The team

Heather brings a warm, clinician-centred approach to physiotherapy, drawing on experience across both acute hospital settings and high-performance sport. Originally from Ireland and now based in Melbourne, she has worked with diverse patient populations across a range of conditions and clinical environments.

Her background in high-performance sport includes working with soccer, hurling, and Gaelic football — Ireland’s national field sports — giving her a strong foundation in the demands of team sport athletes. Heather has a particular interest in pitch-side injuries and running-related conditions, and applies a strengthening-focused approach to help patients return to the activities that matter most to them.

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.

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.

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 an 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.

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. He is also effective at finding solutions to chronic problems that have not completely resolved with other treatment interventions.

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.

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.

With 10 years of coaching experience, Tom has extensive knowledge in the development of sports performance across adult and youth sports preparation.

With experience working with MMA, rowing, hockey, football and track and field athletes, Tom brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to this role.

Tom enhances his coaching and performance management with personal experience as a national level track and field sprinter.

Tom excels in the development of physical performance with advanced knowledge in strength, speed, power and agility training. He uses these skills to enhance performance for sports teams, in person strength coaching and online sports performance coaching.