Top 10 Frequently Asked Questions About Physio

This is the all-important questions that lots of people want answering. And it’s a very easy one to answer.
If you’re in pain with or have any of the following problems then you can be really confident that physio is right for you:

(Please note these are the symptoms and the problems that you might be experiencing, the injury as you see it and feel it, not the specific name or diagnosis of the injury. See Question 3 for the specific types of injury).

• Back pain and stiffness
• Neck pain and stiffness
• Headaches
• Shoulder muscle tension and tightness
• Pain down you arm which stops you going to sleep at night and OR hinders daily activities
• Pain and OR pins and needles in your leg
• Sports Injury
• Hip and groin pain
• Ankle or Knee injury
• Pain in hamstring, calf, groin muscles or the achilles tendon
• Pain underneath your foot
• Pain in your lower back when you sit or stand for even short periods
• Pain and stiffness in your back when you put your socks and shoes on

This is a list of the more common problems that patients ask us to help with. If your problem isn’t on the list or you’re still unsure if physio is right for you, we offer you the chance to speak with one of our expert physios before you book your session. Feel free to call and speak to us as we can help you decide if physio is right for you. If we don’t think we can help we will point you in the right direction of who can.

This is a really great question. It’s true that physio is a very physical experience and as such treatments can often be a little uncomfortable at times, but we will always aim to be as gentle as possible and cause the minimal discomfort we possibly can to get your problem solved as fast as we can. Before we do any physio techniques we will tell you exactly what is about to happen whether or not it is likely to hurt and for how long.

More often than not the pain stops as soon as we do, so you only have to tell us to stop and we will. Pain is a side to physio that is often unavoidable and most patients eventually concede that the pain is a nice sort of pain, one they know that is doing them some good and is often no worse than the pain that they are already in. The discomfort usually reduces as treatment progresses and we always advise you on things like ice and heat to help reduce the soreness that might be caused by the treatment.

Here is a list of the common injuries we see:

Back

Sciatica
Sacro-Iliac joint pain and stiffness (you may hear this being called SIJ)
Spinal Stenosis
Weak core stability
Disc prolapse/herniated disc/slipped disc/bulging disc

Neck/Shoulder

Muscle spasm and tension
Rotator Cuff tear
Impingement Syndrome
Neck Spondylosis (also know as degeneration / wear and tear / arthrisits)
Disc prolapse/herniated disc/slipped disc/bulging disc
Migraines

Ankle and Knee

Ankle Sprain
Achilles tendon problems
Plantar Fasciitis
Knee Cartilage
Knee ligament injuries – including Cruciate ligament
Patello-femoral joint pain
Post surgery knee rehab
Sports injury/Muscles

Other

Calf strain
Hamstring strain
Quadricep strain
Shoulder muscle tear
Achilles tendonitis
Groin strain
Whiplash Injury

Post fracture

Any injury requiring Massage

Physiotherapy is as much about the physical as it is the ability to give you peace of mind. Your physio will aim to reduce your pain or get you active again as fast as possible. That’s the physical benefit of physio but we will also speak to you in a way that can be understood to give you a clear understanding of your injury from what it is, to how it happened and importantly how to prevent it from happening in the future.

If you can find your injury or your problem from the list above, we would be really confident that physio will help. So much so that we offer you a Help Guarantee – if by the end of your treatment you’re not convinced that physio has eased your pain or reduced your problem, Wendy will personally refund your payment.

Yes. This is the most common way that patients come to us. They have usually either been recommended to us by their friends and family, GP, Surgeon, work place or health insurer or have simply found us by this website – but you do not need a formal referral from any of these. Just call and make the appointment when ever you’re ready.

We are not purely physio we have sports therapists working in the team too. We work as a multi-therapist team. We believe more pairs of eyes on a client is better than one so clients will often see more than one of the therapy team to get the best outcome.