Sportsmed medical, including the weekend injury clinic will be closed Friday 18th April to Monday 21st April. We will re-open Tuesday 22nd April.

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Physiotherapy

Our highly trained and experienced physiotherapists offer an array of services to help you feel your best. Physiotherapy can help reduce stiffness and pain, increase mobility and improve quality of life.
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About Physiotherapy

We provide a hands-on, exercise and evidence-based practice, utilising a range of techniques including:

  • Stretching
  • Manipulation
  • Mobilisation
  • Exercise prescription
  • Continence and pelvic floor
  • Physiotherapy
  • Advice for lifestyle, sport and work
  • Dry needling
  • Hydrotherapy
  • Gym-based rehabilitation.

We have all your dance and performance injury management needs covered across two practices with multiple practitioners who are focused on the treatment and prevention of performers’ injuries.

GLA:D™, or Good Life with Arthritis: Denmark, is an education and exercise program developed by researchers in Denmark for people with hip or knee osteoarthritis symptoms.

Hydrotherapy (hydro) or aquatic physiotherapy is an active, evidence-based physical therapy aimed at treating a variety of musculoskeletal and orthopaedic conditions. .

Osteogenic Bone Health classes offer a safe, supervised, bone targeted resistance and impact exercise program targeted at women and men with known osteopenia or osteoporosis with a risk of osteoporotic fracture.

Our physiotherapist’s offer women’s health physiotherapy services with a special interest in pregnancy, postnatal and pelvic floor physiotherapy care.

Additional Services

Bike fitting is the art of assessing a cyclist’s individual needs and setting their bike up to harmonise this relationship.

Clinical Rehab at sportsmed utilises the principles of Pilates and other evidence-based exercises to condition your body.

We offer a wide variety of health and exercise options promoting health, fitness and general wellbeing to all patients, regardless of physical ability or age.

Gym

With three boutique gyms, we offer members a friendly gym environment that is never too crowded or intimidating.

Our Milestone Assessment Program measures and tracks our patients’ post operative progress.

Service Location

  • Stepney Healthcare Hub
  • Blackwood
  • Henley Beach
  • Morphett Vale
  • Mitcham

Contact

08 8362 8122
sportsmed Stepney Healthcare Hub 32 Payneham Road, Stepney SA 5069

Overview

Stepney is a state-of-the-art healthcare hub featuring a range of services and facilities, including access to an onsite private hospital, two specialist clinics, sports doctors and general practitioners, allied health services including physiotherapy, massage, exercise physiology and podiatry, a gym, a clinical pilates studio, a pathology centre, radiology suite, pharmacy and onsite café.

32 Payneham Road, Stepney SA 5069

Opening
Hours

Monday 8:00am – 7:00pm
Tuesday 7:30am – 7:00pm
Wednesday 7:30am – 7:00pm
Thursday 7:30am – 7:00pm
Friday 7:30am – 7:00pm
Saturday 8:00am – 1:00pm

Meet our Physiotherapists

 
Sarah Bradbrook
Physiotherapist
Stepney Healthcare Hub, Henley Beach
 
Georgie Bradley
Physiotherapist
Stepney Healthcare Hub, Henley Beach
 
Anita Bruce
APA titled Sports and Exercise Physiotherapist
Mitcham, Stepney Healthcare Hub
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Prevention

We utilise education and early intervention measures to prevent injury. Patients receive an individual assessment to determine injury and chronic condition risk factors that can be avoided with the appropriate preventative treatment and care. This includes:

  • Ergonomic advice
  • Sports or activity specific injury prevention
  • Advice and exercise in chronic condition management
  • Strength and conditioning
  • Understanding of sports-specific team warm-ups that reduce injury risk
  • Physical screenings – series of individual measurements of muscle lengths and functional outcome tests to identify potential areas for injury prevention
  • Braces/taping.

Treatment

When visiting for treatment, our physiotherapists will conduct a thorough and accurate assessment of your injury and explain in detail the cause, implications and recovery expectations. They also utilise directed hands-on and/or exercise-based management.

  • Treatment for multitude of musculoskeletal conditions
  • Tailoring treatment plans to individual patient needs and goals
  • Gym programs for a multitude of issues
  • Hydrotherapy – individual programs for chronic conditions.
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Rehabilitation

Our physiotherapy team provide full, detailed individualised rehabilitation programs, and regular guidance and support to help you recover from injury or surgery.

  • Physiotherapy-based exercise prescription
  • Goal-based return to play process
  • Post-operative care and protocols for variety of upper limb, lower limb and spinal surgery
  • Aimed at optimising the patient’s strength, mobility and function
  • Workers’ compensation rehabilitation model of in-house physiotherapy management linked into exercise physiology and gym
  • Hydrotherapy – individual programs for chronic conditions.

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