About Jarrod

Your experienced Rehabilitative Osteopath, and Strength and Conditioning Coach in Melbourne.

Dr. Jarrod Testa is a Rehabilitative Osteopath, a title awarded by Osteopathy Australia in 2022 and re-awarded in 2025.

Jarrod began his career as a personal trainer in 2012 (Fitness Australia) while completing his Sports Science degree (Australian Catholic University) . With a strong interest in rehabilitation and athletic performance, he went on to study Osteopathy, graduating in 2018 (Victoria University)

This background allows Jarrod to combine the philosophies taught in osteopathic care with practical, evidence-based exercise and strength and conditioning strategies.

Jarrod enjoys working with people who are ready to take control of their pain complaints – with particular interest in spinal, shoulder, hip, elbow, knee and tendon related complaints.

Jarrod also enjoys working with those who are wanting more from their body and are ready to work towards achieving movement related goals.

Outside the clinic, Jarrod has been strength training for over 15 years and is a blue belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

Through his own experience as a young gym-goer, Jarrod saw firsthand how pain and injuries are often mismanaged when strength and conditioning principles aren’t considered.

This sparked his commitment to continually refining his approach to integrating rehabilitation with intelligent training, and therefore The Strength Osteo was born.

Jarrod is continually learning to provide the best service to his clients, and educate clinicians from all over various disciplines in the the allied health sector. you can read the following courses he has undertaken below;

Year	Course Title	Educator
2013	Nutrition for Bodybuilders and Powerlifters	Dr. Layne Norton
2015	Introduction To Bodyweight strength	Daniel Vadnal
2016	Don’t fear the disc bulge	Andrew Lock
2017	Working with the back pained client	Joel Proskewitz – The McGill Method
2017	High Performance Training Methods	Joel Proskewitz and Dr. Stuart McGill – The McGill Method
2018	Exercise for chronic pain	Nick Efthimiou
2018	Office Ergonomic Risk Assessment	Heath Williams and Wayde Brennan – Corporate Work Health Australia
2019	Strength and Conditioning for the spine, upper and lower body	Martyn Girvan, Daniel Di Pasqua and Heath Williams
2019	Reconciling biomechanics with pain science	Greg Lehman
2019	Dry Kneedling and myofascial Cupping	Jon Marshall – Manual medicine Australia
2019	Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy	Cliff Eaton – DJO Chattanooga
2019	The sporting shoulder	Lyn Watson and Simon Balster
2019	Tendinopathies – A sports doctors approach	Dr. Karen Holzer
2019	Exercise and cancer	Absolute health and performance
2019	Online mentorship for Personal Trainers	JPS education
2019	The 5-step kinetic chain screen	Grant Burrows
2020	Converging on a precise diagnosis	Stuart McGill – Backfit Pro
2020	PEAK – Treating knee osteoarthritis	Melbourne University
2020	Powerlifting fundamentals	JPS education
2020	An introduction to pain science	Jared Maynard – Clinical athlete
2020	Science based tendinopathy treatment	Jason Eure – Clinical Athlete
2020	Knee valgus in the squat	Sam Spinelli – Clinical athlete
2020	Mastering lower limb injuries	The sports MAP
2020	Private Practice ready	ImoveU
2020	Running Biomechanics Seminar	Tom O’ Halloran – Mechanics of Movement
2020	Stop hurting women with exercise	Antony Lo – The Physio Detective
2020	Bulletproof your body – Pelvic floor and core part 1	Antony lo – The Physio detective
2020	Bulletproof your body – Pelvic floor and core part 2	Antony lo – The Physio detective
2021	Functional Therapeutic movement	Ben Cormack – Cor-Kinetic
2021	The rotator cuff part 1	Jared Powell – The shoulder physio
2021	The rotator cuff part 2	Jared Powell – The shoulder physio
2022	The stiff and unstable shoulder	Jared Powell – The shoulder physio
2022	Rethinking the big patterns	Dr. Pat Davidson
2022	Non MSK contributors of headaches and migraines	Beth Yule
2023	Running resiliency	Greg Lehman
2024	Social Media Marketing	Jack Prow – fully Booked group
2024	Organic content and E commerce marketing	Angus Bradley
2025	General Physical Preparation level 1	Angus Bradley
2025	Exercise library & Beginner Biomechanics	Ben Yanes – Modern Meathead
2025	Running biomechanics Online course	Tom O’Halloran – Mechanics of Movement
2025	Neurobiology and assessment of chronic pain	Claire Richardson – Wayfinder Pain Consulting
2026	The complete shoulder – 2^nd edition	Jared Powell – The shoulder physio