- A physiotherapist at home across Melbourne
A physio who comes to your home, south east Melbourne
Yes, we come to you. Here is the list, so you do not have to ring to find out.
Suburbs we visit in Melbourne’s south east and bayside
Armadale 3143, Aspendale 3195, Ashwood 3147, Bentleigh 3204, Bentleigh East 3165, Black Rock 3193, Bonbeach 3196, Braeside 3195, Brighton 3186, Brighton East 3187, Carnegie 3163, Carrum 3197, Carrum Downs 3201, Caulfield 3162, Chadstone 3148, Chelsea 3196, Chelsea Heights 3196, Cheltenham 3192, Cranbourne 3977, Dandenong 3175, Edithvale 3196, Elsternwick 3185, Elwood 3184, Frankston 3199, Frankston North 3200, Frankston South 3199, Gardenvale 3185, Glen Huntly 3163, Hampton 3188, Hampton East 3188, Highett 3190, Hughesdale 3166, Karingal 3199, Kooyong 3144, Langwarrin 3910, Malvern 3144, Malvern East 3145, McKinnon 3204, Mentone 3194, Moorabbin 3189, Mordialloc 3195, Mount Waverley 3149, Mulgrave 3170, Murrumbeena 3163, Oakleigh 3166, Ormond 3204, Parkdale 3195, Patterson Lakes 3197, Prahran 3181, Rowville 3178, Sandringham 3191, Seaford 3198, South Yarra 3141, St Kilda 3182, Toorak 3142, Windsor 3181.
If your suburb is not on that list, ring anyway. We go past these suburbs, usually another ten kilometres or so, and we also cover Melbourne’s north and west.
We visit private homes, retirement villages, independent living units and residential aged care homes in all of them.
What we bring, and what we do not need you to have
The physiotherapist brings everything. There is nothing you need to buy, hire or set up before the first visit.
You do not need a referral for a private appointment. You do not need a My Aged Care assessment. You do not need a diagnosis. You do not need a treatment room, a spare bed or any equipment. We work with the chairs, the bed, the stairs and the bathroom that are already in the house, which is the point, because that is what the person has to manage every day.
What happens at a home visit
Booking it.
Our admin team books the visit and takes the details then, including anything the therapist needs to know about getting in. You get a text confirming the date and time.
The physiotherapist, or the exercise physiologist. The visit runs about an hour.
The first twenty minutes is talking, and it is about the specific things that have got hard rather than the diagnosis. Getting off the toilet. Getting out of the car. Standing up from the low sofa. Managing the step into the garden. Walking to the letterbox. Standing long enough to make a cup of tea.
Then we measure, and we document what we find, because a baseline is what makes it possible to say later whether this worked.
Timed Up and Go
Thirty second sit to stand
Four stage balance test
Walking speed over four metres
Grip strength
If they are able, whether the person can get up off the floor
We look at what is actually worn on the feet around the house, which is usually not the pair kept for visitors.
After the visit we send you a written plan and a home exercise program built around what the client can tolerate. Seated or standing exercises, near a benchtop or a chair for support, ideally five to ten minutes a few times a week. For someone who cannot follow a list, it might be two movements done with whoever is already there, printed with photographs. A program that does not get done, or does not get done safely, is worse than no program.
The occupational therapist.
The OT walks through the house with the client. Front step and path. Hallway lighting. Rugs and cords. The bathroom, the shower, the height of the toilet and what gets held onto. The bed height. What is being reached for above head height in the kitchen. And the path from the bed to the toilet at two in the morning in the dark.
After the first visit
The same physiotherapist comes back. Not a different one each time.
We re-test as we go and send a monthly progress report to the family with the outcome measures in it, so improvement is a number rather than an impression. It goes to you, to the GP, and to the Support at Home Provider if there is a Support at Home package.
If the house needs changing, an occupational therapist comes out. If the goal moves from safe to genuinely fit, an exercise physiologist does. Same team, same phone number, no starting again.
What it costs
Support at Home.
The program that replaced Home Care Packages. Physiotherapy sits inside it. We can contact your Provider.
Commonwealth Home Support Programme.
For smaller amounts before a full package.
Private.
No referral, no assessment queue, we can start this week. Ring us and we will tell you the figure on the phone before you book anything.
TAC.
We do TAC physiotherapy.
Why this team
We ring back within thirty minutes on business days. It is the only speed commitment with an actual number on it that we have found anywhere in this market.
There are fifty of us and we have been mobile since 2011, which means when someone is on leave, another therapist can come or we reschedule for later in the week.
Physiotherapy, occupational therapy, exercise physiology and speech pathology from one team. Podiatry and massage therapy are both coming.
4.9 from over 200 Google reviews.
Most first visits happen within five business days. We will give you a real date on the phone rather than “we’ll be in touch”.
Every therapist who comes to the house holds a current police check and NDIS worker screening clearance. And you get the same therapist each visit, so it is not a different stranger at the door every fortnight.
- Helpful information
Questions people ask
Can you recommend a physio who comes to your home in Melbourne's south east?
That is what we do. We visit around fifty seven suburbs across Melbourne’s south east and bayside, listed above with postcodes, from Prahran and St Kilda down through Bentleigh, Carnegie and Chadstone to Frankston and Cranbourne.
Do you charge extra for travel?
Ask us on the phone and we will tell you before you book. It depends on your location.
How far do you actually travel?
Every suburb listed above, and usually another ten kilometres or so past them. If you are further out, ring and ask rather than assuming.
Do I need a doctor's referral?
No, not for a private appointment. You can ring us today and book one.
How long is the first appointment?
About an hour. Follow up visits usually run forty five minutes to an hour.
Can you see my father at his retirement village?
Yes, and independent living units, and residential aged care homes.
Do you do evenings or weekends?
Ring and ask. Availability varies by suburb and by therapist, and we would rather tell you the truth on the phone than publish a promise we cannot keep in every postcode.
What if we need an OT as well?
Same team, same phone number. You do not start again and you do not repeat the whole story.
- Talk to our team
Book a home visit
Call 1800 847 847, or submit an enquiry with your phone number and we will call back within thirty minutes on a business day.
Tell us the suburb and what has changed, and we will tell you what we would do first.
