Our Speciality

Sports Physiotherapy

Sports Physiotherapy is a specialized field dealing specifically with sports related injuries and requires the physiotherapist to have an extensive knowledge of sporting injuries and their management. Injuries such as acute sprains, strains and tears, or chronic overuse injuries require immediate management in order to maximize recovery. All our Physiotherapists are affiliated with sporting teams and organizations and have a wide range of skills to manage specific sporting injuries.

Our Physiotherapists aim to rehabilitate you using hands-on techniques as well as regaining your strength, mobility, balance and co-ordination to ensure you are ready to return to sport safely.

Musculoskeletal physiotherapy

Musculoskeletal physiotherapy involves the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of any physical condition, injury or problem. The physiotherapists at Balaclava St. Kilda Physiotherapy Centre are highly trained at assessing the underlying causes of joint, muscle and nerve injuries and accordingly provide an effective treatment to relieve your pain and get you moving again.

A wide variety of techniques are implemented, ranging from gentle mobilizations to strengthening, to therapeutic pain- relieving techniques and firmer soft tissue techniques. These techniques are combined with exercises and education regarding the management of your condition and preventing recurrences.

Clinical Acupuncture

Clinical acupuncture is a traditional Chinese medical technique for unblocking chi by inserting needles in particular points on the body to balance the opposing forces of yin and yang. Chi is an energy that permeates all things. It is believed to flow through the body along the 14 main pathways called meridians. When yin and yang are in harmony, chi flows freely within the body and a person is healthy.

When a person is sick, diseased, or injured there is an obstruction of chi along one of the meridians. Acupuncture techniques are used together with physiotherapy to assist with the treatment of musculo-skeletal and sporting injuries, headaches and more.

Clinical Pilates

Originated by Joseph Pilates, the goal is to strengthen and stretch the muscles while integrating the mind and body. Clinical Pilates has been designed by physiotherapists who combine the original principles of Pilates with the current research in spinal stabilization to produce the optimal exercise program for the management of numerous physical conditions and problems.

The clinical Pilates exercises can be adapted to meet your needs according to your condition and problem whether it be improving your flexibility, core strength, posture, low back pain and/or sports injuries.