Karri Field

Karri wanted to be a physiotherapist ever since she could pronounce the word at 3 years of age. After graduating from Australian Catholic University with First Class Honours, she discovered a passion for helping people with chronic pain. Karri’s honours research was not just an excuse to get on people's nerves but investigated how the bi-directional brain to body pain pathways change in chronic pain conditions.

Karri went on to complete her Master of Science in Medicine at University of Sydney with a focus on Orofacial Pain Management. Further areas of interest include vocal physiotherapy and supporting people with EDS/Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders optimise their head, neck, and jaw function.

Karri travelled extensively throughout Australia and lived in Germany for a few years where she worked with Gunda Lambrecht, who specialises in TMJ conditions and is the rehabilitation physiotherapist for astronauts with the European Space Agency. However, Karri is a Queensland girl at heart and in 2014 happily returned to the Sunshine State where she accepted a position at the Headache, Neck & Jaw Clinic.

Karri has completed the Watson Headache® Institute Level 1 Foundation and Level 2 Consolidation Course.

Karri understands pain impacts on all areas of life due to personal experience with whiplash, migraines, headaches and TMJ dysfunction. Hunting down and treating the actual cause of someone's pain, not just the symptoms, is the ultimate reward for Karri.

• Bachelor of Physiotherapy with First Class Honours
• Master of Science in Medicine (Orofacial Pain Management)
• Level 1 and 2 Watson Headache® Certified Practitioner
• Advanced Vocal Unloading Physiotherapy Certificate
• Advanced Vestibular Assessment and Treatment Certificate
• Completed 2 EDS Echo Multidisciplinary Team Practice Australasia Modules
• Advanced Diploma in Dance Teaching with Certificate in Child Psychology
• Dry Needling Certificate
• Craniosacral Therapy Practitioner
• Emmett Therapy Practitioner
• SMA Nationally Accredited Sports Trainer
• Chair Australian Physiotherapy Association Queensland Pain Group
• Founding member Orofacial Pain International
• Member Australian & New Zealand Academy of Orofacial Pain
• Presenter to local and international multidisciplinary orofacial pain stakeholders including:
           - Lecturer at the Conservatorium of Music for the Masters of Vocal Pedagogy course;
           - Presenter at EDS Society “TMJ, dental, swallowing and speech concerns”;
           - “Posture, neck & jaw factors in dentistry”; “TMJ considerations in tinnitus; a Physio perspective on multidisciplinary TMD management”.
• Research Assistant “One-week time course of the effects of Mulligan’s mobilisation with movement and taping in painful shoulders”.

Karri Field practices at the:
Nundah Clinic: Tuesday and Thursday
North Lakes Clinic: Monday and Wednesday

Pain, rhythm and the blues from the perspective of the mind, body, and soul.