Focus Health is a physiotherapy group with three clinics across Hawke's Bay: at Prospect Road in Hastings, at the Te Mata Clinic in Havelock North, and at the Onekawa clinic in Napier. Its Hastings base is at 325 Prospect Road. It accepts ACC and private patients directly, and it says its fees are low.
The team includes physiotherapists with specialist interests. Sports physiotherapists help with recovery, prevention and tailored fitness programmes. One physiotherapist offers golf fitness and biomechanical assessment. Another works with hand, elbow and forearm injuries and holds post-graduate qualifications in hand therapy and splint fabrication. Women's health and pelvic floor rehabilitation use computerised biofeedback, and a specialist physiotherapist leads that work.
The practice works with the Royston Private Hospital and Specialist Centre, which means the physiotherapists are experienced in care before and after orthopaedic surgery. For breathing disorders, one physiotherapist teaches the Bradcliff Method, a drug-free programme that includes breathing retraining, relaxation and posture work. The same physiotherapist also helps patients with vertigo and balance problems.
The team aims to see each patient with the same physiotherapist on every visit, so care is continuous.
Our pick in Hastings for a sports or hand injury that needs a physiotherapist with specialist training.