Brave Bodies is a new mobile physiotherapy provider servicing the South West region of Western Australia from Busselton to Margaret River. Our aim is provide high-quality, evidence-based therapy, with a focus on NDIS funded paediatric services. As a mobile physiotherapy service we provide therapy in the home, or community that aims to improve functional mobility, working towards the tailored goals of the client within a collaborative and family centred framework.
Dr Annie Chappell is a passionate and highly experienced physiotherapist working with babies, children and adolescents. She has a keen interest in supporting babies and children in their early years, kids with physical disabilities, hypermobility syndromes, sports injuries, and musician's health. In her 25 year career, she has completed 8 peer-reviewed publications, and has taught in several courses and workshops throughout Australia. Annie is working with Brave Bodies part-time seeing clients for home-visits or clinical sessions based out of Latitude 33.7 Physiotherapy in Vasse. To book in with Annie, please complete our contact form and we will be in touch!
Tarryn is the heart of Brave Bodies. Her passion for supporting children and families with unique and challenging disabilities is the reason our services exist today. Alongside Ruan, her husband, she started Brave Bodies in 2023 with the aim to provide high-quality, evidence-based, family-centred physiotherapy services to Busselton, Bunbury, Margaret River and surrounds. Tarryn also provides her services to Geographe Education Support Centre, supporting the primary and high school in creating physiotherapy programs meeting each individual child's needs, or supporting external clinicians to implement their programs. Tarryn has a broad range of experience in paediatric physiotherapy in both very remote Australia and metropolitan areas. In her spare time, she loves living in Busselton, tending to her fruit trees, and enjoying a warm cappuccino with Ruan or a friend. Tarryn is currently available for home-visits under NDIS.
If Tarryn is the heart of Brave Bodies, then Ruan is back-bone. Co-owner of Brave Bodies, and husband to Tarryn, Ruan has a passion for supporting children, teens, and young-adults to their next goal. He loves to empower kids and teenagers through physiotherapy, knowing that accomplishing physical challenges is a way to build confidence in a myriad of other life domains. With a broad range of experience in both very remote Australia and metropolitan settings, he has gained valuable insights into the complex needs of families and children. Ruan and Tarryn moved to beautiful Busselton in 2023, and they are passionate about improving quality and access to paediatric allied health services in the region. In his spare time, Ruan enjoys the outdoors that the South-West has to offer, but the best time is going through life's adventures with Tarryn. Ruan is currently available for home-visits under NDIS.
Brave Bodies is founded by Ruan Swart (MSc Physiotherapy) and Tarryn Roberts (BSc Physiotherapy). We have several years of experience working in Perth and the Northern Territory. We now call this beautiful part of the world home and are very excited to be bringing our service to the region.