Meet Francine
Francine St George completed a Bachelor of Science (Anatomy), a Post Graduate Diploma in Physiotherapy, a Post Graduate Diploma in Sports Science and a Master’s in Medicine. Francine is a Cerified Neuroathletics Coach as well as a published author of five books, her most recent “The Back Pain Handbook”.
With over 40years of clinical practice, Francine has travelled and worked with an extensive list of elite sports teams and celebrity clientele, globally. Francine has also travelled extensively teaching Physiotherapists, Osteopaths, Dentists, Exercise Physiologists, and other health practitioners, locally and internationally.
Francine established Physiotherapy Posture and Fitness Clinic in Randwick, NSW, in 1999. Francine continues to work as a clinician and created PCAA to provide mentorship and further learning and education opportunities for new graduates and other Health Practitioners. Her range of courses reflect her research and clinical expertise and include: The Locked Back, Real Time Ultrasound, Exercise Programming & Neurofitness – and the TMJ. Francine’s expert team of Physios, that she has worked with professionally and trained over the years, assist her as tutors on PCAA Courses.
Francine’s specific interest in TMJ developed while she was working in her private practice at the University of Sydney. She regularly treated dental students and lecturers who were experiencing TMJ, posture and ergonomic related pain. This was the catalyst for her developing her TMJ Courses and she commenced teaching this to dentists and Physios.
“In my Physiotherapy training, I found the major focus was on understanding and treating joints. Having studied anatomy originally, I was very aware of the muscle, neural and fascia system, and its obvious continuum. Over the years I became increasingly aware of how easy it was to release a muscle and see an immediate increase in range of motion, without even mobilising a joint.
Much of the short-term effects of Physiotherapy treatment is focused on easing pain and improving function. While this is important, particularly for the client, my greater concern is always ‘why is the pain there in the first place?’ e.g., what biomechanical reason or muscle imbalance could be causing the pain? And, as is now widely accepted by our profession, how can the person change their perspective on their pain, to allow the healing process to commence. In recent years we are also learning how to integrate what is taught to athletes to our clients, irrespective of their age, injury or level of fitness. Using Neurofitness & Neuroathletics skills, drills and exercises is certainly revolutionising the way we treat, do rehab and prescribe exercise. We are indeed in very exciting times!”
The use of Real Time Ultrasound in clinical practice to assist with the diagnosis and muscle retraining, has also helped refine how we teach exercise. Using a biomechanical and muscle imbalance approach combining all elements of muscle, fascia and neural techniques makes even the most complex patient easy to treat.
It took me many years to refine and develop, but I now feel confident in sharing my streamlined systemised approach to identifying the drivers of a client’s pain. This is a combination of well researched techniques, dialoguing with colleagues, and the clinical expertise gained from having treated, as a conservative estimate, 6,000 clients over these past years!
Offering my Courses online allows me to engage an even broader audience of health professionals. The ongoing positive feedback from the students in my courses, and from my patients, fuels my motivation and passion to keep treating and teaching for a long time to come!
I look forward to working with you to share my extensive clinical expertise and passion in your endeavour to help as many clients as possible, over the span of your career.
Francine
