At Your Gym

Do you have a goal of joining your local gym or just engaging yourself in regular exercise?

Do you need help from someone to get started and make this happen?

Our team of Exercise Physiologists offer the At Your Gym program to enable you to develop effective, safe and healthy exercise routines at a location convenient to you.

We can:

Meet you to discuss your exercise goals and assess your baseline strength and fitness.
Work with you to scope out local convenient options that would be suitable.
Be there with you for your first session, to start to orientate you to the gym equipment.

Over the following weeks we can:

Come to some, or all of your sessions to conduct a safe and effective exercise program tailored to you.
Help train any support workers or family members if you choose to exercise with them outside of sessions.
Be there with you to help you progress, modify and introduce new exercises.

Exercise neurological rehabilitation at your gym

Whether you are looking to get back to the gym or have never exercised before, it really doesn’t matter! Our Exercise Physiologists are friendly, supportive and knowledgeable and will love to help you achieve your goals!

OUT IN THE COMMUNITY

Home Based Therapy
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At Your Gym
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Hydrotherapy
Independent Living
Equipment
Mobile Seating Clinic
Return To Sport

LOCATIONS

In Clinic
Therapy at Home
Online Therapy

Client Community Hub

Our community is bustling with clients at all stages of stroke recovery and we love to celebrate every individual’s goal achievements, no matter the size of the gain. Visit the ARC Patient Hub for webinars, resources, downloads and more.

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Rehabilitation for a
better tomorrow

Giving you the best neurological rehabilitation possible.

Advance Rehab Centre focuses on you as if it was our own family.

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CLINIC HOURS

Mon – Thurs	8 – 7pm
Fri	8 – 5pm
Sat	8 – 4pm

+61 (02) 9906 7777

Melissa Harrison

BSc (hons) Physiotherapy, University of the West of England, UK
Msc Neurorehabilitation, Brunel University, UK

Allied Health Manager and Senior Neurological Physiotherapist

Melissa has worked in the field of neuro physiotherapy since early in her career. She specialised as a senior neuro physiotherapist in the UK for a number of years - working across a variety of specialities including neurosurgery, neuro medicine, stroke and both inpatient and outpatient neuro rehab. This experience has given Melissa a solid understanding of the journey people go through from receiving their initial neurological diagnosis, through to much later stages of their rehab.

Melissa went on to complete a Masters in Neurorehabilitation in London, gaining valuable analytical and research experience and completing her own research project exploring the rehabilitation services available to people with brain tumours. Melissa has a special interest in neuro-oncology, as well as stroke and a wide range of post neurosurgery and neuro medical conditions. This experience led to her being invited to review and contribute to the Cancer Council's 'Understanding Brain Tumours' information booklet in Australia in 2019.

It is her time working as a physiotherapist at ARC that motivated Melissa further to remain living in Australia! Over her time working at ARC, Melissa has become a PD Warrior certified instructor and trainer - delivering practical courses to other allied health professionals across Australia.

As Allied Health Manager, Melissa leads and oversees the ARC service on a daily basis. She loves her job for continuing to have contact with clients and seeing their progress, and simultaneously developing the ARC team as it grows. Melissa enjoys supporting the team through change and growth, ensuring the highest quality of therapy is maintained, as well as the team culture that staff and clients thrive from at ARC. Melissa can be contacted at ARC Monday to Friday and welcomes feedback on the service clients are receiving.

Outside of work, Melissa enjoys ocean swimming, tending to her rapidly growing plant family and making the most of the abundance of beautiful walks Sydney has to offer!

At Your Gym

Develop an effective, safe and healthy exercise routine.

At Your Gym

OUT IN THE COMMUNITY

LOCATIONS

Client Community Hub

Neurological Physiotherapy

Occupational Therapy

Exercise Physiology

Housing Solutions

Allied Health Assistants

Speech Pathology

Pyschology

Neuromuscular Orthotics

Rehabilitation for a better tomorrow

CLINIC HOURS

+61 (02) 9906 7777

Caroline Takla

Laurel Thompson

Sarah Sargeant

Ceri Greco

Melissa Harrison

Natalie Watson

Anna Jones

Jo-Anne Benett

Lynn Tullock

Sasha Mills

Scarlett Wynands

Lisa Gray

Senior Occupational Therapist

Anneliese Telfer

Allied Health Assistant

Anne Biddlecombe

Senior Occupational Therapist

Bronte Forvan

Allied Health Assistant

Ripley Beck

Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Honours) – University of Queensland

Graduate Certificate of Clinical Rehabilitation (Neurological) – Flinder’s University

Neurological Physiotherapist.

Kate Masters

Bachelor of Clinical Science, Macquarie University

Maddison Smith

Jack Calabro

Alanna Vaz

Sarah Brighton-Hall

Lulu Mitchell

Liz Fitzgerald

Pamela Aranguiz

Kavya Moily

Sarah Holton

Tegan Perkins

Tracie Hawkins

Natalie Williams

Alex Stan

Ella Simmons

Kristi Thoroughgood

Gina Sinclair

Lauren Willett

Cerissa Dimarchos

Georgina Locke

Bernard Badorrek

Julian Diang

Maddie Endacott

Courtney Raman

Jodie Sim

Katie Hillier

Jake Mavin

Felix Cho

Lisa Meng

Jason King

Marlou Tacugue

Sophie Gould

Analise Bauchinger

Rosie Beadman

Debbie Brickwood

Lucy Acheson

Kate Patterson

Claire Debono

Gisele van den Berg

Rehabilitation for a
better tomorrow