Calum Fraser
Director/ Senior Physiotherapist
Calum graduated from the University of Otago in 2005 and has spent over 20 years in private practice physiotherapy. He has been at the Wilston and Grange clinic for the past 10 years, and in his role as Director most of his time now goes into running the practice and supporting the clinical team, so he keeps a smaller caseload than he once did.
He came to physiotherapy through sport. Calum trained as a 400m runner and played junior international representative football and senior national league football, collecting his share of injuries along the way, which is where his interest in return to play rehabilitation started. He has spent much of the time since working with strength training, Olympic lifting, plyometrics and running mechanics.
Consulting and industry work
Calum has consulted to national and international sporting teams on injury management, recovery and game preparation, including training massage therapists in athlete recovery protocols. He has also worked with multinational companies, including major airlines, on injury prevention, rehabilitation and management strategy alongside hands-on treatment.
How he treats
Calum works across hands-on manual therapy, mobilisation and manipulation, dry needling, equipment Pilates, strength and conditioning, and workplace physiotherapy and assessments. The value of that spread is that he isn’t only treating the sore area. He’ll usually find the training error, the biomechanical fault or the loading pattern behind it, and explain it in a way that means you understand what to change.
What he still takes on is mostly tendon injuries, return to sport, and long-standing problems that haven’t settled with treatment elsewhere.
Outside the clinic he plays golf and has recently taken up road cycling.
Qualifications
Calum received a Bachelor of Physiotherapy degree from the University of Otago in 2005.
Calum is a registered physiotherapist with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA), his registration number is PHY0000976908.
Member of the Australia Physiotherapy Association (APA)
Other qualifications/courses
- ASCA level 1 Strength and Conditioning Coach
- APA level 1 Sports Physiotherapy
- GEMT Introduction to Dry Needling
- Combined Health
- Introduction to Western Acupuncture and Intersegnemtal Dry-Needling
- Advanced Musculoskeletal Segmental Dry Needling: Cervicle Spine, Head, TMJ & Upper Limb
- Advanced Musculoskeletal Segmental Dry Needling: Lumbar Spine and Lower Quadrant
- Mary Magarey, The Advanced Athletic Shoulder
- Pilates institute of QLD: Equipment Pilates
- Assessment and treatment of the wrist with Karen Fitt