Trina is a registered Australian Sports Physiotherapist and Italian physiotherapist who is based in Genova, Italy. She finished her undergraduate degree at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines in 2002 and completed her Masters in Sports Physiotherapy at the University of Queensland in Australia in 2005. In the Philippines before moving to Australia, she has worked at the Ateneo University’s sports center as a physiotherapist for athletes in the clinic and also providing on-field assessment and treatment of athletes in various sports such as basketball, volleyball, track and field and football. After completing her degree in Masters of sports physiotherapy, she worked at Physiotec in Brisbane with Dr. Alison Grimaldi in 2009 and worked in private practice setting for 7 years before moving to Italy. She is continuing to offer Skype consultations through Physiotec.
Trina has a special interest in hip and pelvic conditions such as lateral hip pain and groin pain and and works with athletes in various sports such as running, ultimate frisbee, climbing, football. Her treatment approach multi-disciplinary and evidence-based and can easily liase with other health and medical professionals.
She works in a private studio in the city centre of Genova and offers muscle re-training using real time ultrasound and exercise classes that are Pilates based, focusing on improving hip and leg control and progressions to strength and conditioning. Services also include sport specific training and rehabilitation and manual therapy.
While over here in Italy, She has had the chance to work with some Australian teams while they are here in Europe training and competing and liase with their local physiotherapists back in Australia. Not only is she involved with Australian sports, she also works with the Group of Italian Sports Physical Therapists. She is always up to date with the latest research and participates in continuing education.
She speaks Italian, English and Tagalog.
During her free time, she trains with the Ultimate Frisbee team of Genova and is their team physiotherapist as well. They play in Serie C in the Italian Championships and proud to represent the city. When she is not running after a disc, she does sport-climbing.