Our 3-Step Approach to
Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation
Comprehensive Assessment
We evaluate exactly where your child is right now and identify the specific opportunities where focused work will matter most. We're not just looking at what your child can't do. We're identifying the precise areas where your child's brain is ready to develop new capability. This assessment becomes your foundation.
Concentrated, Purposeful Intervention
We combine various therapeutic elements tailored specifically to your child's condition. We create highly personalised programmes designed around your child's unique structural and developmental needs. Your child's brain gets the intensity it requires to develop new movement pathways and integrate new function.
Family Partnership & Ongoing Support
Real change extends beyond our clinic. Every child requires ongoing support, and we teach you everything we possibly can so you become an expert in your child's movement and function. You learn the principles, the techniques, the strategies that create lasting progress. Between our sessions, your consistent, purposeful work with your child accelerates everything.
Innovative Techniques That Work
We continually search the globe for the latest methods to help children and adults achieve faster results. Our therapists are trained in techniques that activate the brain’s natural capacity for change.
CME Therapy (Cuevas Medek Exercises)
CME is a dynamic and challenging set of exercises. The techniques can be used on children as young as three months to 12 years. The therapist creates a situation where children must respond to gravity to hold their head, trunk, and limbs against the forces of gravity.
Cuevas Medek Exercises (CME) is a powerful method of eliciting improvements in posture, balance, and motor control, for children with cerebral palsy and developmental conditions.
Therasuit Therapy
The Therasuit intensive therapy method is an individualized therapy program that accelerates functional progress. The program uses the Therasuit, a soft, dynamic orthotic suit with bungee-like cords. This helps children learn new correct patterns of movement through strengthening and functional skills practice.
The suit’s primary goal is to improve and change the pressure from the joints, muscles, ligaments, reduce pathological reflexes, restore physiological muscle synergy, and load the entire body with weight.
Hydrotherapy
Swimming and just being in water helps increase oxygen to the muscles and promotes recovery.
Hydrotherapy, when used correctly, is a fantastic tool.
It can teach children about their body through increasing proprioception, help them relax the stiffness in their body, as well as improve mobility and fitness.
Our therapists have all been trained in specialised special needs hydrotherapy techniques, including the Halliwick Method, the Claire Timmermans Method, and Watsu Water Therapy.
Power Plate / Vibration Therapy
Power Plate is a vibrating platform that helps children with Cerebral Palsy attain balance, core stability, and improve muscle spasticity.
This machine helps relax their muscles by mobilising fascial connective tissue, stimulating natural reflexes, and increasing muscle activation.
During rehabilitation, children are asked to perform movements and strengthening activities.
The effectiveness will be enhanced by performing those same movements on a Power Plate.
COGY Wheelchair
What if the wheelchair became an opportunity to help people move their legs again?
This is how the pedalling wheelchair “COGY” came to life.
For many patients, a life with a wheelchair means a life of giving up on the possibility of ever walking again.
The COGY helps improve leg function, strength, and fitness while allowing increased mobility.
Creepster Crawler
The Creepster crawler is a device similar to a walker, but it helps children crawl.
Initially invented in the USA, our clinic is the official supplier of Creepster Crawlers into Australia and New Zealand.
It also helps parents and therapists to teach their children to crawl without compromising their backs ergonomically.
Stepping Box and Parallel Bars
Using the stepping box and parallel bars together is the primary tool we use to help children increase their gait and stepping ability.
Parallel bars are two bars that are height and width adjustable for the child. The bars may be raised or lowered to suit kids of various heights and abilities.
Stepping boxes, challenge the child’s gait, range of motion, trunk, body awareness, and makes them work harder than normal walking. This can increase muscular strength and help to improve balance and stepping ability.
Who can benefit from Therapy?
Our therapy is designed for children aged from three months to adults. We see clients with a wide range of conditions and movement difficulties including, but not limited to those listed below.
