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Joint & Muscular Pain Physiotherapy

Joint and muscular pain can quietly limit how you move, train, work, and recover. At Benchmark Physio, our approach focuses on removing the drivers of pain, restoring healthy movement, and helping you return to stronger, more confident performance. Whether pain has built up over time or arrived suddenly, our physiotherapy team works hands-on to guide your recovery with purpose and clarity.

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When everyday movement starts to feel like hard work

Joint and muscular pain rarely appears without a reason. Repetitive strain, prolonged sitting, poor movement habits, or past injuries can gradually change how your body loads and adapts. Over time, this creates stiffness, weakness, or imbalance that shows up as pain in areas like the lower back, knees, shoulders, ankles, or feet.

Physiotherapy plays an important role in addressing both the symptoms you feel and the underlying patterns driving them. Through targeted assessment and treatment, we help reduce pain while rebuilding strength, control, and confidence in movement.

 

A hands-on pathway from pain to progress

Our physiotherapists take a manual, movement-focused approach designed to support full recovery rather than short-term relief. Treatment for joint and muscular pain may include soft tissue techniques, joint mobilisation, guided stretching, and progressive strengthening. Where appropriate, dry needling may be used to reduce muscle tension and improve movement quality.

This hands-on care is supported by structured exercise programs that evolve as your body improves. The goal is simple. Help you move better, feel stronger, and return to the activities that matter most to you.

Lower back pain support that builds confidence

Lower back pain is one of the most common reasons people seek physiotherapy. It often develops alongside reduced movement control, muscle tightness, or poor load tolerance through the spine and hips. Rather than avoiding movement, guided exercise is often the key to recovery.

Physiotherapy exercises for lower back pain focus on restoring mobility, improving core control, and gradually increasing strength. This may include a combination of lower back pain exercises and carefully selected stretches for lower back pain to reduce stiffness and support long-term comfort.

Lower back pain exercises are introduced at the right stage of recovery to ensure safety while encouraging steady progress. Over time, these back pain exercises help improve resilience and reduce the likelihood of flare-ups.

Knee pain care that supports strength and stability

Knee pain can affect daily tasks such as walking, squatting, running, or climbing stairs. It is often linked to how the muscles around the hip, thigh, and lower leg work together. Addressing knee pain means looking beyond the joint itself.

Physiotherapy exercise for knee pain is designed to improve alignment, strength, and load control. This approach supports people dealing with sore knees from sport, work demands, or everyday wear and tear. Exercises for knee pain are progressed gradually to build confidence without aggravating symptoms.

Many clients ask how to get rid of knee pain fast. While there is rarely a single quick fix, the right combination of hands-on treatment and targeted exercises for sore knees can significantly reduce pain and restore function in a safe and sustainable way.

Treatment that adapts as your body improves

Joint pain is often linked to muscle imbalance and repeated stress over time. With the right sequence of joint mobilisation and corrective exercise, joint stiffness and discomfort can be reduced and, in many cases, fully resolved.

Your physiotherapist will guide you through a structured program that evolves as your movement improves. This may include:

  • Improving joint mobility to reduce pressure and stiffness
  • Strengthening surrounding muscles to support long-term joint health
  • Rebuilding movement patterns that support performance and confidence

This process helps shift your focus away from pain and towards capability, resilience, and long-term movement health.

A premium physiotherapy experience built on expertise

At Benchmark Physio, care is delivered in welcoming, well-equipped clinics designed to support focus and recovery. Our team brings decades of experience treating people of all ages and stages, with a strong emphasis on evidence-based care and measurable progress.

From your initial consultation through to your return to full activity, you are supported by physiotherapists who value clear communication, thoughtful progression, and outcomes that last.

If joint or muscular pain is holding you back, booking an initial consultation is the first step toward restoring movement and redefining what your body can do.

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General FAQS

Our online physiotherapy appointments are conducted via end-to-end encrypted video calls, similar to facetime or zoom. Through this call the physiotherapists will ask you questions about your pain, how it affects you throughout the day, and what movements you struggle with. They will also guide you through a series of exercises to test your mobility and strength.

After this comprehensive analysis, the physiotherapist will provide information on your injury (likely diagnosis) including education on how to best manage this injury. They will also provide rehab exercises to provide symptom relief and long term improvements.

This includes an individualized exercise program. Exercise programs are essential to long term relief and treating underlying conditions that will prevent recurrences of injuries.

Our aim is to make completing your exercise program as easy as possible. Upon commencement of your first appointment, you will be sent access to an app that will show your individual exercise program, allowing you to track completion of exercises and notes on each exercise. You can also use this app to send messages to your physiotherapist. Meaning you can get answers to questions as they occur.

Unlike traditional physiotherapy where you see a therapist a few times a week, you will have one formal session per week over video call. This session is a time for the physiotherapist to assess your injury progress, and work with you to increase the difficulty of your exercises. In-between sessions, you can message your physiotherapist and ask any questions that come up.

For many conditions, especially those where building strength and increasing mobility is a major factor for recovery, online physiotherapy can be just as effective as traditional physiotherapy.

If you love evidence and want to read up on the effectiveness of telehealth, there are a number of articles on this topic found here.

We always want to ensure that you are getting the treatment that you need. This is why we require a phone call with a physiotherapist to book your appointment. This allows us to know if your condition is right for online physiotherapy.

During this phone call, we will take payment over the phone and will book your initial appointment.

Since April 2021, private health insurance will provide rebates for online appointments. Please contact your insurer if you would like to take advantage of this.

High-quality internet and a device with a camera are both required for online appointments. You can use your laptop, tablet or mobile device.

We do recommend starting sessions with the device on a stable surface facing you to discuss your injury with the physiotherapist. You will also need a space where you can set the device 2 meters away, with room to move. This way, the physiotherapist can guide you through a series of exercises to assess your range of movement and strength.

Set up can be as simple as the tablet propped up against a box or on your table, in your living room. Just ensure the box/table is far enough away to capture most of your movements on the screen.

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