About

Dedicated to professional and pre-professional performers reaching their full potential, bodycentric provides services in injury prevention, dance rehab and conditioning, vocal and laryngeal physiotherapy. We help to facilitate your own specific goals, focusing on safely improving the way your body moves and feels through manual therapy and movement. We want you to leave feeling freer, stronger, with more body awareness and the tools to look after your own health in the long term.

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About Melinda
Melinda is a Titled Sports Physiotherapist and has a special interest in physiotherapy for performing artists, assisting and conditioning dancers and singers for injury prevention and performance/voice optimisation. She became a Physiotherapist after a strong dance background. At the age of 13, Melinda performed as a child extra in the English National Ballet Company’s performances of Romeo & Juliet, inspiring her passion to pursue a career as a Professional Ballet Dancer. Whilst striving for this, she developed an injury, requiring extensive Physiotherapy treatment and also discovered the world of Pilates. She learned how to rehabilitate herself, which enabled her to realise her true passion for rehabilitating injuries and actively assisting others to heal, as well as addressing the factors that may have contributed to the injury.

Qualifications:

  • APA Titled Sports Physiotherapist (MACP)

  • Masters in Sports Physiotherapy with La Trobe University, Victoria in 2022 with clinical placements at both the Queensland Ballet & Australian Ballet Companies, being mentored by the most experienced in the field.

  • Master of Physiotherapy (2013) (Graduate Entry) with UniSA

  • Bachelor of Applied Science - Human Movement & Health Studies (2011) with UniSA

  • Diploma of Professional Pilates Instruction through Polestar Pilates International (2011).

Melinda’s career highlights thus far has been working as Physiotherapist for the Australian Ballet Company during their ‘Counterpointe’ tour in Adelaide in 2022 as well as treating Ballet Dancers from Ballett Zürich, Queensland Ballet Company, performers from Frozen the Musical (2022), Hairspray the Musical (2023), guests of State Opera SA, and athletes from Sturt Football Club and North Melbourne AFL Club. She has also worked with many well known Australian vocalists.

Melinda has been the resident Physiotherapist for Musical Theatre productions, including:

  • Mary Poppins (2023)

  • Rocky Horror Show (2023)

  • 9to5 the Musical (2022)

  • Cruel Intentions the 90s Musical (2022)

  • Girl from the North Country (2022)

  • The Wedding Singer (2021)

  • West Side Story (2019)

  • The Book of Mormon (2019)

  • Priscilla Queen of the Desert (2018)

  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2018)

  • The Wizard of Oz (2018)

  • The Rocky Horror Show (2017-2018)

  • The Play That Goes Wrong (2017)

Melinda enjoys the combination of hands on Physiotherapy and movement in the studio. She finds the studio environment allows her to further assess a person's movement patterns and impairments and retrain these accordingly, incorporating evidence-based practice regarding exercise and sound biomechanics so that bodies can function how they should from a muscular, joint, vascular and nervous system perspective.

Dedicated to provide the highest quality in health care, Melinda continuously takes part in professional development to keep current with the best practice.

Current Memberships:

  • Australian College of Physiotherapists (MACP)

  • Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA)

  • Musculoskeletal & Sports Physiotherapy APA Groups

  • Sports Medicine Australia (SMA)

  • Australian Voice Association (AVA)

  • Australian Society for Performing Arts Healthcare (ASPAH)

  • International Association of Dance Medicine (IADMS)

  • Golden Key International Honour Society