Leanda Mckenna

Leanda McKenna is a physiotherapist and academic who gained her PhD in 2012, which examined shoulder pain in adolescent swimmers. Her research has focused on shoulder pain and pregnancy related issues. In shoulder pain, her research has examined assessment of the scapular and humeral head position, differences between swimmers and non-swimmers for scapular, humeral head position and muscular characteristics, whether scapular and humeral head position can predict shoulder pain and whether scapular based treatments are effective in shoulder pain. Specifically for pregnancy related issues, her research has examined the assessment and treatment choices that physiotherapists use when treating Mastitis and predictors to response to treatment in women who have pregnancy related pelvic pain