Manual Therapy
What is manual therapy?
Manual therapy is an approach to treating musculoskeletal pain and enhancing mobility by using hands-on treatments like soft tissue massage, muscle stretching and joint mobilisation. We target the specific sources of your pain to relieve tension and improve your movement, supporting you towards sustainable health and comfort.
Who is manual therapy for?
If you’re feeling sore, experiencing an injury, or just not moving the way you’d like to, manual therapy can help bring back your best self. We work with patients experiencing all kinds of pain, with manual therapy especially helpful for:
- Muscle tension and tightness
- Reduced mobility or stiffness
- Chronic pain
- Sports injuries, including traumatic and overload activities
- Posture-related injuries Recurring headaches and migraines
Releasing tension for better movement
Every body tells a different story, so we work according to your specific needs. We get to know you first, helping you with plans that create lasting, pain-free movement.
Assessment
We begin with a comprehensive assessment, where we examine your discomfort, evaluate your movement, and identify the underlying issues.
Therapy
Using evidence-based techniques, we address the root causes of your pain and discomfort, with an emphasis on restoring mobility and alleviating pain.
Ongoing support
We provide detailed education, at-home exercise plans and injury prevention strategies that will keep you healthy and safe long after your session ends.
Whole-body support
Through hands-on treatment, we help to improve your body’s natural function, tailoring our sessions to what your body needs most. We’re with you every step, promoting healthy mobility and everyday comfort. If you need more support, here’s how else we can help:
Start moving better
Injury and pain don’t need to hold you back. We’re ready to help you find the right way to sustainable and lasting physical health. Better health starts here.
Book an AppointmentFAQs
Manual therapy involves hands-on techniques to treat pain and mobility issues. These techniques include soft tissue massage on tense muscle areas, targeted stretching to ease stiffness, and joint mobilisations to improve your range of motion. Overall, manual therapy techniques are designed to address the specific sources of pain or discomfort in your body.
We do our best to make your treatment as comfortable as possible, but it is possible that some techniques will cause some discomfort. Our priority is always your health and wellbeing, so we tailor our techniques to match your pain tolerance, and always explain what we will do beforehand so you can be prepared.
Manual therapy might provide a lot of relief, but we do commonly use it alongside some of our other treatments, like exercise programs, pilates and education. If there’s something we can do that will help you achieve long-term outcomes, we do it.
In many cases, patients will begin to feel some improvement after their first session! However, if you have a more severe or longer-term issue, you may need more than one session to experience more consistent relief. After assessing your individual needs, we will personalise a treatment plan and communicate during the first session with you how many sessions we expect you will need, and keep you regularly informed throughout your treatment.
Manual therapy refers to any type of hands-on therapy, targeting specific joints, muscles and soft tissues to relieve pain, improve mobility, and support recovery from injury. Massage is a particular type of manual therapy, and often forms part of our manual therapy treatment plans.