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Jess is an experienced Australian Physiotherapy Association Titled Sports & Exercise Physiotherapist, Clinical Pilates Instructor, and Women's Health trained Physio with a love of playing in the ocean and mountains.
Jess' clinical practice is founded in a holistic approach combining manual therapies, western acupuncture / dry needling, and movement efficiency through clinical pilates, yoga, gymnastics, and breath training techniques. She has a special interest in complex spinal, pelvic, hip and groin problems, as well as vast experience in rehabilitating knee and shoulder injuries. Jess has worked extensively in winter sports throughout her career, touring with Australian, New Zealand, and US national teams and athletes. This allowed Jess to base herself for many winter seasons in Wanaka New Zealand, and travel worldwide with athletes to X-Games, Dew Tours, World Cups, World Championships, as well as the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics as Australia's snowboard half-pipe and ski slope-style Team Physio. She has also worked with the Australian Sailing Team, held the role of Movement Specialist for the GWS Giants AFL Team, and has experience working with the ASP (now WSL) and WQS surfing tours in Hawaii. |
Shifting gears from travelling with the professional sporting world to motherhood lead Jess to retrain in the area of Women's Health and co-found Optima Female Performance. Her clinical interests include the holistic management of pelvic pain and endometriosis, providing exercise guidance during pregnancy and the postnatal period, and managing pelvic floor and menstrual dysfunctions in the female athlete. Jess is passionate about educating and empowering women of all ages (and their support team) to better understand their own unique physiology for improved wellbeing throughout all stages of life.
Time out of the front lines of sports physiotherapy during the early years of motherhood also allowed Jess to write her first book 'POP - When sport brings us to our knees' sharing the journeys and insights of 13 elite/professional Australian athletes and their ACL injuries. POP is available worldwide from all major booksellers, or from www.jesscunningham.com.au.
Herself a keen surfer, sailor, snowboarder, and skier, in her spare time Jess enjoys getting her own fix of salty and snowy adventures, as well as chasing after her energetic daughter, and twin boys.
Time out of the front lines of sports physiotherapy during the early years of motherhood also allowed Jess to write her first book 'POP - When sport brings us to our knees' sharing the journeys and insights of 13 elite/professional Australian athletes and their ACL injuries. POP is available worldwide from all major booksellers, or from www.jesscunningham.com.au.
Herself a keen surfer, sailor, snowboarder, and skier, in her spare time Jess enjoys getting her own fix of salty and snowy adventures, as well as chasing after her energetic daughter, and twin boys.
