Farhana Abdul Kadir

Farhana graduated from the University of Sydney, Australia, in 2008, with a BAppSc (Physiotherapy) on a Health Sciences Scholarship from Singapore Health Services. Upon graduation, she worked in an acute hospital, rotating through intensive care, general medicine, geriatrics, and orthopaedics. She then went into outpatient spinal care and sports medicine. In the latter, she worked in a multidisciplinary sports clinic with in-house sports doctors, orthopaedic surgeons, podiatrists, dietitians, and exercise physiologists. In those formative years, she provided physiotherapy coverage for the 2009 Asian Youth Games, 2010 Summer Youth Olympic Games, and 2012 Asian Netball Championships, among other sporting events ranging from triathlons to soccer.

Assimilating the knowledge and skills gathered from these experiences, Farhana ventured into private practice in Australia and Canada, specializing in orthopaedic, sports and complex musculoskeletal cases. She offers dry needling, manual therapy, pain management, gait analysis, postural correction, and exercise prescription, among a variety of other treatment modalities.

Born and raised in Singapore, Farhana grew up playing netball competitively, and was on the national youth teams. She has a special interest in knees and ankles, having herself gone through an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction as well as an ankle open reduction internal fixation (ORIF). The first-hand experience of being on the other side of the table has helped her gain further empathy, understanding, and compassion as a healthcare provider. She loves connecting with people and their furry friends, and hopes to build and sustain a community of healthy and happy patients.