Physios who treat, train and teach

Mia Bailey

“My philosophy is simple: understand the person, challenge the process, and never settle for the minimum. I want to help people not only return to what they do, but do it better.”

Mia is a physiotherapist who works in local AFL football, giving her regular exposure to the demands of team sport. Much of her work involves the soft tissue injuries common in field sport athletes, including hamstring, calf and Achilles conditions.

Mia takes an individualised approach to physiotherapy, with a focus on thorough assessment and clear, structured management plans for both acute injuries and ongoing conditions. For Achilles-related complaints, for example, she considers factors such as calf strength and running mechanics as part of building a plan suited to the individual. Her interest in team sport injuries makes her well placed to work with footballers and other field sport athletes across different levels of competition.

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Jasmine Genis

“My philosophy is to understand each individual and identify the factors contributing to their symptoms, so I can develop an approach that helps them achieve their health and performance goals.”

Jas brings over 5 years of experience working in high-level field-based sport, with roles across AFLW and VFL competitions. Her background in football has given her a strong foundation in lower limb injury management, including knee, hip, ankle and soft tissue conditions common to field sport athletes.

Jas takes an individualised approach to physiotherapy, with a focus on thorough assessment and building clear, structured plans for both acute injuries and ongoing management. Her special interest in field-based sports makes her well placed to work with football players and other field sport athletes across all levels of competition.

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James Elwin

James brings a wealth of injury management experience working across Australia and internationally. James has been fortunate enough to work in Melbourne and Canberra, as well as having traveling sports injury experience working with elite cricketers. James has extensive knowledge in dealing with injuries of the shoulder, back, neck and lower limb injuries through to cricket, weightlifting and team sport injuries such as football.

James has additional training in weightlifting coaching. James himself is a keen footballer in winter and cricket physio in Summer and is also a competitive Olympic lifter and Crossfit gym owner.

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Samuel Toll

Sam brings a thorough, individualised and evidence-based approach to his physiotherapy. With extensive experience in athletics and distance running as a competitive runner himself (5km PB 14:31, Half Marathon PB 67:47), Sam utilises a precise understanding of load management and running training approaches in his practise.

Additional training in sport, strength and conditioning, recreational running coaching, dry needling, running shoe technology, and fascial treatment further allow Sam to manage a range of injuries. This includes working with post-surgical patients, muscle and tendon pain, knee and other joint pain in variety of individual and team sports.

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Lydia McCloskey

As an experienced clinician with MAD Physiotherapy Lydia has extensive experience with musculoskeletal and shoulder injuries, post surgical rehabilitation, hip pain and has extensive experience working with athletic populations across weightlifting, track and field, Crossfit, rowing and field sports such as soccer, AFL and hockey. Her physiotherapy knowledge is enhanced as she is a national level weightlifting athlete.

With further training in sports coaching Lydia has experience with assessment of gym lifting technique and retraining and rehabilitating lifting tasks. She has further training in use of dry needling, fascial treatment and soft tissue management and advanced skills in strength and rehabilitation program development.

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Jack Williams

Over the past 14 years, Jack continues to build on his physiotherapy background completing a Masters of Exercise Science, a three-year yoga apprenticeship, and more recently, became a Certified Fascial Manipulation practitioner and teacher through the Fascial Manipulation Institute.

His approach includes understanding how previous injuries, surgeries and health status contribute to current pain, providing a holistic analysis to assessing and treatment of musculoskeletal pain, including back and neck pain. Jack has a particular interest in persistent musculoskeletal pain.

Outside of his clinical role, Jack is the director of MAD Education, presenting extensively to major professional organisations in Australia including the Australia Physiotherapy Association in addition to teaching professional development courses and workshops both in Melbourne and across Australia.

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John Nicolosi

“My philosophy has always been to guide people to achieve their optimum health and performance. I see my role is to provide you with the tools so you can be at your highest level of capability”

John has 15 years of experience as a physiotherapist and has obtained further education in areas of physiotherapy, strength and conditioning.

He has substantial experience in the management of post surgical patients, knee injuries, low back pain, including spinal surgery, and sports injuries with particular expertise in running injuries such as complex hamstring strain injury.

John is the head coach of the MAD Track Team, personally coaching sprinters to the Tokyo and Paris Olympic games and the Birmingham Commonwealth Games. He has further training in use of dry needling, fascial treatment and soft tissue management with extensive experience in post muscle strain rehabilitation programming.

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