Meet The Team | Mobile Physios Melbourne

About Us

Meet our team of specialised mobile physios in Melbourne. They have extensive experience neuro-respiratory disorders and love helping our clients achieve their goals.

Our clinicians

Jacqui Agostinello

Founder and Director, Senior Clinician Physiotherapist

Jacqui is the founder and director of Active Edge Physio Melbourne. She is a neurotrauma specialist and also works as a senior clinician for the Victorian Spinal Cord Service at Austin Health.

Jacqui is passionate about helping people with neuromuscular disorders improve their respiratory health. She has spent her career getting people with complex neuro-respiratory conditions off ventilation, off oxygen and out of hospital. Jacqui loves going the extra mile to discover new ways to improve and maintain lung capacity in this complex and diverse client group. As one of the most loved Melbourne mobile physios specialising in neurotrauma, she loves seeing her clients stay out of hospital, stabilised with less chest infections and getting back to living a life they love.

Jacqui is so invested in minimising respiratory dysfunction occurring in people with neuromuscular disorders. She has conducted clinical research over the years to both learn more herself, but also to expand the knowledge and skills for those working with clients that are struggling with these problems. If you’d like some light bedtime reading, you can check out some of the papers she has written.

Publications

Early clinical predictors of pneumonia in critically ill spinal cord injured individuals: a retrospective cohort study

Reducing acute respiratory complications in thoracolumbar spinal cord injury

Early Spinal Surgery Following Thoracolumbar Spinal Cord Injury: Process of Care From Trauma to Theater

Early Rapid Neurological Assessment for Acute Spinal Cord Injury Trials

Early decompression following cervical spinal cord injury: examining the process of care from accident scene to surgery

Adriana Warren

Practice Manager

Adriana is our remarkable practice manager at Active Edge Physio. She is passionate about working in a team with a strong client centred philosophy.

Adriana has worked in medical and ancillary health management for many years and has always loved being able to work behind the scenes to find solutions for clients, getting to know them and their individual needs.

Amie Musovic

Senior Clinician Physiotherapist

Amie loves making a difference in people’s lives and helping them achieve their goals. She enjoys personalising her approach to meet each person’s unique physio needs.

Working with people in their own home enables Amie to see what challenges present in that environment, then find the best ways she can use physio to help people overcome them. Seeing people make progress on their health journey by applying techniques Amie has shown them is her favourite part of her role. In her free time, Amie loves spending time outdoors with her husband, two boys, and two dogs, watching the Geelong Cats play football, and exploring the Victorian high country.

Publications

In the first 3 months after stroke is progressive resistance training safe and does it improve activity? A Systematic Review

Physical Activity Levels During Acute Inpatient Admission After Hip Fracture are Very Low

Conducting community rehabilitation review sessions via videoconference: A feasibility study.

Meera Patel

Senior Clinician Physiotherapist

Meera is fascinated by the brain and all the interesting, beautiful components of physio that can influence this incredible organ. Her passion lies in gaining insight into an individuals’ life, and how working with them through physio enables them to relearn and rediscover their perspective of the world. Meera’s favourite aspect of her work is helping people achieve their goals in a meaningful environment.

When she’s not practicing physio, Meera’s favourite ways to relax include hiking, travelling whenever she can, and spending time with her friends by the ocean.

Amanda Lieblich

Senior Physiotherapist

Amanda loves helping people living with neurological conditions by enabling them to increase their independence and live their best quality of life. As a passionate neuro physio, Amanda is constantly amazed by how the brain works and heals, and how each person she treats has completely unique needs. Working with people in their own homes, supporting them in achieving personal goals that make their lives easier and more enjoyable, motivates Amanda daily. Outside of work, she loves spending time with her family and friends, her dog Kirby, and dancing with her calisthenics team.

Belinda Kerr

Senior Physiotherapist

Belinda is passionate about working with people with neuromuscular disorders and loves to explore the complex interplay of the neurological system on other systems of the body including the respiratory and muscular systems. Throughout her career Belinda has worked with patients across the lifespan from children and adolescents; to early adulthood and later years; and has significant expertise in respiratory physiotherapy management in home based, acute and intensive care settings. She has a particular interest in optimising patient’s respiratory techniques and equipment use in the home setting to enhance their health and keep them enjoying all the wonderful things life has to offer.

Belinda also works casually at Monash Children’s Hospital and enjoys playing with her Cavoodle Paddy during her spare time. Belinda loves to travel and is always happy to share a story or two from her adventures working over in Scotland and volunteering times in Nepal and Kenya.

Niran Rathinalingam

Senior Physiotherapist

Niran is a very enthusiastic neurological physiotherapist. She loves supporting her patients to progress their function and improve their capacity, and work towards each individual person’s widely varying goals. Through her career, Niran has worked in the state’s largest rehabilitation facility, giving her a broad range of experience and the opportunity to become a highly skilled practitioner. She values the trust that her patients place in her to welcome her into their homes, and she loves working in a community setting.

When Niran is away from work, she loves to travel with her family and takes opportunities to experience new places with her children.

Hayley Taylor

Senior Physiotherapist

Hayley is currently on maternity leave.

Hayley is one of our incredible senior physiotherapists at Active Edge Physio.

Hayley has always been excited by neuroplasticity – the profound capacity the brain has to recover and relearn – seeing this first hand in practice when working with clients inspired her to specialise in neurological physiotherapy. Working with people using an individualised, holistic approach that focusses on achieving their own meaningful goals is important to Hayley. In particular, she enjoys building relationships, the diversity and also the challenges and rewards of the long term collaborative journey with people living with neurological disorders and their families.

Hayley spends her free time at the beach with her husband and dog, being physically active with all kinds of exercise and travelling the world.

Tessa Decker

Senior Physiotherapist

Tessa has always had an affinity for neurological physiotherapy and is fascinated by the way the brain works to interact and control the rest of the body. She also works as a neurological physiotherapist at Caulfield Hospital at Alfred Health.

Tessa specialises in managing conditions such as brain injury and stroke. She is passionate about working with clients of all functional levels to empower them to regain ownership and control of their body after neurological injuries. Tessa loves that no two clients are the same and she learns something new from every client she meets. She particularly enjoys working with clients to establish what’s important to them and help achieve these goals – big or small.