Dr. Anne Smith

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Administrative Functions

NHMRC Research Officer

Description of Role

Research fellow.

Qualifications

B App Science (Physiotherapy)(Curtin)
PGradDip Sports Physiotherapy (Curtin)
PhD (UWA)
PG Cert (Biostatistics) (Melb)

Teaching Areas

Research supervision of postgraduate students.

Research Interests

Spinal pain
Biomechanics of the spine and lower limb
Knee arthroplasty
Statistics

Recent Publications

Scholarly Journal - Refereed Article

Astfalck R., O'Sullivan P., Straker L, & Smith A (2010)
A detailed characteristisation of pain, disability, physical and psychological features of adolescents with non-specific chronic low back pain. Manual Therapy 15(3): 240-247.

Briggs AM, Bragge P, Smith AJ, Govil D, Straker LM (2009)
Prevalence and associated factors for thoracic spine pain in the adult working population. A literature review. Journal of Occupational Health, 51(3): 177-192.

Briggs AM, Smith AJ, Straker LM, Bragge P (2009)
Thoracic spine pain in the general population: A systematic review of prevalence, incidence and associated factors in children, adolescents and adults. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 10: 77.

Briggs AM, Straker LM, Bear N, Smith AJ (2009)
Neck/shoulder pain in adolescents is not related to the level or nature of self-reported physical activity or type of sedentary activity in an Australian pregnancy cohort. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 10: 87.

Straker L. M., O'Sullivan P. B., Smith A. J., & Perry M. C (2009)
Relationships between prolonged neck/shoulder pain and sitting spinal posture in male and female adolescents. Manual Therapy, 14(3), 321-329.

Straker L., Abbott R., Piek J., Pollock C., Davies P., & Smith A. (2009)
Rationale, design and methods for a randomised and controlled trial to investigate whether home access to electronic games decreases children's physical activity. BMC Public Health, 9, 212.

O'Sullivan P. B., Straker L. M., Smith A. J., Perry M. C., & Kendall G (2008)
Carer experience of back pain is associated with adolescent back pain experience even when controlling for other carer and family factors. Clinical Journal of Pain, 24(3), 226-231.

Conference Publication - Extract of Paper

Briggs AM, Straker LM, Bear N, Smith AJ (2009)
Neck/shoulder pain is not related to the level or nature of physical activity or type of sedentary activity in Australian adolescents. In Proceedings of the Australian Physiotherapy Association Congress, 1-5 October, Sydney.

Straker LM, Briggs AM, Smith AJ, Bear N (2009)
Chronic neck/shoulder pain and activity in RAINE study adolescents. In Proceedings of the Be Active 2009 Congress: Australian Conference of Science and Medicine in Sport, 6th National Sports Injury Prevention Conference, 7th National Physical Activity Conference, Brisbane 14-17 October.