EMMA SULLEY (she/they)
Co-Founder, Post Grad physiotherapist, pilates and yoga instructor
Specialist interests:
Dance + performing arts, circus, vocal physiotherapy. Swimming + waterpolo. Hypermobility, EDS + POTS. Autoimmune + inflammatory disorders- psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, rheumatoid arthritis. juvenile arthritis, lupus, crohn's disease. Chronic pain. Exercise rehab including gym, pilates + yoga. Queer and trans health.
Services:
Physiotherapy, dance physio assessments including pre-pointe, TDCA, Vocal physiotherapy/ vocal unloading, clinical pilates, dry needling, cupping, massage, manipulation, yoga.
Qualifications:
APA Titled Post Grad Sports and Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist​
BSc Physiotherapy
Master of Clinical Physiotherapy (Sports Physiotherapy)
Master of Clinical Physiotherapy (Manipulative Physiotherapy)
Certificate of Polestar Pilates (Rehabilitation)
Certificate in Clinical Pilates (APPI)
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Emma Sulley is an APA titled post graduate qualified sports and musculoskeletal physiotherapist with over 24 years of experience in rehabilitating sports and musculoskeletal injuries and pain between London and Australia.
Emma specialises in dance and performing arts physiotherapy, vocal physiotherapy, sports physiotherapy and chronic and persistent pain conditions. Emma has worked with dancers from the Australian Ballet, Chunky Move, the Australian Dance Theatre, Bangarra Dance Theatre, WAAPA, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Ballet Black and Rambert Dance Company; circus performers from the Hoxton Circus Space; West End and Hollywood leading actors and international musicians. Emma works with many musical theatre and West End productions when touring through Perth including &Juliet, Chicago, Dirty Dancing, Rocky Horror Show, The Book of Mormon, Moulin Rouge, Disney's Frozen, The Lion King and Faulty Towers.
Emma has worked as a physiotherapist at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games at the aquatic and water polo arenas, the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games at the gymnastics and netball arenas and has toured internationally with Australia’s Olympic Women’s Water Polo team, the Stingers. Emma has taught kinesiology for dance at Dynamic Performing Arts and was a principal educator for the Australian Physiotherapy and Pilates Institute. Emma currently also works with Curtin University as a Clinical Supervisor for Postgraduate Physiotherapy students, with Performance Medicine working on musicals touring through Perth and at the Perth School of Ballet running a Dancers physiotherapy clinic and Pilates and conditioning classes for dancers.
Emma has undertaken extensive education with leading UK Rheumatology specialists in hypermobility and EDS. Emma was the lead physiotherapist working on ‘Issues with my Tissues’, a British documentary made with the goal of raising awareness of EDS both within patients but also within the medical community.
Emma is passionate about taking the time to get to the underlying cause of your ongoing pain or injury and utilises up-to-date evidence informed treatments. Owing to Emma’s extensive training and personal experience in the dance and sporting arenas Emma is able to understand the complexities of your problem, to help you get back to your best self as soon as possible.
In her spare time Emma loves jazz dance classes, yoga, walking her dogs on the beach and trying to get any ounce of affection from her cat, Tiggy, that she can.