Physiotherapists are human body mechanics. Similar to how you would service your car, we understand the way your body is put together and what is necessary for it to perform at its best. Our team of Physiotherapists are highly experienced at dealing with any type of pain, ache, niggle, stiffness, or weakness through a process of clinical reasoning. This process pinpoints the structure that’s causing your pain. So, come in for a service at any of our physiotherapist practices in Pretoria east.

Whether you are suffering from a pulled muscle, overloaded tendon, dislocated joint, sprained ligament or a pinched nerve – you just have to point where the pain is and we’ll investigate. We’ll talk you through our process of stressing and testing these muscles, tendons, ligaments, joints or nerves to get a clear picture of your problem. After testing, we’ll explain to you our findings and give you a diagnosis.

After a physiotherapist makes a diagnosis, we can guide you through a process to restore your body’s tissue to normal. This can take the form of  injury treatment, exercises, modifying your activity, etc. – there are endless options how to treat a problem, but we’ll prioritize what works best. We use the newest technologies (machines), techniques and research studies to give you the best possible treatment for your specific problem. Our physiotherapists are experts at dealing with complex and challenging cases.

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Physiotherapist’s Treatment Process

We schedule one hour sessions to give enough time to cover the assessment, diagnosis and treatment.

Assessment

The physiotherapist will firstly ask you detailed questions about the pain, then we will perform tests and ask you more specifics about the pain and feedback what you feel during certain movements. We will touch, stress and move certain structures to test where the problem might be coming from.

Diagnosis

During the assessment process we explain the results of the tests we are performing and facilitate an understanding of your diagnosis.

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Treatment

We will then continue to treat the tissue according to what’s necessary for repair. Physiotherapist use their hands, machines, movements, and many other types of treatment to repair soft tissue. The physiotherapist will give you instructions to follow and warn you of dangers that might have caused the problem.

Patient Education

It is very important that you understand what is going on in your own body. We are here to guide you through the process of healing. Our patients are like family to us, be part of it.

Medical Aid Service Provider

Well Health Pro are contracted service providers of all Medical aids. This means we are able to test, diagnose & treat you and claim your session from your Medical Aid.

Experts

Specialist in the field of Physiotherapy, we treat muscle, joint, ligament and nerve injuries & pain. We’ll get to the root of the problem.

60 min Sessions

No rush, just quality time, so that we can understand what’s going wrong. Great work requires patience.

100% Medical aid Covered

When we submit a claim to your medical aid, we don’t ask for more. We claim only 100% of the allowed scheme rate, nothing more.

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Time

Our Physios schedule one hour sessions to give enough time to cover the assessment, diagnosis and treatment.

Assessment

Our Physio will ask you to explain your problem in as much detail as possible. After you’ve explained your problem, we’ll ask you few more details to clarify so we can get a better understanding of what you’re experiencing. We’ll repeat this process until we have limited the possibilities of your diagnosis to 3…

Scans

We’ll discuss previous Scans, MRI, sonars that may help exclude other structures involved. We’ll talk through the results and explain each word to ensure we take all the information you have at your disposal into consideration.

Screening & Testing

Now we’ll ask you to perform a set of movements or actions and ask you to report back what you’re experiencing whether it be pain, stiffness, pressure or numb – we want to know. Our clinical minds will interpret the data from these test and guide our thoughts to the cause of your pain and more importantly the extent of the damage to your tissue.

  • This is a very time consuming stage and may take a while to make sure you perform the actions correctly while we analyze. (Some patients seem to think we just need to look at it to know what’s wrong – Unfortunately it doesn’t work like that)
  • With these screening & movement test we are accurately able to pinpoint the problem.

Knowledge Sharing

Now we have clear picture of what we’re dealing with. We’ll explain our findings and give you our professional opinion on what’s the process going forward, recovery time, expected goals and milestones you aught to achieve. Online media such as links, videos, images – is a powerful tools to give you a better understanding of what you’re dealing with and the extent, severity and nature of your problem.

Treatment & Advice

Your Physiotherpist will guide you through the whole process, no need to worry. At this stage we are able to provide you with sound advice how to manage the pain depending on your diagnosis and stage of healing. Even remotely we’re able to tel you what you should and shouldn’t do along this all the factors that may be making your pain worse. Our role as medical practitioner is to apply our knowledge to your circumstances. Together, we can ensure optimal healing.

Exercises, Stretches or Rest

What’s best for your condition? Some may need exercises, stretches, dynamic mobilization and other may need to take it easy for a few days after a flare-up. So it depends on what stage of healing and recovery you are. i.e. 2 Patients with a Total knee replacement (same diagnosis) – one is 6 weeks after operation, the other day 6… One can start walking flights of stairs and the other can barely walk with crutches. Same problem, different phase of recovery. Self-tests play a crucial role for you to monitor you progress. Each person will vary and we’d like to challenge you on your capacity. There are no recipes here. Exercise programs are goal driven to help you get to the next level.

Follow up

We’ll have to monitor your progress, to ensure you are achieving the goals? Usually we’ll schedule a call in 1 week, to check in on your progress and answer any of your questions. Some conditions resolve over 6-8 weeks, but others may require more frequent check-ups. We’ll discuss and elaborate on your rehabilitation or give you new guidelines to follow. Healing is a process… and we are here to guide you through it.

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Sport Physiotherapist Pretoria

Our team of skilled and experienced Sports and Musculo-Skeletal (MSK) Physiotherapists are properly equipped to treat sports injuries whether it be a torn muscle, sprained ligament, slipped disc, fractured bone, we know the fastest route to recovery and get you back to do the crazy things you do. Sports Physiotherapists dissect and breaks down the components of motion into smaller elements to tests each one separately. Each sport has it’s own “language” and it makes a world of difference if your physio understands it.

Jaco Swart has an extensive background coming from combative and contact sports as well as strength and conditioning, Renier Cilliers is from a classical and contemporary dance background and Carli van Dyk is a Yoga enthusiast that has a special interest in treating joint conditions. Nina Myburg trained extensively in chronic pain conditions, while Yolanda Gerber figures out complex biomechanical movement problems. Marcel Schmidt is a efficient and straight to the point German approach to solving some of the most complex cases. We’re all stay up to date with new research and treatment options, techniques and advice.

Visit any one of our two private physiotherapy practices, located in Garsfontein, in Pretoria East. We’ve gained the trust of hundreds of patients and we pride ourselves of our physiotherapist’s an excellent reputation for providing effective treatment and advice for both sports and non-sports injuries, post- surgery and rehabilitation.

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