Dedicated patient care since 1984
“Physiotherapy improves your physical condition
by restoring normal body functions and prevents disability that may arise from disease, trauma or injury. Your physiotherapist has a thorough understanding of how the body works gained from many years of rigorous academic study and practical experience. Physiotherapy encompasses posture, balance and movement, knowledge of diseases, injury and the healing process.”
(South African Society of Physiotherapy)
Our history
The practice was started in 1984 in Durbanville by Lizet van der Merwe and moved to Panorama in 1990. Heleen Groenewald joined the practice in 2002 and became a partner in 2010. In 2019 Wena Barnard became a partner after serving the practice since 2007.
Our practice has a proud history of service excellence and has been instrumental in improving many peoples’ quality of life. The dedication and devotion of a formidable team of physiotherapists have been the key to 30 years of service to the community.
Physiotherapists are first line practitioners, which means we can see patients without a doctor’s referral. However, we work in close collaboration with GPs, radiologists and other specialists and will refer a patient if our assessment indicates such referral. We evaluate and treat all kinds of musculo-skeletal (such as back and neck pain, sports injuries, fractures), neurological (such as strokes), respiratory (such as asthma, pneumonia) and other (such as vertigo, incontinence) disorders and pain, using a variety of techniques and principles. The aim is to assess, diagnose, treat and educate the patient to understand his/her problem and to optimize function and mobility and to prevent re-injuries.