Dani Langford is a physiotherapist who graduated with a Masters in Physiotherapy from Curtin University in 2008. She is CSCS certified and Pilates certified which are important tools she utilizes in her practice.

Having been a high level athlete, Dani naturally gravitated to working with committed, young athletes. Athletes whose goals are to grow into the best athlete they can be. From her journey as an athlete, a coach, and now physiotherapist; she sees a incredible need and benefit to opening the doors for communication. Starting dialogue to develop common language can stimulate integration around athlete development. There is a necessity from the get go in an athlete’s career that everyone is efficient by being connected to common goals: of understanding best practice around athlete optimization, of fun for intrinsically driven motivation, and creating proper movement foundations when developing sport fundamentals early on. Each are key to the longevity of an athlete’s career.

As a physiotherapist she is often put in a reactive role of helping people return to sport. She loves working with athletes to help them return even stronger and more connected to their life  passion. But she admits a frustration of being reactive vs proactive. She has a desire for change by positioning sport medicine practitioners earlier into the athlete’s development. Setting foundations, monitoring and supporting the growing athlete. She believes that the important foundations for optimization of movement can and should be integrated early in an athlete’s development. Connecting and empowering the coaches and athletes around movement patterning and sequencing prior to injury can optimize athletes careers. Athletes of all ages and levels are dynamic and in a constant state of change/evolution which requires support and integration for all involved both early and during an athlete’s career.

From Dani’s experience working with professional athletes in a variety of sports, she understands that no matter what the level; professional athlete or developing youth, her principles and foundations always start the same. Experience has taught her that professional, recreational, master and youth athlete all need to consistently return back to the foundational movement. Therefore she is a firm believer of building youth athletes into efficient movers when they are first learning to move in their sport. Pairing learning of movement and learning a sport work together for sound habit development.