Extensive Physiotherapy – Holistic… Interconnected… Extensive

Experience a different style of physiotherapy

Alleviating pain and improving wellbeing through addressing underlying causes and connections within your body

A Different Style of Physiotherapy

At extensive, we appreciate that your body and pain can be complex. Therefore, we take an in-depth approach examining all related systems and layers in managing your symptoms.

Using the concepts of Counterstrain and Biotensegrity, we peel back the interconnectedness between neural, vascular, visceral, fascial and musculoskeletal systems in unwinding your pain and dysfunction.

With extensive, experience a style of Physiotherapy that focuses not only on where today’s symptoms are, but on unwinding yesterday’s causes back to core issues.

Our Core Focus

Chronic Back Pain
Sciatica
Pelvic Dysfunction
Rib Pain and Restriction

Headaches and Sinus Issues
Neck and Jaw Pain
Shoulder Pain and Restriction
Complex Presentations

Why Choose Us?

At extensive, we use a gentle and in-depth approach to delve into the complexity of your body through holistically assessing the interconnected areas and systems of your issues. The body is great at adapting, and today’s pain may have taken months or years to develop. We therefore take the time to work back through this, with our approach focusing on where and why your symptoms originated in an attempt to minimise their return.

We are also genuinely passionate about improving your quality of life. Our approach doesn’t just seek to address pain, but to optimise your health to better manage it. This can involve treating various neural and vascular pathways in order to calm overactive systems so things can work the way they were intended to.

Hour long consultations

The body takes time to adapt to issues. We appreciate this takes time to unwind, offering hour long consultations up to 3 hour sessions.

Root Cause Analysis

Pain can have many layers and contributing factors. Our approach traces the sequence of adaption back through all core issues.

A genuine passion

Pain can significantly impact one's life. We take your health seriously, and are genuinely passionate about improving the quality of your life .

A gentle approach

Through positional and fascial release we provide treatment with minimal discomfort. There are no needles or manipulation.

An extensive approach

Everything is ultimately connected. We treat the body holistically and assess head to toe for contributing tensions that are driving your pain.

Private health accepted

No referrals are required with treatments covered by most private health providers under your physiotherapy benefit.

Neural

The wiring and programming of how your body functions. From your brain and spinal cord, to the tips of your fingers, nerves need to conduct signals in and out. If neural signals are disrupted, then the ability to control the related blood vessel, organ or muscle can also be impacted.

Vascular

The fuel system of the body. Everything requires oxygen and nutrients to properly operate. Blood also needs to circulate back to the heart. Without adequate blood flow in and out, your ability to circulate fuel and effectively heal is impacted.

Lymphatic

The waste and sewerage system of the body. The lymphatic system regulates fluid levels and forms part of your immune response. It also serves to remove fats and waste. Via a network of lymph nodes, this system is critical in removing toxins and waste from your body.

Human anatomy detail of shoulder. Muscle, arteries on plain stud

Visceral

Your heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, stomach, intestines, and reproductive organs etc. all serve critical functions. Removing tension on these organs can aid in their function and restore movement to connected areas.

periosteal

The layer surrounding the framework of your body which is responsible for maintaining bone health. Trauma or overloading of this layer can impair bone health, healing, and impact the function of attached structures.

Fascial and myochain

The body consists of chains of interconnected layers of muscle, ligaments, tendons, and fascia. These layers need to be able to glide over and around each other to allow and support movement. Restrictions in some areas can inhibit movements further along the line.

Meet Adam Poetsch

Having recovered from a traumatic car accident as a child, Adam has found that sometimes the body can be a bit more complicated than we like. Through unwinding years of compensation across multiple systems, he has a developed focus on the interconnectivity of different areas within the body. Through walking this path, Adam became a physiotherapist with a genuine passion for using his experience to improve the quality of life of others.

Adam specialises in a holistic approach to physiotherapy using fascial Counterstrain techniques. His approach looks at the interconnectivity between nerves, blood vessels, organs, soft tissues and bony structures. It also extends into calming down overactive or dysfunctional systems. He first assesses how the body moves and functions as a whole by analysing the relationships between the feet, pelvis, ribs and skull.

As restriction in some areas can lead to dysfunction elsewhere, Adam seeks to address not just where today’s issues are, but to trace what may have caused them and other issues over time.

When not practicing as a physio, you’ll find Adam scuba diving, cycling, hiking and generally being outdoors.