About
Ciara, originally from the Emerald Isle, is passionate about providing you with the best care and helping you achieve your goals! Ciara has vast experience in anything musculoskeletal, life, or sports-related. If further care is needed, she will refer you to some of the best specialists in the area. She specializes in dry needling, Pilates, strength & conditioning, as well as providing you with a good giggle. As a Gaelic footballer, AFL player, triathlete, professional dance (after a few drinks on a Saturday night) and Pilates lover, she understands what the body needs.
Working for nearly a decade as a physiotherapist, Ciara has worked in private practice all over the world, including Boston, USA, Les Mills in Auckland CBD, NZ, and for the past four years in Sydney. She has worked with athletes from Collegiate track & field, American Football, and basketball teams in Boston, the New Zealand Warriors NRL academy team, plus Gaelic football, hurling, AFL, and soccer teams all across the world.
What We Do
Physiotherapy
Following an initial assessment, where any injuries or concerns are identified, she will work with you to provide you with the a treatment plan. Treatments will include evidence based hands on therapy including massage, dry needling and manual therapy as well as focused exercise prescription including mobility & strength. Throughout the entire process She will focus on educating you, while making sure to treat the underlying cause of any issue you have, not just the symptom!
Functional Strength Assessment
Using state of the art AxIT dynamometry software, a full body functional assessment can be done to analyse power and strength throughout your body. Using this testing research, a better training plan can be provided, after identifying imbalances and weaknesses. Giving real time biofeedback, the technology can be used to track your progress, with your data stored safely for reanalysis. Equipment previously only used in elite sports or research labs is now available to you!
Functional Strength/ Personal Training
Go to the gym but don’t know what to do? Do you do the same thing over and over? Going to the gym 5 times a week doing HIIT classes but don’t feel any stronger? Let Ciara use her experience to design a functional strength & conditioning training programme specific to you that sees you excel and achieve your goals- Whether you are training for an iron man or just want to be able to play with your kids.
Learn how to train, when to train and what to train!
Clinical Pilates
Pilates is a low impact form of exercise designed to help you enhance balance, core strength, mobility, flexibility, posture and pelvic floor musculature. Ciara has nearly a decade of years experience as a STOTT trained Pilates instructor. She has taught one on one, small group and a range of different teams including Gaelic football, hurling, soccer, Rugby, swim and athletic teams.
Clinical Pilates focuses around a more individualised approach, addressing your injury, concerns as well as any of your fitness goals.
The Studio
Once you enter the clinic, Ciara's main goal is for you to feel at home. Then head downstairs to the gym and clinic space to get your sweat on. In the studio lies all the fitness and gym equipment you will need to become your own superstar! With state of the art AxIT dynamometry technology available to you, your treatment and training will be elevated to the next level.
Who do we treat?
Everybody!
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Struggling to get through a day at the office because of back or neck pain?
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Struggling in the last 5k of your run?
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Want to try and achieve your fitness goal but don't know where to start?
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Having pain during pregnancy?
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Just had surgery and need to start rehab?
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The dreaded ACL tear?
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Getting headaches recently?
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Have you had a work injury, been involved in a motor vehicle accident or do you have an injury from your time in service?
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Have you been prescribed a Medicare plan or DVA plan from your GP?
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Want to get a running assessment?
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Have you been diagnosed with osteoporosis, oesteo or rheumatoid arthritis and been told you need to begin exercise?
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Is your child struggling during their sport or have back pain?
You name it, Ciara has seen it and she can help you!
Whatever the concern, she will assess, plan treatment with you,
discuss goals, educate, prescribe exercise programmes and help you excel!