Dr Shylie Mackintosh

Shylie Mackintosh is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Health Sciences. Her research interests are broadly concerned with prevention of falls as well as exercise therapy as a rehabilitation tool. CURRENT NATIONALLY COMPETITIVE RESEARCH GRANTS ---- NHMRC: 2007 $553,775 Crotty M, Miller M, Cameron I, Kurrle S, Whitehead C, Mackintosh S.: Individual Nutrition Therapy and Exercise Regime: A Controlled Trial of Injured, Vulnerable Elderly (INTERACTIVE trial). ----- NHMRC 2006 $539,700 Hill K, Mackintosh S, Said C, Whitehead C. Falls prevention for stroke patients following discharge home: Contributory factors and a randomised trial intervention.

School of Health Sciences

• Falls prevention in older people and people with stroke
• Anatomy & Biomechanics
• Neurological Physiotherapy

Australian Physiotherapy Association

Australian Association of Gerontology

Bachelor of Applied Science (Physiotherapy), South Australian Institute of Technology, Adelaide, Australia

Master of Science, University of Southern California,Los Angles, USA

PhD, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

• Falls and Balance with Older People
  NHMRC funded clinical trial investigating falls prevention with people return home after stroke (FLASSH). NHMRC funded clinical trial investigating nutrition support and exercise in older people after a hip fracture (INTERACTIVE). Development of clinically useful outcome measures for balance assessment.

Mackintosh SF, Fryer C, Hill KD (2009): Telephone and face to face interviews to generate similar falls circumstances information from community-dwelling adults with stroke: test-retest design. ANZJPH 33(3):295-296

Guerin M, Mackintosh S, Fryer C (2008): Exercise class participation among residents in low-level residential aged care could be enhanced: a qualitative study. Australian Journal of Physiotherapy 54:111-117

Batchelor FA, Hill KD, Mackintosh SF, Said CM, Whitehead CH (2009): The FLASSH study: protocol for a randomised controlled trial evaluating falls prevention after stroke and two sub-studies. BMC Neurology 9:14

De Jonge MM, Mackintosh SFH, Fryer C (2008): A systematic review of evidence on the effectiveness of human anatomy teaching models in tertiary education. Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Clinical Anatomists, Nov 28-30, 2007 Brisbane. Clinical Anatomy 21:270.

Thomas SK, Humphreys JK, Miller MD, Cameron ID, Whitehead C, Kurrle S, Mackintosh S, Crotty M. (2008) Individual nutrition therapy and exercise regime: a controlled trial of injured, vulnerable elderly (INTERACTIVE trial) BMC Geriatrics 8:4

Mackintosh S, Stupans I, King S, Scutter S (2007): Evaluating the usefulness of an audience response e-tool in the context of teaching tomorrow’s health professionals. Focus on Health Professional Education 9(2): 101 - 104

Langley FA, Mackintosh SFH (2007): Functional Balance Assessment of Older Community Dwelling Adults: A Systematic Review of the Literature. The Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice 5(4)

Mackintosh S, Fryer C, Sutherland M (2007): For falls sake: Older carers’ perceptions of falls and falls risk factors. The Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice 5:3

Mackintosh SF, King S, Grimshaw P, Massy-Westropp N (2007): Interdisciplinary education in anatomy – it works for staff too. Focus on Health Professional Education: A Multi-disciplinary Journal 8(3):110-115.

Mackintosh S, Datson N, Fryer C (2006): A balance screening tool for older people: reliability and validity. International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation 13(12): 558-61.

Mackintosh SF, Hill K, Dodd KJ, Goldie P, Culham E (2006): Balance Score and a History of Falls in Hospital Predict Recurrent Falls in the Six Months Following Stroke Rehabilitation. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 87: 1583-9.

Mackintosh SF, Sheppard LA (2005): A pilot falls prevention program for older people with dementia from predominately an Italian background. Hong Kong Journal of Physiotherapy 23: 20-6.

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Mackintosh SFH, Hill K, Dodd KJ, Goldie P, Culham E (2005): Falls and Injury prevention should be part of every stroke rehabilitation plan. Clinical Rehabilitation 19: 441-51

Watson SC, Chipchase LS and Mackintosh SF (2004): The influence of balance, fear of falling and pain on the type of gait aids used by ambulatory older people in a low care residential setting. Australian Journal of Ageing 23(2):77-81.

Watson SC, Chipchase LS and Mackintosh SF (2004): Gait aid use by ambulatory older people in a low care residential setting - a descriptive exploration. International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation 11(1):18-24.

Wittert GA, Chapman IM, Haren MT, Mackintosh S, Coates P, Morley JE (2003): Oral testosterone supplementation increases muscle and decreases fat mass in healthy males with low-normal gonadal status. The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Physiotherapy

• Neurological Physiotherapy
• Research areas include Falls and Balance in elderly people and Muscle Performance