Velvet StreetPhysiotherapy

Musculoskeletal & rehabilitation physiotherapy

Move without
negotiating with pain.

Velvet Street is a small one-to-one practice for people whose bodies have started setting the terms. We assess carefully, treat with our hands, and write you a movement plan you can actually follow in an ordinary week.

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Assessment, hands-on treatment and rehabilitation — in one room, with one clinician.

A person working through a supervised strength exercise with light dumbbells during a rehabilitation session

Strength is the part of recovery most people skip. We keep it in the plan.

  • One room, one clinician

    Your whole appointment is with the same physiotherapist — no handover halfway through, no shared gym floor.

  • Hands-on and exercise

    Manual therapy settles the symptom; loaded, progressive exercise is what keeps it from coming back. You get both.

  • Plans in plain language

    You leave knowing what is going on, what to do this week, and what should change before your next visit.

Treatments

Care for the things that stop you mid-sentence

Most people arrive with a stiff neck, a knee that complains on stairs, or a back that has been "fine, mostly" for two years. Here is where we usually start.

01

Musculoskeletal assessment

A full session spent working out what is actually driving the symptom — how it behaves, what loads it, and which movements are worth changing first.

First visit

02

Manual therapy

Joint mobilisation, soft-tissue work and guided stretching to take the edge off, so the exercise side of your plan becomes possible rather than theoretical.

Hands-on

03

Rehabilitation programming

A short, progressive set of exercises built around your week — the equipment you have, the time you have, and the thing you are trying to get back to.

Between visits

04

Sports & return to load

For runners, lifters and weekend players: staged loading, movement retraining and clear criteria for when it is sensible to go back to full training.

Progressive

05

Post-operative recovery

Structured rehabilitation after surgery, working within the limits set by your surgical team and rebuilding range, control and strength in that order.

Staged

06

Desk, neck & jaw

Persistent neck, shoulder and headache patterns from long seated days — treated at the tissue and then addressed in how your day is actually arranged.

Everyday load

Your care

What a course of treatment looks like

No mystery, no open-ended block of appointments. Three phases, each with a point at which we check whether this is working.

Step one

Assessment

We talk through the history, test movement and load, and explain the working diagnosis. You usually start treatment in the same session.

Step two

The plan

A written plan: what we will do in the room, what you will do at home, and the specific signs that tell us it is heading the right way.

Step three

Progression

Appointments space out as you improve. The exercises get harder on purpose, until you are back to the load your normal life asks for.

A person stretching on a floor mat during a guided mobility routine in a quiet studio

Between sessions

The work that happens on the other six days

An hour a fortnight in a treatment room does not rebuild a tendon. Your programme is deliberately short so that it survives contact with a real week — and it changes as you do.

  • Three to five exercises at a time — never a printed sheet of twenty.
  • Written in ordinary words, with the reason each one is there.
  • Scaled to the kit you own, whether that is a gym or a kitchen chair.
  • Reviewed every visit, so nothing stays in the plan out of habit.
Start with an assessment

The practice

A quiet room on Velvet Street

We kept the practice small for a reason: longer appointments, fewer of them, and enough time to explain things properly. Treatment happens in a private room rather than a curtained bay, and the same clinician sees you from assessment through to discharge.

If physiotherapy is not the right answer for what you are dealing with, we will say so at the first visit and point you toward who is better placed to help.

A clinician in a treatment room talking with a client during a physiotherapy consultation

Questions

Before your first appointment

The practical things people ask us most often.

Do I need a referral to book?
No. You can request an appointment directly. If you are being managed by another clinician, bring any letters or imaging reports you have and we will work alongside them.
How long is a session?
First appointments are the longest, because the assessment takes real time. Follow-ups are shorter and get further apart as you improve. Exact lengths are confirmed when we arrange your visit.
What should I wear?
Something you can move in — shorts for a lower-limb problem, a vest or t-shirt for a shoulder or neck. We need to see the area move, and you should be comfortable throughout.
Will treatment hurt?
Some hands-on work and some loaded exercise can feel tender while it happens. Nothing is done without telling you first, and you can stop any technique at any point.
What if I get stuck between visits?
Send a message through the enquiry form describing what changed. Plans are meant to be adjusted — a flare-up is information, not a failure.

Request a visit

Tell us what is going on

A few lines is plenty. We read every enquiry ourselves and come back to you with the next available appointment times that suit what you have described.

  • Written by the clinician who would see you, not a booking desk.
  • If we are not the right service for it, we will tell you honestly.
  • Your details are used only to arrange the appointment.

We reply to enquiries in the order they arrive. If your symptoms are sudden or severe, please contact an urgent care service instead.