Meet The Team at Oxford Street Podiatry
Adrian Dawson
Podiatrist
Adrian graduated from the University of Western Australia in 2011 completing a Bachelor of Podiatric Medicine. Together with Podiatry, Adrian has also completed a Certificate IV in custom footwear design with RMIT in Melbourne.
Adrian is passionate about helping people return to movement. He is particularly skilled at identifying and addressing problematic areas to speed up your recovery and leave you with lasting results. He has a variety of treatment tools at his disposal including Shockwave Therapy, Dry needling, myofascial release treatments, self-management techniques, SWIFT therapy (for warts), orthotic therapy, nail surgery and general Podiatric care.
With 10 years of private practise experience, Adrian possesses attention to detail and extensive clinical knowledge of feet and their stressors. He continues to upgrade his knowledge recently attending barefoot rehabilitation and taping techniques for injury management.
He lived in Melbourne for three years juggling private practice and completing his footwear design course. He was also fortunate enough to help a long-time friend set up his own football boot business called Ida sports; tailored specifically for women’s feet.
Basketball, long-distance running, strength-based fitness training and obstacle course racing are all some of his favourite pastimes. Adrian enjoys yoga, cooking, travel, reading as well as spending time with his small family. He has also been fortunate enough to have travelled to the Americas, Europe, Japan and Thailand and loves a good food tour.
Adrian consults in Wembley, Balcatta and Mt Hawthorn. He thrives on the break through moments when it comes to reaching our treatment goals. Having a solid plan is the foundation of our journey toward painless feet. This ensures we keep on track and enjoy the journey along the way. We look forward to seeing you in clinic.
Billy Gascoyne
Podiatrist
I’m a podiatrist from Sydney, graduating from Western Sydney university in 2014. I was drawn to podiatry as it encompassed various elements such as sports injuries, anatomy, movement and medicine. I came from a family of athletes and I was well aware of the disabling nature of injury and pain. I knew I wanted to pursued a vocation which was able to provide me knowledge and provide treatment for those suffering with pain and disability. Hence I became a podiatrist.
Since graduating, and suffering my own ongoing injuries, I was unable to find good, consistent answers to mine and common problems I saw in the clinic such as; complex foot pain, achilles pain, patella issues, lateral hip and sacroilliac joint pain. I searched and spoke to many well known clinicians and read everything I could find. This is where I eventually stumbled across a recently developed manual therapy and treatment system from the USA namely, Fascial Counterstrain. I was personally treated via this method and It immediately resonated with me due to its effectiveness and science. Counterstrain was the best ‘thing’ I had come across during this part of my professional journey. My leg pain disappeared after 5 minutes of treatment after 5 years. Brian Tuckey the developer has recently published a peer reviewed journal and featured in Tony Robbins book ‘Life Force’.
As a podiatrist, my interests are assessing and treating unresolved pain and disability. I’m the person you see when everything else has failed and nobody seems to have an answer. I have spent arduous amounts of time developing my skills that have organically become ‘outside the box’ and effective. I look forward to helping you on your health journey.
Shane Toohey
Podiatrist
Shane has been a practising podiatrist for 35 years and a certified acupuncturist for 25 years, during which time he has been combining his podiatric and acupuncture skills. Shane also lectured part-time in undergraduate podiatry courses in orthotic therapy.
More recently he has also presented lectures and workshops in acupuncture for podiatry students at UWA, Galway University and Huddersfdield University. For several years, he was team podiatrist for the Australian A League Football team, the Perth Glory. For the past 5 years Shane has been the sports therapist for an elite under-age AFL football team and WA State Minor Gaelic Football sole therapist for last two Australasian Carnivals. Association with sporting teams always involves providing hands on treatment at training sessions and games.
It has been my mission to unravel the most effective acupuncture treatments for conditions commonly being presented to Podiatrists and pass this on to my profession. These were never self evident from the training I received. They have the capacity to make a profound difference to clinical outcomes.