Dr Bart Bolsterlee
Senior Research Fellow
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Professor
Rob Herbert
Current Appointments
Senior Principal Research Fellow, NeuRA
Principal Research Fellow, NHMRC
Conjoint Professor, School of Medical Sciences, UNSW
Honorary Professorial Fellow, The George Institute for Global Health
Key Research Areas
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Professor Rob Herbert initially trained as a physiotherapist. He completed a PhD under the supervision of Professor Simon Gandevia. Subsequently Rob and Simon have collaborated on research projects investigating fundamental physiological mechanisms and mechanisms of motor impairment for over 15 years. Rob also has an interest in clinical research and conducts randomised trials investigating the effects of physical interventions for motor impairment. He was a founding Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy, which maintains the PEDro database (www.pedro.org.au), a unique database of randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy.
Publications
2022 Aug
Effect of diagnostic labelling on management intentions for non‐specific low back pain: A randomized scenario‐based experiment
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1002/ejp.1981
2022 May
Development and external validation of a prediction model for patient‐relevant outcomes in patients with chronic widespread pain and fibromyalgia
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1002/ejp.1937
2021 Dec
Clinical Course of Pain and Function Following Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Systematic Review and Meta-Regression
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arth.2021.06.019
2020 Dec
Prevalence of motor impairment in residents of New South Wales, Australia aged 55 years and over: cross-sectional survey of the 45 and Up cohort
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09443-5
2020, 01 Oct
History-dependence of muscle slack length in humans: effects of contraction intensity, stretch amplitude, and time
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.00106.2020
2019 Aug
Muscle architecture in children with cerebral palsy and ankle contractures: an investigation using diffusion tensor imaging
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2019.06.013
2019, 01 May
Passive changes in muscle length
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.00673.2018
2019, 01 May
The passive mechanical properties of muscle
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.00966.2018
2019 Mar
Reliability and robustness of muscle architecture measurements obtained using diffusion tensor imaging with anatomically constrained tractography
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2019.01.043
2019, 15 Mar
Minimal force transmission between human thumb and index finger muscles under passive conditions
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212496
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