Simon Balster is a physiotherapist who has spent the last 20 years working exclusively in the clinical assessment, diagnosis and management of shoulder orthopaedic conditions. Simon and Lyn are the founding partners of the Melbourne Shoulder Group
Simon has a Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Honours) from the University of Queensland and a Bachelor of Science (Honours) majoring in Biochemistry from the University of Melbourne. He is also a member of Shoulder & Elbow Physiotherapists Australasia and is one of only five physiotherapists to have been awarded an affiliate membership of the Shoulder and Elbow Society of Australia. He’s a clinical supervisor and assessor of students completing their Sports and Musculoskeletal Masters of Physiotherapist at Latrobe University.
His opinion, guidance and management are regularly sort out by people of all demographics and from all over Australia. He’s a physiotherapist to high profile athletes and professional sporting organisations including members of:
- Australia’s Olympic and Commonwealth Games Swimming and Track and Field teams,
- Collingwood, Western Bulldogs and GWS Footballs Club,
- Australian, Victorian and BBL cricket players,
- Professional tennis & baseball players,
- Australian ice hockey players
- Professional racing car drivers.
He has also worked with professional artists includes internationally acclaimed conductors, concert pianists, dancers, painters and sculptors as well as every day weekend-warriors, mums and dads, grandparents and children with shoulder problems or injuries.
Simon has worked closely with Dr Lyn Watson for twenty years. They are widely published and have been presenting their highly regarded Shoulder Orthopaedic Physiotherapy Courses around Australia and Overseas for the past 25 years (UK, Canada, France, Norway, USA).
Presentations:
- Lyn Watson’s Shoulder Physiotherapy Courses (Level 1, 2, 3 and The Sporting Shoulder) for the last 12 years
- Invited Workshop Presenter at the Australian Hand Therapy Association 2019 National Conference
- Invited International Presenter at 2018 Nice Shoulder Rehab Course in France
- Presentation, Diagnosis and a Conservative Rehabilitation Program for Posterior Instability of the Shoulder (Presentation & Workshop)
- International Faculty member at 44th Japan Shoulder Society 2017
- Rehabilitation post-op Rotator Cuff Repair
- Rehabilitation post-op Total Shoulder Replacement
- Shoulder & Elbow Society of Australia 2016, Darwin
- A published and clinical perspective on Posterior instability of the Shoulder
- Australian Rules Football Grand Final Medical Symposium 2010
- Conservative & Post-Op Shoulder Instability Rehabilitation in Australian Rules Football
- Australian Tennis Open Medical Symposium 2011
- Posterior Instability of the Shoulder
- Lifecare Physiotherapy Education Program
- Sports Physiotherapist APA Group Victoria
- Assessment of the Shoulder in Swimming & Triathlon
- Australian Sonographaphers & Radiologists National Conference 2010
- Assessment of the Shoulder
- Thoracic Outlet Syndrome 2 Day Course
- QLD APA (with Jane Rooney, Specialist Physiotherapist)