Avery Wu is an Accredited Exercise Physiologist and our first at Not Just Bendy Hypermobility Services! She graduated from Queensland University of Technology in 2021 with a Bachelor of Clinical Exercise Physiology.  In addition to her experience caring for hypermobile clients, she has previously worked within the private, non-profit and aged care settings with a wide range conditions including musculoskeletal, women’s health, cardiorespiratory, metabolic and neurological conditions. Avery also has an extensive Pilates background, having completed a Diploma of Professional Pilates Instruction from PilatesITC in 2019 and worked for many years teaching clinical and group Pilates.

Avery’s journey into exercise physiology and working with hypermobile populations began through her own rehabilitation experiences and later on whilst teaching Pilates. As a former competitive figure skater, Avery completed extensive exercise rehabilitation for various injuries and later on management of her own hypermobility. From this early experience she became a firm believer of ‘Exercise as Medicine’ and the vital it plays in the management of various chronic conditions and improving quality of life. In 2019, whilst completing her studies, Avery met Sharon Hennessey, Principal Physiotherapist at Not Just Bendy, which kickstarted the journey of understanding her own hypermobility and eventually working at Not Just Bendy. Since her time here she has worked with over 280 complex clients with symptomatic hypermobility, Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (EDS) or POTS/Dysautonomia.

She is passionate about working with clients to achieve their goals, big or small, through the prescription of evidence-based exercise programs formulated to the individual needs of each client. Her exercise prescription approach draws from both traditional strength training and Pilates-based methods, balancing progression with injury prevention to optimise long-term outcomes. With lived experience of hypermobility and POTS herself, Avery brings an empathetic and practical understanding of the multifaceted challenges these conditions can present and the need for an individualised approach. Other areas she’s enjoys working include active aging and women’s health. Whilst a completing her exercise physiology degree, Avery completed a women’s health placement, gaining experience in pre-and-postnatal care, and other women’s health conditions. Recently she has been further upskilling her knowledge in this area.

She also continues to actively engage in expanding both her hypermobility, Pilates and general exercise physiology knowledge through regular attendance of professional development courses and personal mentoring with senior clinicians at Not Just Bendy to better support her clients. Some of these include:

• Australian POTS Foundation Conference 2022
• Accredited Biomechanical Taping™ Practitioner – Part A – Foundation & Peripheral Joints 2023
• Australian POTS Foundation Webinar Series: Exercise Physiology for the Moderately Impacted and Bed Bound Patient & Nutrition Considerations in POTS 2023
• Functional Patterns 10-wk Online Program 2024
• EDS ECHO program: Neuro-musculoskeletal Concerns- Peripheral 2024
• Professional Mentoring with Jacqui Main 2024/25
• EDS Global Learning Conference Brisbane 2025
• ESSA Hypermobility Series 2025
• The Women’s Health Collective: Advance Women’s Health Course (SUI, endometriosis & perimenopause) 2025