I'm Renee. I work with athletes, mostly women, on the injuries that come with loving your sport a bit too much, and on the strength, fuelling and load management that sit underneath them. Track, court, field, road, whatever yours is.
I played hockey at a high level, including for Australia, and I was a WAIS scholarship athlete from 2015 to 2021. When I stepped away from it I felt pretty flat and a bit lost, which surprised me at the time. It turns out a lot of who I thought I was had been tied up in being an athlete.
I found running after that, and I found something else too. As an elite athlete I'd had a whole system around me: people telling me how to fuel, how to build a week, why strength work wasn't optional, and to get a niggle looked at before it became a fracture. Almost nobody outside a squad has that. So you end up training like an athlete with none of the things athletes actually get, and then you get hurt, and the advice is basically to stop.
So that's the gap I work in. I've been a physiotherapist since 2020 and I have a Master of Clinical Physiotherapy with Distinction from Curtin. I'm Head Women's Physiotherapist for East Perth's WAFLW program, and I spent four years at West Coast Physiotherapy Centre working with athletes at Olympic and Paralympic level. I spend most of my time now with female athletes, a lot of them runners, navigating bone stress injuries, load and energy availability. I'll treat the sore bit, but I'm more interested in why it got sore in the first place.
I also think the emotional side of being injured deserves more airtime than it gets. Being told you're out for twelve weeks is not a small thing, and I'd rather talk about that honestly than pretend it's just a physical problem.
Alongside the clinic, I'm the lead physiotherapist for East Perth's WAFLW League and Rogers Cup programs. That covers match day and acute injury management, return to play and return to performance pathways, workload monitoring across a season, and injury prevention programming built with the coaches and the strength and conditioning staff.
It's a whole squad of female athletes, and it's the part of my week that keeps me sharp. Working in football means making return to play calls with real consequences, and it's where I've learned most about being honest with an athlete about what her body can and can't do yet. That's the same standard I bring to the clinic.
If it's a body that moves and it's stopped moving the way you want it to, come and see me, whatever your sport is. These are the things I see most often.
The ones that build up quietly over weeks of training.
Why the injury happened, which is usually the more useful conversation.
Everyday aches and injuries, whether or not you play sport.
In person appointments can be booked online. Initial appointments are longer, because the history is where most of the answers are and I don't want to rush it. If you're not in Perth, you can do the whole thing online.
Your injury, your training history, your load, sleep and fuelling, and where you're trying to get back to. Physical assessment, running and gait analysis where it's useful, hands-on treatment, and you leave with a plan.
For a single, straightforward issue. Still a proper history and assessment, and you still leave with a plan.
Reassess, progress the plan, treat what needs treating and update your programming. Most people come back fortnightly to start with.
A quicker check in to progress your rehab and update your program, for when things are heading in the right direction.
We go through your running history, your training and what you're working towards, and build a running plan around it. Running and gait analysis where it's useful.
Check in on how the plan is going and adjust it around your training, life and how you're actually feeling.
The same conversation and the same plan, done over video. I'll take you through a movement assessment you can do at home, and I'll ask you to send through footage of you running or training beforehand. For anyone outside Perth, or anyone who just wants a second opinion on where their rehab is heading.
A shorter check-in for when you just need the plan progressed or a question answered. Good for the weeks in between, and for keeping things moving when you can't get in.
Online appointments are booked by email for now, so send me an email and we'll find a time. Fees are shown when you book. You can claim private health rebates on in-person appointments, and most funds now cover telehealth physiotherapy as well, though it's worth checking with yours. You don't need a referral to see a physiotherapist. I'm not taking WorkCover or insurance claims at this stage.
Rehab and performance aren't separate things. If you want the strength and the training side built properly rather than pieced together from Instagram, I can write it for you.
Individualised gym programming built around your training, not on top of it. Delivered through an app so you've got it with you.
A running plan that respects your history and your load, whether you're building to a race or building back after time off.
"Rest for six weeks and then see how you go" isn't a plan. Here's what working with me actually looks like.
Your injury, yes, but also your training history, your sleep, your fuelling, your cycle if that's relevant, and what you're actually trying to get back to.
A hands-on and movement assessment, so we're working from what your body is doing rather than from a guess. I'll refer for imaging or bloods if it's warranted.
Individualised, and built around checkpoints you have to meet rather than dates on a calendar. You'll know exactly what you're working towards and why.
A graded return to your sport alongside strength work, adjusted as we go. Strength training isn't cross-training, it's part of the sport.
I consult from 150BPM in Osborne Park. In person appointments can be booked online. For online appointments, or if you're not sure what you need, send me an email.
Pick a time that suits you. You'll get a confirmation email with directions, and if it's your first visit, a short form to fill in beforehand.
Book onlineNot sure which appointment you need? Email me, tell me what's going on and what you're training for, and I'll point you in the right direction. If I'm not the right person for what you've got, I'll tell you honestly. Sometimes the answer is someone else, and I'd rather say so.