Neuromuscular & Gait Assessment

This assessment uses FDA-cleared medical devices, small motion sensors and a hand-held strength meter, to measure how you actually move. Nothing about it is painful or invasive.

What it looks at: how you walk, including speed, stride length and symmetry; your balance and risk of falling, through static and dynamic testing; how far your neck, back and shoulders move; and the strength of each side of your body compared with the other.

Why it helps: it establishes exactly where you are starting from, so improvement can be measured rather than guessed at. It also identifies safety concerns such as fall risk before they lead to an injury, and provides objective documentation of physical limitation.

Your first appointment with a physiotherapist, combining a conversation about what happened and what hurts with a physical examination.

What it looks at: the mechanism of your injury, where your pain is and what provokes it, your movement and strength, and the specific tasks at home and at work you are now struggling with.

Why it helps: it produces a treatment plan built around your actual injuries and your actual life, rather than a standard protocol. You will also get a straight answer about what recovery is likely to involve.

An assessment of what you can physically manage, for how long, and at what cost to your pain and fatigue afterwards.

What it looks at: lifting, carrying, reaching, bending, sitting, standing, walking and stair use, measured against the demands of your own job or daily activities.

Why it helps: going back to work before you are ready usually ends in another absence. This sets out what a sustainable return would require, and where a return is not realistic it says so and explains why.

Dizziness and unsteadiness after a collision reduce what people are willing to do, which weakens them further and makes a fall more likely.

What it looks at: static and dynamic balance, a Timed Up and Go test, and how your walking changes when you are distracted or tired.

Why it helps: it catches a real risk before something happens, and gives us a target to train towards. Particularly important for older clients, where one fall can change everything.

Where headache, dizziness, light and noise sensitivity or fatigue have persisted after a concussion.

What it looks at: the contribution of your neck and your vestibular system to those symptoms, your tolerance for exertion, and how symptoms behave as activity increases.

Why it helps: post-concussion symptoms have several possible drivers and each needs different treatment. This identifies which apply to you, and guides a graded return to activity rather than the rest-and-wait approach that often prolongs things.

For pain that has outlasted the healing of the original injury, often where imaging looks unremarkable.

What it looks at: your movement patterns and what you have started avoiding, your activity tolerance and how you pace yourself, deconditioning, and the daily tasks you now need help with.

Why it helps: persistent pain does not respond to the rest and protection that helps an acute injury. Measuring what you can do, rather than what hurts, is how a graded programme gets built, and how progress becomes visible.

We repeat the same measurements at intervals through your treatment.

What it looks at: the same movement, strength and balance measures as your initial assessment, so the comparison is genuine.

Why it helps: it shows what has improved and what has levelled off, so the plan changes when it needs to. It also gives you evidence of progress on the days it does not feel like there has been any, and documents your recovery properly where an insurer is involved.