Get moving again, and stay that way.
A clinic by the river with a gym attached, because the exercises are the treatment and a leaflet is not.
Why there is a gym next to the treatment room.
When Riverbend opened on the New Farm riverfront in 2011, the founders had a choice between a clinic with a few plinths and a clinic with a gym attached. They chose the gym, on the reasoning that hands-on treatment settles pain but exercise is what actually changes how a joint or a muscle behaves over the months after.
That is still the model. Three AHPRA-registered physiotherapists work across the clinic and the rehab space, and patients are shown how to use both rather than sent away with a photocopied sheet to work out on their own.
Three ways in.
Most people arrive with a back, a knee or a shoulder. We start with an hour.
Musculoskeletal
Backs, necks, knees, shoulders and the rest. A full hour to assess before anybody puts a hand on you.
Post-operative rehab
Knee and hip replacements, shoulder repairs and ACL reconstruction, working to your surgeon’s protocol.
Sports injury
Assessment, treatment and a return-to-play plan that says what you can do this week, not just what you cannot.
What happens next
Assessment
A full hour. We work out what is actually driving it, which is often not where it hurts.
Treatment and a plan
Hands-on where it helps, and a program you can actually fit into a week.
Progress you can see
Re-tested every few sessions. If it is not working we change it rather than book you in again.
A gym, not just a couch.
Three AHPRA-registered physiotherapists and a rehab space you can use.
registered physios
years by the river
“If exercise is the right treatment, we start it in the first session — not after weeks of rest that was not helping.”
Our policy
Book an assessment
Self-refer, or bring a consultant’s protocol and we will work to it.