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Dr Natalie Collins

Lecturer in Physiotherapy

School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences
n.collins1@uq.edu.au
+61 7 336 52124

Overview

Dr Natalie Collins is an APA Sports Physiotherapist, and Lecturer in Physiotherapy at The University of Queensland. Her research focuses on optimising prognosis and outcomes for people with patellofemoral pain across the lifespan, including patellofemoral pain in adolescents and young adults, and patellofemoral osteoarthritis in later life.

Dr Collins has a particular interest in exercise and foot orthoses for patellofemoral pain conditions, and understanding the mechanisms of treatment effects. Her PhD study was a randomised controlled trial evaluating foot orthoses and physiotherapy for patellofemoral pain. This study, published in the British Medical Journal, has directly informed consensus-based recommendations that physiotherapy and foot orthoses should be used in the management of patellofemoral pain. Dr Collins was awarded an NHMRC Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Melbourne (2010-2014), where she evaluated biomechanical effects of foot orthoses in people with patellofemoral pain and osteoarthritis, as well as the relationship between patellofemoral pain and features of patellofemoral osteoarthritis in young to middle-aged adults. In 2015 she was awarded a UQ Postdoctoral Fellowship, where she worked with Professor Paul Hodges to develop a novel method of measuring the EMG activity of the deep intrinsic foot muscles, and explored the effects of foot orthoses on intrinsic foot muscle activity. Dr Collins is leading the UQ arm of the FOOTPATH Study, an NHMRC-funded, multicentre randomised controlled trial of shoe inserts for patellofemoral osteoarthritis.

Dr Collins is Chair of the Physiotherapy Research Foundation’s grant review committee, and sits on multiple committees of Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI). She has received invitations to speak at the World Congress on Osteoarthritis, International Patellofemoral Research Retreat, and Australian Physiotherapy Association’s national conference, and present her research to international research groups. Dr Collins has published more than 60 peer-reviewed papers, received more than $1.3million in competitive funding, and contributed to leading international publications such as Brukner and Khan’s Clinical Sports Medicine. She maintains a clinical role specialising in the management of people with knee pain and injury.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Honours), The University of Queensland
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland

Publications

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Grants

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Supervision

  • The Patellofemoral Joint Arthroplasty Clinical Research Study - the role of knee resurfacing.

    Master Philosophy

  • Exploring foot characteristics and treatments in adolescents with patellofemoral pain

    Doctor Philosophy

  • Hip muscle structure, function and strength in people with knee osteoarthritis

    Doctor Philosophy

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Publications

Book Chapter

  • PROMs for osteoarthritis

    Collins, Natalie J. and Roos, Ewa M. (2016). PROMs for osteoarthritis. In Yasser El Miedany (Ed.), Patient Reported Outcome Measures in Rheumatic Diseases (pp. 249-285) Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-32851-5_10

Journal Article

Conference Publication

Other Outputs

  • Foot Orthoses in Anterior Knee Pain

    Collins, Natalie (2009). Foot Orthoses in Anterior Knee Pain PhD Thesis, School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland.

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • The Patellofemoral Joint Arthroplasty Clinical Research Study - the role of knee resurfacing.

    Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • Exploring foot characteristics and treatments in adolescents with patellofemoral pain

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Hip muscle structure, function and strength in people with knee osteoarthritis

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Can the classification of functional movement be used as a clinical predictor to guide the management of patients with patellofemoral pain?

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

    Other advisors:

Completed Supervision

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knee pain, kneecap pain, runner's knee, arthritis, footwear, shoe insoles, physiotherapy

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ResearcherID: M-4034-2015

ORCID: 0000-0001-9950-0192

Scopus ID: 7103250326

Google Scholar ID: w9MueSkAAAAJ

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