Rana Alduraywish
University of Nottingham, UK
Biography
Rana Alduraywish is a lecturer at the College of Medicine at Imam Muhammed ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and a second year PhD student at the School of Health Sciences at Nottingham University in the UK. Rana has a master’s degree in physiotherapy (2017) from Cardiff University, UK. She worked as physiotherapist for more than ten years in Saudi Arabia. Her research interests are in the area of occupational lower back pain in nurses and self-management of lower back pain. She is also interested in the role of physical activity and exercise in lower back pain management. Her doctoral research investigates the feasibility and acceptability of using a web-based digital intervention for nurses working in hospitals in Saudi Arabia. She will develop and design a digital tool aimed at preventing and managing lower back pain in nurses. This will be the first study of its kind to assess issues specifically within the context of Saudi Arabia.