With 20 years experience working and lecturing in osteopathy, pain and rehabilitation, we help people just like you, to move better and feel better - every single day.
How We Can Help You
With up-to-date, evidence-based services and strategies, we can arm you with the tools to get on the road to recovery. We'll help you to understand your condition and empower you to start turning the tide on your pain.
Our Services
Osteopathy
Pain Education
Pain Education
As Osteopaths we use a variety of gentle ‘hands on’ techniques to target your pain and provide you with relief.
These techniques will vary according to the type and causes of your pain, but may include:
Massage and soft tissue work to relax muscles and ease tension
Articulations and gentle osteopathic joint manipulations to restore movement
As Osteopaths we use a variety of gentle ‘hands on’ techniques to target your pain and provide you with relief.
These techniques will vary according to the type and causes of your pain, but may include:
Massage and soft tissue work to relax muscles and ease tension
Articulations and gentle osteopathic joint manipulations to restore movement
Lymphatic techniques to improve circulation and decrease congestion
Neurodynamic and desensitisation techniques to normalise nerve activity and decrease your pain
Pain Education
Pain Education
Pain Education
Knowledge is power, and that holds true on both sides of the treatment table.
The more we know about you, your health and your pain, the better we can work to zero in on the specific mechanisms driving it. This will help us to recommend the most effective strategies for you and your pain.
The more you know about your pain, injury or illness
Knowledge is power, and that holds true on both sides of the treatment table.
The more we know about you, your health and your pain, the better we can work to zero in on the specific mechanisms driving it. This will help us to recommend the most effective strategies for you and your pain.
The more you know about your pain, injury or illness, the better your chances are of beating it or at least limiting it. This will help you to make better choices regarding medicines, sports and exercise and when you need to start considering surgeries or other interventions.
This is why we dedicate valuable clinical time to ensuring you know exactly what's going on, and are part of the decision-making process, every step of the way!
Rehabilitation
Pain Education
Rehabilitation
We develop personalised pain recovery and rehabilitation plans for people from all walks of life.
People recovering from surgery like disc or laminectomy, joint reconstructions and c sections
People who experience pelvic, hip or back pain following childbirth
Athletes at all levels of competition, with acute or chronic injuries
Elderly people
We develop personalised pain recovery and rehabilitation plans for people from all walks of life.
People recovering from surgery like disc or laminectomy, joint reconstructions and c sections
People who experience pelvic, hip or back pain following childbirth
Athletes at all levels of competition, with acute or chronic injuries
Elderly people interested in maintaining independence, and falls prevention
People living with nerve pain, fibromyalgia, and chronic back pain
Those with migraine or headaches
Meet Della
Della is a highly experienced osteopath registered with the Australian Health Practitioners Registration Authority (AHPRA), Medicare, TAC and the Victorian Workcover Authority. She is an Academic member of the Chiropractic and Osteopathic College of Australasia and a full member of Osteopathy Australia, and Sports Medicine Australia.
Della graduated in Melbourne in 2004 and has gone on to become a leader in the field of musculoskeletal health. She is a practicing academic, university lecturer and clinical tutor at Melbourne’s Victoria University. She plays a key role in teaching clinical and musculoskeletal anatomy to undergraduate students and neuroanatomy and clinical pain neuroscience to postgraduate students. She has been a dedicated member of the university’s Osteopathic Medicine Discipline for many years and has been instrumental in the restructuring of the osteopathic program to meet the future demands of the public and the profession.
Della is a caring and passionate osteopath with a keen interest in rehabilitation and recovery of chronic musculoskeletal pain and injury. She firmly believes that the key to preventing much pain and suffering lies in empowering our patients; arming them with an understanding of their pain and teaching them how to reduce it in both the short and longer term.
Musculoskeletal Pain Perspectives
To give you a feel for my perspectives on pain and how I might be able to help, this is a short video from a free public lecture I gave for the National Institute of Integrative Medicine. The talk video is from a couple of years ago and was on persistent musculoskeletal pain and how health professionals can better help patients the many patients who don't get better.
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