Take away all those aches and pains with the help of the highly experienced, highly qualified team at Northwest Physiotherapy!
Our experienced team are experts in treating sports related injuries and will help you get back to doing what you love as quickly as possible.
At Northwest Physiotherapy we can help treat more complex, chronic and difficult cases.
Locals looking for treatment of their sports related injuries in North Brisbane can receive the same care and attention from a highly qualified physiotherapist with extensive experience treating sports injury with physiotherapy.
Our team are all fully qualified physiotherapists and have plenty of experience treating sports related injuries or complaints.
We’ve worked with elite athletes from several sports including field hockey, rugby league, basketball, triathlon and cycling.
You don’t need to be an elite athlete to receive treatment from us. We can help treat complex cases for any sports enthusiast and assist with your road to recovery.
It might seem underwhelming to say that it’s not a special therapy technique or a ‘killer’ exercise or stretch that gets the best results.
At North West Physiotherapy we believe it’s important to establish a good relationship with our clients based on trust and respect.
If your physiotherapist has a solid, contemporary working knowledge and skillset, seeks to understand your movement problem, needs and goals and works collaboratively with – the results will follow!
Our philosophy to patient care is simple – manage people’s movement problems like you would want yours to be managed.
For us it begins and ends with the relationship. We believes that as physios, we spend quite a bit of time with clients, they communicate to understand how their movement problems interfere with their enjoyment of life, work and sports.
Physios get to know their clients well and often a good relationship is established.
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