Our Presenters
Craig Phillips
B.App.Sc (physio) Mphysio (sports) APAM
Consultant Physiotherapist, APA Sports Physiotherapist Clinical Pilates Founder / DMA Director.
Craig started his career as a professional dancer with the Australian Ballet, where he developed what was to become a lifelong interest in Pilates.
After graduating from physiotherapy in 1987 and receiving special project grants from the Australia Council, Craig undertook further training in the USA and UK returning to establish the first Pilates clinic in Australia within a major sports medicine clinic, Prahran Sports Medicine in Melbourne. He developed a leading reputation with major stage and touring shows such as Cameron Mackintosh, Riverdance, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Theatre Company, to name but a few as one of the first to manage performers as high level athletes. He served 9 years on the Board of the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science working closely with international performing arts medicine specialists.
He continues to work with Olympic medal winners, Institutes of Sports, English Premier League, Australian and British Defence Forces and has overseen published masters and doctoral research projects in Australian, New Zealand and UK universities.
The effectiveness and popularity of this treatment method led Craig to establish training for other physiotherapists in. He continues to lecture and present extensively worldwide, to date having trained over 10,000 physiotherapists in Clinical Pilates.
Craig enjoys his work as a consultant treating patients, continuing his passion of developing and overseeing research projects into the Clinical Pilates programme.
Louise Huntley
B.Sc, grad dip sports physio, mcsp, hpc reg
Since qualifying from Brunel University in 1996 Louise’s career has seen her work in a number of different health care settings including the NHS and Private Hospitals in and around London. Louise has extensive experience within rugby and has been a Physiotherapist for many of the London clubs.
In 2003 she completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Sports Physiotherapy and specialises in the treatment and rehabilitation of knee and back injuries. As a fully trained dma clinical pilates™ instructor Louise tours the country teaching other physiotherapists how they can use clinical pilates™ as part of their treatment approach
Sam Leslie
Sports Physio
Sam has 26 years experience in private practice including work at AFL, EPL, NRL, Sydney Olympics and Australian Cycling, Athletics, Diving and Water Polo Teams. He also completed Masters in Sports Physiotherapy (2010) receiving the restricted title of Titled APA Sports Physiotherapist.
He was head physiotherapist for the Australian Team Uniroos. World Universiade Games, Kazan Russia 2013, Gwangju, South Korea 2015 and Taipei, Taiwan 2017, head Physiotherapist for Australian Athletics team at World Universiade Games, Napoli, Italy 2019, head Physiotherapist to Nitro Athletics, Chinese Athletics and Athletics Victoria.
Sam is currently undertaking MPhil into “Can direction specific Gym Programming enhance athletic ability and prevent injury?”
He is a current and Past Experience as Physiotherapist to the Australian Ski and Mogul Academy (AUSMSA) including work at the 2018 Winter Olympics, GreenEdge Professional Cycling Team, Team Sky Professional Cycling Team, Garmin Cervelo Professional Cycling Team, Honda Dream Team, Swedish National Cycling Team, and VIS Cycling Team, African Wildlife Safaris Cycling Team, Australian Institute of Sport appointed Physiotherapist to the Australian Cycling Team’s European Tour 2008.
Sam was awarded AIS Sports course ‘Best Speaker’ award 2010 & in 2019, was awarded Instructor of the Year – Aminoneurofrequency Therapy – read more here https://myphysio.physio/
He has a particular interest in treatment of the “Difficult shoulder”. Completed case series on: “Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome as well as conditions with associated symptoms of autonomic nervous system dysfunction (Dysautonomias)”
Current Tutor for the Australian Physiotherapy Association Sports Physiotherapy Courses with a special interest in improving running efficiency and athletic power generation.
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