Our Difference
What can a physio do for you!
- Physios help people:
- Recover from an injury
- Reduce pain and stiffness
- Prevent avoidable injuries
- Design exercise programs to help people get active and become more healthy
- Design training programs for specific health or sports goals
- Manage ongoing and chronic pain
- Manage ongoing chronic health issues such as various forms of arthritis, Parkinson’s, cardiorespiratory (chest and breathing) problems, men’s health issues such as before and after prostate surgery
Points of Difference
- Highly experienced and highly qualified staff
- APA Titled Physio
- Staff with Exercise Science degrees and Masters as well as Physiotherapy
- Elite sports experience with Sydney Swans AFL, AIS, Irish Rugby
- Extensive experience in community sports for many years
- Ongoing commitment to improvement of physiotherapy services – we do ongoing training and travel overseas for extra training
- We focus on doing what we need to in order to provide a physio service that produces the best outcomes for the local community
Specialised services
- Sports Physiotherapy
- Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy
- Dry needling
- McKenzie therapy for spinal pain
- Pilates – mat and equipment
- Hand therapy
- Splinting and casting
- Orthotics
- TMJ assessment and treatment for jaw pain (not splinting)
- Neurological physiotherapy
- Balance and dizziness disorders (vertigo, vestibular rehabilitation)
- Pain physiology education and rehabilitation
- Workplace Injury Management
Commitment to continuing education
Physiotherapy knowledge is constantly being updated by research and experience. This means that as physios we must remain up to date otherwise we risk not offering our community the best possible treatment at the time.
As a group we have invested heavily in the quality of our staff and we work hard to keep informed by the latest evidence. That does not mean we follow fads, quite the contrary. We look for information from good resources and filter that through our experience as a team. We then look to upskill each other as therapists by sharing knowledge and working together. You may not see it at your appointment, but we research, confirm and plan all sorts of assessments and interventions based on the way people and their problems present.
What sets good physio apart from ordinary care is good clinical reasoning. That means the way information gained from an assessment is used to drive treatment. By being informed by evidence and having a team with great depth of experience at all levels – right up to elite sports – we are able to confidently say we try to offer the best care we can and that when we can’t help you, we will point you in the right direction of specialist care that can. This is why we exist in professional networks based on skills and expertise rather than who plays golf with whom.
Elite Sports and Surgical experience
Our physios have spent time working at various levels of sport. This has been working with local sporting associations up to helping provide physiotherapy for large events, such as sports carnivals and World Grand Masters Hockey. We also have staff who have spent time working with the Sydney Swans AFL gaining experience with the week-to-week management of players and their injuries under the stress of a season. Steve Royes has also travelled overseas to the Steadman Clinic and Howard Head Sports Medicine Center in Vail, Colorado to learn about how at the elite level in the USA complex knee injuries are managed surgically and in rehabilitation. This kind of experience is invaluable in understanding treatment options and what to expect in the rehabilitation of complex injuries.