Myotherapy in Port Melbourne

Clinical treatment for pain that keeps returning

Myotherapy builds on remedial massage and broadens the clinical range, folding in dry needling and prescribed exercise so tougher, more entrenched problems can be treated and traced to their origin. The clinic is a short trip from Port Melbourne, just over the border in South Melbourne on City Road.

Built around chronic pain

The pain this clinic is built to help is generally the long-haul kind: six months or more in the making, rarely tied to one neat cause, and stubbornly present long after the first injury has mended. Treating the symptom alone seldom ends it. The work here goes looking for the underlying driver, muscular, neural, articular or visceral, and treats that instead.

What a session can include

• Trigger point therapy by hand or dry needle.
• Myofascial release to give bound connective tissue its movement back.
• Cupping to lift and decompress tissue and improve circulation.
• Dry needling, a fine needle that deactivates trigger points and can treat several at once.
• Prescribed exercise, an individual plan of stretch, strength and mobility that grows with you.

Dry needling and exercise prescription are what separate a myotherapy session from a remedial massage.

What it commonly helps

• Persistent back, neck and joint pain.
• Postural imbalance and the compensations it sets up.
• Sport and overuse strains, including those picked up along the Port Melbourne foreshore and Bay Trail.
• Getting back to training after a setback.
• Pain that has shrugged off other treatment.

What your first visit looks like

• A conversation about the history: when it began, how it behaves, what helps and what hurts.
• A physical assessment to pin down the real driver rather than the loudest symptom.
• Hands-on treatment aimed at that driver, drawn from the tools above.
• A take-home plan, because recovery is a partnership and considers the whole person, not just the sore part.