Maria obtained her Physiotherapy degree with first class honours from the University of Queensland in 2013. She began her physiotherapy career in the public system, and has experience rehabilitating cardiorespiratory, orthopaedic, neurological, critical care, and geriatric conditions. She then specialised in musculoskeletal and sports injuries within the outpatients department, mentoring junior staff, supervising physiotherapy students and spearheaded community and intra-hospital rehabilitation outreach events.

Since leaving the public sector, Maria has worked in physiotherapy clinics in Singapore, Newcastle, and Brisbane, treating clients across the lifespan. Maria has a special interest in dance injury prevention, rehabilitation, and optimising performance, having trained in classical ballet, jazz, tap, contemporary and chinese dance. She worked with performing artists from Les Misérables (Australia), Singapore Dance Theatre, and T.H.E dance company, before finding a passion for the pre- and adolescent dance population. She has since worked closely with pre-professional, full-time, and recreational dance students from various dance studios across Australia.

Maria first developed curiosity for hypermobility while dancing with many friends with hypermobility as a young person. Her interest and appreciation of the complex, multifaceted nature of hypermobile-related conditions has only deepened with time, leading her to enrol as a PhD candidate at The University of Queensland in 2023 researching how to optimise dance participation for children and young people with hypermobility disorders. She has presented her research on hypermobility and dance at various international conferences in Switzerland, Italy, Singapore, and Australia. She has also lectured undergraduate physiotherapy students from The University of Queensland, hospital physiotherapy staff, and sports medicine doctors to improve awareness, faster diagnosis, and better treatment for hypermobile clients.

Maria enjoys learning from peers and mentors, and believes that life-long continual development is absolutely essential for being a good physiotherapist! She has visited and observed head physiotherapists at the Australian Ballet, Australian Ballet school, Queensland Ballet, New Zealand Ballet school, and Western Australia Ballet, and continues to invest heavily in professional development across hypermobility and Ehlers-Danlos syndromes, dance medicine, manual therapy and rehabilitation, including:

Ehlers-Danlos syndromes and hypermobility

• EDS ECHO Summit Series: Allergy & Immunology Complications
• EDS ECHO Allied Health Professional, Module 4 — Knee (Assessment and Management); Ankle and Foot (Assessment and Management)
• EDS ECHO Paediatrics Australia — Introduction to Hypermobility in Younger Children; Differential Diagnosis in Younger Children (rare Ehlers-Danlos syndromes and other conditions)
• Kidz Clinic (Natalie Bennett-Bremner) — Physiotherapy Management of Hypermobility Disorders and Gait Abnormalities in Children, and indications for flexible dynamic bracing garments in dysfunctional gait patterns

Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation

• AAP Education Dry Needling, Levels 1–3
• DMA Clinical Pilates (Certified)

• APA: Hip differential diagnosis and prescriptive exercise by Trish Wisbey-Roth
• APA: Foot and ankle in dance and sports by Dr Sue Mayes
• APA: Screening and conditioning for dancers Dr Sue Mayes
• Thoracic Outlet: Beyond the MET (manual therapy, muscle optimisation and functional integration) by Mark Comerford
• Shoulder rehabilitation by Prof Ann Cools
• Gripit ‘TRIO’ taping course
• Coaching for Peak Performance
• Clinical reasoning in sports musculoskeletal physical therapy
• Clinical Reasoning Approach to Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy
• Clinical Reasoning in Manual Therapy: A Perfect Fit by Prof Darren Rivett

Dance and performing arts medicine

• Progressive Ballet Technique (Certified)
• The Ballet Blog courses by Lisa Howell:
  • Level 1 health care professionals and dance teacher training
  • Training turnout in tiny dancers
  • Level 2: Flexibility intensive
  • Level 2: Pointe intensive
  • Level 3: Flexibility intensive
• Harkness Center for Dance Injuries, NYU Langone — Principles of Dance Medicine

Conferences

• EDS Global Learning Conference 2022
• EDS Global Learning Conference, Brisbane 2025 (Invited panelist)
• EDS Paediatrics and Adolescents Summit 2022
• POTS Conference 2022
• International Association of Dance Medicine & Science (IADMS) 24^th Annual meeting, Switzerland 2014 (Presenter)
• IADMS 26^th Annual meeting, Hong Kong 2016
• IADMS 34^th Annual meeting, Italy 2024 (Presenter)
• Participation – Inclusion in action, Singapore 2024 (Presenter)
• Australian Society for Performing Arts Healthcare conference, Melbourne 2025 (Presenter)

Special interests and skills:

• Hypermobility related conditions in the pre-adolescent and adolescent age groups
• Musculoskeletal conditions of the hip and ankle/foot
• Clinical Pilates (individual or small group supervised sessions)
• Dry needling
• Dance conditioning and rehabilitation

Please contact us to make an appointment with Maria Yee.