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Run Smarter with Professional Coaching

Performance Medicine's Run & Exercise Coaching program provides personalised guidance for runners of all abilities. Improve your running technique, prevent injuries, and achieve your fitness goals with evidence-based coaching tailored to your individual needs.

🎤 Vocal Physiotherapy for Singers, Performers & Professional Voice Users

Stay on Track with Your Rehab & Performance Goals

Looking to book a physio-led class or performance session? The Performance Medicine timetable makes it easy to plan your week. From rehab-focused sessions to strength and movement classes, everything is clearly scheduled so you can stay consistent and injury-free.

Paediatric Physiotherapy at Performance Medicine

If your child is experiencing delayed motor milestones, coordination challenges, postural issues, or movement concerns, paediatric physiotherapy can help support healthy development. Performance Medicine offers play-based, child-centred physiotherapy designed to build strength, confidence, and functional movement skills.

🦵 Rebuild Strength with Hand-Held Dyno Leg Therapy

By Performance Medicine, Melbourne

Recover smarter, not harder. Our Hand-Held Dyno Leg Therapy accurately measures muscle strength to track your recovery progress and enhance rehabilitation outcomes. Ideal for athletes and individuals overcoming injury.

✨ Benefits: ✅ Accurate strength assessment ✅ Personalised rehab programs ✅ Faster, safer recovery

🌟 Where Performance Meets Care. 🌟

At Performance Medicine, we’re more than a clinic—we’re a community dedicated to helping performers, athletes, and creatives move, recover, and thrive.

From physiotherapy and injury management to tailored performance programs, we provide the support you need to stay strong, resilient, and ready for the spotlight.

Proud to stand behind every performer who trusts us with their journey. ✨ Because your performance deserves the very best care.

Whether you’re an athlete or an artist, Performance Medicine blends sports science and performing arts physiotherapy for holistic body care and long-term performance success.

This means that Performance Medicine provides a unique combination of services tailored to two groups who rely heavily on their bodies—athletes (like runners, gym-goers, or sports players) and performing artists (such as dancers, actors, vocalists, or musicians).

The clinic doesn't just focus on treating injuries after they happen. Instead, they use a holistic approach—looking at your entire body and how it functions, moves, and performs. They draw from sports science (like biomechanics, conditioning, and injury recovery) and performing arts physiotherapy (which includes posture, voice care, movement quality, and injury prevention tailored to artistic professions).

This integrated care helps:

Prevent future injuries

Improve body awareness and performance quality

Support faster recovery

Build long-term resilience

We use our voice and swallowing muscles every single day, often without even thinking about it. Voice and swallowing problems can show up in ways you don’t expect. You might feel pain when speaking, notice your voice getting tired or have trouble swallowing food comfortably. These issues may also come with jaw pain (TMJ pain), neck tightness and headaches, making everyday talking and eating feel effortful and uncomfortable.  

Physiotherapy is not just for sports injuries, it can also support recovery from voice and swallowing injuries and dysfunction by helping decrease pain, release tight and overused muscles and target the muscular components of your voice and swallowing to make it easier and less effortful.

Voice and swallowing injuries are more common than many people realise and they don’t just affect singers or public speakers.

What Causes Voice and Swallowing Injuries?

Our voice and swallowing mechanism has a large muscular component that is coordinated to produce our voice.  Our voice is produced via our laryngeal mechanism with the intrinsic laryngeal muscles and vocal cords coordinating to produce our voice.  Our swallowing is comprised of a complex coordination of the mouth, jaw, tongue muscles and muscles of mastication synchronising with the pharynx to swallow whatever you may be eating or drinking.  For both vocalising and swallowing our tongue muscles and pharyngeal muscles are working.

When the synchronisation of these muscles and areas are not coordinated due to pain, muscular strain, surgery or even stress this can mean that your voicing and swallowing can become effortful.  In day to day life, these causes may come from 

Overuse of the voice (especially in jobs that involve talking all day in loud or difficult environments)

Muscle tension in the neck or jaw

Neck pain or nerve pain

Reflux or throat irritation

Post-surgical effects

Accidents or trauma to the face, head, or neck

How Physiotherapy Can Help in Recovery?

1. It decreases tension in the laryngeal muscles, jaw and neck

Many people don’t realise how much neck, face and jaw (TMJ)  pain can affect their voice and swallowing. Neck dysfunction, tightness in the jaw, and rounded shoulders (shoulder tension) can place the laryngeal mechanism (larynx) and temporomandibular joints (TMJ) in a position where the muscles don’t work efficiently for speaking and easy swallowing.

Treatment of the larynx and jaw pain involves not only muscular release but also showing you how to sit correctly and breathe more efficiently.  Often, it may require focusing on specific muscles around your larynx (throat) and jaw that require treatment and re-education to release the tension. 

2. Helps in restoring natural muscle use

When muscles are overworked or injured, they may start to move and activate in a compensatory pattern. Your body might try to compensate by using additional muscles to get the job done, which sets up a maladaptive voice and laryngeal cycle that can add to more muscular strain.  

Physiotherapy can assist breaking this compensatory pattern for both voice and swallowing and this involves retraining of  breath control, postural support, and techniques to set up your neck to use your voice more efficiently. 

3. Working Alongside Your Recovery Plan

If you’ve had surgery or been working with a speech therapist, physiotherapy works hand in glove with your speech pathology rehabilitation to aid your recovery. Your physiotherapy program complements the work you’re already doing.

4. Making Everyday Life Easier Again

One of the best parts of any injury rehabilitation is getting back to the small joys of life. Being able to laugh without discomfort, speak on the phone without your voice fading, or enjoy a meal without worrying about how your throat feels means that it’s the little things that make a big difference.

Physiotherapy brings you back to those moments and your physiotherapist will work together with you providing you with at-home exercises and day to day strategies to assist your larynx, and jaw feeling more free and this will allow you to complete your speech exercises to improve your voice. 

Ready to Feel Better? Let’s Start Your Recovery Today

Voice and swallowing injuries can build up gradually but they don’t have to stick around. With the right kind of support, including physiotherapy, your recovery can get on the right track and your physiotherapist will be there to support you. 

Recover and Move Freely with Expert Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Struggling with pain or injury? Our expert team provides comprehensive Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy to help you recover and live pain-free! Whether it's chronic back pain, neck discomfort, or pregnancy-related issues, we've got you covered.

We specialize in: ✅ Low back & neck pain ✅ Pelvic & SIJ pain ✅ Post-operative rehabilitation ✅ Headaches & migraines ✅ TMJ pain ✅ Nerve pain & neurological symptoms

Take the first step towards a pain-free life. Book your appointment today and experience exceptional care that helps you move with ease and joy! 🌟

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