Certified Instructors

Chief Instructors Australia
SONIA OFFORD -BPhty (UQ), MPhtySt (UQ)- Sports Physiotherapist Sonia Offord is a lecturer at Griffith University on the Gold Coast (Queensland, Australia) where she convenes both undergraduate and postgraduate programs in Sports and Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy as well as managing the physiotherapy clinical education program. Sonia’s special interest is in sporting biomechanics, particularly in tennis, as well as the identification of risk factors for injury prevention in athletes. Her clinical focus is advanced clinical reasoning skills, principally in the prescription and progression of exercise rehabilitation programs including the use of diagnostic ultrasound. Sonia also has over 15 years experience working as a consultant APA Sports Physiotherapist in private practice and to various state and national sporting bodies including. Tennis Australia and the Australian Paralympic Association. Sonia has published research on the effects of taping particularly with respect to lateral epicondylalgia.
Europe
JAMES MOORE Manipulative & Sports Physiotherapist Strength & Conditioning Specialist Pilates Instructor Acupuncture / Gunn IMS Practitioner James Moore is a highly experienced Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist. James holds an honours degree in Physiotherapy from Kings College London, a Masters in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy from the renowned University of Queensland, Australia and an additional Masters of Science in Applied Biomechanics. In addition to private clinical work he has worked throughout the UK, USA & Australia with professional athletes ranging from Olympic Track & Field, National & Premiership Rugby, Premiership football, American Football, Major League Baseball, Body builders and was the medical team leader for Gloucestershire County Cricket for two years. He is currently the National Clinical Lead Physiotherapist to UK Athletics and therapy team leader for the London National Performance Centre heading towards the London 2012 Olympics, as well as a Consultant Physiotherapist to the RFU (Rugby Football Union) elite performance squad. James also has a strong research interest, and has studied topics such as: • Thoracic spine mobility and its relationship to Cervicogenic headaches • Posterior lateral corner knee injuries • Hamstring injuries, both in terms of risk reduction and speed development • Abdominal related groin pain • Hip joint pathology • Hip joint mechanics, both in terms of mechanical overload, and optimisation for performance • Acute and persistent adductor related groin pain • Achilles tendonopathy • Ankle & foot mechanics His clinical passion lies with Hip and Groin injuries, where he developed and founded the Sporting Hip & Groin course, with Mark Young, the National Lead Physiotherapist to the ECB. Through this specialist area, he has consulted for a number of Premier league & championship football clubs and Premiership Rugby Clubs. He now Consults in Harley Street on a weekly basis for these specific problems and other recalcitrant sports injuries.
RYAN KENDRICK MPhtySt, BPhty. Managing Director Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist IMS Practitioner Ryan earned his Bachelor of Physiotherapy degree from the University of Queensland, Australia in 1994 and a Masters in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy under the same world renowned guidance, which included Gwen Jull, Carolyn Richardson, Paul Hodges and Bill Vicenzino. Ryan has worked extensively in the area of Musculoskeletal & Sports Physiotherapy with roles including Personal Physiotherapist to former world number four, Greg Rusedski on the ATP Tennis Tour and British Davis Cup team, and Team Physiotherapist for Essex County Cricket Club in the United Kingdom. As a Private Practitioner he has been involved in the management of European Tour Golfers and Olympic and Commonwealth Games athletes in the disciplines of swimming, rowing, fencing, archery and triathlon to name a few. Due to the strong biomechanical nature of the injuries in these sports and the limitations encountered with the available taping products, Ryan set about developing a product that would permit full range of movement but allow genuine mechanical assistance to alter movement patterns or to assist the role of injured tissues. The result is Dynamic Tape. Accompanying this is the Dynamic Taping Method, a novel approach to taping based on biomechanical principles and physiology of muscles, ligaments and connective tissue. Ryan has also been a Clinical Tutor for the Musculoskeletal Component of the Griffith University Physiotherapy programme. He has had a number of television appearances in Australia including on the ABC Television programme ‘The New Inventors’ where his PosturePals product won the episode.
