Simon O'Shea MSc, MMACP
Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy
Summary
Alongside my senior lecturing post at Sheffield Hallam I also work clinically as an enhanced role (or extended scope) physiotherapist. I specialise in musculoskeletal outpatients and see a mixed caseload clinically. As a result, I teach on a range of modules relevant to practice. I am research active and embed this in my roles. To date this has included reliability, case study, feasibility and national observation studies in a range of topic areas.
About
Alongside my senior lecturing post at Sheffield Hallam I also work clinically as an enhanced role (or extended scope) physiotherapist. I specialise in musculoskeletal outpatients and see a mixed caseload clinically. As a result, I teach on a range of modules relevant to practice. I am research active and embed this in my roles. To date this has included reliability, case study, feasibility and national observation studies in a range of topic areas.
Teaching
Subject area
Musculoskeletal outpatients.
First contact roles.
Advanced clinical practitioner support
GP training/support.
Research methods/dissertation support.
Includes undergrad and postgrad teaching.
Courses taught
BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy
MSc Advanced clinical practice Musculoskeletal management
MSc Pre-reg Physiotherapy
Modules taught
Musculoskeletal management of the upper quadrant
Musculoskeletal management of the lower quadrant
First contact physiotherapy 1 & 2.
Contemporary musculoskeletal rehabilitation
Dissertation modules.
Injections for joints and soft tissues.
Creating original practice.
Patient centred practice
Reasoning and management for advanced MSK practice
Improving therapy services.
Simulated placements.
Research
Publications
Journal articles
Lethbridge, D., & O'Shea, S. (2022). Steroid injections in musculoskeletal conditions and COVID infection rates: what is the impact on positive rates following the injection? Musculoskeletal care. http://doi.org/10.1002/msc.1707
Noblet, T., Jadhakhan, F., Bennett, A., McCrum, C., O'Shea, S., Hensman-Crook, A., ... Rushton, A. (2022). A multi-site prospective, observational study of physiotherapist independent prescribing activity across musculoskeletal clinics in the United Kingdom. Musculoskeletal science & practice, 61, 102616. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.msksp.2022.102616
Noblet, T., Marriott, J., Hensman-Crook, A., O'Shea, S., Friel, S., & Rushton, A. (2020). Independent prescribing by advanced physiotherapists for patients with low back pain in primary care: A feasibility trial with an embedded qualitative component. PloS one, 15 (3). http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229792
O'Shea, S., & Jenkins, T.M. (2019). Limb girdle muscular dystrophy: a case report initially presenting to an outpatient musculoskeletal physiotherapy clinic with spinal pain and functional weakness. Archives of physiotherapy, 9. http://doi.org/10.1186/s40945-019-0066-3
Grafton, K., & O'Shea, S. (2013). The intra and inter-rater reliability of a modified weight-bearing lunge measure of ankle dorsiflexion. Manual Therapy, 18 (3), 264-268. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.math.2012.08.007