Dr Richard Newsham-West

DipPhty, PGDipManipPhty (Otago), PhD (Otago)

Senior lecturer

Contact details for Dr Richard Newsham-West

Research expertise

• Musculoskeletal research
• Overuse tendon and bone injuries
• Manual therapy
• Injuries and illness in multisport endurance athletes

Physiotherapy and Exercise Science Clinic

• Clinic manager

Current teaching areas

• Practice of physiotherapy

Selected publications

• Newsham-West, R., Marley, J., Schneiders, A.G., and Gray, A. (2008). Incidence of injury and illness during the 2005 World Adventure Racing Championships. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport. In press.
• Chapman, A., Newsham-West, R.J., Milburn, P.D. (2007). Lumbar spine and pelvis alignment in cycling. New Zealand Journal of Sports Medicine. 35(1):  20-27.
• Newsham-West, R., Nicholson, H., Walton, M., Milburn, P. (2007). The long term morphology of a healing bone tendon interface - a histological observation in sheep. Journal of Anatomy. 210:  318-327.
• Woodley, B., Newsham-West, R., Baxter, D. (2007). Chronic Tendinopathy: Effectiveness of eccentric exercise. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 41:  188-198.
• Paterson, S., Castinel, B., Newsham-West, R.J., Milburn, P.D. (2007). Spinal canal encroachment demonstrated by a novel MRI technique of an axial loaded cervical spine - a case study. New Zealand Journal of Sports Medicine. 34(2):  23-26.
• Milburn, P.D., Newsham-West, R.J., Chong, A.K. (2007). Spinal shrinkage under loading - a novel approach using surface back contour analysis stereophotogrammetry. Journal of Biomechanics. 40(Suppl 2):  S211.