Neck & back pain
The ache that has been there for months, and the one that arrived overnight.
Read more about Neck & back painServing Parkhurst, Johannesburg
Physiotherapy near Parkhurst
The next suburb over, and one of the practice’s busiest. A lot of Parkhurst patients work from home or from the 4th Avenue offices and studios, and arrive with the neck, shoulder and upper back pain that a laptop on a dining table produces within about a year.
A few minutes away
From the rooms in Parktown North
Home visits
Available across Parkhurst
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Since 2011
Qualified at Stellenbosch University
Does this sound familiar
What patients from Parkhurst come in with
- Neck, shoulder and upper back pain from a year or more of working at a dining table
- Rolled ankles and plantar heel pain from cambered pavements and tree roots
- Achilles, calf and runner’s knee complaints from the Braamfontein Spruit trail
- School-sport injuries in teenagers from hockey, netball and athletics
Worth knowing
Parkhurst, in more detail
Parkhurst was registered in 1904 as Johannesburg’s sixty-seventh suburb, and the housing stock still shows it: small restored cottages on narrow stands, on streets too tight for the trees planted along them. It was one of the first suburbs in the city to put tables out on the pavement, and 4th Avenue has been the social spine ever since — which means a lot of people here both work and eat within walking distance of their front door.
That walkability is genuinely good for backs and genuinely bad for feet and ankles. Cambered pavements, tree roots and kerbs account for a steady trickle of rolled ankles and plantar heel pain, usually in people who insist they were not doing anything at the time.
The Braamfontein Spruit runs along the western edge of the suburb, through Roosevelt and Keith Fleming parks, before continuing north towards Delta Park. Parkhurst runners and mountain bikers use it daily, and it supplies the other half of the caseload: Achilles and calf complaints, runner’s knee, and lower back pain that only shows up on the longer rides.
The suburb also sits close to Parkhurst Primary, Kingsmead College and Roedean, so school-sport injuries in teenagers — hockey, netball, athletics — are a regular part of a Parkhurst week during term.
Also treated for Parkhurst patients
Related to what comes in from here
Before you book
Questions from Parkhurst patients
Both are possible. The rooms are on 7th Avenue in Parktown North, and plenty of Parkhurst patients come in for the full range of equipment and Clinical Pilates. If travelling is difficult — after surgery, or simply because the car is the hardest part of the day — Rikki treats at home in Parkhurst too, with the same assessment and the same plan.
Yes — Parktown North and Parkhurst are neighbouring suburbs, and plenty of patients walk over from 4th Avenue in reasonable weather. If you’d rather not, there is free parking directly outside the rooms on 7th Avenue.
The wider ring
Other suburbs Rikki serves
The practice covers nine suburbs across the northern part of Johannesburg, at the rooms or at home.
The rooms
12 7th Ave, Parktown North
Johannesburg, 2193
12 7th Ave
Parktown North, Johannesburg, 2193 Open directions in Google Maps
Parktown North, Johannesburg, 2193 Open directions in Google Maps
Next step
Book from Parkhurst
Book online for an appointment at the rooms in Parktown North, or send a WhatsApp with your address for a home visit in Parkhurst and Rikki will confirm what is possible and what it costs first.
071 491 6759
12 7th Ave, Parktown North