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Contact Details

Phone
+64 3 479 5655
Email
david.baxter@otago.ac.nz
Position
Professor, Co-Director Ageing Well National Science Challenge; Dean, Graduate Research School
Qualifications
BSc(Hons) DPhil MBA FCSP
Research summary
Musculoskeletal pain / men’s health / laser medicine
Teaching
  • PhD supervision / medical devices / acupuncture / management
  • PHTY610 Research Methods

Research

Rehabilitation; musculoskeletal pain; low back pain; complementary and alternative medicine; physical activity and health; men’s health; laser therapy; photobiomodulation.

Current research interests:

Additional details

Appointments

  • Deputy Chair, Physiotherapy Board of New Zealand
  • Member, Australian Physiotherapy Council Accreditation Committee

Memberships

  • American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery (Fellow)
  • Royal Academy of Medicine In Ireland (Fellow)
  • International Academy for Laser Medicine and Surgery (Fellow)
  • Acupuncture Association of Chartered Physiotherapists (UK), Honorary Life Member
  • Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (Fellow)
  • Physiotherapy New Zealand
  • Global Alliance on Men’s Health
  • International Phototherapy Association (Former President)

Editorial board memberships

  • Physical Therapy Reviews (Editor-in-Chief)
  • Photomedicine and Laser Surgery
  • Journal of Acupuncture and Meridian Studies
  • Laser Therapy
  • New Zealand Journal of Physiotherapy
  • Physiotherapy Practice and Research

PhD students

Publications

Mainwaring, J. M., Galvin, K. T., Garland, S. N., Xiao, H., Baxter, G. D., & Wibowo, E. (2024). The relationship between sexual dysfunction and insomnia symptoms in older men with prostate cancer and their partners: An actor-partner interdependence model approach. Cancer Survivorship Research & Care, 2(1), 2362663. doi: 10.1080/28352610.2024.2362663 Journal - Research Article

Liu, L., Tang, Y., Baxter, G. D., Yin, H., & Tumilty, S. (2024). Responses to the correspondence from McDowell et al.'s on CAM integrative review of health care professionals in New Zealand. BMC Complementary Medicine & Therapies, 24, 188. doi: 10.1186/s12906-024-04488-0 Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles

Bühler, M., Atmore, C., Perry, M., Crengle, S., Norris, P., & Baxter, G. D. (2024). Patient experiences and perspectives of health service access for carpal tunnel syndrome in Aotearoa New Zealand: A normalisation process theory-informed qualitative study. BMC Health Services Research, 24, 465. doi: 10.1186/s12913-024-10871-x Journal - Research Article

Xiao, H., Wibowo, E., Baxter, G. D., Liu, L., & Doolan-Noble, F. (2023). Exploring supportive care needs in men with prostate cancer in New Zealand: A cross-sequential explanatory mixed-methods study. Journal of Men's Health, 19(12), (pp. 129). doi: 10.22514/jomh.2023.139 Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Tan, H., Tumilty, S., Chapple, C., Liu, L., Othman, R., & Baxter, G. D. (2023). Acupoints sensitization in people with and without chronic low back pain: A matched-sample cross-sectional study. Journal of Back & Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation, 31(1), 137-146. doi: 10.3233/BMR-210297 Journal - Research Article

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