Barbara Pretorius Physiotherapy

Barbara Pretorius Physiotherapy In the Garden Route, near the Knysna Lagoon, works Barbara Pretorius, the Physiotherapist. A special interest is to manage acute and chronic pain.

“Your health is in your hands” Barbara, the physiotherapist, uses a holistic approach to evaluate, treat, educate and encourage your body to heal.
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www.barbaraphysio.co.za The patience encourager, that enjoys massaging and coaxing patients back to wholeness. After a thorough evaluation a holistic approach is used to treat, educate, guide and encourage your body back to health a

nd wholeness. The logo “Your health is in your hands” explains it all: ʻYou need to realize that your well being is in your hands. You need to take responsibility for what you put into your body and what you take out of your body. In the logo the hands represent your hands holding your body and taking care of it. Barbaraʼs hands are there to help, guide, educate and encourage you to make the right decisions on how to take care of your body.ʼ

Barbaraʼs mission is to foster a good relationship with you based on mutual respect, communication and trust, and to uphold scientific standards by thoroughly evaluating and treating you based on the latest research. Barbara improves the standard of care and quality of treatment by keeping herself informed of new developments in health care. Barbara treats musculoskeletal conditions like headaches, neck-and-back pain and knee-and- shoulder stiffness and helps with the management and rehabilitation of various injuries involving joints, muscles, tendons, ligaments and nerves. A wide range of techniques that include stretching, stabilizing and strengthening exercises, joint and nerve mobilization, dry needling, electrotherapy, myofascial release and massage are used to assist in treatment. Massage therapy is available for stress relief and sport massages are done as well. Posture evaluation and correction is performed to optimize well being. If your sinuses and/or lungs are full of phlegm Barbara will nebulize you with medication, use postural drainage (tip you upside down), percuss (“massage” your lungs) and give you breathing exercises to get rid of excessive phlegm

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Over the past year or so I’ve kept returning to ‘the social’ part of our multifactorial pain experience.* Pain can be extraordinarily isolating, and our current sociopolitical emp…

Info on how couples can cope while living with pain.
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Info on how couples can cope while living with pain.

Over the past year or so I’ve kept returning to ‘the social’ part of our multifactorial pain experience.* Pain can be extraordinarily isolating, and our current sociopolitical emp…

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This is a great, easy to follow video about chronic pain. It helps you understand what current research has been saying about chronic pain - thats its not a ...

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3 Trotter Street
Knysna
6571

Opening Hours

Monday 09:00 - 17:00
Tuesday 09:00 - 17:00
Thursday 09:00 - 17:00
Friday 09:00 - 17:00

Telephone

0443821670

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