The Department of Rehabilitation is a long-standing academic clinical service at St Vincent’s Hospital, and is involved in a wide range of research projects, including clinical trials, health services research, data linkage, registry analyses, mixed methods and qualitative research.
The department’s research focuses on improving the delivery, equity and outcomes of evidence-based rehabilitation interventions for people living with disability.
Prominent research areas include:
- Models of early rehabilitation
- Trauma rehabilitation
- Neurological and stroke rehabilitation
- Spasticity management
- Cardiopulmonary and transplant rehabilitation
- Technology-enabled rehabilitation interventions