No. You can book directly with us - no GP referral is needed.

If you are claiming through certain schemes (for example a GP care plan), a referral may be required, so please check with us first.

We welcome GP Chronic Care Plans and Health Fund Members.

Appointments are 60 minutes; one-to-one, so there is time to properly understand , assess and support your movement recovery.

We talk through your history and goals, assess how you move, and agree a plan together. You will have hands-on treatment and some simple advice to follow.

To maximise your appointment time, an email will be sent to you when you book, please fill out the questionnaires and consent forms.

It is a structured, hands-on, evidenced based physiotherapy approach that looks at the body’s connective tissue (fascia) as a whole, rather than treating one spot in isolation.

Yes - supporting comfort, sensation and movement around scars is a special interest of the clinic, including C-section and other surgical or injury scars.

We are at The Joyful Path, Unit 6, 72 Ocean Street, Victor Harbor, 5211.

Enter via McKinlay Street. This is closest to the street parking located on Eyre Street, or McKinlay Street.

Please sit and relax in the waiting area, your physiotherapist will be right with you.

Home visits are available on request, please note there will be an added fee for travel.

The best place to park is in the car park and 2 hour parking on Eyre Street.

The car park on McKinlay Street is a 2 minute walk from our location as well.

If you have problems with your mobility, please discuss with us at booking for an alternative arrangement.

There is a ramp into the building.

Toilets are on level access.

Our 60-minute appointments are $180.

We welcome GP Chronic Pain Plan clients and Health Fund Members.

Payments can be made via card or cash.

At this time we do not have facilities to process medicare and health fund rebates on-site. Our receipts have all the information for you to self-claim.

Research is showing that pain doesn’t always come just from muscles.  It can also come from fascia or the skin.  Fascia has many pain receptors in it that can, if activated, report pain.  An interesting study by Schilder and team in 2014, published in the Pain Journal, found that by specifically irritating the skin, fascia and muscles different types of pain were felt.  Skin and fascia when affected had the worst feelings of pain whereas muscles were mild producers of pain. 

Fascia covers our muscles, blood vessels, nerves, organs and bones, so treatment of it can be effective in both recent or old pains.  By resolving the imbalances in your system, we can treat sports injuries, pelvic pain, headaches, neck pain, back pain and sciatica, cramps, nerve pain to name a few!  Clients with long standing pain or complex and multiple injuries benefit from Fascial Manipulation as we are looking at influences from all parts of the body, not just where you feel pain.

Yes!  In assessments, we consider all systems in the body.  Often, when we have had pain for a long time, other systems become involved.  Pain could start in your musculoskeletal system but then compensate into your skin, respiratory, urinary, digestive, endocrine (hormonal) or cardiorespiratory systems.  By working with these systems, we are able to fully address all causes of pain. 

Conditions that can be influenced include: 

Skin: dry skin, numbness, stiffness, odema 

Respiratory: coughs, regular throat and lung infections, dysfunctional breathing patterns 

Urinary: infections, urinary frequency, recurrent kidney stones 

Digestive: constipation, reflux, IBS symptoms

Endocrine: dysmenorrhea, period pain, thyroid issues 

Cardiorespiratory: leg cramps, cold hands/feet, feelings of tightness around chest 

 These benefits are then used to help you regain your function and exercise capabilities, from which we then have a more physiotherapy based approach to get you strong and moving again.

This will depend on different factors pertaining to your unique history. 

Some people can be ‘cured’ in 2 sessions and will not need more treatment. This often occurs in those with recent injuries. 

Complex clients will need more treatment sessions, however should remain much improved for months, if not years. 

Fascia is found all through the body.  Fascia can range from being gelatinous between your organs to a strong fibrous coating surrounding muscles.  Fascia types that are focussed on in a Fascial Manipulation treatment include: 

Superficial Fascia – A strong and fibrous layer that lays directly under the skin.  Consider it similar to a whole body onesie! 

Aponeurotic Fascia – Found as a layer between the muscles and superficial fascia that is full of receptors that can detect pain, movement and tension.  It is located in the arms and legs and joins onto the layers of muscles in the trunk.  The tension provided by this layer allows power from the muscles to complete effective, complex, full body movements (such as a tennis serve or running).  It also is assists with co-ordination of fine movements that feedback from the receptors to the brain. 

Deep fascia – This layer of fascia is firmly attached to the muscles.  It allows the power created by muscle contraction to be directed in the right direction. 

Visceral or organ fascia – By influencing the tension of the trunk fascia, this will in turn affect the tension of the ligaments holding the fascia that wraps organs and blood vessels in place.  If there is an imbalance in these tensions it may affect how effective the organ works.