Optima Female Performance
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About Us.

Our Goal

To better serve our female athletes. Period.

We aim to bridge the gap between women's health and high performance sporting environments by providing education, team/athlete screenings, and individualised treatment and management plans for optimising female health, performance and injury prevention.

Our Why

Having worked in elite sport at the professional and Olympic level with both male and female athletes and teams, we have seen first hand the differences in resources that can be available to both male and female sports. ​
Working in both Sports and Women's Health physiotherapy roles, we have also experienced the gap in female specific healthcare and awareness
​that exists across the board from athletes through to their support teams. 
We must all become aware of the challenges and benefits of
​reducing the existing gaps in female sport and performance 
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Research Gap

Females were traditionally excluded from research because of the reported difficulties in studying data due to female hormonal fluctuations.
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Research Lag

Despite recent increases in emerging female specific performance research, momentum must be maintained to reduce the usual lag time (17 years!) between research findings being put into clinical practice.
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Power of Sport

Sport has a great ability to break down barriers (gender, race, ethnicity), and hence watching females perform at their best can be a powerful tool.

Our How

​We consult to athletes, teams, and their support networks on best evidence based practice regarding management of female specific health and performance issues and their relation to optimal performance.
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We provide system implementation based around education, team/athlete screenings, and individualised treatments and management plans with regards to: 
The menstrual cycle
Menstrual dysfunctions
H
ormonal contraception options
Differences in female ACL and concussion injuries
Pelvic floor health
Continence, pain, and involvement with musculoskeletal dysfunctions
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Our services are tailored to the individual needs of
​each client.
We aim to offer workable sport specific solutions for each unique
high performance environment
​and individual athlete.
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