RECOVER Injury Research Centre

Dr Yanfei Xie

PhD, MPhil, BSc (Rehabilitation Therapy)
Research Fellow
RECOVER Injury Research Centre
The University of Queensland
Level 7, Surgical Treatment and Rehabilitation Service
296 Herston Road
HERSTON QLD 4029

Yanfei is a postdoctoral research fellow at RECOVER Injury Research Centre. Her research areas and interests involve musculoskeletal pain/injuries, biomechanics, occupational health, disability, and rehabilitation. She has a discipline background as a physiotherapist and received her PhD in 2021 from The University of Queensland. Her PhD involved ultrasound elastography, quantitative sensory, physical and psychosocial tests to understand the muscular, sensory, and psychosocial features of work-related neck pain and to identify predictors of neck disability trajectories.

Yanfei has a broad range of research skills applicable across methodologies, including randomized control trials, case-control and longitudinal study designs, systematic and scoping reviews, and statistical analysis. She presents regularly at both national and international conferences and have received several presentation awards, including the best poster presentation at the 2021 Australian Pain Society 41st Annual Scientific Meeting. Yanfei’s work is published in leading journals, including PAIN and The Journal of Pain.

Publications

Journal Articles (20)
Data Collection (1)
Thesis (1)

Journal Articles

Xie, Yanfei, Costa, Nathalia, Söderlund, Anne, Zadro, Joshua, Malmström, Eva-Maj, Grant, Genevieve, Jull, Gwendolen, Westergren, Hans, Kasch, Helge, MacDermid, Joy, Treleaven, Julia, Curatolo, Michele, Ravn, Sophie Lykkegaard, Andersen, Tonny, Rebbeck, Trudy and Sterling, Michele (2024). The influence of ‘labels’ for neck pain on recovery expectations following a motor vehicle crash: an online-randomised vignette-based experiment. Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy, 54 (11), 711-720. doi: 10.2519/jospt.2024.12590
Huang, Meihuan, Cui, Ruiqing, Xie, Yanfei, Zhou, Chunming, Chen, Turong, Wang, Yujuan and Yun, Guojun (2024). Somatosensory profile in individuals with duchenne muscular dystrophy: a quantitative sensory testing (QST) study. European Journal of Paediatric Neurology, 53, 39-47. doi: 10.1016/j.ejpn.2024.09.007
Xie, Yanfei, Farrell, Scott F, Armfield, Nigel and Sterling, Michele (2024). Serum vitamin D and chronic musculoskeletal pain: a cross-sectional study of 349,221 adults in the UK. The Journal of Pain, 25 (9) 104557, 104557. doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2024.104557
Xie, Yanfei, Nielsen, Mandy, Kendall, Melissa, Jones, Rachel, Ownsworth, Tamara and Geraghty, Timothy (2023). Care transitions for people with acquired neurological disability in the first 12 months following inpatient rehabilitation: health service use and obstacles. Health and Social Care in the Community, 2023 2894552, 1-16. doi: 10.1155/2023/2894552
Ownsworth, Tamara, Mols, Helen, O'Loghlen, Jessica, Xie, Yanfei, Kendall, Melissa, Nielsen, Mandy, Mitchell, Jessie, Jones, Rachel and Geraghty, Timothy (2023). Stigma following acquired brain injury and spinal cord injury: relationship to psychological distress and community integration in the first-year post-discharge. Disability and Rehabilitation, 46 (9), 1-11. doi: 10.1080/09638288.2023.2205173
Xie, Yanfei, Thomas, Lucy, Johnston, Venerina and Coombes, Brooke K. (2023). Cervical and axioscapular muscle stiffness measured with shear wave elastography: a comparison between different levels of work-related neck disability. Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology, 69 102754, 1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jelekin.2023.102754
Xie, Yanfei, Coombes, Brooke K., Thomas, Lucy and Johnston, Venerina (2022). Time course and risk profile of work-related neck disability: a longitudinal latent class growth analysis. Physical Therapy, 102 (6) pzac050, 1-9. doi: 10.1093/ptj/pzac050
Xie, Yanfei, Hutting, Nathan, Bartys, Serena and Johnston, Venerina (2021). Interventions to promote work‐focused care by healthcare providers for individuals with musculoskeletal conditions a scoping review. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 31 (4), 840-865. doi: 10.1007/s10926-021-09971-w
