General Physiotherapy is Care For Everyday Aches and Pains 

General Physiotherapy encompasses the treatment of everyday aches and pains; such as your acute and chronic back pain, neck and shoulder pain.

Head to our ‘Conditions’ tab for more detailed information on common causes of pain in these areas.

The treatment of these conditions commonly requires a ‘pain relief’ stage – often achieved through techniques such as massage, joint mobilisation and manipulation, dry needling and more.

We then need to determine ‘why’ your pain has occurred in the first place. Muscles become tight when they are overloaded. This may simply be because your tight muscle is weak, and unable to cope with normal movement demands. Or, it can occur because an associated area is weaker, and your tight muscle is being asked to do more than it would normally do.

E.g. the lower back muscles often become tighter when the gluteal muscles are weaker. Our glutes are involved in bending and lifting. When these muscles aren’t strong, we take a portion of that load through our lower back – which may in turn become overloaded, tight and painful.

We need to identify your area of weakness and prescribe appropriate strengthening exercises to ensure that your pain does not return. These exercises can be performed at home, or under the supervision of our physiotherapists in either an individual or group class setting.