MELBOURNE SHOULDER GROUP
MSG is continually involved in the treatment of elite and non-elite tennis players. We pride ourselves on objective, criteria-based pre-treatment and return to sport testing protocols for all our athletes to monitor treatment progress and enhance successful return to play.
Among other tennis-specific treatments, MSG developed and implements the Watson Instability Program (WIP1), the only shoulder rehabilitation program to be tested in a randomised controlled trial and the Watson Posterior instability program (WIP-p), which are paramount in the treatment of micro-instability in tennis players.
Tennis related conditions not appropriate for surgery can be referred our surgical team members for review (Mr Hoy, Mr Barwood), who have years’ experience treating elite and non elite tennis players.
Though our tested rehabilitation programs, ongoing research, appointments at the AO, educational courses and presence on the national and international conference circuit, we aim to continue to disseminate, educate and impact future participants and organizations in tennis.
From left to Right: Dr Sarah Warby (Research Director- Melbourne Shoulder Group), Mr Greg Hoy (Director of STMS Centre of Excellence- Melbourne Shoulder Group) , Dr Lyn Waton (Founder of Melbourne Shoulder Group), and Mr Simon Balster (Founder and Outreach Director of Melbourne Shoulder Group)
DIRECTOR OF STMS CoE
Greg Hoy is Melbourne born and educated and completed his medical training at Monash University. From an early age he has had an interest in Sports Medicine and was involved with Prahran Football Club and the state and National Cricket teams for many years.
After completing his surgical training he joined the Melbourne Orthopaedic training program, and completed this in 1991. He is dual qualified as a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons and the Australian College of Sports Physicians.
Following his Orthopaedic training he spent two and a half years in post graduate training, both in Australia and overseas. He spent time in Fellowships with Ian Henderson in Melbourne, Sports Med SA in Adelaide, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford U.K., and Wrightington U.K. He also spent 6 months as a travelling Fellow, primarily in the United States and Germany.
Greg returned to Melbourne to join Melbourne Orthopaedic Group in 1993 and has been a visiting surgeon at the Alfred Hospital from 1993-2002 He is now a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Surgery of Monash University and works as a Hand and Upper Limb Surgeon at Melbourne Orthopaedic Group
His work encompasses hand and wrist surgery (including trauma), all forms of shoulder surgery and a particular interest in elbow surgery. He performs a significant amount of his surgery under arthroscopic control and has stayed at the forefront of technology with development in all aspects of upper limb surgery.
He has extensive teaching commitments at all levels of medical and paramedical training.
Greg is secretary of the Victorian Hand Society and a member of the Australian Hand Surgery Society. He is a past secretary of the Australian Shoulder and Elbow Society and is an associate member of the AFL Medical Officers Association.
He is devoted to his family, having a lovely wife and five children who keep him busy when not at work.
With a double degree in sports physician training as well as upper limb orthopaedic training, Greg Hoy is ideally suited to specialized upper limb sports injury management.
His practice has an emphasis on sporting injuries and he maintains close ties with many sporting teams and organisations, including:
- Australian Institute of Sport (AIS)
- Victorian Institute of Sport (VIS)
- Melbourne Storm (NRL) Rugby League Football Club
- Australian Basketball Team
- Athletics Australia
- Australian Football League (AFL) Teams in Victoria
CoE Members
Associate Director
Dr. Lyn Watson
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Dr Lyn Watson is the founding principal and director of Melbourne Shoulder Group (alongside Simon Balster).
Lyn is a titled sports and exercise physiotherapist (Award by the Australian College of Physiotherapists in 1999) and titled musculoskeletal physiotherapist (as award by the Australian College of Physiotherapists, 1994) who has been working exclusively in the diagnosis, assessment rehabilitation, and return to sport for people with shoulder injuries for the past 25 years.
Outreach/Tennis Affiliations Director
Mr Simon Balster
Simon Balster is an Australian Physiotherapist with 28 years private practice experience. For the last 22 years Simon has worked exclusively in the area of shoulder orthopaedic physiotherapy. He is a private practice clinician, researcher and educator of physiotherapists on shoulder and upper quadrant musculoskeletal function and disorders.
Sport Science/Research Director
Dr Sarah Warby
Shoulder physiotherapist and Research Coordinator at The Melbourne Shoulder Group, Melbourne, Australia. Research Coordinator Orthopedic Surgeon Mr Greg Hoy. Casual sessional tutor and lecturer at La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia and casual tutor and occasional teacher on the Lyn Watson Physiotherapy Shoulder Courses.
Other Members
Mr Shane Barwood, Shoulder Orthopaedic Surgeon, Melbourne Orthopaedic Group
Ross Lenssen, Senior Shoulder Physiotherapist, Melbourne Shoulder Group
Kat Davis, Senior Shoulder Physiotherapist, Melbourne Shoulder Group
Bonnie Kerr, Senior Shoulder Physiotherapist, Melbourne Shoulder Group
Daniel Verdon, Shoulder Physiotherapist, Melbourne Shoulder Group
Sam Lawrence, Shoulder Physiotherapist, Melbourne Shoulder Group
Sarah Forsyth, Shoulder Physiotherapist, Melbourne Shoulder Group
Jane Nailon, Shoulder Physiotherapist, Melbourne Shoulder Group
Simon Tran, Shoulder Physiotherapist, Melbourne Shoulder Group
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