Roger Kerry

Contact

• workRoom B82 Medical School B Floor
  Queen's Medical Centre
  Nottingham
  NG7 2UH
  UK
• work0115 82 31790
• fax0115 82 31791
• roger.kerry@nottingham.ac.uk
• http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/people/roger.kerry

Biography

Qualified as a Physiotherapist at Pinderfields School of Physiotherapy, Leeds University (1996). Gained MSc in Manipulative Physiotherapy at Coventry University(2001), also gaining membership of the Manipulation Association of Chartered Physiotherapists. Worked as Clinical Specialist and Extended Scope Practitioner in Orthopaedics before starting as a lecturer at Nottingham. Current post is Associate Professor in the Division of Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Nottingham. Became Honorary Fellow of the Musculoskeletal Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in 2011. PhD thesis: Causation and Evidence-Based Medicine (supervisor: Professor Stephen Mumford)

Member of International Federation of Orthopaedic Manipulative Physical Therapist working group for International Framework for Examination of the Cervical Region for potential of Cervical Arterial Dysfunction prior to Orthopaedic Manual Therapy Intervention 2007-2017.

Expertise Summary

Cervical arterial dysfunction; risks and adverse events of manual therapy; neck pain and headache; clinical reasoning, physical activity and rehabilitation, sports therapy, Philosophy of Health Science.

Teaching Summary

Neuromusculoskeletal rehabilitation, Clinical Reasoning, Teaching and Learning, Personal and Professional Development, Evidence Based Practice.

Research Summary

Cervical arterial dysfunction; Philosophy of Health Science: link to my Philosophy research here.

CauseHealth, Causation in Health Sciences. Norwegian Research Council funded project https://causehealthblog.wordpress.com/

Recent Publications

• GATES AB, SWAINSON MG, MOFFATT FH, KERRY R, METSIOS G and RICHIE I, 2020. Undergraduate examination and assessment of knowledge and skills is crucial in capacity planning for the future healthcare workforce in physical activity interventions British Journal of Sports Medicine.
• HUTTING N, KRANENBURG RAH and KERRY R, 2020. Yes, we should abandon pre-treatment positional testing of the cervical spine Musculoskeletal Science and Practice.
• KRANENBURG RAH, TYER R, SCHMITT M, LUIJCKX GJ, VAN DER SCHANS C and HUTTING N, 2019. Effects of Head and Neck Positions on Blood Flow in the Vertebral, Internal Carotid, and Intracranial Arteries: A Systematic Review Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy.
• HUTTING, NATHAN, KERRY, ROGER, COPPIETERS, MICHEL W. and SCHOLTEN-PEETERS, GWENDOLIJNE G. M., 2018. Considerations to improve the safety of cervical spine manual therapy MUSCULOSKELETAL SCIENCE AND PRACTICE. 33, 41-45

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Postgraduate course leader - Neuromusculoskeletal Physiotherapy

Module convenor - Undergraduate:

• B93ESS Exercise and Sport in Special Populations

Module convenor - Postgraduate

• B94303 Advancing Neuromusculoskeletal Practice 1
• B94301 Advancing Neuromusculoskeletal Practice 2

