All posts by Gwendolen Jull

Dr Gwendolen Jull AO is an Emeritus Professor in Physiotherapy at The University of Queensland, Australia. She is a specialist musculoskeletal physiotherapist and Fellow of the Australian College of Physiotherapists. Her career has combined teaching, research and clinical practice. Her research has principally been concerned with the diagnosis and management of idiopathic neck pain, cervicogenic headache and whiplash associated disorders and quantifying the dysfunction in the cervical motor system as a basis for research informed therapeutic exercise for the rehabilitation of neck disorders. Gwen has taught extensively nationally and internationally and has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles, 40 book chapters, three textbooks, as well as editing the 3rd and 4th editions of Grieve’s Modern Manual Therapy (now Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy). Her most recent text was published 2019 ‘Management of neck pain disorders: A research informed approach Elsevier, UK’. Gwen is also co-editor of the international journal, Musculoskeletal Science and Practice.

School of Medicine, University of Queensland

Early Years of Physiotherapy at the University of Queensland

The first course in physiotherapy at the University of Queensland commenced in 1938. Like other programs in Australia and around the world, it was established in response to the shortage of trained masseurs to treat victims of recurrent poliomyelitis epidemics. Discussions regarding the establishment of a course had begun some

The First 50 Years of the Australian College of Physiotherapy

The Australian College of Physiotherapists was established in August 1971, although the idea of a College was first suggested in 1955. The original vision was to develop a means of encouraging and recognising scholarly and original work carried out by members of the profession as there were no formal higher

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