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About Stephen Valassakis
MSc, BSc
Physiotherapy
Sports Therapy
Stephen Valassakis is a physiotherapist, educator, and researcher, combining his roles to work with individuals, coaches, and teams internationally across a variety of sports and environments.
Previously he has worked within elite sports, particularly professional football in various roles including Head Physiotherapist positions. Currently, he is the Head Physiotherapist for the Australian Indigenous Roos & Koalas in Australia and travels across Australia, along with international consultancy, to work with clients, coaches, and clubs.
Experience
Having grown up in Brisbane, Australia, Stephen moved over the the United Kingdom playing football (soccer) semi-professionally.
During his time in the UK, he gained extensive education and experience in physiotherapy, rehabilitation, and sports performance medicine. This includes working with a wide variety of teams and athletes, in various capacities, including professional football (English Premier League, International Football, English Football Leagues, English National League), rugby, marathon athletes, athletics, AFL, cyclists, and basketball athletes.
Stephen has also featured as a guest lecturer on a variety of topics for university degree programs along with being an educator for a private sports therapy and rehabilitation company.
His passion and ethos is to ensure both high-performance and return-to-performance following injury using evidence-based practice and key objective testing/measures. He believes the strategies and technologies used in elite sport, should not just be used for athletes, however for all health-conscious individuals looking to enhance their health, performance & rehabilitation.
He is particularly interested in joint/ACL rehabilitation, lower limb muscle/tendon injury, complex bone stress/fracture injuries along with athletic hip & groin pain.
He currently lives in Brisbane, Australia and travels across Australia to work with clients, coaches, and teams, along with providing online consultancy services internationally.
Our focus is your focus
optimising injury reconditioning, health & performance.
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Precision
Using technology & equipment from the world of elite sport, we ensure our data-driven insights are precise, maximising health, performance & rehabilitation.
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Performance
Our experienced team not only help to get you out of pain, however also focus on getting you back to living a life of high performance, whatever that means for you
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Excellence
We are committed to excellence. That's why we utilise experienced practitioners to provide contextualised, data-driven therapy, health & performance solutions.
Our mission at Physfitrehab is to drive real results for our clients. We believe that sustained, consistent success starts with data-driven testing insights that help you get out of pain and achieve high-performance.