Our own heated pool at Woodford, kept at 38 degrees, with physiotherapists and exercise physiologists in the water beside you.
Warmth soothes muscle and lifts blood flow. Stiff, painful joints usually ease within the first few sessions.
Buoyancy takes your body weight, so joints unload and you move further than you can on land.
Water pushes back in every direction, so you rebuild strength after surgery or injury without overloading it.
A forgiving place to work balance and coordination after stroke, or with MS and cerebral palsy. A wobble is just a splash.
The pool is ours, on site at 50 Archer St with the rest of the allied health team. No council timetable to chase, and warm enough that winter never cancels a session.
Safe entry and exit, whatever your transfer looks like.
Fully accessible bathroom, and fresh towels are on us.
Our team assists with transfers, in and out of the water.
Physios and EPs in the water beside you.
Kids through to older adults, and anyone who finds land-based exercise too much. Tap through the six we see most.
Water reduces the effort of holding a position, so tight muscles settle and movement gets a chance. We work on active range, standing tolerance, stepping and swimming skills, and often see kids do things in the pool they can’t yet do on land.
Rehab you can push harder in, because the consequence of losing balance is a splash rather than a fall. Weight shifting, gait practice, weaker-side strength and endurance, all with a clinician in arm’s reach.
Progressive conditions need exercise that doesn’t cost you the rest of the day. Water lets us work on strength, gait and flexibility while managing fatigue, and we keep the pool temperature and session length matched to how heat affects you.
The hoist and our manual handling training mean a full transfer isn’t a barrier to getting in. Once you’re in, water is one of the few places to work cardiovascular fitness, trunk control and joint range without a wheelchair in the way.
When every session on land sets off a flare, water is the way back in. We start well under your limit, build slowly, and use the warmth to get joints moving before we ask anything of them.
After a knee or hip replacement, a fracture or a WorkCover injury, the pool is often the first place you can load a joint safely. We work in the water while land tolerance builds, then hand back over to land-based physio when you’re ready.
Sessions run weekly or fortnightly, one-to-one, at a pace that suits your fatigue. Support workers and family are welcome in the water, and we’ll show them the exercises so progress keeps going between visits.
On dry land, before you get wet.
Your clinician is in the pool with you.
Whatever your funding and energy allow.
Reviewed and reported for your plan.
Physiotherapists and exercise physiologists, backed by allied health assistants who know your program.
Builds the strength and conditioning side of hydro programs, and tracks progress against your plan goals.
Run the program between clinician reviews, which keeps sessions frequent and your funding stretching further.
OTs, speech pathologists and physios under the same roof, so a pool program and a seating assessment don’t need two providers.
Clients travel in from across Moreton Bay, Somerset and the Sunshine Coast. Transport support can often be built into your plan.
Not sure which one you’re under? Call the front desk and we’ll work it out with you before anything is booked.
Agency, plan and self managed. Usually Capacity Building.
Veterans’ cards accepted, with the referral sorted for you.
Return-to-work rehab, reported back to your insurer.
Chronic disease care plans, with a GP referral.
Pool sessions funded through your Home Care Package.
Private health and self funded, no referral needed.
Three steps, and you’re usually in the water within a week or two.
Tell the front desk what’s going on. We sort funding, referrals and pool times with you.
A physio or EP works through your history, goals, transfers and water confidence, then writes the program. Reports written for NDIS, DVA, WorkCover or Medicare.
Regular sessions at a time that suits, reviewed as you improve, and shared across the whole Quad Care team.
No. Most of our clients can’t, and plenty are nervous about water. Sessions are in water you can stand in, with a clinician beside you and flotation support if you want it.
Around 38 degrees, which is bath warm rather than pool cold. If heat is a problem for you, say so when you book and we’ll adjust session length.
We have a hoist, an accessible change room and bathroom, and a team trained in manual handling for the pool. Tell us how you transfer and we’ll plan it before you arrive.
Bathers and any medication you’d normally have on hand. Towels are provided, and the change room has everything else you’ll need.
Yes, and we’d encourage it. If someone supports you day to day, we’ll show them the exercises so the program keeps running between sessions.
Not for NDIS or privately funded hydrotherapy, just call. Medicare care plans, DVA and WorkCover need paperwork, and we’ll walk you through it.
For many people, yes. Warm water takes weight off sore joints, so you can move further with less pain. Your clinician checks it suits you before the first session.
It can be, when it’s delivered by a physio or exercise physiologist and linked to your goals. Medicare, DVA, WorkCover and private clients are welcome too.
Who’s getting in the pool, and what are they working towards? The clinic comes back to you with the pool times that are free.
Shared only with the clinic team booking your session.
