Services offered

Physiotherapy

This includes the treatment of clients post orthopaedic surgery including joint replacement, ligament and tendon repair and spinal surgery. Physiotherapists seek to establish client centric goals for rehabilitation. These work to restore pain free living and function in the athlete and non-athlete. At Balance we aim to find the root cause of your movement dysfunction resulting in the injury to work toward sustainable healing and injury prevention.

Pilates

This forms an integral part of your one-on-one rehabilitation and home exercise programs. Pilates serves to help you connect with your deep supporting muscles to restore movement in your muscles that are designed to move you.

Yoga

Yoga is a form of mobility flow. This forms part of our approach to restore movement and flexibility. To retain strength and agility one must maintain elasticity in one’s joints, muscles, and ligaments. Yoga type mobility serves to improve flexibility, balance and strength which is integral to healing and prevention of injury.

Post operative acute and chronic rehabilitation

Post operative care is integral to the success of your surgery. We work closely with you during the various phases of your post operative rehabilitation to help you return to your chosen activity or sport safely and sustainably. This includes pain and swelling management; restoring range of motion; strengthening muscles; improving balance and proprioception; agility training; return to sport testing and then supporting you through the process of your return to sport through exercise and hands on based rehabilitation.

Dry Needling

This is a valuable part of the physiotherapist’s toolbox. We use it to reduce pain and spasm caused by trigger points and muscle tightness. The needle gives the body a small injury which creates an improved healing response by the release of endorphins and improved blood flow which brings oxygen into the area.

Shock wave

Shockwave is a unique cutting-edge treatment to help in the effective treatment of stubborn to heal tendon, ligament, scar tissue and fascia problems. It is particularly effective in treating plantar fasciitis, achilles tendinopathy, tennis elbow and frozen shoulder as well as chronic scar tissue related dysfunction. It works to break down the scar tissue and promote blood flow and oxygenation into the affected area. It works via a mechanical shockwave not electrical to blast scar tissue and breakdown adhesions.

Fascia release

The body is covered by a layer of fascia connecting muscle and joint. To remove restrictions and stiffness and undo tensions one will often need to work away from the site of pain to free connected areas. We do this through the release of fascia by hands on techniques and the use of fascia release tools.

Trigger point therapy

Trigger points are areas of muscle that become tight when subjected to continuous repetitive loads. This could be on the sports field or at your desk. They may cause referred pain or local pain. We release these through the use of hands-on soft tissue techniques as well as dry needling and shockwave.

Biomechanical assessment and specific exercise prescription

A focused and correct biomechanical assessment is integral in correctly diagnosing causative factors in all injury. This helps us to establish specific rehabilitative exercises for you to do under supervision in the clinic or at home. We can also then structure your hands on treatments to release those areas of restriction and strengthen those areas of weakness all contributing to your injury.

Return to sport assessment

Before one returns to sport, one must make sure certain goals are met in order to prevent unnecessary reinjury. Using specific objective measures, we will help you return safely to your chosen activity while working alongside you during your return.

Vestibular rehabilitation and treatment of Vertigo

Dizziness can be a debilitating problem with multiple causes. We work specifically in this area to establish those causes that respond to rehabilitation and physiotherapy treatment.

BPPV (benign paroxysmal positional vertigo) if diagnosed correctly is treated with a specific maneuver, which can very often cure acute dizzy episodes.
Hypofunction – through injury or illness one may have one balance organ working better than the other. This will cause an imbalance resulting in unsteadiness on ones feet. Rehabilitation to improve balance and correct any compensatory mechanisms helps to improve function and resolve symptoms.

Post-concussion rehabilitation

After a concussion one may take time to feel “normal” again. This is a complex injury resulting in multifaceted symptoms ranging from dizziness and headaches; anxiety and depression; gaze instability; poor reflex reaction; a feeling of ‘slowness’. Physiotherapy can help to clear many of these symptoms and aid safe return to sport and daily activity.