As we head towards the start of our Autumn Wellness Program, which kicks off March 17th, we thought it would be a great time to introduce new clients (and re-familiarise our past clients!) with our gym facility. Our Autumn Wellness group classes will be held Thursdays 11am in our gym area for 6 weeks. Newcastle Aquatic Physiotherapy's gym adjoins, but is separate to, our clinic’s treatment room and contains the same Life Fitness equipment found in all major health club facili

Our physiotherapist Chloe is back with a fourth follow-along home workout in the lockdown series. If you missed the earlier home workouts, check out number 1 here, number 2 here and number 3 here! As for all of the home workout series no equipment is required! There is the option to do these exercises seated or standing, so a chair is a great idea to use for seated options, to take a rest or even to use to assist with balance. These exercises can be done with minimal space, b

Our physiotherapist Chloe is back with a third follow-along home workout in the lockdown series. If you missed the earlier home workouts, check out number 1 here and number 2 here. Today's workout requires no equipment - but if you have weights (or even water bottles or cans) you can add them in to the upper body circuit below. There is the option to do these exercises seated or standing, so a chair is a great idea to use for seated options, to take a rest or even to use to a

Our physiotherapist Chloe is back with a second follow-along workout while our patrons are self-isolating. We have broken down the workout into 4 short videos: 2 cardio-based sets and 2 strength-based sets. The cardio-based exercises are 30 seconds each with 2 rounds per workout. No equipment is necessary for the cardio workouts as all seated exercises can be performed in standing but we recommend a chair for stability if needed. For the strength based workouts we recommend a

Our physiotherapist Chloe McKinnon has teamed up with Aveo Newcastle to provide weekly group exercises classes with their residents. Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, we have unfortunately had to discontinue all of our face to face group classes. To keep our participants active we’ve placed a short workout follow-along video similar to our weekly Friday group class. If you are not part of the regular group you are welcome to follow along too! The video can be broken down

UPDATE 25/03/2020: Physiotherapy has been declared an essential service as of 24th March which will allow Newcastle Aquatic Australian Physiotherapy to continue to provide quality care to our patients. Due to the continuous changes to our practice in line with recommendations made by the Australian Government Department of Health and the Australian Physiotherapy Association we anticipate further changes to our normal scheduling. We have decided to discontinue all water-based

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We have reached the final post of our Healthy Winter series. We've touched on reasons to exercise for our mental and physical #wellbeing in