Community Recommended Practitioner Listings

Practitioner Listings

The names and details below have been collected from you, the HSP community, and offered here as a resource to locate medical and allied health professionals. They are not a recommendation from the Foundation. You will need to assess the suitability of any particular practitioner for yourself.

Neurologists & other relevant specialists

Victoria

Barry Rawicki

Rehabilitation Physician – spasticity management, gait management; Paediatric Rehab.

Assoc. Professor of Medicine, Monash University, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton.

Head of Rehabilitation at the Epworth Rehabilitation Centre, Brighton.

Medical Director of St John of God Healthcare, Nepean Rehabilitation.

and

Moorabbin Specialist Centre

873 Centre Rd,

Bentleigh East. Vic. 3165

Main office Phone: 03 9570 3300

“He is absolutely brilliant – he specialises in Neurology, Spinal Cord and Pain Rehabilitation.”

Andrew Churchyard

Neurologist

Cabrini Hospital

East Malvern, Melbourne. VIC

Ph: 03 9500 9899

“Andrew is fantastic…very pro-active, I cant sing his praises enough! Originally trained as a psychiatrist, he then majored in neurology, and both these streams of medicine have been immensely beneficial with all aspects of care. Andrew works predominantly with the HSPer, but also meets with all family members in a mental health capacity, which has been enormously helpful and refreshing that a medico would actively address this side of an ongoing ailment.”

“Very proactive in trying to get you to manage the disease, always happy to help you with anything you want to know, an easy person to go along with. Found him very easy to deal with and would recommend him to anyone!!”

Anita Vinton

Neurologist

Cabrini Hospital

East Malvern, Melbourne. VIC

Ph: 03 9500 0172

“ … was onto it immediately and her helping me understand what I had was extremely sensitively and intelligently handled.”

Michael Fahey

Neurogeneticist / Paediatric Neurologist

Suite 12, 212 Clayton Rd
Clayton VIC
phone 9542 0000

Queensland

Dan McLaughlin

Neurologist

Ladhope Chambers, 131 Wickham Terrace, Brisbane 4000

phone 3831 1704

John O’Sullivan

Neurologist

St. Andrew’s Place, 33 North St, Spring Hill 4000

ph 3832 0501

Physiotherapists

Queensland

Roger McIntosh

North West Medical Centre

125 Flockton St.

Everton Park Queensland 4051

Ph: 3353 4111

Email: roger@northwestphysio.com.au

“Roger goes out of his way to meet my physical needs and has given me a better quality of life. I would highly recommend him to other HSPers on the northside of Brisbane. He also has connections with a heated pool for hydrotherapy sessions located nearby.”

Liz Harewood and Matthew Vincent – Allsports Physiotherapy & Sports Medicine Clinics

Forest Lake Blvd
Forest Lake
Brisbane
Ph: 3278 8544

http://www.allsportsphysio.com.au/Home.aspx

Liz Harewood
Liz has worked in the rehabilitation field working with patients with neurological and balance disorders.
She has special interests in pelvic biomechanics and the use of dry needling and western acupuncture to reduce pain and restore normal muscle function.

Matthew Vincent
Runs the hydrotherapy program conducted at the Forest Lake Aquatic Centre, and is qualified in the application of aquatic physiotherapy providing one on one treatment for all patient types.

ACT

Deborah Carrera

Neurological Physiotherapist

Neurospace, Health and Wellness Hub, Unit 8, 70 MacLaurin Crescent Chifley ACT 2606

Phone: 6162 0450

Website: www.neurospace.com.au

Email: admin@neurospace.com.au

Also utilises Skype for regional consults

“I have been seeing Deborah at her practice for the past two years and have found her to be knowledgeable about HSP and effective treatments. This includes taking into consideration the goals and outcomes that I desire to achieve. With me being a person that needs to be constantly challenged with exercise and strength regimes, Deborah has been able to address these matters through presenting numerous regimes that keep me ‘challenged’, and motivated. Her constant encouragement, coupled with her expertise in neurological physiotherapy has produced what I consider as rapid improvements over time and the present stable nature of my condition.”

NSW

Lea McQuade

Physiotherapist- home physiotherapy service specialising in rehabilitation and Spinal Cord Injury

Harbord NSW 2096

ph: (02) 9905 9876 mobile: 0400 49 81 49

“Lea understands HSP and helps me understand things I can do to help myself including a regular program with particular stretches and exercises.”

Ann Buchan

Neurophysiotherapist

Unley Physiotherapy

160 Unley Rd

Unley, SA 5061

Ph: (08) 8373 2132

Tamina Levy

Neurophysiotherapist

216 Daws Rd

Daw Park SA 5051

and

5/259 Unley Road

Unley SA 5061

mobile: 0409 282 210

Adding Your Recommendation

If you have a doctor, a physiotherapist, a neurologist, a podiatrist or other medical or allied health professional whom you are happy to recommend, then please let us know by providing the following information in the Comments box below: