Erin and Matt sit down and chat with A/Prof Gavin Williams to hear his thoughts on Traumatic Brain Injury management, returning to higher levels of mobility, strength training, spasticity and trail blazing the clinical academic role with Epworth Healthcare, Melbourne, Australia.
1:50 - Introduction
2:10 - Career Pathway
3:00 - Inspiration behind the HiMAT
4:25 - Why TBI and why running?
7:15 - What to consider when treating TBI patients
9:45 - Avoiding compensations, are we delaying independence?
11:00 - The mobility hierarchy
13:30 - Safety and Improving higher level mobility
16:55 - Spasticity in Neurological Rehabilitation
19:50 - The state of spasticity and the current arguments
21:30 - SPECIFICITY!
23:12 - Observation and bias
25:10 - How Gavin created an army of researchers at Epworth Healthcare
27:00 - Fellowship, management or researcher: Mentors are essential
28:55 - Bridging the gap between researcher and clinician
33:40 - How to start your research journey
35:25 - Where Gavin's research is going now

Links:
Contact Gavin:
gavin.williams@epworth.org.au

Gavin’s Twitter page

References and Papers:
Gavin’s University of Melbourne Profile
https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/28437-gavin-williams

Episode webpage: https://aneurophysio.com/gavinwilliams/

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Associate Professor Gavin Williams - TBI, Power training, High level mobility