We provide a wide range of services covering many different problems and areas of specialty care within physiotherapy.

Musculo-Skeletal Problems

Musculo-skeletal physiotherapy is for problems that affect the bones, muscles, tendons and ligaments as well as the nerves that go to or pass these structures.  Common musculoskeletal injuries include back and neck problems as well as shoulder injuries (rotator cuff tears and impingement), tennis elbow, tendonitis, hip pain, knee and ankle injuries.

Spinal Pain

Back and neck pain, sciatica, headaches, whiplash

The majority of us will experience neck or back pain at some stage in our lives.  Unfortunately, if you experience it once there is a much greater chance that it will re-occur.  For some, back and neck problems are a minor inconvenience but for others, the problems can be very limiting or keep coming back, often triggered by minor movements.  Helping you get over the pain and disability of spinal pain is one of areas of specialty practice.  However, our treatment and training can help you minimise the severity and frequency of your spinal pain episodes.

Sports Injury Management

While participating in sport is generally good for your well being, injuries occur from time to time.  In our experience preventative measures can help reduce the likelihood of injuries but just as in general life, accidents do occur.  When they do occur, correct management is important to achieving the fastest recovery that the body can achieve. 

We see injuries arising from both contact and non contact sports.  Different sports have different injury profiles – injuries more common to that particular sport.  Knowing this and being familiar with these types of injuries and sporting techniques helps us get you back to sport quicker.  Knowing your sport also helps in establishing effective injury prevention measures.

For example ACL injuries and other knee ligament injuries occur more frequently in sports such as Football, netball and touch football where rapid changes in direction challenge the body to cope.  These sports also challenge the ankle where ankle sprains are relatively more common in comparison to athletics where overuse injuries and muscle strains are more common.  However, just because an injury might be more frequent in a particular sport, it is vital that proper assessment helps exclude other injuries which might be less common but more serious.  What might appear to be a ‘simple’ ankle sprain, may involve other structures which if not addressed can lead to slower recovery or longer term problems. 

Football / Netball / Ankle and knee injuries, ligament tears

Hand Injuries

We have experts to help manage the simple to the complex hand injury. Work accidents with fractures or tendon damage often need expert supervision to maximise recovery for this important part of our bodies.  Carpal tunnel syndrome, tenosynovitis, Dupryten’s contracture, arthritis affecting the thumb are just a few of the common problems that our Hand Therapists can assist you with.

Orthopaedic Management

Casting & splinting, water-tolerant casts for arm and leg fractures, total knee and hip replacement rehabilitation. 

We can help you recover more quickly after fractures, and get you going once your fractures have healed.  Knowing what you can do to help yourself after surgery or injury, improves your recovery, along with the treatment to reduce your pain and the stiffness which often comes with these problems.

Women's Health

Ante and post natal care, Mastectomy rehabilitation and support and Incontinence rehabilitation are specialist areas where accurate diagnosis is important to implementing the right treatment. 

Paediatric Care

Talipes correction, scoliosis, hip dysplasia, ‘clicky’ hips, developmental delay. 

Even with fairly significant problems, children have great potential to recover, typically more than adults – If they are supported in the right ways.  A team approach is often vital to help children gain the most from treatment.  Our team is used to liaising with Paediatricians and other health professionals as well as the all important family.

GaitScan Foot Assessment and Gait Analysis

Gaitscan helps us help you.  GaitScan is a very powerful tool which adds a great deal of information in assessments of the foot in normal walking.  Gaitscan is a pressure plate which provides information on the way your foot is striking the ground and adapting to forces.  While there are other pressure plates available, we chose the Gaitscan for a number of reasons: 

q      It has an industry high number of sensors and simply put the more sensors the better the information that can be gained from it.  It can be like the difference between a crisp sharp picture from a top of the line digital SLR camera compared to the slightly out of focus snap on a cheap model camera.

q      The software behind the Gaitscan provides the real power for the insights needed in in the prescription of orthotics as well as in the assessment of lower limb problems.  The refined information provides additional information on variations in gait that can be contibuting to or signs of dysfunction in the knee hip or back.

More information on the Gaitscan analysis system is available at www.theorthoticgroup.com

Whole Body Vibration (WBV)

WBV is a relatively new development in the management of a range of musculo-skeletal conditions.  It was first developed in Russia to assist in the rehabilitation of cosmonauts, who suffered from loss of bone mass and muscle wastage after periods of prolonged weightlessness.  Following the greater access to the Soviet Union since the 1990’s, the technique was brought to Europe and more recently Australia.  Since then it has become a clinical tool to treat conditions that range from osteoporosis to enhanced strength training efficiency.  While there are a number of such units available –some can even be found in gyms and department stores- it is knowing when and how to apply (and more importantly when NOT to apply) WBV that makes the difference in results.