Meet Kylie Liversidge - Pelvic Health Physiotherapist

Kylie has lived and worked in the Penrith/Blue Mountains region most of her life and has been a physiotherapist for over 30 years.

She graduated from Sydney University with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Physiotherapy. Her first job was as a junior physiotherapist at Nepean Hospital. She was interested in women’s health even as a new graduate, taking her first continuing education course in antenatal and birth education, and remembers redesigning the antenatal class handouts.

She subsequently worked in private practice in St. Mary’s and the Lower Mountains before returning to Sydney University to complete a Graduate Diploma in Manipulative Therapy, which gave her advanced skills in spinal and manual therapy and clinical reasoning. As part of this course, she co-authored the paper: Posteroanterior stiffness at 3 locations in the lumbar spine: J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 1994; 17:511-516 (now the Journal of Manual Therapy). She founded Emu Plains Spinal and Sports Physiotherapy, which she owned and operated for 5 years before her first child came along.

In 2003, she graduated from Melbourne University with a Postgraduate Certificate in Continence and Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation. When she started working in Pelvic Health, she was one of only a handful of pelvic health physiotherapists in Sydney.

She has been a member of the Australian Physiotherapy Association and its subgroup, ‘Women’s, Men’s, and Pelvic Health Physiotherapy Australia’ ever since she graduated. She has been a long-standing member of the committee responsible for delivering continuing education to her peers and has presented and tutored at some of these workshops and courses. She has been a visiting scholar at Sydney Medical School Nepean in the discipline of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, where she co-authored the paper: Liversidge, K., Guzmán Rojas, R., Kamisan Atan, I., & Dietz, H. P. (2014). Negative urodynamic testing in women with stress incontinence. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 54(6), 555 559.

She has kept up to date by attending conferences and courses in topics as diverse as Blue Knot’s Trauma Informed Care and Practice, Prolapse Assessment and Pessary Fitting, Male and Female Sexual Function, Bowel Management, Pelvic Pain and Endometriosis, Pregnancy Pelvic Girdle Pain, Recurrent UTI, Childhood Continence and Bedwetting, Pilates, and Dry Needling. She has spent countless hours reading journal articles, attending lectures, workshops, and conferences, and developing clinic resources.

She is a current member of The Australian Physiotherapy Association and several of its subgroups, Women’s Health Training Associates, The Continence Foundation of Australia, and the NSW Pelvic Pain Network.

She is trusted and recommended by local and Sydney-based GPs, Gynaecologists, Obstetricians, Urologists, Sexual Health Physicians, Pain Specialists, and Colorectal Surgeons. She recently delivered a continuing education module on Pelvic Pain for General Practice Doctors as part of the ‘Clinical Seminar for Doctors’ course hosted by Family Planning Australia.

Kylie has provided educational seminars to the local community and professional groups such as the Prostate Cancer Support Group, the Australian Breastfeeding Association, Penrith Senior Citizens, Blue Mountains and Penrith Women’s Health Centres, NBMLHD Child and Family Nurses, the Continence Foundation, Studio Pilates, Anytime Fitness, and even Mountain Swim.

Kylie is a mother to 3 children, so she understands that life can be messy, and things don’t always go according to plan. However, she also knows that it is possible to take charge and achieve your health goals with good support and the right advice.

Kylie endeavours to practice what she preaches by maintaining an active lifestyle. When not canyoning, bushwalking or camping, she can be found in the gym, on her mountain bike, or churning up laps in the pool.