Xie, Yanfei, Thomas, Lucy, Barbero, Marco, Falla, Deborah, Johnston, Venerina and Coombes, Brooke K. (2021). Heightened pain facilitation rather than impaired pain inhibition distinguishes those with moderate/severe disability in work-related neck pain. Pain, Publish Ahead of Print (8), 2225-2236. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002213
Xie, Yanfei, Jun, Deokhoon, Thomas, Lucy, Coombes, Brooke and Johnston, Venerina (2020). Comparing central pain processing in individuals with non-traumatic neck pain and healthy individuals: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The Journal of Pain, 21 (11-12), 1101-1124. doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2020.02.007
Xie, Yanfei, Coombes, Brooke K., Thomas, Lucy and Johnston, Venerina (2020). Musculoskeletal pain and disability in sonographers: more than an ergonomic issue. Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, 33 (12), 1526-1527. doi: 10.1016/j.echo.2020.07.005
Alhusuny, Ameer, Cook, Margaret, Khalil, Akram, Xie, Yanfei and Johnston, Venerina (2020). Neck/shoulder problems and visual disturbances among surgeons: a scoping review. Journal of Surgical Research, 247, 413-428. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2019.09.064
Xie, Yanfei, Thomas, Lucy, Hug, François, Johnston, Venerina and Coombes, Brooke K. (2019). Quantifying cervical and axioscapular muscle stiffness using shear wave elastography. Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology, 48, 94-102. doi: 10.1016/j.jelekin.2019.06.009
Tsang, Sharon M. H., Szeto, Grace P. Y., Xie, Y. F. and Lee, Raymond Y. W. (2018). Association of electromyographic activation patterns with pain and functional disability in people with chronic neck pain. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 118 (7), 1481-1492. doi: 10.1007/s00421-018-3878-z
Xie, Yanfei, Feng, Beibei, Chen, Kedi, Andersen, Lars L., Page, Phil and Wang, Yuling (2018). The efficacy of dynamic contract-relax stretching on delayed-onset muscle soreness among healthy individuals : A randomized clinical trial. Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine, 28 (1), 28-36. doi: 10.1097/jsm.0000000000000442
Xie, Yan Fei, Szeto, Grace, Madeleine, Pascal and Tsang, Sharon (2017). Spinal kinematics during smartphone texting - A comparison between young adults with and without chronic neck-shoulder pain. Applied Ergonomics, 68, 160-168. doi: 10.1016/j.apergo.2017.10.018
Xie, Yanfei, Szeto, Grace and Dai, Jie (2017). Prevalence and risk factors associated with musculoskeletal complaints among users of mobile handheld devices: a systematic review. Applied Ergonomics, 59, 132-142. doi: 10.1016/j.apergo.2016.08.020
Madeleine, Pascal, Xie, Yanfei, Szeto, Grace P. Y. and Samani, Afshin (2016). Effects of chronic neck–shoulder pain on normalized mutual information analysis of surface electromyography during functional tasks. Clinical Neurophysiology, 127 (9), 3110-3117. doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2016.06.015
Xie, Yanfei, Szeto, Grace P.Y., Dai, Jie and Madeleine, Pascal (2016). A comparison of muscle activity in using touchscreen smartphone among young people with and without chronic neck–shoulder pain. Ergonomics, 59 (1), 61-72. doi: 10.1080/00140139.2015.1056237
Chen, Ke-Di, Chen, Na, Xie, Yan-Fei and Li, Le (2013). Ultrasound assesses muscle morphology and function under different neuropathological conditions. Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research, 17 (20), 3756-3763. doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-4344.2013.20.020

Data Collection

Xie, Yanfei, Johnston, Venerina, Thomas, Lucy and Coombes, Brooke (2023). Data of time course and risk profile of work-related neck disability. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/67e0858

Thesis

Xie, Yanfei (2021). A biopsychosocial approach to understanding neck pain among sonographers. PhD Thesis, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/e1ad57f