Angela has a passion for outdoor adventure, women’s health and generally helping others.

After completing her Bachelor of Physiotherapy at the University of Newcastle in 2012 with class 1 honours, Angela has worked in a broad range of public and private settings.

Starting out in the hospital she gained a solid foundation across all areas of Physiotherapy. Since then, she has spent the last six years in private practice honing her musculoskeletal knowledge. She has a love to help others which lead her to spend three months in Papua New Guinea providing Physiotherapy aid and training in remote communities.

Angela has a special interest in Women’s Health Physiotherapy which she has developed over the last 4 years.  Her passion was cemented after the challenging pregnancy and birth of her first daughter. Having experienced a very difficult first birth, it was a personal relief to have a beautiful birth for her second daughter with the assistance from prenatal Physiolates and birth prep.

Outside of work she is busy with her two little girls but also has a love for swimming, hiking, rock climbing, skiing and camping.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Physiotherapy (class1 hons), The University of Newcastle

Areas of specialty training:

Musculoskeletal

• Pain, injury or dysfunction in the body
• Manual therapy of the muscles and joints and neural offloading
• Visceral manipulation and fascial release
• Dry needling
• Sports injury
• Post operative rehabilitation

Women’s Health

• Pregnancy related pelvic girdle pain, back and neck pain
• General pregnancy management and birth preparation
• Post natal assessment and treatment; including pelvic floor and diastasis recti (DRAM|abdominal separation) rehabilitation and mastitis
• Prolapse and pessary fitting

• Incontinence, urgency and frequency

• Sexual pain

Memberships

• Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA)
• Women’s Health Training Associates (WHTA)
• Continence Foundation of Australia

Additional courses:

• Prolapse and Stress Incontinence – Level 3 (Women’s Health Training Associates)
• Exercise, Sport & Muscul Dysfunction of Pelvic floor Level 3 (Women’s Health Training Associates)
• Women’s Health Level 1 (Women’s Health Training Associates)
• APA Introductory Women’s Health, Women’s Pelvic Health & Women’s Life Stages – level 1 (Australian Physiotherapy Association)
• Visceral Manipulation Abdominal 1 (Barral Institute)
• Dry Needling Level 1 & Level 2 (Clinical Edge Andrew Hutten) 
• Sports Physiotherapy Level 1 & Level 2 (Australian Physiotherapy Association)
• Cervical & Thoracic Spine & Ribs (Trish Wisbey-Roth)
• Lumbo Pelvic (Trish Wisbey-Roth)
• TMJ, Cervical and Intro to Cranial (Francine St George, PCAA)
• Shoulder Level 1 (Lyn Watson)
• Myofascial Release (Barbara Hungerford, AMTA)
• Synthetic Casting (Australian Physiotherapy Association)
• Exercise Prescription for Neck Pain (Australian Physiotherapy Association)