Certified Instructors
Germany
ANNEGRET LINGENBERG Physiotherapist Pilates Instructor Physiotherapist specialist in back problems Fitness Instructor Anne graduated as a physiotherapist in Germany. She specialized in cranio-sacral- therapy, structural osteopathy and Chiropractic by Ackermann and functional osteopathy and integration (FOI). She also works with a lot craniomandibular dysfunction and migraine patients. In addition to her practice work, she works in a company as a medical adviser specialized on physiotherapy and fitness and gives classes and personal training in the field of Nordic walking, Pilates and prenatal Pilates.
BRITTA DAHMEN BA Physiotherapy Britta Dahmen holds a Bachelor Degree from the Hogeschool van Amsterdam. She works primarily in the fields of orthopaedic and musculoskeletal physiotherapy. Britta has trained in a variety of manual therapy approaches including Mulligan's in addition to a number of Osteopathic Techniques . Britta has experience as both an athlete and clinician in the area of track and field and weight lifting. Britta's exposure to various approaches has been enhanced by a 9 month stint in Kuwait in a private setting with several Canadian and Irish Physiotherapists. Following this Britta has returned to her native Germany where she currently works in private practice in Oberhausen.
THOMAS NIKOLAUS Master of Sport Science Thomas has extensive experience in the management of musculoskeletal and sports injuries having worked at the Centres for Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation in Frankfurt/Main (Pro-Reha) and Idstein as well as the Centre for Back Surgery in Darmstadt. Having also been an elite level hockey player, Thomas is able to appreciate injury from the athletes perspective. Thomas currently practises as the Principal Physiotherapist at Prae Vital in Darmstadt, Germany. Thomas is also an experienced K–Taping Practitioner making him well positioned to appreciate and explain the significant differences between Dynamic Taping and K-Taping and how these two completely different products and approaches can complement your current treatment approach.
Czech Republic
DANIEL SOBOTKA Physiotherapist Daniel gained his Physiotherapy degree at the 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University Prague. Since this time he has gained extensive experience in the field of musculoskeletal and sports physiotherapy. He has wide ranging manual skills including McKenzie Therapy, Soft Tissue and Mobilisation techniques, Sensorimotor Stimulation, Manual Lymphatic Drainage, KineziTaping and now joins us as a certified Dynamic Taping Instructor. These skills have been sought after in roles as Team Physiotherapist to SK Slavia Praha Football Team and the Czech National Under 21 Football Team. This is combined with roles as Physiotherapist at the Rehabilitation Clinics of University Hospital Královské Vinohrady, Praha and the Physiotherapy Unit at Czech Televsion.
MARIKA BAJEROVA Mgr. - Master of physiotherapy Musculosceletal Physiotherapist Marika is a master of musculosceletal physiotherapy and she works primarily in the fields of orthopaedic and musculoskeletal physiotherapy in her private surgery in Příbor. In her therapy she uses a wide range of therapeutic concepts, methods and techniques, in which she was professionally trained. She focuses on patients with acute and chronic pain of the spine and joints with different etiology in childhood and in adulthood. Further specialization of her work is the therapy of gynecological diseases with etiology on musculosceletal system and therapy during pregnancy and after delivery. Marika is a lecturer at Palacký University Olomouc, Faculty of Physical Culture, Department of Physiotherapy where she teaches at bachelors and masters programs. She herself graduated from the her bachelors and masters programs here. The main topic of her scientific focus is the research of proprioception in physiotherapy. The results of her work she presented at many conferences and congresses held in the Czech Republic.
Norway
FRODE FUGLEHAUG Bachelor Degree Physiotherapy, University Bergen. Medical Training Therapy, Bergen. Sling Therapy (Red Cord) Special interest: Neuromusculer training, taping and orthotics
GEIR ARNE AARSETH Bachelor of Science with honours Physiotherapy Univerisity of Northumbria at Newcastle, England. Master of Sports Physiotherapy University of Queensland, Australia. Master of Manipulative Physiotherapy University of Queensland, Australia. Specialist : Manual Therapy Special interest: Lower limb biomechanics, Taping, Orthotics