Physiotherapy Services

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 Working with athletes and helping them return to the sport they love is an area of special interest for us at Summit Physiotherapy. We have experience providing care to sports people at all levels, including kids/adolescents, weekend warriors/local players, middle aged / masters competitors as well as semi-professional and professional athletes. We have specific phases of rehabilitation which reflect the process that professional athletes undertake and we intend for this quality of service be available to anyone at any level. Because the demands of sport are very high on the body, Summit Physiotherapy is purposefully based out of high performance centres and gyms on the North West of Tasmania. This allows for you to properly load your body and to return to the field/pool/track in better condition then pre-injury 

  Post operative orthopaedic management is a staple of our physiotherapy service. We communicate with surrounding medical practitioners, General Practitioners, Sports Physicians and Orthopaedic Surgeons to optimise your outcomes post orthopaedic procedure.

We have considerable experience with a number of post-operative presentations, see below the list:

KNEE

Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction +/- Lateral Extra-Articular Tenodesis (LET)

Meniscal Trim or Repair

Ø LCL/MCL repair

Ø Total Knee Replacement

Ø Medial Patella-Femoral Ligament Reconstruction 

Ø Tibial Plateau Fracture

SHOULDER

Ø Shoulder Reconstruction; Labrum Repair +/- Latarjet

Ø Rotator Cuff Repair

Ø Shoulder Replacement

Ø Sub Acromial Decompression; Acromioplasty +/- Bursectomy

Ø AC-Joint Repair

Ø 1st rib resection; Thoracic Outlet Syndrome

FOOT/ANKLE

Ø Syndesmosis Repair

Ø Arthroscopic Clean Out

Ø Lis Franc Repair

Ø Fibular Fracture

Ø Achilles Rupture

HIP

Ø Total Hip Replacement

Ø Hip Labrum Repair

ELBOW/HAND

Ø Ulnar collateral Ligament Repair

Ø Ulnar/Radius ORIF

Ø Nerve Releases; median nerve, carpel tunnel release, ulnar nerve release.

BACK 

Ø Microdiscectomy

Ø Laminectomy 

Ø Fusion

Perhaps the most common presentation to clinic that we are happy to assist with is more generalised musculoskeletal aches and pains. Often the pain comes on over time (insidious onset) and becomes more and more of an issue – often leading to being unable to participate in normal daily activities. We take these types of injuries seriously and they need a well reasoned management plan that is best suited to you. Examples of this include: 

Neck

Ø Discogenic neck pain

Ø Facetal neck pain 

Ø Wry neck 

Back

Ø Thoracic pain 

Ø Costovertebral joint pain

Ø Lumbar spine pain – disc related or facetal in nature

Ø Sacro-iliac joint (SIJ) pain 

Shoulder 

Ø Bursitis or Sub-Acromial Impingement

Ø Rotator Cuff Related Shoulder Pain Pain

Ø Gleno-humoral or acromio-clavicular OA

Hip 

Ø Greater Trochanteric Bursitis 

Ø Gluteal Tendon pain – tendonitis, tendinopathy 

Ø Femoro-Acetabular Impingement

Knee

Ø Knee Osteoarthritis

Ø Patello-femoral osteoarthritis

Ø Degenerative chondral/meniscal pathology

Foot/Ankle

Ø Achilles tendinopathy

Ø Plantar fasciitis

Ø Peroneal or Tibialis posterior tendinopathy

Ø Stress fracture 

Physiotherapy sports injury management - based in Devonport and Ulverstone.

At Summit Physiotherapy we also have considerable experience with neurological rehabilitation. We have experience with neurological rehabilitation in an acute/sub-acute setting in hospital as well as longer term capacity building and clinical exercise prescription in a private setting. We strive to maximise the function and participation of those who are affected by neurological conditions through predominantly active, exercise based interventions in predominantly a gym-based environment`. Often this service is conducted with weekly sessions and often funded through the NDIS.