Our skills are in manual and exercise therapy. This means that we can use many different hands on techniques applied to your muscles, ligaments and joints to improve the way movement occurs.
For example, we can apply gentle forces to spinal joints to improve minor position faults and allow better freedom of movement. The use of tape, bracing and exercise complement these manual therapy strategies to help reinforce and maintain freer movement patterns.
To successfully treat, we must first effectively assess. During your assessment, we will engage you to understand and explore why you have your injury.
You will learn about how your body works biomechanically and how to better control your movement. Most importantly, by being actively involved in the assessment and treatment process, you will learn how best to prevent future injuries.
You will have the power to maintain ease of movement in life. You will reduce your dependency on medical intervention and gain lifelong pain management and injury prevention skills.
You will find that, when you receive treatment at The Physio Joint, you will be expected to actively move with our guidance through patterns and directions of movement that ultimately gives you improved function.
No treatment that we provide is passive. We do not use electrotherapeutic machines because we understand that other active and self-applied treatment options are just as effective, more economical, more eco-friendly and more empowering for you. Even our massage therapy sessions have an active bias.
We are known in Newcastle for our work with spinal injuries and headaches. Our therapists have a special interest in treating people who have neck and/or back pain and the referral of symptoms from the spine into the limbs.
Our treatment philosophies are predominantly based on McKenzie, Mulligan, Maitland, Butler and Watson principles.
These philosophies have well grounded, evidence based, traditional physiotherapy principles. They are taught and used extensively around the world with Robin McKenzie, Brian Mulligan, Geoffrey Maitland, David Butler and Dr Dean Watson all considered “gurus” within our profession.
The Physio Joint is possibly the longest continuously running practice in Newcastle. It was first established in 1984 by David Shakespeare in the Ironworkers Building in Mayfield, where it still resides today, and was known as Mayfield Physiotherapy. In 1995, David sold the practice to Ross Tippett, who later joined forces with Chris Baker.
Chris became the sole owner in 1998. At this point, the practice’s name changed to More Moves Physiotherapy. Damien joined with Chris in 2004. Damien became the sole owner in 2010. The practice changed its name at that point once more to the current name, The Physio Joint. Since then, Damien and Orsi (his partner) have owned and run the practice.
