Evening rehab sessions now run Tuesday and Thursday until 8pm — same-week assessment slots are open. Request a time
Rehabilitation & movement, Harbour Quarter
Sora Line is a physiotherapy studio for stubborn joint and tendon pain, post-operative recovery and getting back under real load. Every plan starts with a full assessment and ends when you can do the thing you stopped doing.
Start here
If something on this list sounds like your week, we can help you work out whether physiotherapy is the right next step — and say so plainly if it isn't.
Unexplained weight loss, night pain that wakes you repeatedly, fever alongside joint swelling, or sudden loss of power or sensation belong with a doctor first. We will tell you at the assessment rather than booking you a course of treatment.
We also don't take on cases we can't progress. If your problem sits better with a podiatrist, a hand specialist or a strength coach, you'll leave with that recommendation instead of a package.
Recovery pathways
You are placed on a pathway at the end of the first assessment, not before it. Pathways overlap and people move between them as things change.
Pathway 01
For a flare-up that's limiting sleep, work or walking. The first job is to lower the irritability: manual therapy and dry needling where useful, a short list of movements that feel safe, and clear guidance on what to stop doing for now.
You'll usually be seen weekly at first. We measure the simple things — how far you can walk, how you sleep, how long the morning stiffness lasts — so progress isn't a matter of opinion.
Pathway 02
For tendon problems, post-operative recovery and the long tail of an old injury. This is the honest, unglamorous part: progressive loading in the studio gym, two or three short sessions a week at home, reviewed every fortnight.
Each review adjusts the load rather than restarting the plan. You'll get a written programme with sets, tempo and what an acceptable level of discomfort looks like during and after.
Pathway 03
For getting back to running, lifting, a court sport or a physical job. We test the specific demand — hopping, change of direction, repeated lifting — and work backwards from it rather than discharging you at pain-free walking.
Sessions move to fortnightly or monthly as you take over the programme. You finish with criteria for a full return and a maintenance plan sized to the time you actually have.
Inside a first appointment
Nothing about the first visit is a surprise. Here is the order it runs in.
Roughly fifteen minutes on what happened, what makes it worse, what you've already tried and what you want to get back to. Bring scan reports if you have them, though most problems don't need one.
Movement testing, strength testing and hands-on examination of the area and the joints above and below it. You'll be asked to move into the position that hurts — gently, and only as far as is useful.
Most people have hands-on treatment in the first session: joint mobilisation, soft tissue work or dry needling where it's indicated, followed by two or three loading exercises you practise with us.
You leave with your exercises written down, an explanation of what's driving the problem, an expected timeline and an honest view of how many sessions you're likely to need.
Session options
If you're unsure, ask for the initial assessment. We'll move you to the right format from there.
| Appointment | Length | Suited to | What's included |
|---|---|---|---|
| Initial assessment | 50 minutes | A new problem, or an old one you've never had properly examined. | Full history, physical testing, hands-on treatment and a written plan.Start here |
| Follow-up | 30 minutes | Ongoing treatment between reviews on any pathway. | Reassessment, hands-on work and progression of your exercises. |
| Rehab gym session | 45 minutes | Capacity building when you want the loading supervised. | Coached strength work in the studio gym with load adjusted live. |
| Running assessment | 60 minutes | Recurring calf, shin, knee or heel pain tied to mileage. | Treadmill observation, calf and hip testing, and a graded return-to-run plan. |
| Progress review | 30 minutes | Self-managing clients checking in every few weeks. | Retesting against your original measures and a programme update. |
Who you'll see
Mara trained in musculoskeletal physiotherapy and spent several years in a mixed caseload of post-operative orthopaedics and amateur sport before opening Sora Line. She treats every weekday and runs the Tuesday and Thursday evening clinic.
You should be able to describe your own problem to someone else by the end of the first session. If you can't, the explanation wasn't good enough.
Manual therapy is used to open a window, not as the treatment itself. The lasting change comes from what the tissue can tolerate afterwards.
Three exercises done consistently beat ten written down and ignored. Plans are built around the time you honestly have in a week.
No open-ended packages. You'll be told at each review how much further there is to go and when you're ready to manage it yourself.
Before you book
Clothing you can move and be examined in. Shorts for any leg, hip or back problem; a vest or t-shirt you don't mind rolling up for shoulder and neck work. Bring trainers if your problem relates to running or standing all day. There's a changing space if you come straight from work.
No referral is needed to book. Most musculoskeletal problems are diagnosed clinically, and a scan rarely changes the plan in the early weeks — it often shows age-related findings that aren't causing your pain. If imaging would genuinely alter what we do, we'll tell you and write to your GP.
Assessment may briefly reproduce your pain, because we need to see it. Treatment should sit at a level you'd describe as manageable. With tendon and strength work, some discomfort during and a little stiffness the next morning is normal and expected; pain that is worse for more than a day means the load was too high, and we adjust it.
Usually ten to twenty minutes, two or three times a week, and often less in the settling phase. Programmes are written to fit a real schedule. If you tell us you have ten minutes, you'll get a ten-minute plan rather than one you'll quietly abandon.
You'll get an estimate at the end of the first assessment, and it's revisited at every review. Settling an acute flare often takes two to four visits. Tendon rehabilitation and post-operative work are measured in months rather than visits, though appointments usually space out as you take over the programme.
Let us know at least twenty-four hours ahead and we'll move the appointment at no cost. Flare-ups and illness happen — tell us either way, because sometimes the right answer is to keep the slot and change what we do in it rather than cancel.
Yes, from around twelve years old, usually for sport-related growth plate pain, ankle and knee problems. A parent or guardian stays in the room for the whole appointment. Younger children are better served by a paediatric physiotherapist, and we'll point you to one.
Request an appointment
Send the short form and we'll reply with the next two or three suitable slots, including evening options. If your problem would be better handled elsewhere, we'll say that instead.
Requests sent after the clinic closes are answered the following working morning. Please don't include detailed medical history here — we'll take that at the assessment.