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Stress can have many dimensions and causes and can show up in various symptoms affecting body and mind.

Osteopaths are trained to address both the symptoms and the cause.

With long-lasting or unexplained pain, osteopathy can provide a new stimulus and calm the structures in the body that are under stress.

This clears the way to encourage a positive response throughout the body that dampens the pain stimulus.

After a recent sports injury, it makes sense to support the injured structure during its acute inflammatory phase.

Osteopathic techniques can help it heal as well as possible.

The osteopath can free the pathways of the incoming and outgoing vessels from narrowings to achieve the best possible healing.

In osteopathy, older scars and past traumas are also identified through a thorough medical history and included in the treatment. This can release long-standing dysfunctions in the body so that all tissue can move freely again.

Scars often play a key role in how the human body functions. If they are disturbed or have healed poorly, they can be a weak spot that other regions of the body then have to compensate for.

Prevention is one of the central pillars of osteopathy, so osteopathic treatment is worthwhile even before acute or chronic complaints arise.

The osteopath looks preventively for factors in the body that could lead to problems later on.

Gentle osteopathic techniques support women during pregnancy to ease side effects and are also used for newborns after birth.

The gut is not called the body’s second brain for nothing. Problems here can drain a great deal of energy and strength from the body and can make people ill in the long term.

There are manual treatment techniques as well as nutritional suggestions that help bring body and person back into balance.

In some cases it is worth combining training therapy with osteopathy. An osteopathic check can reveal functional blockages in the organ system or in joints and tissue that movement alone cannot resolve.

Once the osteopath has resolved them, this can also have a positive effect on your results in training therapy.

Manual therapy techniques are used to achieve the best possible functional range of movement and so make everyday life as easy as possible. Joints and the surrounding structures are mobilised actively, with assistance or passively.

Techniques include joint mobilisation, fascial or muscular soft-tissue techniques and strengthening exercises.

Disturbed sensation in the hands can be very disruptive and make it much harder to grip and hold objects. A distinction is made between oversensitivity (hypersensitivity) and reduced sensitivity (hyposensitivity). With acquired nerve injuries, specially tailored therapy aims to normalise the disturbed nerve conduction. Finding the cause plays a very important role.

If, for example, your left arm has to be immobilised after an accident or surgery, your right arm has to do even more. This changes not only how you manage everyday life but also how signals are processed in the brain. Inactivity means the immobilised hand receives fewer sensorimotor impulses, while the other side is stimulated more. Muscles waste away during immobilisation, finger coordination and strength decrease and mobility increasingly declines.

Balance and coordination exercises, together with instruction in so-called mirror therapy, aim to transfer more impulses to the immobilised side in order to restore function as quickly as possible.

Scars can severely restrict mobility and cause pain.

Therapeutic techniques aim to release adhesions and hardening of the scar tissue so that the individual layers of tissue can glide properly again. The earlier mobilisation starts after the scar forms, the sooner the tissue can be freed.

Injuries cause swelling, which usually also restricts movement.

Decongestive techniques promote lymph drainage and circulation and lead to faster recovery. Local measures such as elevation, cooling, taping or compression bandages also help tissue fluid drain away more quickly.

Splints made of thermoplastic materials can stabilise, mobilise and stretch shortened structures such as hardened scars. Because the splint materials are fitted directly, pressure points can be avoided and the splint can easily be adjusted if needed.

Permanent movement restrictions are often compensated for by evasive movements of other joints, which in turn lead to non-physiological joint positions.

Suitable aids are used above all for permanent mobility restrictions to make it easier to manage everyday life independently. Joint protection measures aim to prevent wear and tear from one-sided strain by drawing attention to correctly aligned posture and strengthening weakened muscle groups.

Ergonomic advice mainly involves working out together with patients how their workplace can best be adapted to their working posture and movements, to prevent postural damage in the long term. This also includes learning compensating exercises, planning breaks properly and strengthening the back muscles.

Radial shockwave therapy treats acute and chronic pain in various parts of the body efficiently and in a targeted way. The device generates shockwaves that spread through the body and activate its natural self-healing powers. This significantly reduces your complaints within a short treatment time.

In response to radial shockwave treatment, the tissue around the structure causing the problem increases its metabolic activity. This can stimulate or speed up healing, and damaged tissue regenerates efficiently. Pain often eases noticeably after just 2–3 sessions. A treatment takes about 10 minutes and is usually carried out once or twice a week.

