Our nearest neighbours — and the suburb where the daily walk home is itself a load your knees have to tolerate.
Highgate Hill is the closest residential suburb to our clinic on Montague Road, and it is also, as the name promises, uphill. That shows up in what people come in with.
Walking a gradient every day loads knees, calves and Achilles tendons far more than flat ground does — going down more than going up. For most people that is free conditioning. For a knee with early osteoarthritis, a grumbling Achilles or a patellofemoral problem, it is a daily dose of exactly the thing that hurts.
The fix is almost never ‘stop walking the hill’. It is building enough calf and quadriceps capacity to tolerate it, which is why our rehabilitation happens on a gym floor and not only on a plinth.
Rehabilitation works on attendance. Being ten minutes from the clinic is the difference between a program you finish and one you abandon in week three — which is the real reason we mention proximity at all.
Knee, hip, calf and Achilles. See physiotherapy.
For Achilles and heel pain that has not settled. See shockwave.
Maximum four, individually prescribed. See classes.
Unit 4, 249 Montague Road — a short run from South Brisbane, Highgate Hill, Dutton Park, Woolloongabba and South Bank, and from the CBD across the river.
Can’t get to the clinic? We also offer physiotherapy home visits across the same area, with travel included in the fee.
Book your assessment at Forge West End and start a plan built around your goals — not a generic exercise sheet.
Unit 4, 249 Montague Road, West End QLD 4101 · No referral needed for a private appointment · HICAPS on site
