A stroke occurs when blood flow to part of the brain is interrupted, either by a blockage or rupture of a blood vessel. Depending on the brain area area affected, stroke symptoms vary and cause problems with movement, sensation, speech, swallowing, vision, thinking, behaviour and energy levels.

How can physiotherapy help ?
Physiotherapy plays a crucial role in stroke rehabilitation, supporting the brain’s ability to rewire itself; called neuroplasticity, helping restore function and maximise recovery. 

Our services:

• Comprehensive assessment - strength, coordination, balance, muscle tone, mobility

• Education - fatigue, pain, and falls prevention

• Practice and relearning of daily tasks - bed mobility, standing, transfers, walking

• Upper limb and hand function training

• Shoulder care and device use - electrical stimulation

• Spasticity management

• Recommendations of equipment - gait aids, orthotics, assistive technology

• Carer training to support skill practice at home

• Goal setting and support for community participation

• Assistance with accessing funding bodies to support your needs

• Coordination with your healthcare team for holistic care - neurologist, occupation therapist, speech therapist, exercise physiologist

FND causes neurological symptoms without structural damage to the brain or nerves. It's a problem with how the brain processes signals, like a software glitch, which can lead to symptoms like abnormal movement, sensation, speech, and overall function.

How can physiotherapy help ?
Physiotherapy helps retrain the brain-body connection, improving movement, coordination, balance, and confidence through individualised treatment plans. 

Our services: 

• Comprehensive assessment of movement, walking patterns and overall function

• Education about FND and self-management strategies

• Training and relearning of daily tasks - walking, stairs, transfers

• Carer training to support skill practice at home

• Equipment review and prescription for safety and independence

• Aquatic therapy 

• Goal setting and support for community participation

• Assistance with accessing funding bodies to support your needs

• Coordination with your healthcare team for holistic care

MND is a group of progressive neurological disorders that affect the nerve cells responsible for controlling voluntary muscle movement. Over time, these motor neurons degenerate and die, leading to increasing muscle weakness, wasting, and loss of coordination and movement.

How can physiotherapy help ? 

Physiotherapy supports people with MND by helping maintain mobility, comfort, and independence to enhance quality of life as the disease progresses.  Physiotherapy can help address muscle weakness, movement and mobility problems, muscle cramps and spasms and provide respiratory support for weakened cough and breathing problems. 

Services we offer: 

• Comprehensive assessment - movement, strength, muscle tone, respiratory function

• Individualised exercise programs

• Symptom management - spasticity, fatigue, pain

• Education for family and carers - breathing support, positioning, home exercise programs 

• Manual handling training and equipment prescription - walking aids, transfer devices

• Aquatic therapy

• Chest physiotherapy to support breathing and prevent respiratory infection

• Posture, positioning and seating advice to improve comfort and prevent complications

• Goal setting to maintain independence and quality of life

• Assistance with accessing funding bodies to support your needs

• Coordination with your healthcare team for holistic care - neurologists, doctors, speech pathologists, occupational therapists

MS is an autoimmune disease where the immune system attacks the protective covering of nerves, disrupting communication between the brain and body. Depending on the type of MS, symptoms may come and go or progress over time. These may include fatigue, weakness, numbness, vision problems, coordination issues, and cognitive changes.

How does physiotherapy help ?
Physiotherapy helps manage MS throughout the course of the condition by maintaining mobility, function, and independence, with tailored treatment for symptoms such as weakness, fatigue, balance and coordination issues, gait problems, foot drop, spasticity, joint stiffness, pain, and breathing difficulties. 

Our services:

• Comprehensive assessment - mobility, strength, coordination muscle tone, breathing

• Education on symptom management - fatigue, heat sensitivity, pain

• MS Get a Head Start program 

• Balance and gait training to reduce fall risk

• Cognitive training to improve focus, memory and decision making 

• Functional training - walking, transfers, stair climbing, hand use

• Spasticity and muscle tightness management

• Carer training to facilitate skill practice and engagement in a home exercise program 

• Equipment prescription and advice for orthotic referrals

• Aquatic therapy

• Chest physiotherapy to improve breathing and prevent respiratory infection

• Goal setting for community participation

• Assistance with accessing funding bodies to support your needs

• Coordination with your healthcare team for holistic care

Acquired brain injury is damage to the brain that may have been caused by trauma to the head e.g. fall or car accident, lack of oxygen, infection, or illness e.g. tumor. It can range from a mild concussion to more severe injury. Symptoms vary widely and can affect behaviour and personality, memory and learning abilities, communication and swallow, visual, sensory and  physical movement. 