The conditions most frequently treated with radial shockwave therapy are:

• patellar tendinopathy (jumper’s knee)
• shoulder pain (e.g. calcific shoulder)
• golfer’s elbow
• tennis elbow
• shin pain / shin splints
• muscle injuries
• muscle tension and trigger points
• Achilles tendon problems
• osteoarthritis
• heel spur
• delayed bone healing
• irritation of tendon attachments in various parts of the body
• bursitis (e.g. trochanteric bursitis)

In electrotherapy, therapeutic currents flow through the body, or through injured or painful structures, via electrodes applied to the skin.

This can trigger various processes in the body:

• pain relief
• metabolic activity
• increasing or decreasing muscle tone
• reducing swelling (promoting resorption)
• activating, stimulating and strengthening muscles
• nerve stimulation

Depending on the complaint or condition, different types of current are used in electrotherapy – low-, medium- and high-frequency. Depending on the type of current, we work with pre-moistened sponge electrodes or adhesive electrodes.

Together with electrical stimulation, ultrasound therapy is one of the most common forms of treatment in physical modalities. Therapeutic ultrasound at frequencies of 1 MHz or 3 MHz is delivered into the tissue as continuous or pulsed sound via an ultrasound head. Because of its many effects, ultrasound therapy is classed as both mechanotherapy and thermotherapy.

Depending on the therapy parameters (treatment frequency, type of sound, dose, duration and frequency of sessions), ultrasound treatment mainly produces either a thermal effect (heat at reflecting tissue boundaries, e.g. bones and joints) or a micro-massage in the treated tissue.

The effects of ultrasound therapy can be summarised as follows:

• hyperaemia (increased blood flow in the tissue)
• faster metabolic functions (microcirculation, diffusion)
• greater extensibility of connective tissue structures (collagen fibres)
• pain relief
• muscle relaxation and relief of spasms
• faster healing
• stimulation of fracture healing

Because ultrasound is reflected by air, a coupling medium (ultrasound gel) is used to transmit the sound waves from the ultrasound head to the tissue, or the treatment is carried out under water.

Heat therapy is often used to support physiotherapy. Its effects include improving blood flow, relaxing muscles and relieving pain.

Heat therapy makes use of how the skin and deeper tissue respond to heat. By stimulating thermoreceptors, heat can reach both superficial and deeper structures. The way it is applied depends on the patient’s needs.

A fango pack is one form of heat therapy. Fango is a type of mineral mud of volcanic origin. For treatment it is heated to around 40–50 degrees and applied locally to the relevant part of the body for 25 to 30 minutes. Fango packs can be used for a wide range of problems, injuries and sports injuries.

These include:

• back, neck and shoulder pain of all kinds
• rheumatic or chronic joint conditions
• tendon sheath inflammation
• muscle hardening etc.

The physical properties of water support the rehabilitation of the musculoskeletal system and help relieve pain. Therapy under water makes use of the hydrostatic pressure there, so you can move your joints under easier conditions.

Especially after surgery or accidents, active and passive mobilisation of the affected joints is very important to prevent movement restrictions, improve tissue nutrition around the injury and practise movement sequences functionally.

Conditions under water can also be used ideally for training therapy, to strengthen the whole body and train coordination.

Injuries, poor posture or non-specific pain in the musculoskeletal system often lead to disturbances in natural movement. As a result, muscular coordination, muscle strength and the balance between individual muscle groups can be thrown off. Medical training therapy helps you correct this imbalance and restore it.

Your training therapist tailors the type of training to your problem and integrates it into the physiotherapy process. Close interdisciplinary cooperation between your physiotherapist and training therapist optimises your rehabilitation.

This is how we achieve the best treatment results, so you can manage everyday life pain-free again and do your sports without restrictions.

As the name suggests, personal training is about reaching individual goals with personal support.

Your training is planned by a qualified trainer who improves strength, endurance and coordination with targeted measures. Besides personal guidance and motivation, you also get tips on how to support your training with nutrition and what else you can do to work on weak points.

We train with the studio system from EasyMotionSkin – the wireless evolution of electrical muscle stimulation, already used by leading professional athletes and physiotherapists.

A training programme (20 min) is carried out while important muscle groups are electrically stimulated at the same time. No extra weights are needed, so you can train very efficiently and, above all, gently on the joints. Stimulating impulses target all major muscle groups and especially the deep muscles.

