Grange Physio

With nearly 35 years experience between them working as a private practice physiotherapists Calum and Katherine have successfully treated many musculoskeletal conditions. With this vast experience they are able to dig deep into your issues and not only identify the cause of your current injury or issue, but they are able to give you understanding as to why the injuury may have occured or why it keeps reoccuring to you. Identifying the underlying issues if often the difference between short symptomatic relief and gaining control of your condition so that you can continue to do what you want or need to do.

Sometimes issues can be related to old issues. Has your rotator cuff become tight and sore because of a previous knee injury on your opposite side? Or perhaps an issue with your hip is causing you to unevenly load your lumbar spine? Or maybe your neck issues has developed because of a restricted rotator cuff?

Often changes in movement patterns, techniques or strength imbalances occur overtime witout us even realising. While we may think our squat is going well we may be loading our lower back more than we need to, or perhaps our running technique isn’t as smooth as what we first thought. The problem with our bodies is that we are very complicated, these movements involve many moving parts and many muscles all working synergestically to cause the desired movements. On top of this our bodies are all different. Everyones femurs are different lenghts, our pelvises are structured differently and some of us like to pronate a little bit more while we are running. While on thier own, there is nothing wrong with variation in techniques and in movement patterns, however all these factors contribute to you mechanics and may or may not be contributing to your condition.

It takes experience to understand these dynamics, whether or not they are related to your injuuries and understand how to treat these conditions effectively and efficiently.

It also takes a physiotherapist with a strength and conditioning background to effective teach strengthening exercises and rehabilitate you back to your fullest.

When visiting your Grange Physiotherapist you will be asked a series of questions so theat the physiotherapist can screen for any major concerns/conditions. These questions will help the physiotherapist to form a picture of your consition and understand not only what has caused your current condition but what has been leading up to this point. Discovering underlying factors go a long way to help prevent reaggravation or reinjury.

The phyiotherapist will then go through a series of tests and movements, with which they hope to get a better understanding of your condition and lead them to a diagnosis of what you may have injured. Once the physio knows what you have done they will then explain what is going on, why this has happened and how best that you move forward.

The treatment may involve manual therapies, which may include some massage, mobilisations, manipulations, dry needling or strapping. They will help you with your movements and your techniques. They will go through some home exercises to help you to continue to improve outside of the clinic. They may suggest for you to join their gym exercises classes, which involve weights, Pilates exercises and progressive strengthening and conditioning exercises. They also run exercise classes for the elderley to help with their balance and maintain their strengthe and bone density.