About

You First Physio (formerly Riccarton Physio) have been providing excellent professional and caring services from Riccarton for over 30 years, University of Canterbury for 15 years and Longhurst for 5 years.

As a dedicated group, we strive to provide gold standard care at every contact. Our aim is to ensure our patients have a full understanding of their condition, and above all have solutions to move beyond pain and towards greater levels of health, fitness and physical performance.

As a team, we strive to provide gold standard care at every contact. Our aim is to ensure our patients have a full understanding of their condition, and above all have solutions for people to move beyond pain and towards greater levels of health, fitness and physical performance.

We want all of our clients to achieve and exceed their goals and this is what we are passionate about. Everyone has different goals and all are equally important to us. We will listen to what you want and provide a clear pathway for you to achieve these goals.

Our excellent team uses the most up to date, top level clinical skills in all areas of your care:

• ‘Hands on’ manual therapy
• Education
• Video movement analysis and biomechanical screening
• Personalised exercise prescription and small group classes

Our team work with a 3-stage Pain to Performance model of care

Our first priority is to get you pain-free as quickly as possible. Once you are out of pain, we will thoroughly assess your movement patterns with our video analysis systems. This allows us to eliminate contributing factors to your injury with individualised exercise programs, making you stronger and more resilient to injury than ever before.