Each muscle is activated more intensively, faster and more often than with most conventional training methods. EMS training starts where conventional methods fall short. Targeted, individually adjustable training activates and strengthens muscle groups that are difficult or impossible to reach with conventional training. The entire musculature can be trained in a targeted way that is gentle on the joints. The spine gains stability and the back is noticeably relieved. Muscular imbalances are evened out and the core muscles strengthened – the ideal way to a healthy, strong back and a strong body.

Our course calendar is very varied and changes all the time. Whether athletic power workouts, yoga classes or group rehab sessions – all courses are run by highly trained, highly motivated trainers, and limited group sizes make sure you get enough attention from your trainer and enough space for your training.

If you’re not sure which course is right for you, just browse our course calendar or ask one of our trainers about the perfect training setting for your personal goal.

Training with reduced gravity speeds up the start of gait therapy and makes quick progress in therapy possible. With the anti-gravity treadmill, patients can walk or run pain-free immediately after surgery and injuries to the knee, ankle or hip.

Early mobilisation and maintaining a natural gait help restore function more quickly. The unique differential air pressure technology ensures safe, comfortable and precise training with targeted weight relief. The point from which running and walking are pain-free for you can be set exactly.

With the high demands of an often stressful everyday life, mental health is becoming increasingly important and, alongside enough exercise and a healthy diet, contributes significantly to your well-being.

The focus is on increasing mental performance and well-being in sport and other areas of life, such as work or family. This is achieved by learning to deal with stress in a healthy way, building stable self-confidence, improving your ability to relax, activating your own skills and strengths, and preventing injuries.

During a break due to injury, sports psychology and mental training can be an important support on the way to rehabilitation and help prepare your return to athletic training or working life.

Our focus areas:

• Injury management
• Mental training for sport
• Personal coaching
• Team coaching

As a service for our active patients, we offer the option of training independently on our premises outside your therapy or training sessions.

This way you can do the exercises from your therapy or training on your own in an ideal environment, with all the equipment and materials you need.

That is exactly why we created the “Open Gym”: set times during which you can train independently with us, as long as you are an active patient or client of Physio 1.0.

HOW does it work?

You can book our “Open Gym” times via our customer portal, through our front office or through our therapists and trainers. Each training slot can be booked by a maximum of 6 people at the same time, so there is enough space and capacity for you.

A safe return to sport after an injury to the lower limbs – especially the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). Our standardised test battery of seven functional tests covering speed, strength, coordination and sensorimotor function shows objectively when you are ready again.

Qualitative movement analysis: five standardised movement patterns, isolated mobility tests and an analysis of the upper limbs reveal deficits in mobility and stability – the basis for your individual plan.

NordBord, ForceFrame and ForceDecks from VALD Performance measure strength and imbalances precisely and in real time – to manage your training and ensure a safe return.

Under the direction of Priv.-Doz. Dr Simon Euler, Sportsmed 1.0 offers sports medicine performance testing – right here in our building. The idea of creating a centre of expertise for athletes of all levels is put into practice from a physiotherapy, medical, orthopaedic and training perspective.

In ‘Physio meets Science’ (PMS), Physio 1.0 has found a strong and competent partner for physiotherapy and science. Always up to date, the PMS team is committed to translating scientific findings into everyday therapeutic practice. As an exclusive premium partner, Physio 1.0 can hold regular further training courses to keep providing the best therapy and holistic care.

Besides the physiotherapy courses from Physio Meets Science, there will also regularly be interesting talks on current topics in sport, health and therapy. Follow us on Facebook or keep up to date via our events page so you don’t miss any of them!

A healthy diet fills your body with energy and nutrients. Imagine your cells smiling at you and saying “thank you”!

Recognising the high value of our daily food is an essential step towards taking responsibility for our own health. Combined with exercise, mental well-being and stress management, it is the best prevention.

A balanced diet is something very individual. Everyone has their own needs, preferences and goals.

Whether it’s about weight management, nutrition for special requirements and illnesses, upcoming surgery or reaching peak athletic performance – nutrition counselling offers support in finding an individual, needs-based, balanced and optimal way of eating and avoiding nutritional risks.

In today’s world we live in a real jungle of nutrition tips. As soon as one trend fades, a new one comes along and nobody knows where they stand any more. Healthy eating has long been trendy and the focus of seminars, magazines and more. Crash diets, smoothies in every colour, lentil chips and chia pudding are conquering the world. But are these the right approaches for your needs?

I’d like to show you how to eat a balanced diet you enjoy – without having to give up your favourite food.