Sue Kelley

Sue Kelley graduated from the University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy in 1991, and later completed both a Clinical Masters in Physiotherapy (Manipulative Therapy) in 1996, and a Research Masters in 2005 at the same institution.

Sue initially worked at the Princess Alexandra Hospital and later at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London. For six years she worked as the Senior Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist at the Mater Hospital, a large teaching hospital in Brisbane. Since leaving the public hospital system Sue has worked in private practice and at the University of Queensland. She was part of the group of physiotherapists that started the Back Stability Clinic, which was instrumental in establishing clinical retraining of transversus abdominis and multifidus with real-time ultrasound in patients with back pain. This clinical retraining method is now used across the world.

Sue has been actively involved in peer education of undergraduates and postgraduates for over ten years, both locally and at the national congresses. She has presented papers in the areas of post-mastectomy arm pain, pelvic floor dysfunction and low back pain.

Sue has published in the Australian Physiotherapy Journal and has written a chapter (co-author with Ruth Sapsford) for one of the benchmark clinical physiotherapy text books, Grieve’s Modern Manual Therapy. She is currently a treating physiotherapist for a multi-centre trial being conducted by Dr Paul Hodges at the University of Queensland.

Sue is married to Ben and has four children.

She loves her work and would welcome your referral.