Rate My Professor Dilani Mendis

Dr. Dilani Mendis is a Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy within the School of Allied Health, Sport and Social Work at Griffith University, Nathan Campus. She concurrently serves as a Senior Physiotherapist in the Emergency Department at Mater Hospital Brisbane. Mendis earned her PhD in Physiotherapy from the University of Queensland, along with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Honours) from the same university, and a Graduate Certificate in University Learning and Teaching from Griffith University. Her academic career includes prior affiliations with the University of Queensland and Australian Catholic University, where she contributed to research on musculoskeletal conditions during her doctoral and early postdoctoral phases.

Mendis's research specializations encompass sports injury prevention and prediction, rehabilitation of lumbar spine and hip injuries, motor control training, and the application of real-time ultrasound imaging for muscle assessment. Notable publications include 'Validity of Real-Time Ultrasound Imaging to Measure Anterior Hip Muscle Size: A Comparison With Magnetic Resonance Imaging' (Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy, 2010), 'Small Multifidus Muscle Size Predicts Football Injuries' (Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine, 2014), 'Hip Flexor Muscle Size, Strength and Recruitment Pattern in Athletes With and Without Hip-Related Groin Pain' (Manual Therapy, 2014), 'The Effect of Low Back Pain on Trunk Muscle Size/Function and Hip Mobility' (Journal of Sports Sciences, 2016), and 'Clinical Utility of Measuring the Size of the Lumbar Multifidus Muscle Using Real-Time Ultrasound Imaging in Athletes' (Physical Therapy in Sport, 2020). More recent works feature 'Predicting a Beneficial Response to Motor Control Training in Chronic Non-Specific Low Back Pain' (Musculoskeletal Science and Practice, 2019) and 'Cervical Spine and Vestibulo-Ocular Screening in Elite Female Field Hockey Athletes' (Musculoskeletal Science and Practice, 2025). She teaches physiotherapy courses at Griffith University and supervises master's students on topics such as delirium risk factors in trauma patients. Her contributions advance clinical understanding of trunk and hip muscle morphology in injury risk assessment and rehabilitation outcomes in athletic populations.