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I am a mobile and
dance physiotherapist and I would love to help.

General FAQs

  • I am based in the Redlands and Brisbane Bayside area. Servicing Wellington Point, Thorneside, Cleveland, Capalaba, Wynnum, Lota, Manly.

    As a mobile Physiotherapist I can travel to you and outside a 10km radius of Thorneside there is an additional travel cost of 1$ per km. Please contact me and we can chat about your specific location.

  • My work days and hours are:

    Wed and Fri 8.30am until 2.30pm

    Saturday 8.00am until 12pm.

    Evening appointments or outside of the above hours can be made by consultation.

  • No you don’t need a referral. Just contact me and we can chat about your specific requirements.

  • We sit down and have a chat first, where I ask a lot of questions about your main concern. I'll then do a physical exam, where I make observations about your movement, test your strength and do some specific tests for your concern. We make a provisional diagnosis and then provide some advice and look at treatment options.

  • You can pay with card, cash or via direct debit on the day of your appointment.

  • Yes you can! I will provide a receipt and you can claim this back with your private health fund either online or in person. It depends on what health cover you have and what level you are on as to how much you will be reimbursed. Please check with your provider for more details.

  • Initial session are between 45 mins to 1 hour. Follow up appointments are 30 mins to 40 mins.

    Dance assessments and Musculoskeletal assessments are 1 hour.

  • Comfortable clothing that is easy to remove if necessary.

    I am aware that people may be coming from or going to work etc and so we can work with whatever clothing in situ that you have.

    Cultural requirements for clothing is respected and assessment and treatment can work around this without too much difficulty.

    For clinical pilates, you will need clothing that allows movement and stretching and is comfortable. Socks are also required preferably ones with grip on them. A towel required and water bottle.

    Dance assessments - ballet wear is preferable.

  • Yes. There is a small out of pocket cost for home visits. Clinic visits are fully covered by Work Cover.

  • I do not have a Hicaps machine, however I do provide you with a receipt that you can then claim through your private health insurance at your convenience.

  • Physio should start to feel an improvement within 4 visits. Whilst we aim to make a change within day 1, particularly when it comes to pain management, this is dependent on the condition and how much tissue damage has occurred. Alternatively if your condition is something that has been with you for a number of years, you may be looking at an extended and slow progression.

    We always use baseline measures to come back to and reassess to see the change. It is important that you can feel or recognise when there has been an improvement.

    If the condition does not respond as appropriate, then it is important to reassess at this time and then implement an alternative approach that may include a new direction in treatment, referral for investigations or to see specialists etc.

    With the right advice, this generally enables you to move forward with the condition.

  • I am very much a believer in exercise. In my experience, I believe that most pain can be rectified by appropriate exercise. So yes, this is definitely part of my management.

    Exercises will be personalised to your own level of capability and functional enough that you can do them in your own space.

  • The prices are already discounted compared with normal market prices, so no further discounts are applied.

    Purchasing multiple sessions at once might be a more convenient approach for you, especially if participating in ongoing clinical pilates sessions, but it is entirely your choice.

  • Generally our intention is to reduce pain but in some circumstances you may have some post treatment soreness which is not unusual. If you have any concerns, please feel free to contact me and we can discuss further.

Dance FAQs

  • This is a physical assessment of all the relevant joints in your body prior to going en pointe. It measures the ROM and strength of these areas in your body such as ankles knees hips back and neck and shoulders. It looks at your typical posture and checks for scoliosis. Most interestingly it compares your measurements to what is considered normal or expected in dancers of this age. It will assess your technical ability to do some movements so as to give an idea of technical ability. This together with how you perform in class and take on choreography is what your dance teacher considers when deciding if and when you are ready for pointe.

  • A pre pointe assessment may be required by your dance teacher in order to assist a decision of pointe readiness. Also it can be used to identify any areas of your body that may need attention in order to enhance your experience on pointe and furthermore to prevent serious injuries that may eventuate from shortcomings that can easily be identified.

  • Dance attire with footless or open toe stockings so we can check your feet. Also to bring your ballet flats and pointe shoes where appropriate.

  • There are better ways to gain your pointe range than sitting passively in a position that will no doubt be stretching ligaments as well as muscle tissue. Ligaments provide stability for our joints and if they are too loose, it makes it more difficult to use the joint properly. Hence we don’t really want to stretch ligaments and anything more than about 30 sec is moving into that range.

    Foot stretchers also don’t provide any strengthening effect that ranging exercises will do.

    However, if someone has particularly limited ankle range of movement they may help provide a continual movement into that position and provided it is backed up by strength exercises it may be ok. Best to seek advice from your physio prior to using one.