Expert individualised physiotherapy to enhance your recovery.
World Class Specialist Physiotherapy.
Welome to Cairns Specialist Physiotherapy. We are a Specialised Physiotherapy service that is passionate in providing the highest level of physiotherapy care for your musculoskeletal condition. We are experts in managing patients with complex conditions and provide an individualised and evidence-based approach that often extends beyond conventional physiotherapy care. Our goal is to assist your recovery and to help you get back to living your life.
We also provide professional development, including coursework, clinical mentoring, and second opinion consults for clinicians.
Our goal is to optimize the provision of Physiotherapy care for patients and health professionals not just in Cairns, but across all of Far North Queensland.
Our Services
Second Opinions
We offer assessment, treatment and management options for complex patients who may have not improved with other treatments. Our second opinion service assists patients in findings their appropriate pathway to recovery.
Professional Development
We provide practical education to improve clinical skills and theoretical knowledge for clinicians. This includes lectures, clinical training, masterclasses and two-day courses.
Clinical Mentoring
Suitable for all levels of experience, expand your assessment, management, and clinical reasoning skills to help improve your patient outcomes.
Dr Taishi Ezaki
Director & Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist
Dr. Taishi Ezaki is a Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist (as awarded by the Australian College of Physiotherapists in 2022). He currently works as an Advanced Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist and Clinical Leader in the Neurosurgical and Orthopaedic Screening Clinic at Cairns Hospital where he regularly provides specialist opinion and management to complex patients awaiting a surgical opinion. His clinical expertise focuses on non- operative management of complex musculoskeletal conditions including spinal and peripheral joint pain.
Taishi is actively involved in quality improvement research, and teaches experienced post-graduate Physiotherapists completing training in the Advanced Musculoskeletal Program in Queensland Health. He is also actively involved in the specialisation training program mentoring registrars and marking final exams. Taishi also provides clinical supervision for Masters of Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy students.
Taishi works part-time as a Consulting Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist and is the director of Cairns Specialist Physiotherapy where he provides second opinions and professional development in Far North Queensland and around Australia.
Areas of Expertise
Upcoming Events
4th - 5th July 2025
Cairns QLD
This course is designed to assist your clinical management of acute knee injuries including ACL, PCL, MCL, meniscus and multi-ligament injuries. The course will cover indications for non-operative management vs surgery, early stage bracing protocols to enhance ACL and meniscus healing, management of ACL and meniscus injuries, non-operative management of PCL, MCL and multi-ligament injuries and exercise strategies for early, mid and late-stage rehabilitation to prevent the risk of reinjury. There will also be a clinical assessment of a live patient (complex knee) by a Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist.
Lumbar Spine Course - Non-Operative Lumbar Spine Management
The course will be research-bound with evidence-informed application, with practical, postgraduate-level strategies you can use with patients immediately! It is tailored towards clinical practice, and it will improve your clinical skills to confidently manage all types of back conditions.
October 2025
Brisbane QLD
Specialist Non-Surgical Knee Masterclass - Non-Operative Knee Management and Ligament Healing + Clinical Masterclass in Knee Pain
