About

Movement makes more sense when we look at the whole picture.

I’m Tracy Cooke, a podiatrist and educator with more than 30 years of clinical and teaching experience.

Through The Stabilisation Academy, I help health and movement professionals build confidence in foot, ankle and lower-limb rehabilitation. I also create educational resources for people who want to better understand their own movement.

My work spans clinical practice, professional education and teaching and supervising podiatry students at the University of Western Australia.

Why I created the Academy

I created The Stabilisation Academy to help make movement and rehabilitation easier to understand and apply.

In practice and in teaching, I’ve seen that having more exercises or treatment options doesn’t always make decisions easier. The challenge is knowing what to observe, how to interpret it, what may be influencing the movement, and how to choose and reassess an appropriate approach.

That’s the thinking behind the From the Feet Up Movement Reasoning Framework: a way to work through those questions with the individual, their movement, task and context in view.

How I work

Ask → Observe → Interpret → Identify the driver → Select an intervention → Reassess

The aim is to support thoughtful, individualised decisions - not to apply the same solution to every person.

A little about my background

My work brings together more than 30 years of podiatry experience, a background in education and a continuing interest in how people move. I’ve worked across private practice, community health, hospitals and aged care, and I now teach and supervise podiatry students at the University of Western Australia.