Stuart Hinds

Stuart Hinds is a practicing soft tissue therapist starting his journey in 1990 and continues as a lecturer in remedial soft tissue techniques at Victoria University (Melbourne Australia) in combination with a busy private practice in Geelong. In that time he has worked with elite road cyclists and a range of athletes from all professional levels of sport, he was a contract soft tissue therapist for the Geelong Football Club, Elite Australian Rules Football League. Stuart has also published articles both nationally and internationally relating to soft tissue treatment and its relationship to musculoskeletal dysfunction within industry journals and mainstream publications.

Stuart was part of the soft tissue team for the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the 2004 Australian Olympic Team in Athens, the 2008 Australian Olympic Team Beijing Olympic Games, and the 2012 Australian Olympic Team in London. He has presented at the 2003 Australian Conference in Science and Medicine in Sport on the practical dynamics of soft tissue treatment of adductor strains. In 2005, Stuart was the keynote speaker at the 3rd Joint Sportex Sports Massage Association Conference, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, United Kingdom, and the 2009 AAMT National Conference in Hobart, Tasmania. More recently he was keynote speaker at the 2012 Australian Soft Tissue Conference.