How treatment works

Every session is built around you. Dan checks how you move, treats what he finds, and shows you how you can move better every day.

The approach

Find the cause, then treat it

Pain and stiffness are usually a signal that something in how you move has stopped doing its job. Dan looks past the sore spot to find what’s driving it.

Bodywork settles your muscles and resets how your body feels at rest. Movement therapy builds the strength to hold that change. Together, the relief lasts.

You’ll also hear what’s going on and why, so you can look after it between sessions. That matters most if your niggles keep coming back, or you’ve been told your pain is something you have to live with.

Why it works

Pain doesn’t always start where you feel it

Each session starts with an assessment. Dan checks how you move and traces your pain back to where it starts. He then personalises your treatment to what your body needs that day. 

Here are four common reasons pain turns up where you don’t expect it.

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Most people come in pointing at where it hurts. My job is to work out why it hurts there.
Dan
01

An old injury can change how you move

You hurt your knee a few weeks ago. It feels fine now, but you’ve been walking a little differently to protect it, and that’s made your hip tight. Dan releases the hip and shows you why it happened, so that the knee pain and hip tightness don't creep back.
02

A knot can start somewhere else

That stubborn knot near your shoulder blade often comes from a muscle underneath, the one that wraps around your ribs. When it tightens, your shoulder blade can’t glide freely and the knot builds. Release that muscle and the knot lets go.
03

Pain can hang around after you’ve healed

Sometimes your body keeps guarding an area after an injury has healed. Gentle movement that doesn’t hurt helps your body to know that it is safe to let go.
04

Tightness can travel

Sit for hours at a desk or slouch on the couch? If you spend a lot of time in one position, tightness can build along a whole chain of muscles and show up somewhere unexpected. Dan follows that chain back to where it starts.
In a session

What happens when you come in

Your first visit »

A conversation and a movement check

Dan asks what’s brought you in and what you’d like to get out of your session. He then checks how you move to find where you are moving well and where you are restricted.

Bodywork

Dan works on what the assessment found, using the techniques that suit you and how your body feels that day.

Movement therapy and a plan

You may finish with a few exercises chosen for your body and your week, and a clear idea of what comes next.
Techniques

What a session might draw on

These are techniques used within your session. Your personalised treatment plan might use one of them, or several together.

Bodywork

Hands-on techniques that settle pain and tightness, and reset how your body feels at rest.

Hands working on the muscles around a client's knee during a remedial massage

Remedial massage

Targeted massage on the muscles and connective tissue behind your pain or injury. After your assessment, Dan might use deep tissue work, myofascial release (slow pressure that loosens the tissue around muscles) or trigger point therapy (pressure on tight, tender spots).

It also covers sports massage: before an event to get your body ready to go, and after training or a game to ease soreness and restore your range.

Dry needling needles along a man's shoulder and the base of his neck as he lies face down

Dry needling

Fine, sterile needles release trigger points that hands can’t reach. Often combined with remedial massage, always explained in full and used only with your consent.

Cupping therapy applied to a client at the clinic

Cupping therapy

Cups use suction to gently lift the skin and muscle. This increases blood flow and loosens tissue that has stuck together. Any temporary marks are explained before the cups go on.

A therapist's hands on a client's knee, easing the joint through its movement.

Joint mobilisation

Slow, controlled movements of a stiff joint to help it move more freely. Dan often pairs it with muscle energy techniques, where you gently push against his hand and then relax, so a tight muscle lets go and the joint moves further.

A therapist applying blue tape to a man's shoulder and upper back

Taping and strapping

Supportive tape on a sore joint or muscle, so you can keep moving while it settles. Useful after a strain or sprain, and for training, game days or events. Dan shows you how long to keep it on.

A man's hands resting on his knee, which has a surgical scar, with a resistance band on a mat beside him

Scar tissue therapy

Gentle hands-on work that softens scars from surgery or injury and frees up the tissue around them, so they pull less and you move more easily. Suitable for older scars as well as newer ones once they’ve healed.

Movement therapy

Exercise and coaching that build the strength and control to keep the change.

Exercises chosen for your body and your week

As a personal trainer, Dan coaches you through exercises that change the movement habits straining your body. Dan shows you each exercise in the session and checks your form, so you can do it with confidence at home.

You may leave with a small number of exercises, and they change as you progress. Over time they build the range, strength and control that keep the results of your bodywork in place.

Good to know

What a session feels like

Worth knowing before you book.

Clinical and focused

Sessions focus on what’s driving your pain. A long, slow relaxation massage is a real skill and a different service, so if that’s what you’re after, a relaxation massage therapist is the better fit.

Firm pressure you control

Pressure is firm and controlled. As a rough guide, if your pain goes past about 8 out of 10, the pressure is too much. Say so and Dan changes it straight away.

Working with your care team

Dan works alongside your doctor, physiotherapist or specialist. If something needs a medical opinion first, he’ll tell you plainly and point you to the right person. If there’s one area Dan can’t or shouldn’t treat, the rest of your session still goes ahead. He can help your body relax and treat the nearby areas taking the extra load. For example, if your knee is off-limits but your back is sore from favouring it, Dan can treat your back without touching the knee.
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Dan managed to release many trigger points without me feeling like I’d been hit by a truck the next day! Feeling actual lasting relief for the first time in many years.
Grace L. · Google review
Time and cost

How long you book for

30 minutes

Usually for returning clients working on something specific, like a maintenance top-up or an unexpected flare-up.

45 to 60 minutes

The most popular length. It fits around lunch breaks and school pick-ups, and covers a lot when the session stays focused.

80 minutes

A slower pace, with more conversation through the session and time to work unhurried.
HICAPS rebates for remedial massage are processed on the spot, so you only pay the gap (the part your health fund doesn’t cover). Personal Training isn’t claimable through HICAPS.
Current prices are shown when you book.
If Dan finishes everything before your time is up, you only pay for the time used.
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