What we treat
Physiotherapy at Wetherill Park covers the full range of musculoskeletal presentations:
- Acute injury — ankle sprains, hamstring and calf strains, shoulder injuries, acute low back pain
- Persistent pain — long-standing back, neck and shoulder problems that have not responded to rest
- Post-surgical rehabilitation — knee reconstructions, shoulder repairs, joint replacements
- Sports injuries — return-to-play programmes with objective criteria, not guesswork
- Work-related injury — including graded return-to-work planning
- Headaches of cervical origin — where neck mechanics are driving the symptom
If your problem does not appear on that list, it is still worth asking. Assessment will tell us quickly whether physiotherapy is the right pathway or whether you would be better served elsewhere, and we would rather say so at the first appointment than the fifth.
How we work
Every initial appointment starts with a proper assessment: what happened, what makes it better and worse, what you need to get back to, and a physical examination that tests rather than assumes.
From there you get a diagnosis in plain language and a plan with a timeframe attached. If we expect meaningful change in four weeks, we will say four weeks — and if you are not tracking against that, we reassess rather than repeating the same treatment.
Hands-on treatment has its place, and we use it. But the durable gains come from loading: progressive, specific strengthening that raises what your tissue can tolerate. Passive treatment that is never followed by active rehabilitation tends to produce patients who need passive treatment forever.
Because the Wetherill Park clinic also has chiropractic and sports performance under the same roof, we can move you between disciplines without a referral wait when the assessment points that way.
Sports physiotherapy and performance
Wetherill Park has a strong strength-sport and team-sport community, and a good share of our caseload reflects that — powerlifters, footballers, and people training hard around full-time work.
Rehabilitation for that group has to respect the training goal. A programme that says "stop lifting for eight weeks" is usually ignored, and rightly so. We work out what load the injured tissue can currently tolerate, keep you training around it, and progress from there.
Return-to-sport decisions are made against objective criteria — strength symmetry, hop and jump testing where relevant, and tolerance of sport-specific load — rather than time elapsed since injury.
Frequently asked questions
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Visiting the Wetherill Park clinic
Where to find us
Unit 2/442-446 Victoria St, Wetherill Park NSW 2164
0451 172 661
Parking is available on site and along Victoria Street. If you are closer to the Inner West, our Marrickville clinic is open seven days.
Opening hours
- Monday: 9 AM to 8 PM
- Tuesday: 9 AM to 8 PM
- Wednesday: 7 AM to 7 PM
- Thursday: Closed
- Friday: 9 AM to 7 PM
- Saturday: 1 PM to 6 PM
- Sunday: 9 AM to 2 PM
