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MOBILE PHYSIOTHERAPY

Community-Based Therapy

Community-based therapy on field

The best physiotherapy often happens not in a clinic, but in the places where you actually live, move, and spend your time.

Community-based therapy brings your physiotherapist into the real environments that matter to you, and builds a program around how you actually function in your daily life.

What is community-based physiotherapy?

Community-based physiotherapy is physiotherapy delivered outside a clinic in places like your home, local park, gym, pool, community centre, or any environment relevant to your goals. The location is chosen because it is meaningful to you, and because practising in real-world settings can support the transfer of skills to everyday life.

Who is it for?

  • NDIS participants with community access and participation goals
  • People working on independence in daily environments
  • Those with neurological or complex conditions who benefit from functional, environment-based therapy
  • Paediatric clients who engage better in familiar or community settings
  • Anyone for whom a clinic environment is difficult to access or not appropriate

Where sessions take place

Sessions can take place wherever makes sense for your goals. This might be your home, a park, a local pool, a community gym, a school, a community centre, or somewhere else entirely. Your physiotherapist will discuss the most suitable environment with you before the program begins.

How we deliver it

We work with clients across the Gold Coast and Northern NSW, including Robina, Broadbeach, Helensvale, Coomera, Tweed Heads, Murwillumbah, Mullumbimby, Byron Shire, and Ballina.

We also coordinate closely with your support coordinator, support workers, and any other allied health professionals involved in your care.

Funding your community-based therapy

  • NDIS: Capacity Building (Improved Daily Living). We work with agency-managed, plan-managed and self-managed participants.
  • Support at Home: we work alongside your Support at Home provider.
  • Restorative Care Pathway: short-term allied health support through Support at Home, arranged with your aged care provider.
  • Medicare: rebates for up to five sessions a year with a GP Chronic Condition Management Plan and GP referral.
  • Private health insurance: depending on your extras cover.
  • DVA: Gold Card or White Card (for accepted conditions), with a GP referral.
  • Private (self-funded)

Frequently Asked Questions

It is physiotherapy delivered in real-world community environments rather than a clinic. Sessions take place in locations meaningful to you, such as your home, local park, gym, or community centre.

Sessions can take place at home, at a park, pool, gym, school, or community venue. Your physiotherapist will work with you to choose the most appropriate environment for your goals.

Yes. Community-based physiotherapy can be funded through NDIS under Capacity Building or Community Participation budgets, depending on your plan goals.

Yes. We service areas across Northern NSW including Murwillumbah, Mullumbimby, Byron Shire, and Ballina, in addition to the Gold Coast.

In-home physiotherapy is delivered at your home specifically. Community-based therapy can include your home but also extends to gyms, pools, parks, and other community environments relevant to your goals.

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What to expect at your first visit

Starting physio, or changing providers, can feel like a lot. Here’s how your first appointment works.

Step 1: Get in touch

Call us or send an enquiry. We usually reply within the hour and have you booked in within 24 hours, and if it’s urgent, we can often see you the same day. We’ll also help you check what your funding covers. If you’re an NDIS participant, we’ll send you a service agreement to sign online, and our practice manager will call to go through a short risk assessment before your first visit.

Step 2: We come to you

Your physio usually visits you at home for your first appointment. It takes about 60 minutes for NDIS participants, and about 30 minutes for most other clients. Telehealth is also an option if it suits you better.

Step 3: Getting to know you

We’ll talk through your medical history, your goals and what matters most in your day-to-day life. Family members, carers and support workers are welcome to join.

Step 4: Assessment

Your physio looks at how you’re moving, your strength and balance, and what you can and can’t do right now, including around your home where that’s relevant.

Step 5: Your plan, built together

We’ll agree on your goals and how often you’ll see us, so you leave knowing what happens next. From then on, you’ll see the same physio at every visit.

What to have ready

  • Your NDIS plan, or your plan manager’s details
  • Your Support at Home or aged care provider’s details
  • For Medicare: your GP Chronic Condition Management Plan and GP referral
  • For DVA: your Gold Card or White Card and GP referral
  • Your private health card, if you’re claiming
  • For WorkCover: your claim number
  • A list of your medications, and any recent reports, scans or letters from your GP, specialist or hospital
  • Any mobility aids or equipment you use
  • Comfortable clothes you can move in

After your first visit

With your consent, we keep your GP, support coordinator and other providers up to date, so everyone involved in your care is on the same page.

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