Jim Stevanovski

Remedial Massage Therapist
DipMT BEdu
OPSMC since 2001

Jim Stevanovski has been working as a Soft Tissue Therapist (STT) since 1998. Jim has been involved in working with a wide variety of athletes from Olympic to non-Olympic, individual and team sportspersons. With a competitive background in Track and Field not only does this remain Jim’s passion, but it has given him a common understanding and instinctive awareness of the associated injuries, which in this sport are very often related to performing at maximal speed (hamstrings) with elastic strength (groin, buttock) and at the same time experiencing high levels of external rebounding impact (calf, ‘shin’).

Key treating interests include correcting and optimizing the athletes' biomechanical efficiency relative to the needs of their sport, while also referring to and combining this with sports science - strength and conditioning.

Jim also specialises in post surgery restoration of range of movement to relevant soft tissue, including the shoulder, knee and hip regions.

Jim has a major interest in; weightlifting - shoulder, lower back, knee; golf - thoracic, shoulder, neck; cycling - hip, lower back and AFL - hamstrings, buttocks, lower back.

Qualifications:

• Diploma of Massage Therapy
• Bachelor of Education

Involvement with Teams and Associations:

• Essendon Football Club 2001 - present
• Victorian Institute of Sport 2004 - present
• Victorian Weightlifting Association 1999 - present
• Australian Olympic Team, Athens 2004
• East Asian Games Australian Weightlifting Team, Osaka 2001
• Sydney Olympic Games – Olympic Village Polyclinic
• Australian Commonwealth Games Team, Melbourne 2006

Professional Memberships & Affiliations:

• Australian Association of Massage Therapists (AAMT)
• Sports Medicine Australia (SMA)

Greatest sporting moments…

Working with determined Weightlifter, Damian Brown, in his bid to make his third Olympic Games in 2000. For twelve months leading up to the Olympics, Damian trained every session with excruciating knee pain due to the development of Chondromalacia. On top of this, he trained with a lumber disc protrusion. Assisting Damien to work through rigorous and often extreme training, finally seeing him qualify for his third successive Olympics, was a great moment indeed!

Personal sporting experience:

• Fourteen years in track and field, five of these in Decathlon at National level.