In short: Exercise physiology is the first allied health service under review as part of the federal government’s reforms to the NDIS.  

Around 14,000 Australians with disabilities access exercise physiology services to help with their daily lives. 

Leo Burgess was on holiday with his family in Tasmania when disaster struck.

The nine-year-old from the New South Wales Central Coast, who has autism and ADHD, suffered paralysis and was placed into an induced coma as doctors scrambled for answers.

The primary school student was finally diagnosed with astrocytopathy, an autoimmune disease so rare, his mum Michelle Burgess said, “doctors had never seen a case before”.