Publications

Before the coaching, the CPD platforms, and the content — there was the lab. My academic work sits underneath everything I build: it's the reason the practical stuff holds up under scrutiny.

My research centres on balance and stability in older adults — specifically the biomechanics of how the body recovers (or fails to recover) when a fall is triggered, and what that means for people living with knee osteoarthritis. It's the same question in every paper, asked from different angles: what actually happens, biomechanically, in the half-second between losing balance and hitting the ground — and what can we change about it?

Full record: Google Scholar profile · Victoria University Research Repository

Movement Science

Biomechanics of balance recovery, falls risk, and knee osteoarthritis in older adults - the core research thread, running from PhD through to current work.

Biomechanical adaptation to compensate balance recovery in people with knee osteoarthritis Downie, C., Levinger, P., Begg, R. Clinical Biomechanics, 124, 106475 (2025)

Predicting falls from biomechanical response to balance perturbation in older adults with knee osteoarthritis: an exploratory study Downie, C., Levinger, P., Begg, R. Advanced Exercise and Health Science, 2(2), 137–142 (2025)

Stepping strategy used to recover balance during an induced fall is associated with impaired function and strength in people with knee osteoarthritis Levinger, P., Downie, C., Nagano, H., Petersen, A., Hayes, A., Sanders, K.M., et al. International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases, 21(10), 1763–1771 (2018)

The effect of vitamin D status on pain, lower limb strength and knee function during balance recovery in people with knee osteoarthritis: an exploratory study Levinger, P., Begg, R., Sanders, K.M., Nagano, H., Downie, C., Petersen, A., et al. Archives of Osteoporosis, 12(1), 83 (2017)

Biomechanical balance response during induced falls under dual task conditions in people with knee osteoarthritis Levinger, P., Nagano, H., Downie, C., Hayes, A., Sanders, K.M., Cicuttini, F., Begg, R. Gait & Posture, 48, 106–112 (2016)

Contribution of lower limb eccentric work and different step responses to balance recovery among older adults Nagano, H., Levinger, P., Downie, C., Hayes, A., Begg, R. Gait & Posture, 42(3), 257–262 (2015)

Biomechanical, Physiological and Cognitive Factors in Balance Recovery in Older Adults with Knee Osteoarthritis Downie, C. PhD Thesis, Victoria University (2021)

Pedagogy

Research into teaching practice - from gross anatomy instruction to numeracy outcomes inside a block-teaching model.

Constructive alignment: teaching introductory gross anatomy to sport science students Downie, C., Burke, M. Anatomical Sciences Education, 17(1), 47–54 (2024)

Do online maths tools improve undergraduate mathematics outcomes within the block teaching model? Downie, C., Klein, R., Sinnayah, P. Journal of Block and Intensive Learning and Teaching, 3(1), 44–53 (2025)

The importance of developing a metric to classify student experience in mathematics within the framework of intensive block teaching Downie, C., Klein, R., Sinnayah, P. Journal of Block and Intensive Learning and Teaching, 1(2), 49–58 (2023)

Conference Proceedings

Using online tools to develop numerical competence in block mode teaching Downie, C., Klein, R., Sinnayah, P. Proceedings of The Australian Conference on Science and Mathematics Education (2019)

First year students and research: A constructivist approach Downie, C. Proceedings of The Australian Conference on Science and Mathematics Education (2019)

Increased falls risk while crossing an obstacle during balance recovery in people with knee osteoarthritis Downie, C.S., Levinger, P., Begg, R.K. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 29, S172–S173 (2021)

Balance recovery during induced falls is impaired in people with knee osteoarthritis: Implications for falls prevention Downie, C. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage (2016)

Differences in first step recovery from an induced fall in older adults with knee osteoarthritis Downie, C., Nagano, H., Begg, R., Petersen, A., Hayes, A., Sanderson, K., et al. 6th Exercise and Sports Science Australia Conference, Research to Practice (2014)

Resistance training for people with post-polio syndrome: A systematic review of the literature Downie, C., Pearce, A. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 13, e72 (2010)

Other works

Adjacent contributions - collaborative research outside the core biomechanics/pedagogy split, and professional service to the field.

Development of a Digital Health Intervention to Support Patients on a Waitlist for Orthopaedic Specialist Care: A Co-design Study Tacey, A., Behne, J., Patten, R., Ngo, M.T., Thomas, R., Ancilleri, J., Bone, C., et al. JMIR Formative Research (2023)

The Journal of Anatomy announces a new Early Career Researcher Editorial Board Mpolokeng, K.S., Downie, C.S., Bhattacharjee, S., Wosik, M., Lanzetti, A. Journal of Anatomy, 242(2), 123 (2023)

The times are they a-changing? Evolving attitudes in Australian exercise science students' attitudes towards sports concussion Young, J., Ganderton, C., White, A., Batten, J., Howarth, N., Downie, C., Pearce, A.J. The Journal of Sport and Exercise Science (2021)

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