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Anton Harms
The R&M Brace has been developed by Anton Harms over the past decade. Anton graduated as a physiotherapist from the Lincoln Institute of Health Sciences, Melbourne, Australia (1978), and obtained a Graduate Diploma in Advanced Manipulative Therapy at the South Australian Institute of Technology (now the University of South Australia) in 1985 and this was upgraded to a course work Masters in Applied Science from Uni SA in 1992.
Anton has had an interest in pain sciences since soon after graduation, when several patient presentations simply did not make sense in his current pain paradigm. Anton had a 'Damascan Road' experience in 1990 when listening to a Clifford Woolf lecture describing some of his early evidence for central sensitisation, at the International Association for the Study of Pain Congress in Adelaide. Anton has been a member or the IASP since then.
After working in Mt Gambier, South Australia for 20 years; running his solo private practice he moved to Melbourne five years ago and now works at Northern Health; Epping, Victoria; as the Musculoskeletal Co-ordinator of the Osteoarthritis Hip and Knee Service. The Musculoskeletal Co-ordinator (MSC) is an Advanced Practice role. The MSC assesses all patients referred to the health service with OA hips or knees and following the assessment and discussion with the patient plans the best course of management; this could be referral for a surgical assessment with a view to knee or hip arthroplasty; or referral for a course of conservative management (physiotherapy, dietetics, orthotics).
Publications: Anton has managed one peer reviewed publication; shared with Jane Sweeney.
Sweeney J, Harms A 1996 ‘Persistent mechanical allodynia following injury of the hand. Treatment through mobilisation of the nervous system’. Journal of Hand Therapy 9(4): 328-338.
and a poster presentation at an Australian Manipulative Physiotherapists Conference
‘An Examination of the Differential Blockade of Cutaneous Nerve using EMLA cream: a pilot study in normal subjects’ Conference Proceedings, 10th Biennial Conference, Manipulative Physiotherapists Association of Australia.
Anton presented a case study entitled 'Confidence and Kindling'; describing the origins of the R&M Nerve Protection Brace, at the inaugural NOI Conference in Nottingham, UK, in April 2010.