Frederic Impens

Senior Remedial Massage Therapist

Dip Remedial Massage Therapy
Dip Integrated Body Therapies
Cert Myofascial Release
Cert Dry Needling
Cert Kinesio Taping
Member ATMS

Main interests:
Frederic loves helping people with longstanding chronic back and neck pain, recurring sports injuries, headaches and TMJ dysfunction.

Frederic has been our MyGCphysio Senior Remedial Massage Therapist for 10 years and has nearly 20 years of working experience. Frederic previously worked in one of Sydney’s top Physio clinics for 8 years and was the Massage Therapist for the under 20’s Balmain West Tigers.

Fred’s story
Growing up in Belgium I was an active kid and played several sports; Volleyball, Athletics and Judo.

After finishing high school I got into Uni doing a electric engineering degree.

Right after I had finished my first year at Uni I got a job offer as a test driver for Volvo. Being a test driver sounded way more fun than studying so I took the job and worked for Volvo for more than 10 years.

From my sporting back ground I’ve always had a keen interest in anatomy and physiology, so in 2000 I started a course in Naturopathy and Reflexology.

In 2003 I had an opportunity to live and work in India. In India I met my wife, Hedy, who was there on holidays. It was in India that I developed an interest in doing massage as a profession. I was very fortunate to find a teacher in Ayurvedic Massage and studied with him for a very intensive 4 weeks.

Fast forward a few months I travelled to Australia with Hedy on a student visa and started a Diploma of Remedial Massage course at the Australasian College of Natural Therapies in Sydney.

Straight after my course I found a job at Sports Lab, a well respected Physio clinic in Sydney, which was a great learning experience and worked there for 8 years. During that time I also worked as a Massage Therapist for the under 20’s Balmain West Tigers.

In 2006 we had our first son Leo & two years later our second son Jace.

Getting tired of hectic Sydney, the Gold Coast seemed the perfect environment for our new little family and moved here in 2010. That same week I started working at MyGCphysio and haven’t looked back since.