Barbara Pretorius Physiotherapy

Barbara Pretorius Physiotherapy In the Garden Route, near the Knysna Lagoon, works Barbara Pretorius, the Physiotherapist. A special interest is to manage acute and chronic pain.

“Your health is in your hands” Barbara, the physiotherapist, uses a holistic approach to evaluate, treat, educate and encourage your body to heal.
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www.barbaraphysio.co.za The patience encourager, that enjoys massaging and coaxing patients back to wholeness. After a thorough evaluation a holistic approach is used to treat, educate, guide and encourage your body back to health a

nd wholeness. The logo “Your health is in your hands” explains it all: ʻYou need to realize that your well being is in your hands. You need to take responsibility for what you put into your body and what you take out of your body. In the logo the hands represent your hands holding your body and taking care of it. Barbaraʼs hands are there to help, guide, educate and encourage you to make the right decisions on how to take care of your body.ʼ

Barbaraʼs mission is to foster a good relationship with you based on mutual respect, communication and trust, and to uphold scientific standards by thoroughly evaluating and treating you based on the latest research. Barbara improves the standard of care and quality of treatment by keeping herself informed of new developments in health care. Barbara treats musculoskeletal conditions like headaches, neck-and-back pain and knee-and- shoulder stiffness and helps with the management and rehabilitation of various injuries involving joints, muscles, tendons, ligaments and nerves. A wide range of techniques that include stretching, stabilizing and strengthening exercises, joint and nerve mobilization, dry needling, electrotherapy, myofascial release and massage are used to assist in treatment. Massage therapy is available for stress relief and sport massages are done as well. Posture evaluation and correction is performed to optimize well being. If your sinuses and/or lungs are full of phlegm Barbara will nebulize you with medication, use postural drainage (tip you upside down), percuss (“massage” your lungs) and give you breathing exercises to get rid of excessive phlegm

08/02/2025
26/02/2024

Over the past year or so I’ve kept returning to ‘the social’ part of our multifactorial pain experience.* Pain can be extraordinarily isolating, and our current sociopolitical emp…

Info on how couples can cope while living with pain.
26/02/2024

Info on how couples can cope while living with pain.

Over the past year or so I’ve kept returning to ‘the social’ part of our multifactorial pain experience.* Pain can be extraordinarily isolating, and our current sociopolitical emp…

07/02/2024
07/02/2024

This is a great, easy to follow video about chronic pain. It helps you understand what current research has been saying about chronic pain - thats its not a ...

10/01/2024

Ketafuse is a calm caring medically safe infusion service.

08/10/2023

Welcome to the latest episode of HT Physio Quick Tips!In this episode, Farnham's leading over-50's physiotherapist, Will Harlow, reveals how to stop leg cram...

17/06/2023

Most of us have been raised to believe that the road to a happy life is paved with pleasure, and that the pursuit of pleasure is the path to fulfillment. But as we grow up, we begin to realize that life is not always easy or pleasurable. In fact, much of it is difficult and painful. We all experience loss, disappointment, illness, aging, and eventually death. We encounter stress, anxiety, and fear. We suffer from the slings and arrows of everyday life.
And yet, we continue to cling to the idea that happiness is found in pleasure and the avoidance of pain. We try to avoid our painful experiences by numbing ourselves with drugs or alcohol, distracting ourselves with TV or social media, or obsessing over our work or our relationships. But the more we try to avoid the basic reality that all human life involves pain, the more we are likely to struggle with that pain when it arises, thereby creating even more suffering.
The truth is that happiness is not found in the avoidance of pain, but in the willingness to face and accept our pain. It is in the willingness to experience our painful thoughts and feelings, to acknowledge them without judgment, and to take action in line with our values and goals. It is in the willingness to be present in the moment, to connect with our senses and our environment, and to find joy and meaning in the simple things in life. ~Russ Harris

(Book: The Happiness Trap https://amzn.to/42JwiTc)

(Art: Photograph by Pierre Jamet)

Love ❤️ yourself Take care of yourself 🤗
23/02/2023

Love ❤️ yourself Take care of yourself 🤗

I wonder if you know,
the work your body has done today.
And every day.
How much disease it has fought off.
How many times it could have failed but battled on,
how many ways it could have broken but did not.

I wonder if you know,
the work your body has done today.
And every day.
And each day it has done this amazing job,
without your help,
without your approval,
your acceptance,
your kindness.

Each day it has soldiered on,
regardless of the constant stream of negativity,
pulsing its way from your brain to your cells.
Not good enough.
Not attractive enough.
Not the right shape.

Perhaps it’s time to see your body for what is truly is,
An amazing and mind-blowingly competent machine.
To get your soul to where it needs to be in this life.
To let you live.

I wonder if you know,
how much better you would be as a team.
I wonder.

Donna Ashworth
From ‘I wish I Knew’: https://amzn.to/3JVMJlZ

Art by The Ronald West Gallery

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3 Trotter Street
Knysna
6571

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Monday 09:00 - 17:00
Tuesday 09:00 - 17:00
Thursday 09:00 - 17:00
Friday 09:00 - 17:00

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In the Garden Route, near the Knysna Lagoon, works Barbara Pretorius, the Physiotherapist. The patient encourager, that enjoys massaging and coaxing patients back to wholeness. After a thorough evaluation a holistic approach is used to treat, educate, guide and encourage your body back to health and wholeness. The logo “Your health is in your hands” explains it all: ʻYou need to realize that your well being is in your hands. You need to take responsibility for what you put into your body and what you take out of your body. In the logo the hands represent your hands holding your body and taking care of it. Barbaraʼs hands are there to help, guide, educate and encourage you to make the right decisions on how to take care of your body.ʼ Barbaraʼs mission is to foster a good relationship with you based on mutual respect, communication and trust, and to uphold scientific standards by thoroughly evaluating and treating you based on the latest research. Barbara improves the standard of care and quality of treatment by keeping herself informed of new developments in health care. A special interest is to manage acute and chronic pain. Barbara treats musculoskeletal conditions like headaches, neck-and-back pain and knee-and- shoulder stiffness and helps with the management and rehabilitation of various injuries involving joints, muscles, tendons, ligaments and nerves. A wide range of techniques that include stretching, stabilizing and strengthening exercises, joint and nerve mobilization, dry needling, electrotherapy, myofascial release and massage are used to assist in treatment. Massage therapy is available for stress relief and sport massages are done as well. Posture evaluation and correction is performed to optimize well being. If your sinuses and/or lungs are full of phlegm Barbara will nebulize you with medication, use postural drainage (tip you upside down), percuss (“massage” your lungs) and give you breathing exercises to get rid of excessive phlegm