Below is a list of our Physiotherapists across all locations who have a special clinical interest and additional post graduate education in women's health.
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Clinical interests
- Women’s health and pelvic floor dysfunction
- Pelvic and sacroiliac joint (SIJ) pain
- Neck and back pain
- Football and sports injuries
- Post-operative rehabilitation
- Clinical Pilates and functional training
- Falls prevention
Sarah is a physiotherapist with more than 13 years of experience. She works with women’s health and pelvic floor concerns, pelvic and SIJ pain, neck and back pain, and sports injuries. She enjoys helping people of all ages improve their physical health and wellbeing using evidence-based treatment, often including Clinical Pilates and functional training.
Sarah has completed the APA Women’s Pelvic Health Level 1 course and is continuing her training in this area. She has also worked as a sports trainer at VAFA and EFL football clubs, which gave her plenty of hands-on experience with sporting injuries.
Sarah speaks Mandarin, Cantonese and Malay, as well as the Hakka and Foochow dialects, so she can treat many patients in their first language.
Outside work, she loves travelling and keeps fit through Pilates and functional training.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Physiotherapy, University of Melbourne (2012)
- APA Women’s Pelvic Health Level 1 (update if Level 2 is now complete)
Languages: English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Malay, Hakka, Foochow
Consults at: Physica Knoxfield
- Nevine is an experienced Physiotherapist with over 28 years of clinical experience. She has a special interest in vestibular rehabilitation for 18 years and continence and pelvic floor physiotherapy for 22 years.
- She is bilingual in Egyptian and speaks some Italian.
- Her expertise includes spinal and musculoskeletal issues, shoulder injuries, Cervical whiplash, pelvic girdle and hip pain, sports injuries, vestibular/neurological conditions, bladder and bowel health, gerontology, OA, balance or mobility problems, and vertigo/dizziness, gaze stabilisation training & blurred vision.
- Well-versed in a broad range of Physiotherapy programs: Spine Care rehabilitation programs: Core stability, Pilates & functional restoration programs for Chronic Low Back Pain, Cervical headaches & vertigo, Continence rehab for bladder & bowel conditions, falls prevention, vestibular & balance rehabilitation, BPPV, Vestibular neuritis, & strength training.
- Nevine has excellent interpersonal skills and is proficient in source- oriented patient assessments, time management and therapy-program design/execution.
Nevine’s experience in Vestibular rehab (having attained 4 vestibular certificates and an intensive competency based Vestibular course at Monash Uni ) spans over 18 years. Nevine can diagnose and treat:
- Dizziness, head spinning, light-headedness, balance disorders and associated double vision, mal de barque, vertigo and vestibular migraines
- BPPV – posterior, or horizontal- she uses FRENZEL goggles which record eye movements during the Dix Hallpike testing.
- Vestibular neuritis and hypofunction
- Cerebellar ataxia
- Cervical instability, headaches, and associated vertigo and vestibular migraines
- Persistent perceptual postural Vertigo.
With a Post Grad. Certificate in Continence and Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation attained at Melbourne Uni and many conferences run by the Continence Foundation of Australia Nevine helps women and men manage:
- Bladder conditions: Urinary urgency, Urge and Stress Incontinence, voiding dysfunction: incomplete bladder emptying, Pelvic Organ Prolapse, Bladder pain syndrome, and overactive bladder, and for men obstructed voiding associated with prostate enlargement or post Radical Prostatectomy.
- Bowel conditions: Constipation, IBS, Dyssynergic defaecation, Anismus, Incomplete bowel emptying and faecal/anal incontinence, Pelvic Organ Prolapse, post Obstetric Anal Sphincter injuries
- Vaginal conditions: vaginismus, dyspareunia which may or not be associated with gynaecological surgery.
- Musculoskeletal pain associated with ante/postnatal clients: Pelvic Girdle pain, symphysis pubis and SIJ dysfunction and Lumbosacral instability, DRAM, Perineal tears Grade 2-4, Tx dysfunction.
Nevine uses best practices and outcome measures to find the root causes of clients’ issues. She educates them on relieving pain, stiffness, weakness, leakage, and vertigo, aiming to improve strength, mobility, continence, balance, and reduce their dizziness.
For more information, please call PHYSICA – Chirnside Park on 9726 9977, or RINGWOOD on 9870 8193