Dr Vicki Negus – Specialist Sports Physiotherapist
Dr Vicki Negus (FACP) – Specialist Sports Physiotherapist
With nearly 30 years of experience as a Physiotherapist including 25 years as a Certified Pilates Practitioner, and 10 years as a Registered Yoga Teacher / Certified Yoga Therapist, I have worked extensively in movement therapy with a broad range of clients including West Australian Ballet, Fremantle Dockers and Olympic athletes.
Within physiotherapy I strive to blend an all-encompassing holistic approach, which considers my clients’ general wellbeing, lifestyle and daily activities, with evidence-based scientific principles, including a detailed physical and biomechanical assessment and treatment. I then tailor individual treatment programmes with a large focus on exercise therapy, to help people meet their health and fitness goals. This could take the form of supervised Pilates sessions in our fully equipped studio, one-on-one Yoga Therapy sessions or home exercise programmes.
One of the peaks of my professional career was achieving the title of Specialist Sports Physiotherapist, and Fellow of the Australian College of Physiotherapists (FACP), with a sub-specialty in Dance Physiotherapy, in 2007. This distinction represents the highest level of clinical expertise a physiotherapist can achieve in Australia. The Specialist training and examination process is the most rigorous post-Masters degree clinical programme for physiotherapy in the world.
Since completing my own Specialist training I have mentored and examined other Specialist Physiotherapist candidates undertaking this process in both Sports and Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy. I am also an experienced educator, having conducted numerous lectures and workshops for undergraduate and postgraduate physiotherapists, Pilates instructors and professional dancers.
My particular areas of interest within physiotherapy are:
- Dance and Performing Arts
- Sports injuries
- Hypermobility, EDS and fibromyalgia
- Chronic and complex injury management
- Chronic fatigue and ME
- Exercise rehabilitation, conditioning and performance enhancement using Clinical Pilates and Yoga Therapy
Qualifications, Certifications & Experience include:
Physiotherapy:
- Specialist Sports Physiotherapist (with subspecialty in Dance Physiotherapy) – Fellow of the Australian College of Physiotherapists (FACP, as awarded in 2007)
- Master of Sports Physiotherapy 2003
- APA Titled Sports Physiotherapist
- Bachelor of Science (Physiotherapy) with Distinction 1994
- (Company Physiotherapist to West Australian Ballet 2005-2013)
- (Consulting Sports Physiotherapist to Fremantle Dockers)
Pilates:
- Certified Pilates Practitioner (Australian Pilates Method Association)
Yoga:
- Registered Yoga Teacher (Yoga Alliance)
- Graduate Certificate of Yoga Therapy
- Certified Yoga Therapist C-IAYT (International Association of Yoga Therapists)
To make an appointment with Vicki, please click here, or call (08) 9384 1555.
