck disorders - an evidenced based approach”. Julia works part-time as a physiotherapist in a private practice managing patients such as those with whiplash, cervicogenic dizziness and post concussion syndrome. Julia is also an assessor at the Whiplash Physical Diagnostic Clinic and has been an invited speaker at many national and international conferences and workshops in the area of neck pain, whiplash, concussion and dizziness.
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