Port Melbourne Team

David has a keen interest in managing a variety of post-operative upper limb and lower limb fractures and other musculoskeletal surgeries, while supporting his patients to return to their previous levels of function or sport. He also has a wealth of experience in managing a variety of sporting injuries from a multitude of sports, using a combination of strength and conditioning and manual therapy to allow patients to achieve their goals.

David is a UK trained practitioner with a Masters in Physiotherapy from the University of Birmingham, and a Bachelors in Sport Rehabilitation. He has experience of working in ice hockey, cricket, both codes of rugby, and professional soccer with an English Championship football team. David also has experience in the UK’s National Health Service having worked across a variety of acute hospital settings including neurology, specialist surgery, and in Intensive Treatment Units.

Away from rehabilitating injuries, David is a keen coffee connoisseur and will be found exploring Melbourne in search for the perfect flat white. David is also an avid gym goer and attempts to run in his spare time.

Monique has an interest in treating a variety of clients and musculoskeletal conditions. She has a particular interest in the rehabilitation of sporting injuries, post-operative clients and chronic conditions. She aims to provide individualised care to each client to help them to achieve their goals and improve their pain and function in the long-term. She utilises a combination of hands-on therapy, exercise and education to treat her clients. She is also qualified in dry needling, and able to perform pre-pointe shoe assessments for budding ballerinas. Additionally, she views Pilates as a useful treatment tool to help clients to not only regain pain-free movement and strength, but to maintain general fitness and prevent future injury.

Monique completed a Doctor of Physiotherapy at the University of Melbourne, following a Bachelor of Biomedicine with a major in human structure and function. She has experience working in AFLW and VAFA football teams, helping athletes to manage and rehabilitate their injuries in order to return them to playing the sport they love.

Outside of work, Monique loves to watch sport, particularly footy and tennis. She is also an avid Pilates goer and loves to read in her down time.

Vanessa a Physiotherapist, Nutritionist and Clinical Pilates instructor whose passion is in health and fitness and sports rehabilitation. She has over fifteen years of experience as a Clinical Pilates instructor. Vanessa also consults to corporate companies and high school students on the importance of a healthy lifestyle and presents nationally accredited sports and fitness courses to adults and school students.

Vanessa has had experience working with elite athletes in tennis, Rugby Leagaue and AFL, including the Western Bulldogs Football Club and the All-Australian AFL team. Since graduating as a Physiotherapist she has worked in in various locations around Australia. She has also completed a post-graduate certificate in Nutrition, taught English in Thailand and worked as a Physiotherapy lecturer at a University in Singapore. She has also completed a PhD in Indigenous Health through the University of Melbourne.

Vanessa is an elite long-distance runner, having run a sub-three hour marathon and finishing second in the 2005 Bangkok marathon and third in the 2005 Melbourne marathon. Vanessa’s passion for running lead to her writing, “Fit Not Healthy”, her personal story of overtraining which highlights the dangers of pushing the body to extreme. The book is available in bookstores and online.