Emma Dippenaar (nee Barnes) Senior Physiotherapist Women's and Men's Pelvic Health, prostate cancer rehabilitation, pregnancy, postpartum

Emma Dippenaar (nee Barnes)

Senior Physiotherapist

Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Honours)

 

Key areas of interest:

  • Women’s Health

  • Men’s Health

  • Pessary Fitting

  • Lumbopelvic pain

  • Lower limb injuries/surgeries - hips, knees, foot and ankle

  • Clinical Pilates

  • Hydrotherapy

  • Dry Needling


Emma has experience treating both Musculoskeletal conditions and Pelvic Health. Emma has completed postgraduate training in women’s and men’s health which allows her to assess and treat a variety of conditions related to the bladder, bowel, sexual function, pelvic floor, pelvic organ prolapse including pessary fitting, pelvic pain conditions, pregnancy, postpartum, prostate cancer rehabilitation, and menopause. Emma loves to see people improving their overall wellness and uses a combination of manual therapy and exercise. She has experience in Clinical Pilates, hydrotherapy, and she loves to get people training in the gym.

Postgraduate Qualifications

  • APA Level 1 Women’s Health – Women’s Health Through the Life Stages, Introductory Women’s Health Physiotherapy, Women’s Pelvic Health (Australian Physiotherapy Association)

  • APA Level 1 & 2 Women's Pelvic Health (Australian Physiotherapy Association)

  • Women’s Health Training Associates - Advanced Pelvic Floor: Pain Disorders Course Sexual, Genitourinary and Anorectal Pain

  • Birth Healing Summit 2024 – Institute for Birth Healing

  • Principles of Male Pelvic Health Physio

  • Recovery after Prostate Cancer

  • APPI Level 1 Mat & Equipment Pilates Training

  • Dry Needling Introductory Course

  • Explain Pain – NOI Group

  • Dynamic Stabilisation of the Hip and Pelvis, Anterior Hip and Groin Pain, Lateral Hip and Groin Pain, Tendinopathies of the Hip and Pelvis – Alison Grimaldi

  • Women’s Health Training Associates – Advanced Pelvic Floor: Pelvic organ prolapse / Stress urinary incontinence (including pessary management)

  • Women’s Health Training Associates – The Childbearing Year Research Update 2024

  • Rehabilitative Ultrasound for Pelvic Physiotherapists – Mandy Roscher

  • Women’s Health Training Associates – Advanced Pelvic Floor: Exercise, Sport and Musculoskeletal Dysfunctions

Book a session with Emma

To book your first session with Emma, you can book online or call us on (07) 5531 9555.

Alternatively, you can fill out the adjacent form and a member of our team will contact you to book a session at a time that best suits your schedule.

If you fill the form out over the weekend, we will contact you on Monday.