News

Important changes - what you need to know!

Overview:

The Department of Health's private health insurance (PHI) reforms for natural therapy take effect on 1 April 2019.
Private health insurance rebates will no longer be available for a number of natural therapies including Pilates.
Physiotherapists and Exercise Physiologists will be the only practitioners who can deliver exercises drawn from Pilates within their scope of practice and claim rebates.

Now that the 2018/19 WNBL season is over, we chatted with Alphington Sports Medicine Clinic Physiotherapist Gaylene McKay about her involvement.

Prep time: 10 minutes

Serves: 4

Ingredients

200g brown rice vermicelli noodles

Now that the Rebel Women’s Big Bash League season has come to an end, we found time to sit down with Alphington Sports Medicine Clinic (ASMC) Physiotherapist Gordon Pritchard to chat about his involvement.

The festive season is fast approaching so we wanted to take this chance to say:

Merry Christmas to all - we wish you a happy & healthy 2019!

Our standard hours over the Christmas and New Year period are:

Specialist Sports & Exercise Physiotherapy service now available for consultancy on complex conditions. 

Kay Copeland, one of our most experienced practitioners here at Alphington Sports Medicine Clinic, is now a Specialist Sports & Exercise Physiotherapist* (as awarded by the Australian College of Physiotherapists in 2018).

In this role she will act as a consultant to current treating practitioners to progress complex conditions.

Kristen Papathanasiou is an Accredited Practising Dietitian, Accredited Sports Dietitian and an Approved Eating Disorder Practitioner.

If you hate Brussels sprouts you're doing it all wrong. Boiled soggy sprouts are a thing of the past.

If you want to avoid the stink the trick is to keep the sprouts RAW.

Give my SPROUT & SPECK SALAD a go...