Sue Gordon worked as a physiotherapy clinician in metropolitan and rural South Australia until 2006 when she moved to James Cook University. Sue contributed to the development of the curriculum for a new physiotherapy program and is currently head of the physiotherapy discipline.

Her rural and remote clinical experience has resulted in research collaborations across organisations and across the nation regarding preparation of graduates for practice.

Her clinical research and supervision is foccussed on the development of diagnostic and clinical pathways, and the application and evaluation of new tools to support to improve diagnostic and clinical pathways. She is currently conducting and supervising reserach about subacromial impingment, chronic low back, running injuries and hetertopic ossification.

Sue is the research advisor to the Australasian Lymphology Association and is actively involved in research regarding secondary lymphoedema after breast and urogenital cancers, and related to lymphatic filariasis. As a member of the James Cook University, World Health Organisation Collaborative Centre for Lymphatic Filariasis and Soil Helminths she has developed research collaborations in Papua New Guinea and Bangladesh.

Research Disciplines

• Allied health and rehabilitation science (4201)
• Clinical sciences (3202)
• Sports science and exercise (4207)

Awards

• 2010 - Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.

Other

• 2012 - Research Advisor Australasian Lymphology Association

These are the most recent publications associated with this author. To see a detailed profile of all publications stored at JCU, visit ResearchOnline@JCU. Hover over Altmetrics badges to see social impact.

Journal Articles

• Winter S, Gordon S, Brice S, Lindsay D and Barrs S (in press) Overuse injuries in runners of different abilities — a one-year prospective study. Research in Sports Medicine, , DOI:10.1080/15438627.2019.1616548.
• Winter S, Gordon S, Brice S, Lindsay D and Barrs S (2020) A multifactorial approach to overuse running injuries: a 1-year prospective study. Sports Health, 12 (3), pp. 296-303, DOI:10.1177/1941738119888504.
• Douglass J, Dykes L, Kelly-Hope L, Gordon S, Leggat P, Aye N, Win S, Wai T, Win Y, Nwe T and Graves P (2019) Preventive chemotherapy reverses covert, lymphatic associated tissue change in young people with lymphatic filariasis in Myanmar. Tropical Medicine and International Health, 24 (4), pp. 463-476, DOI:10.1111/tmi.13212.
• Flavell C, Marshman L and Gordon S (2019) Measurement of transversus abdominis activation in chronic low back pain patients using a novel standardized real-time ultrasound imaging method. Ultrasound, 27 (1), pp. 31-37, DOI:10.1177/1742271X18785403.
• Gordon S, Grimmer K and Buttner P (2019) Pillow preferences of people with neck pain and known spinal degeneration: a pilot randomized controlled trial. European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, 55 (6), pp. 783-791, DOI:10.23736/S1973-9087.19.05263-8.
• Gray M, Gordon S, O'Neill M and Pearce W (2019) First year allied health student transition to a regional university. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 27 (6), pp. 497-504, DOI:10.1111/ajr.12581.
• Hall F, Gordon S, Hulcombe J and Stephens C (2019) Compression garment service model: facilitating access to compression garments through workforce and service redesign. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 27 (3), pp. 257-261, DOI:10.1111/ajr.12509.
• Land H, Gordon S and Watt K (2019) Effect of manual physiotherapy in homogeneous individuals with subacromial shoulder impingement: a randomized controlled trial. Physiotherapy Research International, 24 (2), Article: e1768, DOI:10.1002/pri.1768.
• Steele M, Janda M, Vagenas D, Ward L, Cornish B, Box R, Gordon S, Matthews M, Poppitt S, Plank L, Yip W, Rowan A, Reul-Hirche H, Obermair A and Hayes S (2018) Normative interlimb impedance ratios: implications for early diagnosis of uni- and bilateral, upper and lower limb lymphedema. Lymphatic Research and Biology, 16 (6), pp. 559-566, DOI:10.1089/lrb.2017.0082.
• Toumazou M, Flavell C and Gordon S (2018) Measurement of lumbar multifidus asymmetry in amateur cricket pace bowlers using real-time ultrasound. International Journal of Exercise Science, 11 (3), pp. 875-885.
• Winter S, Gordon S, Brice S and Lindsay D (2018) Centre of mass acceleration-derived variables detects differences between runners of different abilities and fatigue-related changes during a long distance over ground run. Journal of Physical Fitness, Medicine & Treatment in Sports, 4 (2), DOI:10.19080/JPFMTS.2018.04.555632.
• Douglass J, Graves P and Gordon S (2017) Moderating factors in tissue tonometry and bioimpedance spectroscopy measures in the lower extremity of healthy young people in Australia and Myanmar. Lymphatic Research and Biology, 16 (3), pp. 309-316, DOI:10.1089/lrb.2017.0057.

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 65+ research outputs authored by Dr Susan Gordon from 2002 onwards.

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Completed

• Centre of mass accelerations related to running performance and prospective study on running injuries (2020, PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Specific physiotherapy management for subacromial shoulder impingement (2018, PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Neurogenic heterotopic ossification: prevalence, risk factors, management and treatment (2016, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Detecting the unseen: covert tissue changes in lymphatic filariasis and implications for the future of morbidity management (2018, PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Chronic low back pain: diagnostic classification, physical assessment and ultrasound imaging (2018, PhD , Primary Advisor)

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• Douglass, J. (2017) Detecting sub-clinical change in tissue compressibility and free fluid in the lower limbs of young people living in an LF endemic area in Myanmar. James Cook University
• Reznik, J. (2015) Neurogenic Heterotopic Ossification: Prevalence , Risk Factors, Management /Treatment. James Cook University

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