TREATMENT TECHNIQUES

"Our clinician specialist physiotherapists treat with a holistic approach using a wealth of experience in biomechanical treatments and exercise programs targeting 1/Motor Control mechanisms 2/Pain Relief stratergies."

These are a few of the tools we use to help you get better quicker.

The McKenzie Method-(Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy)

With vast experience and physiotherapists from many backgrounds we use a wide combination of techniques to get you better quicker. Some are:

A method of mechanical assessment and treatment providing the patient with an understanding of their condition and how to self manage it. The McKenzie Method is not merely extension exercises - in its truest sense, the McKenzie Method is a comprehensive approach to treatment based on sound principals and fundamentals that when understood and followed accordingly are very successful, in fact, remarkable.

For further information please contact PhysioMaxx or

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PhysioMaxx has one of the few ‘Repex' beds in Australia – this aids in regaining extension to the lower back – “without effort”.

CLINICAL PILATES

“Where the Art of injury Management meets the Science”

Clinical Pilates is one form of exercise used by physiotherapists that is based on the traditional pilates repertoire of exercises. In the last decade, the latest research in spinal stability has been incorporated into the traditional pilates exercises, modifying them to develop the Clinical Pilates program.

Clinical Pilates uses spring loaded pilates equipment to provide more appropriate afferent input to the motor cortex to teach correct patterns of movement. Injury or pathology alters muscle function and timing leading to poor movement patterns and postures. Clinical Pilates can help to retrain the correct muscles and movements once the pathology is controlled. This is achieved with low load, closed chain exercise to recruit the local stabilizers of the spine and limbs, and can be gradually progressed to more complexes, higher level exercises.

Most musculoskeletal pathologies have a “directional preference” when it comes to movement. All Clinical Pilates movements can have a flexion, extension, off centre or neural-mobilizing bias. The effect of pathology under load can be observed with the exercises, meaning that it can assist as a diagnostic tool, or as a way of determining whether radiological findings are clinically relevant.

Clinical Pilates is becoming more and more recognized as an adjunct to traditional ‘hands on' manual therapy. At PhysioMaxx, all of our physiotherapists are trained in the McKenzie Method of mechanical diagnosis and treatment, which interlinks very closely to the philosophy of directionally preferential treatment, and exercise-based therapy.

There has traditionally been a gap in the continuum between “treatment” and “gym programs”, with many patients being given inappropriate or non-specific exercises as part of their rehabilitation. Clinical Pilates is an approach which attempts to fill that gap, and take patients from that point where ‘normal' treatment is no longer beneficial, yet the patient is still at only about 80%, to the maximum level of function they can achieve given the type of injury.

What are the benefits of Clinical Pilates?

• Correction of poor body mechanics which can cause injury
• Improved posture and flexibility
• Firmer and flatter stomach muscles
• Better trunk stabilization
• Enhanced breathing control
• Increased injury resistance
• Overall body toning
• Safe and effective injury management
• Identification of injury cause
• Treatment based on current research
• Evidence based practice

FIT BALL

Exercises on the Fit Ball help initiate postural muscles this is because the Fit Ball offers an unstable base. We prescribe exercises on Fit Balls to assist in the recovery of many conditions. These conditions include –

• Rehabilitation of core muscles when treating back pain facilitating shoulder girdle control when treating movement dysfunction of the shoulder to general body awareness.
  
  
• Balance improving posture in pregnancy to name a few

Exercise programs can be designed specifically for the needs of the client. Particularly useful for your home programs.

We offer DVD’s by Lisa Westlake. These vary in degrees of difficulty.