Philippa Gilbert -
Director and Company Founder

• NZRP New Zealand Registered Physiotherapist
• Member of the Australian Physiotherapy Association
• Member of the McKenzie Institute of Australia
• Mechanical Diagnostic Therapist
• Credentialled Mechanical Diagnostic and Therapy (McKenzie Institute)
• Mechanical Diagnostic and Therapy of the Human Extremities
• Level 1, 2 & 3 Clinical Pilates Instructor
• Spinal and peripheral mobilisation
• Muscle Energy course – Pelvis & Lumbar Spine
• Muscle Energy Course – Cervical & Thoracic Spine
• Fitball Exercise rehabilitation courses
• Mulligans Courses
• Peripheral and Spinal Manipulation courses (New Zealand)
• Pre & Post Operative Shoulder Rehabilitation
• Philippa has 30 years experience and has a special interest in the treatment of necks and backs
• Philippa’s interests outside of work include her husband, son, dogs, interior design and exercise including skiing
• Philippa has a very busy schedule but is available for treatments upon request

Career Highlights:

Being involved and devising treatment and rehabilitation programs for Lumbar and Cervical Disc Replacements.

Meeting my Physiotherapy mentor, Robyn McKenzie on several occasions.

Achieving my Credentialing Qualification with the McKenzie Institute.

Treating several All Blacks in the early days of my career.

Working with members of the English Track & Field Commonwealth Games team.

Past and present activities include:

Teaching McKenzie Technique at Griffith University
Lecturing at APA Conference 2002 – Fitball Therapy
Convenor of Gold Coast APA Group for 3 years.

Lisa Graham - Physiotherapist

• Bachelor of Health Science
• Bachelor of Exercise Science
• Master of Physiotherapy
• Member of the Australian Physiotherapy Association
• Member of Sports Physiotherapy Australia
• Member of Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Australia
• Member of Sports Medicine Australia
• Advances in surgery of the knee
• Lumbar-pelvic instability
• Lower limb biomechanics
• McKenzie - Part A, B & C
• Level 1, 2, 3 and 4 Clinical Pilates Instructor
• Sports Physiotherapy Level 1 and 2

Career Highlights:

Maintaining sanity whilst completing 3 degree's …! ! !

Baseball Representative Player

Softball Representative Player

Touch Football Representative for QLD Titles

Being involved in devising treatment and rehabilitation programs for Spinal Surgery patients, including Lumbar and Cervical Disc Replacements and Fusions

Working with members of the English Track & Field Commonwealth Games team.

Past and present activities include:

Committee Member for APA Gold Coast Regional Group

Teaching Physiotherapy and Exercise Science Students at PhysioMaxx

Keeping up to date with the latest research and evidence based practice

Lecturing at Kings International College

Interests:

Outside of work, Lisa enjoys going to the gym, exercising, reading and relaxing with friends.

Stuart Stevenson - Physiotherapist

• Bachelor of Physiotherapy
• McKenzie Part A and B
• Level 1, 2, 3 and 4 Clinical Pilates Instructor
• Mulligans Techniques (Upper & Lower quadrant)
• Acupuncture and Dry Needling
• Member of Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Australia
• Member of Australian Physiotherapy Association
• Level 1 Sports
• Member of Sports Medicine Australia
• Level 1 Spine

Career Highlights:

Being involved in devising treatment and rehabilitation programs for Spinal Surgery patients, including Lumbar and Cervical Disc Replacements and Fusions

Being involved in taking tutorials for Undergraduates at Griffith University

Working in Hospitals in following areas: ICU, Hands, Neurological Rehabilitation, Respiratory & Cardiac Rehabilitation, General Outpatients, General Medicine, Orthopedic, Surgical

Locum Physiotherapist

Working with members of the English Track & Field Commonwealth Games team

Past and present activities include:

Keeping up to date with the latest research and evidence based practice

Amateur Athletics' with Riverside Athletics Club (Tasmania)

Western Districts Athletics Club (South Australia)

League Athletics with Tasmanian Athletic League & South Australian Athletic League

Touch football – Tasmanian Representative Underage

Interests:

Stuarts other interests include riding mountain bikes, walking his dog; planning a holiday for 08 with his wife, and trying to learn some useful languages that they will need.

Tim Cambell - Physiotherapist

• NZRP – New Zealand Registered Physiotherapist
• Member of Australian Physiotherapy Association
• McKenzie Part A,B & C
• Level 1 & 2 Clinical Pilates Instructor
• Member of McKenzie Institute of New Zealand

Career Highlights:

Working with various sports teams including:

• Tall Blacks (New Zealand Men's Basketball)
  2005 – Tour to Australia
  2006 – Tour to South America and the World Championships in Japan
• Waikato Football Club in the New Zealand Football Championships
• New Zealand Representative golfers
• Various Rugby teams
• Waikato Athletics' Representative

Moving to the Gold Coast!!!

Past and present activities include:

Keeping up to date with the latest research and evidence based practice

Developing knowledge particularly in the areas of Clinical Pilates / Stability training, Spinal Surgery and Sports Physiotherapy.

Jodie Harding - Remedial Massage Therapist

• Diploma of Health Science
• Member of AAMT

Jodie is here Monday to Friday. She is available to do all styles of massage from remedial to relaxation. She takes bookings in ½ hour to 1 hour appointments. Gift Certificates are available

Support Staff

The following people are the support staff for the Physiotherapist and the reception area.

Florence Chen

Florence joined our team in August 2007. She has a Bachelor of Business Majoring in Accounting, which she completed at Griffith Uni on the Coast. Florence is a CPA social member and has the task of managing the PhysioMax books, Florence originates from China and has been here for the last 5 years. Her accounting skills and friendly manner have proved a great asset to the practice.

Karen Nicol

Karen has become a master of many skills at PhysioMax. She supervises the front desk. She became employee of the year for 2007 and we're all loving working with her.

Josh Hobart

Josh has been working at PhysioMax for a few years. He had a year off University in 2007 (to our advantage) as he has become a very competent Physioaide and clerical assistant. We will see less of him this year as he starts a Bachelor of Biomedical Science at Griffith University. His hobbies include Snowboarding, most sports, his dogs, girlfriend and saving for a new car.

Hana Tomasevic

Hana graduated from A.B. Patterson College in 2006, she finished her first year of Arts at the end of 07 and used the good grades from last year to pursue a medical career at Griffith University.

Hana loves to travel and is looking forward to a trip to Canada at the start of this year. Her cheerful and bubbly attitude have brought a lot of joy to the practice

Samantha Stevens

Sam is the face and body of PhysioMaxx and appears on all our exercise sheets and promotional material. We thank her for being a great model.

Sam is currently studying Early Childhood at Queensland University of Technology. We are lucky to have her here part time.

Jodie Harding

Jodie is here Monday to Friday. She is available to do all styles of massage from remedial to relaxation. She takes bookings in ½ hour to 1 hour appointments. Gift Certificates are available