Six ways we treat, one way we work.

A structured examination of the painful area and everything that loads it. We take a full history, test range of movement and strength, and reproduce your symptoms deliberately so there is no guesswork about which structure is involved.

You leave with a working diagnosis in plain language, an expected timeframe, and a note of what would change our mind.

• Range of movement, strength and functional testing
• Identification of the underlying load or postural driver
• Referral onwards where imaging or a medical opinion is needed

Hands-on work used for what it is genuinely good at: opening up a stiff joint, reducing protective muscle guarding, and making movement comfortable enough that you can start exercising again.

It is never the whole treatment. Every hands-on session is paired with something you take away, because passive treatment on its own does not hold.

• Spinal and peripheral joint mobilisation
• Soft tissue and trigger point techniques
• Guided stretching and joint range work you can continue at home

The part that does most of the work. A written, progressive programme that rebuilds strength and load tolerance in the tissue that failed, scaled to the time and equipment you actually have.

Progressions are decided by what you can do at review, not by a fixed number of weeks. If something is not tolerating the load, it gets changed rather than pushed.

• Strength, mobility and tendon loading programmes
• Home, gym or minimal-equipment versions of the same plan
• Written instructions with sets, reps and what soreness is acceptable

Structured recovery after knee, hip, shoulder and ankle surgery, working within the protocol and restrictions your surgeon has set rather than around them.

Early stages focus on swelling, range and reactivating muscle that has switched off. Later stages rebuild the strength you need to get back to stairs, driving, work and sport.

• Reconstruction, replacement and repair rehabilitation
• Staged progression aligned to your surgeon's protocol
• Scar, swelling and range management in the early weeks

Acute injury management through to a criteria-based return, for the running, football, netball, cycling and surf that the river and coast suburbs are built around.

Return is decided on testing, not on the calendar. We agree the standards you need to hit before you go back, and we will tell you honestly if you have not hit them.

• Acute management of sprains, strains and overuse injuries
• Running and training load review after repeat injuries
• Objective return-to-sport testing before clearance

For pain that has outlasted the tissue healing time, and for arthritic joints, stiffness and deconditioning that are not going to resolve but can be managed a great deal better than they currently are.

The aim is capacity rather than cure: gradually widening what you can do in a week without a flare, and giving you a plan for when a flare happens anyway.

• Graded activity and pacing plans for persistent pain
• Strength and mobility work for osteoarthritic hips and knees
• Balance and falls-prevention programmes for older adults
• A written flare-up plan so setbacks do not undo the progress