Jane Brooksbank

Do you have any concerns about your child’s gross motor development, physical abilities or their growth and development? Jane Brooksbank is a physiotherapist with a specific interest in the development of your child’s future physical development and sports participation.

Jane initially specialized in sports medicine before following her real passion “kid’s movement patterns”.

Physiotherapy is all about movement, whether it be learning to roll over as an infant or running efficiently down the touch line to score a try. Coming from a sports medicine background she has a strong comprehensive biomechanical and anatomical basis to analyse your child’s movement pattern. Jane, as a mum, also understands the time constraints within an energetic and busy household. She therefore strives to make activity based home programmes that are easy to implement and simply become part of the family’s normal routine.

Qualifications, Professional History & Experience

Jane qualified as a Physiotherapist & Exercise Physiologist, at the University of Queensland. She has currently deferred her master’ studies in Sports Physiotherapy, to further develop her interest in Paediatric Physiotherapy and to be a mum. She is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Queensland and Griffith University.

As a Sports Physiotherapist, Jane toured with National, State and Regional teams working with a diversity of sports (beach volleyball, cricket, all the football codes, golf, hockey and basketball). She is a Consultant Physiotherapist to the Queensland Academy of Sport.

Jane began her Physiotherapy career at the Adelaide Children’s Hospital in 1988. She returned to Brisbane in 1991 to develop Sports Physiotherapy interests before combining the two interrelated specialities in 1998.

Jane’s thorough observational skills, biomechanical and developmental background, allows her to identify orthopaedic and neurological factors underlying your child’s altered movement pattern.

Jane believes in working together with parents and children, promote normal development or return to physical and sporting activity.

< Back to Professionals page