Mr Seif Wardani Clinician

02/04/22 • 59 min

Physio+10 focuses on the journeys of trailblazing Physiotherapists and today's conversation is with Mr Seif Wardani. Seif is part of the team that provides medical services for the male players at the Australian Tennis Open. He also covers FC Copehagen. Find out if it is skill, hard work, luck, or good looks that assisted him to cover two elite sports.

In this conversation with Seif we also learn;
* How his day providing physiotherapy to a professional European round ball team pans out
* What he thinks new graduates should focus on clinically
* What enabled him to move beyond his low point professionally
* The importance of developing a network of support and contacts

Biography
Seif is a Notre Dame Physiotherapy Graduate from the Class of 2009, who endeavored to explore a career in Sports Physiotherapy and elite Sports. Upon completion of his Sports Masters post-graduate program at the University of Queensland in Brisbane Seif took a leap of faith with a move to Copenhagen (Denmark) where he quickly had to find his feet in a completely new environment & country. Seif finally reaped the benefits of this move by securing contracts with FC Copenhagen and the ATP Tour shortly after his move to Europe. He has just completed 6 years at FC Copenhagen in 2020 as the Long Term Injury & Sports Performance Physiotherapist and continues to work with the ATP as a Sports Physiotherapist on the Men's Professional Tennis Circuit around the world.

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A/Prof Craig Allingham: Clinician | Author | Educator

Physio+10 focuses on the journeys of trailblazing Physiotherapists and today's conversation is with A/Prof Craig Allingham. Apart from carrying the Olympic flame, Craig has illuminated many vanguard areas of physiotherapy. Being a sports physio when there was no such course, creating books on Men's health when the topic barely existed, and incorporating business concepts into a mostly, sole practitioner based-industry.

In this conversation with Craig we learn;
* what Craig & Monty Python have in common
* the benefit of stepping outside of our normal boundaries and asking questions
* how doors open when opportunities are explored
* and at the end, you will hear 2 stories describing a 180 degree U-turn, on what we think makes a therapeutic relationship work

Biography
Craig's first ten years as a physio consisted of public hospital, start a practice, post-graduate study, sell a practice, move house five times, travel with a national sports team, join sports physio group committee, go to several APA Conferences and have two kids. Then it got really busy.
Now in the twilight of his career, Craig looks back on four Olympic Teams, academic appointments, headlining international conferences, several major changes in professional direction, retiring then unretiring and his current job description is as a 'Freelance Physiotherapist'. It has been brilliant fun.
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A/Prof Shaun O'Leary Researcher | Educator | Clinician

Physio+10 focuses on the journeys of trailblazing Physiotherapists and today's conversation is with Associate Professor Shaun O'Leary. Failing year 12 isn't exactly the ideal start to a planned career in Physiotherapy, but as the youngest in a family of sugarcane growers that is how Shaun's journey did start. Oh, did I mention that he also had to get over a boyhood romance of being a pro golfer!

In this conversation with Shaun we also learn;

how his learning strategies had to change midway through his physio training to reflect a maturing in the nature of the content being learned
about his gypsy years in Europe and Australia post-graduation
that he has a passion for lifelong learning
about his ongoing professional commitment to the Australian College of Physiotherapists and the Specialisation pathway

Biography
Dr Shaun O’Leary is a Senior Fellow in Physiotherapy between the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Queensland (UQ), and the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH) Physiotherapy Department and Neurosurgical/Orthopaedic Screening Clinics. He is also a Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist as awarded by the Australian College of Physiotherapists.
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