physiotherapy techniques cheltenham

Treatments & Techniques

At Straight Back Physio in Cheltenham, we combine hands-on expertise with advanced, evidence-based techniques to help you recover faster, move better, and stay active. Whether you’re dealing with back pain, sciatica, a sports injury, or chronic discomfort, our experienced physiotherapists create personalised treatment plans tailored to your goals. We don’t just treat symptoms — we address the root cause so you can return to the activities you love with confidence and resilience.

physiotherapy

Manual therapy forms the foundation of our physiotherapy. Using skilled hands-on techniques such as joint mobilisation, soft tissue mobilisation, and manipulation, we reduce pain, improve joint mobility, release tight muscles, and restore normal movement patterns. This highly effective method is particularly beneficial for back pain, neck pain, and joint stiffness.

Shockwave Therapy

We offer state of the art shockwave therapy — a non-invasive treatment that uses high-energy sound waves to stimulate healing in tendons, ligaments, and soft tissues. It is highly effective for chronic conditions such as plantar fasciitis, Achilles tendinopathy, tennis elbow, and other stubborn tendon problems.

Medical Acupuncture & Dry Needling

Our clinical acupuncture and dry needling techniques help manage your pain naturally, reduce inflammation, and promote your body’s own healing response. Many patients find excellent relief from back pain, headaches, and nerve-related issues.

physio-led Pilates

Pilates and physiotherapy work beautifully together to build strength, improve movement and support long‑term recovery. Physiotherapy identifies what your body needs — which muscles are weak, which movements feel restricted, and what’s causing your pain. Pilates then provides a safe, controlled way to rebuild strength, stability and confidence. Guided by a physiotherapist, each exercise is tailored to your injury, ensuring you move well without aggravating symptoms. 

rehabilitation

After your pain has been treated and begins to settle, injury rehabilitation physiotherapy becomes the essential next step. Early exercise prescription helps to calm any irritation, reduce discomfort, and restore some movement — but it’s rehabilitation that creates lasting change to get you back doing the things you love with confidence.

Children’s Physiotherapy

Children’s physiotherapy is designed specifically for growing bodies. It supports babies, children and teens with movement delays, developmental concerns, sports injuries, hypermobility, posture issues and aches linked to growth. Treatment is gentler, more playful and tailored to a child’s stage of development, helping them move well and thrive as they grow.

Post‑Operative Physiotherapy

Post‑operative physiotherapy helps people recover safely after surgery — such as joint replacements, ligament repairs, spinal surgery or fracture fixation. It focuses on reducing swelling, restoring movement, rebuilding strength and guiding people through each stage of recovery so they heal well and return to daily activities with confidence.

respiratory physiotherapy

Respiratory conditions and illness can significantly affect breathing, energy levels, mobility, confidence and independence.

Our respiratory physiotherapists provide personalised rehabilitation programmes designed to improve breathing efficiency, physical strength, mobility and overall quality of life.

Why Choose Straight Back Physio?

• Personalised, one-to-one treatment sessions
• Combination of hands-on manual therapy and advanced technology
• Specialist experience in sports injuries, back pain, and sciatica
• Focus on long-term results and injury prevention
• Convenient location in Cheltenham with flexible appointments

Our goal is simple: to get you out of pain and back to doing what you love — stronger and more resilient than before.

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At Straight Back Physio we believe in giving our patients the opportunity to engage and explain their injury history, lifestyle etc. to our physiotherapists therefore each new patient is given 45minutes on their first appointment with follow ups being 30 minutes in length.

Recover faster, our chartered physios can usually get you back to redoing the activities you can't do now within 4 to 8 sessions.

We understand that some people may want to find out a bit more about the cost before they book an appointment at our physiotherapy clinic. Our unique save as you recover packages can save you up to 20% on the cost of a single session.