The University of Western Australia
W/Prof Kevin Singer
Head of Unit/Winthrop Professor
Centre for Musculoskeletal Studies
- Contact details
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- Address
- Centre for Musculoskeletal Studies
The University of Western Australia (M424)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia
- Phone
- 6488 7078
- Fax
- 9224 0204
- kevin.singer@uwa.edu.au
- Personal homepage
- http://www.cms.uwa.edu.au/staff/singer/index.shtml
- Location
- Corner Park Avenue and Crawley Avenue, Crawley
- Qualifications
- DipPhEd Otago, DipPhty Auck., MSc PhD W.Aust.
- Biography
- Professor Kevin Singer heads the Centre for Musculoskeletal Studies within the School of Surgery, and Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, at The University of Western Australia.
In addition to this directorship, Prof Singer is program coordinator of UWA’s Master of Manual Therapy, and supervises masters and doctoral students. - Key research
- spine-related surgical outcomes
- lumbar biomechanics of the intervertebral disc
- botulinum toxin use in musculoskeletal disorders.
- Publications
- Contributed 15 textbook chapters and more than 100 peer-reviewed journal publications, with a similar number of conference presentations. Notable publications include:
Brukner P, Khan K & Singer KP 2006, ‘Thoracic and chest pain’, in Brukner P & Khan K [eds], Clinical Sports Medicine, 3edn, McGraw-Hill, Sydney, pp: 340–50.
Fazey PJ, Song S, Mønsås Å, Johansson L, Haukalid T & Singer KP 2006, ‘An MRI investigation of intervertebral disc deformation in response to torsion’, Clinical Biomechanics, 21, pp. 538–42.
Singer BJ, Silbert PL, Dunne JW, Song S & Singer KP 2005, ‘An open label pilot investigation of the efficacy of Botulinum toxin type A [Dysport®] injection in the rehabilitation of chronic anterior knee pain’, Disability & Rehabilitation, 28, pp. 707–13. - Roles, responsibilities and expertise
- Qualifications in physiotherapy Auck., MSc PhD W.Aust.
- Future research
- Clinical prediction rules for assessing lumbar segment disease. Botulinun toxin management of muscle imbalance disorders.
- Funding received
- National Health and Medical Research Council, Lotteries WA, NRP
- Industrial relevance
- Botulinun toxin provides new opportunities for non-invasive models of musculoskeletal rehabilitation.
- Memberships
- Spine Society of Australia
- International Society of the Study of the Lumbar Spine, ISSLS
- affiliate member of the Australian Orthopaedic Association.
- Spine Society of Australia
- Teaching
- Program coordination and the clinical anatomy stream within the Master of Manual Therapy degree.
- Current external positions
- Editor of Clinical anatomy and management of back pain series: Butterworth, Elsevier
- SSA national executive
- editorial advisory board appointments with Clinical Biomechanics, Manual Therapy, Journal of Musculoskeletal Research, JMPT, Disability & Rehabilitation and the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
- Editor of Clinical anatomy and management of back pain series: Butterworth, Elsevier
- Useful links
- Centre for Musculoskeletal Studies, http://www.cms.uwa.edu.au
Centre for Musculoskeletal Studies > Back pain series, http://www.cms.uwa.edu.au/staff/singer/bp.shtml
- Current projects
- botulinun toxin management of muscle imbalance disorders
- lumbar IVD biomechanics and symptom prediction
- magnetic resonance imaging of spinal disorders.
- botulinun toxin management of muscle imbalance disorders
- RFCD
- FOR 110321, SEO 929999
- Research profile
- Research profile and publications