Meet Jessica.
The owner and founder behind Milestones.
Phone 0457 286 111
Hi. I’m Jess.
I’m a Mum of 3, Wife to a bearded-bike-loving man; Pilates enthusiast; closet stage queen; movement analyser; passionate supporter and advocate of play-based learning, getting back-to-basics and simplifying parenting and senior physiotherapist.
It may seem like a mouthful. But it’s ‘me’ in a nutshell. Hopefully I have the opportunity to connect with you further and find out about all the little things that make you, YOU (and beyond).
My journey into Physiotherapy.
I graduated from James Cook University in 2008 and commenced my journey in Private practice in Cairns, and then transitioned to QLD Health. I have over 15 years experience working across a variety of work environments including:
- Hospitals (Cairns, Innisfail, Biloela and Gladstone Hospitals)
- Community (Child Development Service and Community Health)
- Private practice – Cairns and Gladstone
- ICU, Medical, CCU, Oncology, Surgical, Orthopaedic and Respiratory wards
- Paediatric and Women’s health ward and outpatient physiotherapist – including clubfoot and cystic fibrosis clinics.
- Community – Child Development Service, including outreach services and Special Care Baby Unit Premmie follow-up clinic.
- Rural specialist generalist – Hospital and outpatient setting
- Fracture Clinic Trial Program Gladstone Hospital
- Rural and remote outreach clinics
- Private Paediatric and Women’s health clinic
The bloom of Milestones…
When I moved to Central Queensland and saw first-hand the barriers to accessing quality and specialist healthcare, I found myself wanting to build and bring to life a space to nurture the families here.
So I set to work to provide a much-needed Family Focused health service …
Which ultimately led to the bloom of Milestones.
We’re not just a paediatric and women’s health-focussed allied health clinic. We go beyond that.
We’re a boutique clinic and concept store, that offer families an array of services and products that nurture, guide and support them, through all of life’s important Milestones.
Professional Development, Training and Education
My passion and thirst for knowledge and the most up-to-date information and evidence based therapy has me attending multiple courses a year. The list below is not exhaustive of all the training – but a brief summary of some of the more extensive post-graduate training I have attended. I also enjoy training and educating, not only parents, but also teachers, support staff, childcare workers and our next generation of physiotherapists and therefore, have presented at education evenings, Clinical Society meetings, at child care centres, staff training days at local schools, supervised university students and mentored junior physiotherapists.
Paediatric Training;
- Postgraduate training through Monash University – Advanced Skills in Paediatric Physiotherapy – Neonates and Infants, Cerebral Palsy, Chronic and Complex Conditions and accepted into Masters Program – Paediatric Practice
- Prechtl’s General Movements
- HINE (Hammersmith Infant Neurological Examination)
- NDT – Neuro-Developmental Therapy, Infant and Hydrotherapy Training
- NSMDA (Neurological, Sensory, Motor, Developmental Assessment) Tool
- Ponseti Clubfoot Training
- DMI – Dynamic Movement Intervention, Level A and B
- Peds Level 1 — Treatment of Bowel and Bladder Disorders: Evaluation and Treatment of Dysfunctional Voiding, Bedwetting, and Constipation
Women’s Health;
- Contemporary Bio-Psychosocial Approach to Pelvic Girdle Pain
- WHTA Women’s Health and Pelvic Floor Workshop
- McKenzie Lumbar Spine, Chronic pain and the Lower Quadrant Workshops
- SMA Motor control and the Hip Workshop
- WHTA POP/SUI advanced course
- WHTA Pelvic Floor Relationship to Exercise, Sport & Musculoskeletal Dysfunction – advanced course
- DMA Clinical Pilates Training