Optimal Physio

02/09/2025

Tuesday thoughts 💭

24/08/2025

Nothing makes us happier than seeing our patients be the fit, strong parents and grandparents doing all the cool stuff 🙌🏼⛷️🎾🏃🏻‍♂️🏋🏻‍♀️

22/08/2025

We can help you with that 👌🏻

DM us to book in for a personal analysis if you’d like more help with this 🙌🏼

11/08/2025

Stories like Neil’s are why we do what we do. If you’re struggling with nerve pain, Stimpod is a game changing treatment that can make a real difference to your quality of life. Give us a shout and ask us if it would work for you.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

07/08/2025

Yesterday we took our team meeting to the coast to discuss plans for the rest of the year followed by lunch at and a cycle around the Isle of Cumbrae 🚲

A fun way to spend the afternoon, takes a couple of hours, 10 mile loop and fairly flat. We’ll come back with the kids next. Have you tried it?

14/07/2025

What. A. Day.

5️⃣⛴️ Ferries Cycle Troon - Wemyss Bay Version!

Troon - Brodick
Lochranza - Cloanaig
Tarbert - Portavadie
Colintraive to Rhubodach
Rothesay - Wemyss Bay

🚴 115km
⛰️ 3300 ft (1144m)
⏰ 8 hours

Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 at its finest.

Legs are burst!

Great day with .seeker .impactfitness

30/05/2025

29/05/2025

🎉 You’re Invited to Our 10-Year Anniversary Celebration!

📍 Optimal Physio @ Largs Yacht Haven
🗓️ Wednesday 4th June 2025

Come along for a fantastic day of community, movement, education and celebration!

What’s Happening:
🎓 FREE Health Talks:

Healthy Ageing – 2:00pm

Strength Training Essentials – 3:00pm
👉 DM us to reserve your spot

💆‍♂️ Open Day + Free Tasters
Drop in throughout the afternoon between 2-4pm for:

👟Gait analysis demos

💪🏻Shockwave therapy demos

🙌🏼Stimpod Nerve regeneration tasters


🎁 Charity Raffle & Prizes
Support a great cause and win some brilliant goodies!


🚶‍♀️ 5K Coastal Walk – 4:15pm
Let’s finish the day with a relaxed, scenic coastal walk. Bring your friends, family or dogs—it’s for everyone!

17/05/2025

Great day out yesterday . We proudly sponsor the 5th hole and partner with this great course and its members. Looking forward to helping more of their members keep their mobility, stay injury free and add to their club head speed as they get older.

06/05/2025

All movement is good movement but progressive overload is where you’ll get most reward in terms of injury prevention and health ageing. 💪🏻

01/05/2025

Better Never Stops is the motto, so we take our own wellness seriously too.

Yesterday we had a team day kicked off by Greens & Pilates with our Physiotherapist and Pilates Instructor Natalie - we highly recommend!!

Then we followed up with a trip to our faves for hot and cold therapy before heading back for an lunch, planning and brainstorming. 😋

There are still spaces in our physio led Pilates classes starting this month in Largs and Clarkston if you want to join us, pop us a DM.

24/04/2025

Stop stretching your IT band — it’s not doing what you think.

Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen several runners and cyclists with pain on the outside of their hip and thigh. This is often mistaken with “ITB pain” and we see people trying to stretch it out and foam roll it.

Firstly, ITB Syndrome is not pain in your hip or lateral thigh – True ITB syndrome causes pain on the outside of the knee, not the hip.

The ITB isn’t a muscle. It doesn’t lengthen like one, and no amount of leaning sideways is going to “loosen it up.” In fact, trying to stretch it directly can do more harm than good.

Instead, focus on the muscles around it—like your glutes and quads—and fix the movement patterns that are putting it under stress. Your body will thank you.

Save this if you’ve ever had ITB tightness, knee pain, or been told to “just stretch it out.”