Mark Comerford, B.Phty. M.C.S.P., M.A.P.A.  Biography

Mark Comerford graduated from the University of Queensland, Australia in 1980. He worked for seven years in the Public Health System, as a Senior Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist. In 1987 Mark started teaching in the Physiotherapy Department at the University of Queensland for the undergraduate and postgraduate programs, lecturing in electrotherapy, sports physiotherapy and therapeutic exercise. During this time he also worked in private practice in Brisbane.

In 1992 he moved to the U.K. and established postgraduate courses in dynamic stability and muscle balance. This process evolved into Kinetic Control Movement Dysfunction Courses. Mark Comerford is the senior director of Kinetic Control, UK, is a part-time lecturer for the MSc program at the Physiotherapy Dept., Keele University, UK and continues to work clinically. He has published several papers on the integration of local and global muscle retraining to enhance joint stability function. He has presented numerous conference papers and courses internationally on the area of assessment movement dysfunction and the use of exercise to treat mechanical stability dysfunction.

He has moved back to Brisbane, Australia in 2003 to set up a private clinic and continue to develop the Kinetic Control process. ‘ Performance Rehab’ is established with the aim of providing a multidimensional approach to the management of musculoskeletal pain, movement dysfunction and elite level functional performance.

His current research interests include:
  • Measurement and validation of direction specific stability dysfunction
  • Investigation of the function and the stability role of psoas major
  • Investigation of the use of imaging ultrasound to determine the interaction of synergistic muscle function in the normal pain free state, the abnormal pain free state, the pain present state and analysis of retraining strategies for muscle re education.

He is also involved in the analysis of movement dysfunction relationships to alterations of the golf swing contributing to consistent slicing, hooking etc.

Mark’s special interest is in the development of clinically relevant models of mechanical stability dysfunction and the integration of local and global muscle assessment and training into clinical reasoning frameworks.

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