Sports Physiotherapist Madeleine Thompson has just returned from the 2024 Paralympic Games where she was working at the Australia Physical Therapies Headquarters. Now that she’s back from France we asked her to tell us a bit about the experience . . . . How did your involvement with the 2024
Are you a skier or snowboarder? Do you want to enhance your performance and / or enjoy your time on the snow more? We’ve introduced a specialist Snow Physiotherapy service to help! This service is suitable for all skill levels, recreational through to elite, and ages, youth to adult/master athletes, of
Physiotherapist Katharine Wrobel has just returned from working at the Brisbane round of the 2024 UCI BMX Racing World Cup. We asked her to tell us a bit about the experience . . . . How and when did you become involved with the BMX World Cup? Over the past
Physiotherapist Fiona Jacobs has recently returned from Bulgaria, where she supported Gymnastics Australia’s 5 Trampoline athletes competing at the World Cup in Varna. We asked her to tell us a bit about the experience . . . . How and when did you become involved with Gymnastics Australia? I have
Physiotherapist Brandon Lowe has just completed the season as Team Physiotherapist for the Avondale FC. The club took out the 2023 NPL VIC Men’s Championship, Premiership and also achieved a points record and goals record in NPL1 for the season. We asked him to tell us a bit about working with the players and
Physiotherapist Simone Muscat has just returned from Sydney where she supported the performers at Pole Icon, which she said is “the biggest event on the pole calendar”. Upon her return she took some time to tell us a little about the experience at the event, and her work with these talented performers . .
Upon the completion of the Australian Ice Hockey League 2022 (AIHL) season with Melbourne Mustangs and Australian Women’s Ice Hockey League 2022/2023 (AWIHL) season working with the Melbourne Mustangs and Melbourne Ice Women, Physiotherapist Jennifer Lohmus went to Sofia, Bulgaria with the Under 18 Australian Boys Ice Hockey Team for
Physiotherapist Fiona Jacobs has just returned from Germany where she supported 15 junior and senior international level MAG and WAG Australian gymnasts competing at the DTB Cup in Stuttgart. We asked her to tell us a bit about the experience . . . . How and when did you become involved with Gymnastics Australia? I
We’ve recently added another new piece of testing equipment to our Exercise + Rehabilitation Area – ForceDecks. ForceDecks allows quick and easy assessment of stability, strength and movement, providing auto-analysed results in real-time. With this equipment our Physiotherapists can analyse your balance, strength and movement strategies in a range of
Are you, or do you know, a dancer who is about to begin the next stage of their ballet training and transition to pointé? Has your teacher asked you to obtain a pointé assessment before getting the green light? Beginning pointé repertoire is an exciting time in a dancers career;
We’ve recently added two new pieces of equipment to our Exercise + Rehabilitation Area – The ForceFrame and the NordBoard. Our Physiotherapists can use these to test the upper and lower body strength of a patient – including hip, knee, shoulder, ankle, hamstring and neck muscle groups. Both combine advanced
Dr Gaylene McKay has been the Opals (Australian Women’s Basketball Team) Physiotherapist for 7 years and travelled with them many times for camps and tournaments. But this year she had the privilege of supporting them in Tokyo for the 2020 Olympics! Now that she’s back in Australia we asked her to spend
While Dr Gaylene McKay, our Managing Director and the Lead Physiotherapist for the Opals, is now back in Australia and in quarantine, she did manage to send through a few last pics from her time at the Olympics. She even rubbed shoulders with a few famous (non-basketball) faces while watching
More great photos from the Olympics thanks to Alphington Sports Medicine’s Managing Director & Opals Lead Physiotherapist, Dr Gaylene McKay. The team had a great win last night in Game 4 against over Puerto Rico – let’s hope they can keep that momentum going when they face USA in the
APA titled Sports Physiotherapist and Alphington Sports Medicine’s Managing Director, Dr Gaylene McKay, is currently in Tokyo for the Olympics. As Lead Physiotherapist for the Opals (Australia’s Women’s Basketball Team) she’ll be doing her best to ensure all players are at peak fitness for each game. Thankfully she’s also doing a great
Alphington Sports Medicine Clinic’s Managing Director Dr Gaylene McKay is no stranger to the rigorous demands of professional basketball – she played over 300 games in the WNBL and has been a team Physiotherapist since the early 1990’s when she retired. She returned from the WNBL hub late last year and
Our Group Exercise Classes Are Returning! In accordance with the Victorian Government’s roadmap for further easing of restrictions, we will recommence our Group Exercise Classes from Monday 9 November*. As our classes have a maximum of 4 participants, physical distancing requirements can be easily adhered to. In addition, there are strict
Due to the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions our Group Exercise Classes have been suspended until further notice. We encourage patients to book an appointment with their Physiotherapist to develop an individualised home-based exercise program. Alternatively, appointments can be a one-on-one session in the Exercise Area where the physical distancing rules can be
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