Jane Rooney

About Jane Rooney

Associate Professor Jane Rooney, FACP is a Specialist Sports and Exercise Physiotherapist (subspecialty knee) (as awarded by the Australian College of Physiotherapists in 2009)  and a Titled Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist.  

Jane has a particular interest in ACL injury management. She was awarded a prestigious Churchill Fellowship in 2016 to investigate management algorithms and non-operative management strategies for ACL injury, travelling to Europe, Scandinavia and America. This inspired a research project conducted with Dr Stephanie Filbay and team examining treatment decision making for ACL rupture from the perspective of physiotherapists and patients in Australia, in Print in Physical Therapy. The results informed a free online patient decision aid for shared decision-making following ACL injury.

Jane has been implementing the Cross Bracing protocol since 2019 and is a co-author of the published Cross Bracing case series in BSJM, 2023. She is also a co-author and the rehab protocol designer for both arms of the forthcoming multicenter RCT comparing Cross Bracing to ACL reconstruction for ACL injury management. 

Jane works as a clinician at Prahran Sports Medicine Centre, a large multi-disciplinary sports clinic, collaborating closely with many of Melbourne’s leading knee surgeons and sports physicians. working with athletes of all abilities from recreational to professional.