Rate My Professor Annie Chappell

Dr. Annie Chappell serves as an Adjunct Lecturer in the Curtin School of Allied Health within the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University. She earned her PhD in Physiotherapy from Curtin University between 2014 and 2021, with her dissertation investigating the effect of a task-specific, low-load plyometric running training program on the biomechanics of running in youth with cerebral palsy. Chappell is an APA titled paediatric physiotherapist possessing over 25 years of experience working with babies, children, and adolescents who have physical disabilities. Her clinical career spans community health services, government and non-government organisations, private practice, and the education sector. She holds concurrent roles as a research fellow at Western Kids Health and maintains active involvement in paediatric rehabilitation research and clinical practice.

Chappell's research specializations encompass motor learning, rehabilitation, sport biomechanics, kinematics, movement analysis, gait analysis, physical rehabilitation, and neurologic gait disorders, with primary focus on running biomechanics in children and adolescents with cerebral palsy (GMFCS levels I-II) and adults with traumatic brain injury. She has produced 12 peer-reviewed publications demonstrating the impacts of running interventions, plyometric training, barefoot versus shod running, leg stiffness, ankle power generation, and propulsion strategies. Notable works include "The effect of a low-load plyometric intervention on running kinematics in youth with cerebral palsy: A randomised controlled trial" (2024), "Leg stiffness during running in adults with traumatic brain injury: A comparative study with healthy adults" (2024), "A comparison of the kinematics and kinetics of barefoot and shod running in children with cerebral palsy" (2022), "The effect of a low-load plyometric running intervention on leg stiffness in youth with cerebral palsy: A randomised controlled trial" (2021), "A comparison of leg stiffness in running between typically developing children and children with cerebral palsy" (2021), "The effect of a running training intervention on ankle power generation in children and adolescents with cerebral palsy: A randomized controlled trial" (2020), "Running in people with cerebral palsy: A systematic review" (2018), and "The effect of a running intervention on running ability and participation in children with cerebral palsy: a randomized controlled trial" (2017). Her scholarship has earned 132 citations on Google Scholar, influencing clinical practices for enhancing running participation and biomechanical outcomes in neurodevelopmental populations.