Rate My Professor Mary Magarey

Dr Mary Magarey is associated with Adelaide University as an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of Allied Health and Human Performance, College of Health. She has a prolonged history with the School of Physiotherapy, where she delivered postgraduate teaching in the Masters programs for Manipulative Physiotherapy, Sports Physiotherapy, and Orthopaedic Physiotherapy. In 2003, she played a key role in introducing the Master of Musculoskeletal and Sports Physiotherapy, a program that merged the previous streams, and continued teaching until her retirement from full-time positions in June 2014, remaining adjunct until the program's end in 2015. Beyond academia, she practices as a specialist shoulder and elbow physiotherapist in a consultative capacity at Flex Rehabilitation Clinic in Norwood, South Australia. Her academic and clinical passions converge on the shoulder, both in research and practice, alongside a strong commitment to sports physiotherapy, particularly examining motor control's impact on performance, injury prevention, and enhancement.

Magarey's career highlights include extensive service to softball physiotherapy, acting as physiotherapist, fitness and conditioning coach, injury prevention advisor, and scorer over many years. Annually since 2002, she has provided physiotherapy at Softball Australia's Youth Development Camps at Blacktown Olympic Park. She accompanied the Australian Junior Men's team to the 2005 World Championships in Canada, securing gold, and the Junior Women's teams to events in South Africa (2011) and Canada (2013), earning bronze. Additionally, she volunteered at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Polyclinic in Melbourne, treating Commonwealth athletes. In leadership roles, she has mentored Australian College of Physiotherapists facilitators and trainees since 2011, and in 2014, was elected Chief Censor, chairing the Board of Censors. Awards recognizing her contributions encompass Life Membership from Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Australia in 2009 for long-term service, and Fellowship from the Australian Sports Medicine Federation in 2012 for sports physiotherapy advancements. Her influential publications include Chalmers et al.'s 2017 Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport articles on Functional Movement Screen asymmetry predicting injury and high prevalence of movement dysfunction in junior Australian football players; Magarey et al.'s 2016 British Journal of Sports Medicine paper comparing physiotherapy shoulder diagnosis to arthroscopic findings; Chalmers and Magarey's 2016 study on annual fitness test improvements in elite junior Australian football cohorts; Chalmers, Magarey, and Scase's 2013 review on junior Australian football injury research; and her 2004 seminal review, revision, and guidelines for pre-manipulative testing of the cervical spine. Through these efforts, Dr Magarey has profoundly influenced clinical practices in musculoskeletal and sports physiotherapy.