Physio for Osteoarthritis
The scan doesn’t decide what you can do. Exercise is the first-line treatment for hip and knee osteoarthritis, and delivering it properly is what we do all day.
Physiotherapy · Hampton East
The scan doesn’t decide what you can do. In every major treatment guideline, exercise is the first-line treatment for hip and knee osteoarthritis, and delivering it properly is what we do all day.
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Sound familiar?
The first minutes of every morning are the stiffest. Stairs are a negotiation, kneeling in the garden is a thing of the past, and somewhere along the way you started measuring walks in how much you’ll pay for them tomorrow. Maybe you’ve been told to wait until it’s bad enough for a replacement, and to just manage in the meantime. Nobody explained what “manage” actually looks like. This page is what it looks like.
What’s going on
It’s a change in the joint’s cartilage and the tissues around it, and here’s the part that matters: what shows on a scan matches surprisingly poorly with how a joint feels and works. People with dramatic scans run marathons; people with mild ones can barely walk. The difference, over and over in the research, is the strength and capacity of the muscles around the joint. That’s why exercise sits above everything else in the treatment guidelines: done right, it reduces pain, improves function, and for some people delays or removes the need for surgery. We can’t change your scan. We can change what your knee or hip can do, and how much it complains while doing it.
This is a structured program, not a sheet of exercises, and it’s built from the two things arthritic joints respond to best.
It starts one-on-one. A thorough assessment of your joint, your strength and your function, with hands-on treatment to ease stiffness where it helps, and honest answers about where you’re starting from. We measure everything at the start, because of what comes next.
Clinical Pilates rebuilds the control. Physio-run, small and precise, teaching the joint to move well again and building strength through ranges an arthritic hip or knee has usually stopped trusting.
Weights build the armour. Progressive strength training, coached properly, at loads that actually change muscle, because the research is blunt about this: strength around the joint is what separates the scans that hurt from the scans that don’t.
At week six, we re-test you and show you the numbers. Strength, function, the stairs, the sit-to-stand. Not “how does it feel,” but measured progress on paper, so you can see the direction changing. If a joint replacement is genuinely on your horizon, you’ll hear that straight too, and you’ll go into it stronger and come out of it faster.
Then, when it suits, into the studio. As your strength builds, your program graduates out of one-on-one care and down the hall into our studio classes, including Midlife Strength, so the work has somewhere to live for the long term, in a room with a coach and other people rather than an appointment book. The goal was never endless appointments.
More than ten years across private practice in Australia and the UK, with a career focus on complex, persistent pain, and on back, hip and bone health through perimenopause and menopause.
Doctor of Physiotherapy from the University of Melbourne, with a particular interest in headaches and jaw pain, and a patient eye for the problems that keep coming back.
“I can’t recommend Tori enough. As a physio, her knowledge is incredible, and you can tell she genuinely cares about helping everyone move well. Every class is supportive, challenging, and fun, and Tori always makes everyone feel welcome, no matter where they’re starting from. I’m so grateful to have found her.”
On the Nepean Hwy in Hampton East with parking on site. Your initial physio consultation covers assessment, treatment and a written plan in the same visit. Private health rebates claimed on the spot with HICAPS. No referral needed.
Book online, or call the studio and tell us which joint and what it’s been like: 03 9086 3740.
Yes. Exercise-based physiotherapy is the first-line treatment for hip and knee osteoarthritis in every major clinical guideline. Our OA Program combines Clinical Pilates and progressive strength training, with your progress re-measured at week six.
The right exercise, at the right dose, is one of the best things you can do for an arthritic joint. Joints need load to stay healthy; the key is starting at your level and progressing gradually, which is exactly what a physio-led program is for.
A structured pathway for hip and knee osteoarthritis: one-on-one assessment and treatment, Clinical Pilates to rebuild movement and control, progressive weights coached by our team, and formal re-testing at week six so you can see your strength and function improving on paper.
No. Osteoarthritis can usually be assessed clinically, and scan findings often don’t match symptoms anyway. If imaging would genuinely change your management, your physio will tell you.
Many people with osteoarthritis improve enough with a strength program that surgery moves further away or off the table entirely. If a replacement is likely for you, getting stronger first improves recovery. Either way, you’ll get an honest read on where you stand.
An initial consultation covers assessment, treatment and your written plan. Private health rebates are claimed on the spot with HICAPS, and no referral is needed.
All for One runs its OA Program at Hampton East on the Nepean Hwy, with parking on site, and treats osteoarthritis at our Yarraville and Kensington studios. Book online or call 03 9086 3740.
Book online, or call the studio and tell us which joint and what it’s been like: 03 9086 3740.
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