Alyssa Tait is passionate about helping women achieve optimal health.
Don’t be limited to just physiotherapy or nutrition to solve your problem more quickly – make the most of both! Alyssa Tait is both a physiotherapist and a nutritionist. After doing postgraduate studies in pelvic floor as a physiotherapist, she returned to university with the drive to get even better and faster results for her patients by incorporating nutrition. After incorporating two nutrition/naturopathy qualifications, she delved deeper to refine her approach, completing a Master of Science in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine.
Alyssa has a bee in her bonnet about painful sex, leaky bladder, irritable bowel, chronic/recurrent urinary tract infections, all manner of horrible types of pelvic pain, and annoying itchy vaginal discharge issues, and has made it her mission to help as many as possible rid themselves of these problems.
It all started in the late 90s, when Alyssa worked for many years in the public health system in women’s health, starting up and expanding a service focusing on pelvic floor problems. A little later, she satisfied her ever-present bookish tendencies by working on a project team and co-authoring evidence-based guidelines for health professionals on how to manage incontinence.
Believing that the world of orthodox medicine and natural therapies are complementary, Alyssa Tait founded Equilibria Physiotherapy & Nutrition, which uniquely bridges the gap between the two worlds. While working within a strong science-based framework, Alyssa brings the best of natural medicine into her treatment in order to get the best possible results for her clients.
The universe of the human microbiome has been one of Alyssa’s strongest interests of the past 2 decades – gut, vaginal and bladder microbiomes. Eager to help health professionals integrate this understanding into practice, she works part-time in a scientific capacity for a gut microbiome company, helping them refine their gut microbiome test for health professional use.
Alyssa’s qualifications include:
- Bachelor of Physiotherapy – University of Queensland
- Postgraduate Certificate in Physiotherapy (Continence and Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation) – University of Melbourne
- Graduate Diploma in Health Science (Nutrition Medicine) – University of New England
- Advanced Diploma of Naturopathy (Australian Institute of Applied Sciences)
- Advanced Diploma in Western Herbal Medicine (Australian Institute of Applied Sciences)
- Advanced Diploma in Nutritional Medicine (Australian Institute of Applied Sciences)
- Master of Science (Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine)
What are some of the most common techniques Alyssa might use in your session?
Physical Techniques
- Nervous-system guided manual therapies
- Muscle Energy Technique
- Myofascial Technique
- Trigger Point Release
- Visceral Manipulation
- Strain/Counterstrain Technique
- Exercise Therapy
- Pain Neuroscience Education
Nutritional Medicine Approaches
- Functional Medicine framework
- General Pathology Testing and Interpretation
- Functional Pathology Testing and Interpretation
- Gut microbiome testing
- Body Composition Assessment
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