Hi! I’m Jaslynn, I’m the physiotherapist who just joined FKB Physio this month.

I graduated from the University of Queensland in 2023 and have since mainly worked in private practice settings.

A bit about myself

I’m actually from Singapore. I moved here for studies and then stayed for work!

Outside of being a physiotherapist, I illustrate designs for t-shirts, occasionally do Brazilian jiujitsu and regularly go to the gym. I’m also miserably trying to work on my cardiovascular fitness.

I have a rather terrible caffeine habit that I wish I could kick but alas… coffee is too good to resist.

Why did I become a physiotherapist?



I was very fortunate to have had very positive experiences with allied health and alternative health practitioners when I was growing up. Their care and support left a strong impression on me, and I grew up thinking I would love to be able to pay it forward and do that for someone else.

After completing high school, I originally considered studying medicine. However, after seeing the lifestyle my sister (who is now a family doctor) led, I didn’t think I would enjoy it. So I started exploring other health professions. I was also interested in fitness at the time, and would get plenty of social media content from physiotherapists on my feed and that sparked my interest!

To explore this possibility more, I shadowed physiotherapists in hospitals. I very nearly got put off by it as I was mainly shadowing inpatient physiotherapy and it wasn’t really what I could see myself doing. But on one of the last few days, I got to shadow a physiotherapist on the outpatient department.

Immediately I thought; this is it.

This is what I want to do.

I’m not even joking when I say I had tears in my eyes at that point, but it does sound rather overdramatic now, looking back!

Anyway, from then on, I became fully committed to becoming a physiotherapist.

Funnily enough, I actually never personally saw a physiotherapist until I was about 18, which is when I started Brazilian jiujitsu and exposed myself to a new world of injuries.

Injuries?

I’ve had my fair share of injuries, given that I’ve done Brazilian jiujitsu for about 7-8 years now and was pretty obsessive for some of those years. But the one that has affected me the most, and also shaped the way I treat as a physiotherapist, would be my shoulder subluxation in March 2023.

To be honest, it was almost entirely my fault. I was competing on that day and had 9 matches. About halfway through my 5^th match, I felt a click or small pop in my shoulder and immediately lost almost all my strength in it. Somehow, I managed to pull through and win that match.

A wise person would have stopped there.

But I was young and foolish, so obviously, I didn’t. I did a couple of shoulder tests on myself with the assistance of a fellow physiotherapy student, and thought I’d give it a go and at worst I’d just stop if it got really bad.

I never got the chance to stop.

My left shoulder got into an end range position which I get into all the time in training – but this time I had obviously already damaged some stabilizing structures.

I felt my left shoulder shift out of place.

It was the most disgusting feeling I’ve ever had in my life, but luckily enough the subluxation spontaneously reduced on the spot.

It was the worst injury I’ve had in my life, which really isn’t that bad compared to some of the really messed up injuries you can get. I didn’t have any fractures from it thankfully, nor did I tear any of the rotator cuff muscles, though I believe I did get some labral damage. It did, however, put me out of action from jiujitsu.

I wouldn’t say it was a bad thing overall. I learnt a lot about shoulder management from that experience, and also gained a much deeper understanding of patient’s experience of injury. It’s probably not the best way to go about gaining empathy for patients, but it definitely is one of the most effective!

An injury is never just physical, it also has emotional, social and psychological impacts. The injury gave me insight to these things, and I think it has made me a much better physiotherapist overall.

That’s also why I have a passion for working with athletes, especially martial arts athletes, to reduce injury risk and improve function. But to be honest, this is not really limited to athletes, they apply to most of the general population as well. Anyone who is facing injury, pain or any other dysfunction would know how it can affect their life. And I have come to really realize the importance of having guidance through that process, and being really grateful I can provide that to someone going through an injury, managing pain or other dysfunction.

I guess in a full circle sort of moment, I realized I have become a source of support for people going through health concerns like what I received when I was young!

So that’s the story of how I got into physiotherapy and my experiences with injury.

I think the body’s ability to adapt after injury is amazing, and I think we’re finally in a new era where people are more receptive to actively work on it rather than just rest. It’s really encouraging to see all the class participants at FKBPhysio lifting heavy and working hard to get stronger and improve their health and bone density, and I’m so honoured that I get to be part of the process 😊