Physiotherapy

Simply put, Injuries and pain are part and parcel of life. Our physiotherapists at Strength Clinic Academy not only work on managing your pain but also investigate underlying factors that may be contributing to it. Our team has expertise in a range of conditions such as acute injury management, post-surgery rehabilitation, overuse or chronic injury management, return to sport readiness, and injury prevention.

Manual Therapy Techniques

There are many manual therapy techniques ranging from passive stretching to joint mobilisations and soft tissue release. Although each are unique in their own way, they all aim to facilitate tissue repair and psychological recovery.

Sports Massage Therapy

Sports Massage Therapy aims to reduce muscle tension and soreness by desensitising your nervous system and by removing waste products such as lactic acid from your muscles. It can also improve circulation and psychological wellness.

Dry Needling

Dry Needling aims to create a microbleed at the site of scar tissue or muscle tension which causes an inflammatory response. With this, fresh nutrients and cells are carried into the site by your blood vessels to promote healing and/or reduce tension. This also causes pain reduction via neurological and hormonal responses.

Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation

Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation aids with muscle recruitment and can have short term pain relieving effects. Often used following surgery when muscles go through significant atrophy due to underuse, NMES can be used to help facilitate muscle stimulation and recovery.

Sports Taping Techniques

Sports taping, where rigid tape is used to offer added rigidity to a joint, can enable an individual to return to an activity when certain movements are still causing pain. Kinesiology tape, when applied correctly, is used for biofeedback which aids with movement/sensory awareness. It has also shown to aid with swelling/bruise reduction.

Movement Pattern Education

When we are in pain or injured, our bodies are incredibly good at adapting. Needless to say, this can cause movement dysfunction or overuse/underuse of certain muscles. By conducting a thorough assessment, we can provide clients with movement education to help optimise more efficient movement patterns.

Exercise Rehabilitation

With physiotherapy, the goal is always to get back to being pain-free. We do this through a combination of load management, programming optimisation, home exercises, and total body conditioning.

Strength & Conditioning

Optimise your training with a customised and objective-focused plan. Our team of specialists will apply science-based and sports training principles to come up with a unique program to optimise your physical performance.

Blood Flow Restriction Training

Using Saga Wireless devices (inflatable cuffs placed on either the upper legs or arms) that reduce blood flow to limbs, clients will be able to train at lighter loads but still reap the benefits of conventional muscle building. This is a great tool to use post-surgery/injury as clients can still achieve great results with low, pain free loads.

Cold & Heat Therapy

Cold treatments are recommended in the initial phases of an injury. It is believed that they reduce the flow of the blood into an area, thus reducing inflammation. They can also be used for chronic pain by overriding pain signals. Heat treatments are often used after the early inflammation has settled. They increase blood flow to the injury site, thus speeding up the healing process. They can also be used to treat chronic pain and joint stiffness.

Education

To achieve the best outcomes for your treatment, it is important that you understand the underpinning rationale for each intervention. We also aim to arm you with the tools so you can manage your pain and/or injury.

Body Composition Analysis

Just basing your health on the weight on the scale does not provide enough information. To gather more data, we use either bioimpedance analysis or skinfold calliper readings. Bioimpedance analysis sends a weak electrical current through your body. From this it estimates your body fat percentage, skeletal muscle mass, fat mass, fitness age, resting metabolic rate and more. Although not 100% accurate, so long as the timing of this is constant, it gives us a lot more objective data to track progress. Skinfold measurements estimate the same results (using anywhere from 3 to 9 sites on your body), but this produces more accurate results.