Our SMART Approach is a distinctive, unique, integrated approach to assessment, treatment, rehabilitation, training and conditioning that holistically improves the human body as a whole. Armed with our science backed SMART Approach, our physiotherapists are trained to take a comprehensive and holistic look into the biomechanics of your body to focus on the root cause of your problems, not just looking at your symptoms.
We are uniquely trained to analyse not just the mobility of joints, nor mobility as a whole but the quality of those movements patterns, allowing us to find restrictions and create changes where other practitioners can’t.
Therapists at Fixio (aka Fixiotherapists) analyse the whole person; looking at their movement patterns, core beliefs and lifestyle while combining expert muscle and joint analysis to develop a truly bespoke treatment experience with a key emphasis on empowering the patient to take their own health by the horns.
Traditionally the field of rehabilitation and conventional medicine has been excellent at treating the dysfunctional part, for example your sore knee. Traditional rehab approaches look at identifying what part of the knee is damaged or weak and focusses on healing or strengthening that part of the knee. The SMART Approach looks at why the knee is sore and what caused the knee to weaken or to degenerate. Your Fixiotherapist will analyse how you move and how the entire picture affects your knee, whether it be your foot, your hip or your lower back.
Hence a person may have knee pain, but not have a knee problem. They may have knee pain, but a hip problem!
Treatment then, must not always be directed to where the pain is, but rather to whatever is causing the dysfunction and pain to exist.
S.M.A.R.T stands for Structure, Mobility, Attitude, Reliability and Tolerance
The 5 foundations of physical health. Most therapies aim to address 2 or 3 of these foundations, yet until all 5 are assessed and treated, pain or dysfunction will likely persist. Holistic care is at the centre of our treatment paradigm.