Personal Information

 Assistant Professor

Department of

Faculty of Medical Rehabilitation Sciences

Contact Information

Phone: 0558383823

Email: amalgarni@kau.edu.sa

Abdullah Mohammad Alqarni

 Assistant Professor

Profile

Dr. Alqarni graduated from King Saud University in 2004. He graduated with a master degree in Manipulative Physiotherapy from the university of  Otago - New Zealand in 2010, then he completed his PhD in 2019 (Otago). Dr Alqarni's  is teaching different courses of Orthopedic & sport physiotherapy, His area of research interest includes pain mechanisms in musculoskeletal pain, musculoskeletal assessment,  management & injury prevention.

Education

  • 2004

    Bachelor degree from Physiotherapy and RehabilitationFaculty of Applied Medical Siences, King Saud University, الرياض, المملكة العربية السعودية

  • 2010

    Master degree from Orthopaedic PhysiotherapyPhysiotherapy School, Otago University, دنيدن, نيوزيلــندا

  • 2019

    Doctorate degree from PhysiotherapyPhysiotherapy, Otago, Dunedin, نيوزيلــندا

Employment

  • 2005-2014

    Senior Manipulative Physiotherapist, King Abdul-aziz University Hospital, جدة, المملكة العربية السعودية

Research Interests

Interests include:

  • Pain mechanisms in musculoskeletal pain
  • The influence of manual therapy on musculoskeletal pain
  • Measuring physiotherapy clinical outcomes
  • Musculoskeletal/sports injury
  • Orthopaedic manipulative therapy
  • Injury prevention

Publications:

Alqarni, A. Manlapaz, D., Baxter,D.,  Tumilty, S. & Mani , R.(2018): Test procedures to assess somatosensory abnormalities in individuals with back pain: a systematic review of psychometric properties, Physical Therapy Reviews,  doi: 10.1080/10833196.2018.1479212

Alqarni, A. Manlapaz, D., Baxter, D.  Tumilty, S. & Mani, R. (2018): Test procedures to assess somatosensory abnormalities in individuals with neck pain: a systematic review of psychometric properties, Physical Therapy Reviews, DOI:10.1080/10833196.2018.1512737

Alqarni, A., Manlapaz, D., Baxter, D., Tumilty, S., & Mani, R. (2018). Test procedures to assess somatosensory abnormalities in individuals with peripheral joint pain: A systematic review of psychometric properties. Pain Practice. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/papr.12680

Alqarni AM, Schneiders AG, Hendrick PA. Clinical Tests to Diagnose Lumbar Segmental Instability: A Systematic Review. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 2011; 41(3):130-140.

Schneiders AG, Alqarni AM, Hendrick PA.  The diagnostic accuracy of clinical tests to identify lumbar segmental instability [abstract]. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 2011; 41(1): A16.

Hendrick PA, Schneiders AG, Alqarni AM. Structural LSI can occur in the absence of functional LSI [Response for letters to editor-in-chief]. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 2011; 41(7): 534-535.

Alqarni AM, Schneiders AG, Cook CE, Hendrick PA. Clinical Tests to Diagnose Lumbar sonndylolysis and spondylolysthesis: A Systematic Review. Manual therapy

Scientific interests

Teaching the following papers:

PTHT 344 Physiotherapy for Orthopaedics & Traumatology 
PTHT 345 Physiotherapy for Sport Injury
PHTHT 346 Clinical Practicefor Orthopaedics & Traumatology   
 

Courses

Physiotherapy for Orthopaedics 344 PHTH
physiotherapy for sport injury 345 PTHT
Clinical practice for Orthpaedics 346 PHTH

Areas of expertise

Senior Manipulative Physiotherapist Senior Manual therapist for treatment a wide range of musculoskeletal condiotions, in addition to rehabilitation of different sport injuries andinjury prevention
ٍSenior Physiotherapist Senior Physiotherapist for Saudi Football team in 2012