How can physiotherapy help ? 

Physiotherapy plays a crucial role in brain injury rehabilitation, supporting the brain’s ability to rewire itself known as neuroplasticity, helping restore function and maximise recovery. 

Services we offer: 

• Comprehensive Assessment - strength, coordination, balance, muscle tone, mobility

• Education on health after brain injury 

• Individualised exercise programs  

• Practice and relearning of daily tasks - bed mobility, standing, transfers, walking, stairs

• Upper limb and hand function training

• Spasticity management and advice 

• Recommendations of equipment - gait aids, orthotics, assistive technology

• Carer training to support skill practice at home

• Goal setting and support for community participation and return to sport 

• Assistance with accessing funding bodies to support your needs

• Coordination with your healthcare team for holistic care - neurologist, occupation therapist, speech therapist, doctor, exercise physiologist

PD is a neurodegenerative disorder characterised by the gradual loss of dopamine, a neurotransmitter that plays a crucial role in coordinating smooth and controlled muscle movements.

How can physiotherapy help ? 

​Physiotherapy plays a pivotal role in PD, with substantial evidence supporting exercise and its effectiveness in slowing disease progression and improving motor function and overall quality of life. 

What we offer

• Comprehensive assessment - mobility, strength, balance, coordination, hand function, exercise tolerance

• LSVT BIG and PD WARRIOR programs

• Education on PD and tailored exercise programs targeting your problem areas 

• Task-specific training for everyday activities - walking, stair climbing, hand function

• Movement and cueing strategies for freezing or complex tasks - rolling in bed, standing up

• Balance and falls prevention training

• Cognitive training to improve focus, memory and decision making 

• Carer training to support practice at home 

• Mobility aid and equipment advice

• Goal setting for community participation

• Assistance with accessing funding bodies to support your needs

• Coordination with your healthcare team for holistic care - neurologists, doctors, speech and occupational therapists

A SCI occurs when there is damage to the spinal cord that disrupts communication between the brain and the body. This can result from trauma e.g. car accident or fall or non-trauma e.g. tumour or infection. The impact of a SCI varies based on the location and extent of the injury and can result in partial or complete loss of movement, sensation, and other body functions. 

How can physiotherapy help ?

Physiotherapy plays a vital role in SCI rehabilitation by helping address muscle weakness, difficulty with walking or use of a wheelchair, reduced range of motion, spasticity or muscle tightness, respiratory dysfunction, pain, balance and coordination problems. 

Our services:

• Comprehensive assessment - mobility, strength, sensation, coordination, muscle tone

• Education about SCI and recovery

• Tailored exercise programs - strength, flexibility, cardio

• Functional mobility and new skills practice - transfers, standing, walking or stairs

• Spasticity and pain management

• Equipment prescription - gait aids, advice for orthotic referrals, assistive technology

• Upper limb and shoulder care management for wheelchair users

• Aquatic therapy

• Chest physiotherapy to improve breathing and prevent respiratory infection

• Carer training and prescription of home exercise programs 

• Goal setting for community participation

• Assistance with accessing funding bodies to support your needs

• Coordination with your healthcare team for holistic care - neurologists, doctors, occupational therapists, exercise physiologists

 An amputee is someone who has lost a limb due to injury, illness, or a congenital condition.

How can physiotherapy help ?
We offer full support throughout your journey with a prosthetic by improving strength, balance, mobility, and comfort.

Our services:

• Comprehensive assessment - stump integrity, range of motion, strength, balance, walking pattern 

• Personalised exercise programs for prosthetic use

• Gait retraining to improve confidence, balance and gait efficiency with your prosthetic

• Flexibility and stretching to promote mobility and reducing stiffness

• Pain management for discomfort from limb loss or prosthetic use

• Education on stump care and tools for self management of skin integrity 

• Equipment advice - walking aids, transfer equipment

• Carer training to support skill practice at home

• Goal setting and support for community participation

• Assistance with accessing funding bodies to support your needs

• Coordination with your healthcare team for holistic care - prosthetist, occupation therapist

We also have experience providing services to individuals with the following conditions:

• Spinocerebellar Ataxia 

• Polio

• Guillain Barre Syndrome

• Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP)

• Cerebral Palsy

• Multisystem Atrophy (MSA)

• Progressive Supranuclear Palsy

• Friedreich’s Ataxia

• Muscular Dystrophies

• Huntington’s Disease

Can’t see your condition listed? Please get in contact via our website, email or phone. If we can’t assist you, we will direct you as best as we can to services that might better suit your needs.