Michelle graduated with a
B.SC in Physiotherapy from the University of Cape Town in 2000.She has over 20 years of experience and has worked in South Africa and the United Kingdom in the private sector covering a wide range of musculoskeletal conditions. She has a special interest in track and field injuries especially sprinting, jumping, and long-distance running but enjoys managing all types of musculoskeletal conditions.
She believes that the body functions as a unit and that pain and injury are multidimensional, affecting many parts of the kinetic chain and other related areas. She is committed to finding the root cause of her patient’s pain. Her focus is on assessing the entire body to correct imbalances. She utilizes a combination of hands-on musculoskeletal techniques with strengthening and rebalancing exercises as well as pilates and mobility to manage her patient’s condition through her additional training as an Integrative Health Practitioner.
She has a passion for dealing with patients holistically, understanding that often injury and pain are related to other stressors such as disturbances in sleep patterns, overtraining, emotional stress, or dietary stress which all contribute to chronic overall body burden and heighten the inflammatory response in the body. She is passionate about helping patients rebalance their bodies to optimize recovery and return to their highest level of health and function. In her free time she is a committed active mother of 2 boys, and enjoys traveling, hiking, weightlifting, and running, whilst also helping patients in her other passions such as health coaching, pilates and energy healing practices.
