Fereshteh Pourkazemi

Dr. Fereshteh Pourkazemi serves as an Associate Professor in Physiotherapy at the Faculty of Medicine and Health of the University of Sydney. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and actively involved in the Sydney Musculoskeletal Health Flagship, Sydney Pain Consortium, and Neuro-Musculoskeletal Research Collaborative.

• Education: PhD, MSc, BPhty (Hons I), Graduate Certificate in Higher Education
• Clinical focus: Rehabilitation, musculoskeletal health, chronic pain

Her research bridges chronic pain management with clinical trials in areas like:

• Dietary interventions (e.g., ketogenic diets) for chronic pain
• Visual arts and movement therapies as psychosocial interventions
• Swallowing disorders and exercise dosage in stroke rehabilitation
• Ankle instability biomechanics and rehabilitation

Recent work trends include:

• Systematic reviews on nutrition and pain (2023-2024)
• Qualitative studies on speech pathology practices (2024)
• Dance and arts-based interventions for pain (2022-2023)
• Longitudinal studies on ankle injury recurrence (2018)

Scientific awards include:

• FMH Showcase Travel Awards (2022, 2023)
• Industry & Community Engagement Seed Fund (2018)

She supervises research students including Daniel Evans (Chronic Ankle Instability) and Julia Kang (Heart Rate Variability in Pain). Her lab work focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to musculoskeletal health through clinical trials and mixed-methods research.