Pioneering Physiotherapy – fisio Dubai

WORDS: SARAH JOSEPH

Pioneering Physiotherapy

The team behind fisio share how they have redefined what it means to be a physiotherapy clinic, by creating an elevated haven designed to promote 360-degree wellness

IMAGES: SUPPLIED Talk us through the concept behind fisio and how it is different from other physiotherapy clinics? Fisio was designed to be a hybrid of wellness and physical therapy, offering modern and holistic treatments to maintain and restore your overall wellbeing. We are redefining how men and women recover from active or fast-paced lifestyles, with a concept that combines the best of both worlds with experts on body anatomy. Our wellness therapists are trained by our physiotherapists working alongside each other, so our Massage Therapy for example is not your regular spa session, it is a much more specialised repair treatment. We also believe seeing a physiotherapist regularly is the modern approach to taking care of your body in the long-run, rather than after pain symptoms or injury occurs. You focus on preventive measures – can you expand on how you approach this with each client? We believe our wellness treatments act as ‘supporting recovery’ to all cases, with physical and mental benefits. For example, an Infrared Sauna or Lymphatic Drainage session, massage or Cupping Therapy are all great to include in monthly routines to keep your body feeling its best or to support your physical therapy recovery journey. We also recommend coming by for a complimentary consult and assessment with our physios, as you never know what may not be in balance; for example, trigger points, tight knots in the muscle fibres, can be inactive (active ones cause pain) but still need to be released or will lead to pain in the future. Each client is unique, and we work on personalising every treatment to them, using a dynamic approach applying several tools in one session when needed. Cold Therapy and infrared sauna are key biohacking tools. You added this as an offering to your clinic, was this a key aspect from the outset? Yes, taken individually or combined as contrast therapy, they are great to support physical and mental recovery that works and has benefits for everyone. We have carefully selected purposeful self-care treatments, that are result-based for healing from the inside out, with many more to come at fisio. With countless hours spent in front of a screen, bad posture is common problem here. Are you able to elaborate about the posture correction treatment and what we should be doing during the day to support the treatment we invest in? Yes. The body not being in alignment is very common, and our treatment will be different for each client. A session would typically include an assessment and look into your day-to-day to find the cause, followed by manual therapy or tools like dry needling on areas in pain that need releasing, plus rehabilitation exercises that would need to be done at home as well. A great office tip is not to tilt your laptop screen too far back, and instead even a little forward to bring your body back and upright on the chair to view. This is The Pioneer Issue – what does this mean to you? Manifesting and sharing your personal, unique, purpose with the world.