Christina Machray

Physiotherapist | Women’s Health Physiotherapist
Christina is available at our Currimundi and Forest Glen locations

Christina has nearly 20 years experience as a Physiotherapist.  A highly motivated and experienced practitioner, Christina has a special interest in Women’s Health Physiotherapy including incontinence, prolapse, pelvic floor dysfunction, pre and postnatal care.

Christina graduated with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy from Otago University in 2003.  She has since gained a wealth of experience in private practice, hospital and sports Physiotherapy settings in New Zealand,  Australia and the UK.

Christina has extensive post-graduate training, including Women’s and Pelvic Health Clinical Pilates and provides treatment for women’s health, sporting injuries, and chronic pain. She takes an individual and holistic approach to treatment.

Her passion lies in helping individuals live their best life and optimise their health and wellbeing. She especially loves to support women to return to their sport or activity of choice, after surgery, injury or childbirth.

Christina has a passion for functional movement and rehabilitation.  She loves thinking outside the box and finding ways people can do activities they want to do and keep them doing it!

Christina is open for bookings Tuesday and Thursday at our Currimundi location, and Wednesday and Friday at our Forest Glen location.

About Christina

Christina knew from a young age that she wanted to be a Physio.  She spent a large part of her childhood at the Golf Course with her Dad who was a professional golfer and loved helping to figure out why people got injured, how to fix them and how to help them improve their golf and reduce injury.

Becoming a Physio allowed her to do this and be involved in the sporting arena which she also loved. With extensive experience as a sports Physiotherapist, Christina was heavily involved in Rugby Union, Tennis and Golf.  She has worked with sporting athletes at the national and international level

While in London she had the opportunity to work more extensively with women in pre and postnatal settings which fuelled her interest in Women’s health both from a musculoskeletal and pelvic health perspective.  She has continued her postgraduate education in the area.

Her post-graduate training in Women’s Health Physiotherapy includes:

• Pelvic Floor - POGP

• Female Urinary Incontinence - Shelley Solomon

• Real Time Ultrasound for Women’s Health

• Peter O’Sullivan Pregnancy Pelvis

• Diane Lee New Perspectives from The Integrated Systems Model for Treating Women with Pelvic Girdle Pain, Incontinence, Pelvic Organ Prolapse and Diastasis Rectus Abdominis

• Birth Choices - WHTA

• Levator Avulsion Webinar - WHTA

• Pelvic Organ Prolapse - Michelle Lyons

• The Happy Bladder: Bladder Pain Syndrome - Jilly Bond

• Diastasis Revolution: Evidence-based evaluation and management of Diastasis Recti - Grianne Donnelly

• Pelvic Organ Proplase - Lisa Marie Hastie

• Biopsychosocial - more than just a Buzz word - Carolyn van dyken

• Pelvic Floor Dysfunction - the missing link in Persistent LBP - Carolyn van dyken

• Pelvic Pain Matters: Tension is a top down thing - Carolyn van Dyken

• 3rd Age Women: Peri to Post Menopause Certification - Michelle Lyons and Jenny Burrell

• Advanced Pelvic Organ Prolapse, Stress Urinary Incontinence and Pessary fitting - WHTA

• Understanding and Challenging Chronic UTI - Jilly Bond

• Advanced Pelvic Floor: Musculoskeletal, Exercise and Sport - WHTA

• Female Health Master Course: Menstruation, Maternal and Menopause - Michelle Lyons

• APA Introduction to Women’s Health Physiotherapy

• APA Women’s Pelvic Health Physiotherapy Level 1

• APA Women’s Health through Life Stages Physiotherapy Level 1

Alternatively, give the Embody Movement team a call on 07 5337 9853.