• GATES AB, SWAINSON MG, MOFFATT FH, KERRY R, METSIOS G and RICHIE I, 2020. Undergraduate examination and assessment of knowledge and skills is crucial in capacity planning for the future healthcare workforce in physical activity interventions British Journal of Sports Medicine.
• HUTTING N, KRANENBURG RAH and KERRY R, 2020. Yes, we should abandon pre-treatment positional testing of the cervical spine Musculoskeletal Science and Practice.
• KRANENBURG RAH, TYER R, SCHMITT M, LUIJCKX GJ, VAN DER SCHANS C and HUTTING N, 2019. Effects of Head and Neck Positions on Blood Flow in the Vertebral, Internal Carotid, and Intracranial Arteries: A Systematic Review Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy.
• HUTTING, NATHAN, KERRY, ROGER, COPPIETERS, MICHEL W. and SCHOLTEN-PEETERS, GWENDOLIJNE G. M., 2018. Considerations to improve the safety of cervical spine manual therapy MUSCULOSKELETAL SCIENCE AND PRACTICE. 33, 41-45
• ANJUM, RANI LILL, COPELAND, SAMANTHA, KERRY, ROGER and ROCCA, ELENA, 2018. The guidelines challengePhilosophy, practice, policy JOURNAL OF EVALUATION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE. 24(5), 1120-1126
• EVANS DW, LUCAS N and KERRY R, 2017. The form of causation in health, disease and intervention: biopsychosocial dispositionalism, conserved quantity transfers and dualist mechanistic chains. Medicine, health care, and philosophy.
• THOOMES-DE GRAAF M, THOOMES E, CARLESSO L, KERRY R and RUSHTON A, 2017. Adverse effects as a consequence of being the subject of orthopaedic manual therapy training, a worldwide retrospective survey. Musculoskeletal science & practice. 29, 20-27
• NATASA LACKOVIC, ROGER KERRY, RACHAEL LOWE and ANTHONY LOWE, 2017. Being knowledge, power and profession subordinates: Students' perceptions of Twitter for learning The Internet and Higher Education.
• TAYLOR AJ and KERRY R, 2017. When Chronic Pain Is Not "Chronic Pain": Lessons From 3 Decades of Pain. The Journal of orthopaedic and sports physical therapy. 47(8), 515-517
• GATES AB, KERRY R, MOFFATT F, RITCHIE IK, MEAKINS A, THORNTON JS, ROSENBAUM S and TAYLOR A, 2016. Movement for movement: exercise as everybody's business? British journal of sports medicine. (In Press.)
• MADDOCKS M, KERRY R, TURNER A and HOWICK J, 2016. Problematic placebos in physical therapy trials. Journal of evaluation in clinical practice. 22(4), 598-602
• ANJUM RL, KERRY R and MUMFORD SD, 2015. Evidence based on what? Journal of evaluation in clinical practice. 21(6), E11-2
• EVANS DW, LUCAS N and KERRY R, 2015. Time, space and form: Necessary for causation in health, disease and intervention? Medicine, health care, and philosophy. 19(2), 207-13
• ERHARDT JW, WINDSOR BA, KERRY R, HOEKSTRA C, POWELL DW, PORTER-HOKE A and TAYLOR A, 2015. The immediate effect of atlanto-axial high velocity thrust techniques on blood flow in the vertebral artery: A randomized controlled trial. Manual therapy. 20(4), 614-22
• MOORE C, WESTWATER-WOOD S and KERRY R, 2015. Academic performance and perception of learning following a peer coaching teaching and assessment strategy. Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice. 21(1), 121-30
• KERRY R, ERIKSEN TE, NOER LIE SA, MUMFORD S and ANJUM RL, 2014. Causation in evidence-based medicine: in reply to Strand and Parkkinen. Journal of evaluation in clinical practice.
• KERRY R, RUSHTON A, FLYNN T, HING W, CARLESSO L and RIVETT D, 2014. Response to - risk reduction of serious complications from manual therapy: are we reducing the risk? Manual therapy. 19(3), e3-4
• ELLIOTT JM, KERRY R, FLYNN T and PARRISH, TD, 2013. Content not quantity is a better measure of muscle degeneration in whiplash. Manual Therapy. (In Press.)
• TAYLOR AJ and KERRY R, 2013. Vascular profiling: Should manual therapists take blood pressure? Manual therapy. 18(4), 351-3
• ERIKSEN TE, KERRY R, MUMFORD S, LIE SAN and ANJUM RL, 2013. At the borders of medical reasoning: aetiological and ontological challenges of medically unexplained symptoms. Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM. 8 (11), 11
• KERRY R, MADOUASSE A, ARTHUR A and MUMFORD SD, 2013. Analysis of scientific truth status in controlled rehabilitation trials. Journal of evaluation in clinical practice. 19(4), 617-25
• TAYLOR, A.J. and KERRY, R., 2012. Vascular profiling: should manual therapists take blood pressure? Manual Therapy. (In Press.)
• KERRY R, ERIKSEN TE, LIE SAN, MUMFORD SD and ANJUM RL, 2012. Causation and evidence-based practice: an ontological review. Journal of evaluation in clinical practice. 18(5), 1006-12
• TAYLOR, ALAN J. and KERRY, R., 2005. Neck pain and headache as a result of internal carotid artery dissection: implications for manual therapists Manual Therapy. 10(1), 73-77
• KERRY R, MADDOCKS M and MUMFORD S, 1. Philosophy of science and physiotherapy: an insight into practice. Physiotherapy theory and practice. 24(6), 397-407