Kirsty is owner of Physiologix and one of the co-founders of Hip Pain Help, running this business together with Hip Pain Professional. She qualified in 1998 with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy with Honours in the UK. She completed her Masters in Sports Physiotherapy at The University of Queensland in 2006.

Coming to Australia in 2000, she has worked with and treated patients in a multitude of sporting disciplines including triathlon and premiership rugby union.

For 5 years she provided physiotherapy services as part of the Olympic Winter Institute of Australia, including working at many World Cup competitions abroad. In 2006 she was selected as one of four Physiotherapists for the Australian Olympic Team at the 2006 Winter Olympics.  From 2007 she has focused her attention on tennis and became a senior physiotherapist with Tennis Australia.

She has worked as one of a team of four Australian Tennis Physiotherapists for the Australian Tennis Open Grand Slam Women’s competition, providing care for the best female players in the world. Her role also encompasses working with the female junior athletes and the female wheelchair athletes. She has been involved with the Queensland Tennis Academy, based at Tennyson in Brisbane, working with a range of players from 12 years of age through to the elite Australian players who are on the Men’s and Women’s circuit. As a senior physiotherapist, she has helped educate junior physiotherapists in providing high-quality, sport-specific care to tennis players with particular needs relating to their age and competition level. Her wide experience with sporting teams has provided her with a high level of expertise in the management of acute and overuse sports injuries.

In addition, Kirsty has worked as a physiotherapy educator, including teaching for the University of Queensland post-graduate physiotherapy programs. She has taught on courses for physiotherapists nationally in Australia, running courses together with Dr Alison Grimaldi.

She has been an active member of the Australian Physiotherapy Association, working on the Sports Physiotherapy Committee in Queensland. She has also enjoyed several years on the committee with Sports Medicine Australia.

She runs and works clinically here at Physiologix, where she has been involved in many research trials as a treating physiotherapist. She is passionate about working with her staff to further their knowledge and training. But above all, she most values her role as a clinician, working with clients to resolve their injuries.

Gena is a kiwi born and trained physiotherapist who graduated in 2008 from the University of Otago in New Zealand. She currently also works with Tennis Australia with the Queensland National Academy, and is the treating physio at local Pro-tour events. She is highly sought after thanks to her skills, somehow also fitting in being the physio for the UQ Rugby 7’s womens team, travelling extensively interstate. She has worked in private practice IN NZ, Canada and Brisbane where she gained experience in treating a wide variety of musculoskeletal conditions. She has a special interest in treating sports and running related injuries, tendon pathologies as well as spinal conditions.
Having worked for the last 4 years in a physiotherapy clinic that has a special interest in hip and pelvis injuries, Gena has become an extremely experienced clinician in this area.
She utilises a variety of techniques including dry needling, exercise and rehabilitation utilising pilates equipment (she taught clinical pilates for over 5 years) to help her clients return to sports, work or day to day function. Gena particularly enjoys seeing a client get back to sports feeling stronger, motivated and ready to play after an injury.
Gena completed her post graduate degree in Masters of Sports physio in 2017 at the University of Queensland. She continues her ambition is to become a high performance sports physio and to develop her skills as a clinician. Outside of work and study Gena is a keen sports women herself playing tennis, going to the gym, running and yoga. Gena likes to portray a healthy lifestyle and enjoys giving advice to her clients about a healthy diet and getting active.

Miriam graduated from the University of London in 2006 with a Bachelor (honours) of Physiotherapy. She has since gone on to complete her Masters of Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy at the prestigious University of Queensland in 2018 and is now a titled Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist.
She has extensive experience working in both the public and private sectors in the UK, Ireland and Australia.
Miriam special interest is in treating patients with complex spinal and orthopedic conditions and chronic pain. Her experience includes working at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital in the neurosurgery spinal and orthopedic screening clinics. Working now at a physiotherapy clinic that specialises in treating hip issues, Miriam has become extremely experienced in working with chronic hip and pelvic pain issues.
Tutoring: Miriam is also involved in tutoring in the undergraduate physiotherapy course at the University of Queensland.
Hip and Running Injuries: Miriam is a keen runner and has first-hand experience of the pain and challenges that arise from injury. She is known for her ability to relate to her patients. This has also helped develop her keen interest in running injuries, in particular hip injuries.
Miriam also was a University rower and a keen hurler – yup – ask her about that one!!!!!

Maria has always had a particular interest in the hips and pelvis, working in a specialist practice for this area in Sydney in her early years. She has worked in elite sports where such injuries are extremely common. She has then undergone substantial training gin Womens Health to better understand the internal issues of the pelvis and pelvic floor.

Maria has worked as a contractor for Tennis Australia for the past 10 years. She has been also been involved at the Australian Open Women’s Tennis for the past 7 years. She has worked at the New South Wales and Queensland Tennis Academy and multiple tournaments around the country. Besides Tennis, MJ has also been involved with state Netball, AFL, Athletics and Rugby Union.

She has a passion to getting her clients back to their favourite activity. She enjoys helping people understand and taking control of their injuries by tailoring exercise programs that can work in each personal situation. MJ enjoys keeping up to date regarding the latest Physiotherapy evidence and she particularly enjoys helping mums return to sports after children.

Maria completed her Physiotherapy degree in South America in 2007, Since then she has worked in private practice for over 13 years including Sydney, Victoria and Wollongong regions.

Maria and her family enjoy the outdoors, regularly camping and hiking around this beautiful country. She likes to keep healthy by cycling, running, swimming and playing Tennis.

Gabriel is a physiotherapist from Brazil, with over 10 years experience in Musculoskeletal & Sports physiotherapy, having worked with elite athletes from a range of sports throughout his career as a physiotherapist, from beach volleyball, running and triathlon, rowing, rugby union, soccer to all sorts of weekend warriors athletes.

Between 2011-2016, Gabe worked as physio for the Italian Women’s Beach Volleyball team in preparation for the London 2012 Olympic Games, through several tournaments including The Rio 2016 Grand Slam until the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

Just after the Rio Olympic Games, Gabe moved to Australia to work as a physio in private practice. A highlight of his time here as a sports physio was to have worked at GC2018 Commonwealth Games, at the Beach Volleyball arena in Coolangatta.

Gabe has specialised in running injuries and uses running analysis, amongst other tests, to assist you during the transition from injury to return to running.

Another special interests of his are tendon issues such as Achilles tendinopathy, rotator cuff, gluteal and patellar tendinopathy. Combining both areas of interest, Gabe is finishing his PhD at QUT, investigating runners with Achilles tendinopathy.

While Gabe has specialised in treating elite athletes, he is very active in managing all manner of musculoskeletal conditions in athletes and non-athletes alike. His work as allies manual therapy and exercise prescription to give his patients the best research-based treatment and help them achieve their goals regardless of their level of activity