Clayton Barnes /
Senior Physiotherapist
Clayton is a product of the Southern Highlands, having attended both Bowral Primary and Bowral High School. Upon finishing Year 12, Clayton moved to Orange to study a Bachelor of Physiotherapy at Charles Sturt University.
Clayton has passion for sports performance and musculoskeletal physiotherapy and is driving our Performance Physiotherapy and Academy services as a Senior Physiotherapist.
As an avid sportsman, his passion for sports led him into the physiotherapy profession. where he can harness his sporting knowledge, personal experiences with injury and performance development into his patient and athlete care experience. Clayton has a special interest in treating sporting upper limb injuries, predominantly in the shoulder.
He is a progressive musculoskeletal physiotherapist, who has undertaken post-graduate training in Strength and Conditioning coaching, CCMI Concussion Management and he also works with Bowral Blacks Rugby Union Club doing both on and off field management of a weekend.
Over the past 12 months, Clayton has focused his development on high-performance sports management at the Moss Vale Clinic, with the development and introduction of The Physio Space - Performance Academy. Within this specialised program he combines his skills with strength and conditioning, injury screening and prevention programming, goal setting, year planning and load monitoring to maximise an athlete's peak performance.
Clayton enjoys getting to know you as a person and aims to educate and empower his patients in working towards your goals.
Claytons areas of interest:
High performance athlete management
Sports injuries and on-field management
Sport specific exercise rehabilitation
Biomechanics of sport including swimming
Concussion assessment and management
Additional post graduate training:
Musculoskeletal:
Level 1 Sports Physiotherapy - Australian Physiotherapy Association
Level 1 Strength and Conditioning Coaching - Australian Strength and Conditioning Association
Level 1 Dry needling - Australian Physiotherapy Association
CCMI Concussion Certification - Complete Concussion Management Institute