Myotherapy in South Melbourne

A deeper clinical answer to pain that keeps coming back

Myotherapy takes the hands-on soft-tissue work of remedial massage and widens the clinical toolkit around it, adding dry needling and prescribed exercise so that more obstinate problems can be treated and followed back to their cause. The clinic sits in the middle of South Melbourne, on City Road near Clarendon Street, so ongoing care is easy to keep up.

Chronic pain is the speciality

The pain this clinic concentrates on is the kind that has usually been around six months or longer, that rarely traces back to a single tidy cause, and that lingers well after the original injury has healed. Chasing the symptom seldom fixes that. Instead the aim is to find the driver underneath, whether it sits in muscle, nerve, joint or the deeper visceral tissues, and treat that.

What a session can draw on

• Trigger point work, applied either by hand or through dry needling.
• Myofascial release to restore glide and movement to bound-up connective tissue.
• Cupping to decompress tissue and lift circulation.
• Dry needling, a fine filament needle that settles trigger points and can quieten several areas at once.
• Prescribed exercise, an evolving set of stretches and strengthening tailored to your progress.

It is the dry needling and the exercise prescription that mark myotherapy out from a straight remedial massage.

Problems it regularly helps

• Long-running back, neck and joint pain.
• Postural habits and the compensations they breed.
• Sporting and training strains, including loads picked up around Albert Park Lake and MSAC.
• Pain that other approaches have not managed to settle.

Your first appointment, step by step

1. We talk through the history: when it started, how it behaves, what winds it up and what calms it.
2. A hands-on assessment locates the true source, not merely the spot that hurts.
3. Treatment follows, targeted at that source and drawn from the tools above.
4. You leave with a plan, because recovery is a joint effort and takes in the whole person: body, mind, circumstances and all.

Because it is your local clinic, the follow-up appointments and progress reviews that make that plan work are easy to fit around a South Melbourne routine.