Physiotherapy

Your Healthcare Musculoskeletal Outpatient Physiotherapy Services provides comprehensive, high quality musculoskeletal physiotherapy services for the local population. Referrals must be made via your GP.

Physical means are used to assess, diagnose, treat and prevent injury or disease, in order to enable individuals to achieve their maximum level of function and independence.

The service also works closely with the Musculoskeletal Triaging services at Kingston Hospital, accepting referrals for physiotherapy into the community.

Patients may attend for individual or group treatment. The range of different services and treatments offered includes:

• Joint and soft tissue manual therapy

• Spinal Assessment (including the following post graduate techniques McKenzie, Maitland, Mulligan approach)

• Dynamic Stability

• Paediatric Musculoskeletal Disorders

• Muscle Balance

• Electrotherapy

• Acupuncture

• Exercise Prescription

• Neural Dynamics

• Biomechanics

Group work for patients includes:

• General exercises and management strategies for persistent lower back pain

• Osteoarthritis of the knees

• Modified pilates for lower back pain

Patients may attend for individual or group treatment

Initial appointments consist of a 45 minute face-to-face assessment, followed by follow-up sessions.

Individual and group work takes place between 8am - 4.45pm with evening appointments by arrangement Monday - Friday.