You don’t have to be in Thame.
A good deal of my work now happens online. If it is something you would see a physiotherapist about, there is a very good chance we can start on it from your own home: a back or neck that keeps flaring up, a shoulder, hip or knee that will not settle, pelvic health, pregnancy and postnatal recovery, getting strong again after surgery or illness.
Below are a few of the people who end up on my screen, chosen because they are often surprised that online works for them. None of them are real, all of them are familiar. They are examples, not a checklist you need to fit.
One to one on video · First appointment: physiotherapy £85, pelvic health £110
I am away for much of October. Online appointments start again from 10 November, and you can book one now.
A few examples of who I see online
01
Six weeks after prostate surgery
Working off a leaflet, and hoping. He is doing the exercises. He has no idea whether he is doing them right, and nobody has checked.
Many men are discharged with a sheet of pelvic floor exercises and no follow up at all. We go through what you are actually doing, whether it is the right thing at this stage, and what should be changing month by month.
02
Living with endometriosis
Managing it alone, between appointments that sit months apart, with a body that does not behave the same way twice.
Not a cure, and I will not pretend otherwise. Pain patterns, movement, pacing, and the practical business of managing something you are going to be managing for a long time.
03
Discharged with a sheet after surgery
And no map. No sense of what to build towards, how long it should take, or what normal looks like now.
Hysterectomy, caesarean, abdominal or gynaecological surgery. The operation gets all the attention and the recovery gets almost none. We build the map.
04
Newly diagnosed osteoporosis
Told to load the bone, and frightened. Quietly certain that lifting anything will break something, with nobody to show where to start.
This is one of the great gaps in care. You are handed a diagnosis, told that loading your skeleton matters, and left to work out what that means on your own. We start where you actually are.
05
Would rather stay at home
Pilates in the front room, with someone who knows the history, the surgeries, and what this body will not tolerate yet.
One to one, properly taught and properly progressed, by a physiotherapist rather than an instructor working blind.
And everything you would expect
Pelvic health that has stopped behaving. Leaking, urgency, heaviness, pressure, pain, or the sense that something changed and nobody has explained what. It is what I am known for, and it works perfectly well online.
The everyday musculoskeletal work too. Back and neck pain, stiff shoulders, grumbling hips and knees, a running niggle that keeps coming back, posture that aches by the end of the working day.
Not described here? That does not mean I cannot help. If it is something you would see a physiotherapist about, you can book an online appointment. If you are unsure whether online suits your problem, ask me. If I do not think I am the right person, I will tell you and point you somewhere better.
I ask properly. Then keep asking.
Most of an appointment, in the room or on a screen, is spent on your history.
That is not preamble before the real work. It is the real work.
Everybody arrives with a different story and most of them are more complicated than they first look. What happened, when, what has been tried, what made it worse, what your days actually involve, what you are hoping to get back to. I take a long time over this because it is where most of the answers are.
Then I watch you move. Posture, how you stand and sit and shift your weight, how you bend and turn and load. Movement patterns that are doing you no favours and that you have probably stopped noticing. A screen is a perfectly good way to see this, and in some ways a better one, because you are moving in your own home rather than in a clinic room with me standing over you.
The plan comes after that, and it fits your week rather than mine.
What I can do from a screen, and what I can’t
This is the question everyone wants to ask and most people are too polite to, so let me answer it plainly.
What I can do
- ✓Take a full history.
- ✓Assess your posture.
- ✓Watch how you move and pick out the patterns causing you trouble.
- ✓Work out whether a pelvic floor is holding on too tightly or not working hard enough, which are very different problems with very different answers.
- ✓See which hip is not pulling its weight.
- ✓Identify the specific movements you need to work on and teach them properly.
- ✓Build and progress a plan, and adjust it as things change.
What I can’t do
- ✕An internal examination.
- ✕Hands on treatment, massage, acupuncture, or any of the things that need me in the room with you.
Where a screen is not enough, I will say so, and we will talk about being seen in person rather than me carrying on regardless.
The part worth knowing is that an internal examination is needed far less often than people assume. A great deal of what I need comes from your history and from watching you move, and for most of what people bring me, that is enough to know what is going on and what to do about it.
I would not offer this service if I thought people were getting a lesser version of my attention. They are getting the same thinking, with a different set of tools.
What you need at your end
Less than you think.
propped up so I can see you
enough to lie down and move about
both useful, and that is it
You do not need special equipment, a fast connection, or any confidence with technology. I will send you a link. You click it.
If you have a resistance band, a cushion or a set of light weights, mention it and I will use them. If you do not, we will work with what is in the room.
What it costs
Online physiotherapy
Back, neck, joints, posture, recovery, osteoporosis, Pilates
£85 initial assessment and plan · one hour
£75 follow up · 45 minutes
Online pelvic health
Bladder, bowel, prolapse, pelvic pain, after prostate or pelvic surgery
£110 initial assessment · 75 minutes
£80 follow up · 45 minutes
The first appointment is longer because the history takes the time it takes, and rushing it is how people end up with a plan that does not fit them.
Booking
Appointments are booked online and you choose the time that suits you. Pick the one that fits what you are coming for.
Already seen me? Follow ups are in the same booking system.
Not sure which to choose? Send me a message and tell me what is going on.
I am Kim Pedrick, a Chartered Physiotherapist with more than twenty five years in musculoskeletal and pelvic health. I am also a yoga and Pilates teacher and an integrative therapeutic coach, which is a long way of saying that I am interested in the whole person in front of me and not only the part that hurts.