Down Syndrome and other genetic conditions
We provide intensive therapy for children with Down Syndrome. Intensive Therapy is used to build the strength, coordination, and endurance they need to reach gross motor milestones like sitting, crawling, and walking. Our therapy sessions for children with Down Syndrome put them in a loving setting where they are challenged to reach new developmental milestones.
Cerebral Palsy
We use a range of innovative and intensive techniques to help children with Cerebral Palsy achieve greater results and development than is normally achieved through standard therapy. This includes strength training and spasticity reduction.
Global Developmental Delay
Meeting developmental milestones is a complicated process; sometimes, children progress rapidly for a short time, then stop developing for months or even lose function. We tailor our therapy to work on identified key areas where a child requires stimulation. By stimulating their neural development we can help children with developmental delay make great progress.
Hypotonia
Hypotonia, or low muscle tone, is commonly discovered during infancy or early years of development. If your baby is born with Hypotonia, Intensive Therapy can help speed up progress for goals, such as sitting upright, crawling on tummy or hands and knees, and independent walking and dynamic movement.
Spina Bifida
Spina Bifida is a condition in which the spine and spinal cord don't form typically. Intensive Therapy is used to enhance gait, coordination, and balance. It can also aid in maintaining joint range of motion, strength development of weak muscles, and the improvement of flexibility in tight muscles. Typical goals include sitting up, crawling, and walking.
Near Drowning / Hypoxic Brain Injury
Most therapists who see children with a near-drowning brain injury don't know what to do with them or how to help. These children end up being "given up on" and receive therapy that is limited to prescription of wheelchairs and seating needs. The Timmermans Method has a focused program specifically for children with severe brain-injuries that stimulates their health, movement, and holistic rehabilitation.
Rehabilitation
Intensive Therapy can be used to improve the speed and effectiveness of rehabilitation following spinal injuries, stroke, traumatic brain damage, and post-operative rehabilitation for children, such as tendon releases, Botox, or Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy (SDR).
Sensory Processing
Sensory integration is designed to help children with sensory processing problems cope with their difficulties identifying, organising, and interpreting the sensory inputs. Sensory integration uses many different therapies such as deep pressure, brushing, vibration, balance stimulation, strength training, co-ordination exercises, and many more. Therapy sessions are mostly play and movement orientated.
Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy (SDR)
Our pre & post SDR program has been developed over the past 10 years of working with children internationally. We focus on both pre-operation strength and post-operation rehabilitation. By focusing on strength, balance, gait, and fear of falling, children can benefit more than from conventional therapy.
How To Get Started
Want to enquire about our services? Ready to book a consult? Visit our Contact page and send us a message.
Funding Options: How to Access Our Services​
NDIS Participants
Your plan is designed to support therapies that improve your long-term outcomes. We're an accredited NDIS provider, which means your funding can be used directly with us.
What to do:
- Check your NDIS plan to confirm you have funding allocated for allied health or therapy services
- Contact us to discuss how intensive therapy fits your goals
- We'll work with you through the registration and planning process
- Your intensive therapy programme can be funded through your plan
We can provide you with a receipt for funding tracking and participant reports.
Medicare-Funded Services
Our therapists are registered providers with Medicare Australia. If you have eligibility through a scheme like Enhanced Primary Care (EPC) or similar, you can access Medicare-funded sessions.
What to do: Speak to your General Practitioner (GP) about your eligibility and appropriate plans. We can provide receipts for rebates, and your GP can provide the necessary referral.
Better Start Funding (For Young Children)
If your child is under 6 years old and has developmental delay, Better Start funding can be used to support intensive therapy. This programme invests early in children's development (precisely when your brain's capacity for change is greatest).
Private Health Insurance
Our therapists are registered providers with most leading private health insurance companies. If you have appropriate coverage, you can use your private health benefits for both intensive and regular therapy sessions.
Self-Funded Options
Not all families have access to NDIS, Medicare, or insurance funding, and that's okay. We offer self-funded therapy options because we believe every family deserves access to approaches that actually work hard enough to create real change.