Physical Therapies

If pain, an injury or surgery is getting in the way of moving properly, physiotherapy is usually the right place to start. Si Horne builds a personalised treatment plan around your goals rather than a generic routine, combining hands-on treatment, targeted exercise and a home plan that actually fits your life. He draws on his own experience in endurance sport to understand what it's like to want your body working properly again, and is affiliated with 365 Fitness locally, useful once you're ready to rebuild strength after the acute phase. Well suited to shoulder and neck pain, sports injuries, post-surgical recovery, and back pain or sciatica.

If your pain seems to come from how your joints and spine are moving rather than one specific injury, McTimoney Chiropractic is worth a look. It's a gentle, low-force, whole-body approach, using quick, precise hand adjustments across the whole skeleton rather than the higher-force thrusts used in standard chiropractic. Roger Marino sees patients from children to the elderly, and offers a free 15-minute assessment so you can find out honestly whether it's likely to help before committing to a full session. Well suited to back, neck and shoulder pain, migraine, and arthritic pain.

For pain that seems connected to how your whole body's moving rather than sitting in one spot, osteopathy takes a broader view. Nicola Rist checks whether tension or restriction in one area is affecting another, rather than only treating the painful spot, and her postgraduate training in cranial osteopathy, using very light pressure, makes this a genuinely gentle option for babies and pregnant women as well as adults. Home visits are available by appointment for anyone who can't easily get to the clinic. Well suited to postural pain, headaches, frozen shoulder and general aches from driving or desk work.

Whether you're training for something specific or just carrying tension from a desk job, sports therapy and clinical massage cover injury prevention through to full rehabilitation, you don't need to be an athlete to benefit. Andrew Comley, twenty years' experience and sports therapist for Romsey Town Football Club, leads on injury assessment and rehab, and Melanie Howlett specialises in chronic neck and shoulder pain and how stress shows up physically in the body. The right person depends on what's actually going on for you.