Whether you’re a weekend warrior, a runner training for a race, or a competitive athlete, recovery is just as important as training. Myotherapy in South Melbourne at Complx Health keeps active people moving — treating injuries, supporting recovery, and stopping small niggles from becoming season-enders.
Why athletes and active people use myotherapy
Hard training loads up your muscles and connective tissue. Without proper recovery, that shows up as tightness, reduced range of movement, and recurring injuries. Myotherapy addresses both the injury and the movement patterns causing it, so you don’t keep breaking down in the same spot.
Common sports issues we treat
- Hamstring, calf and groin tightness or strains
- Runner’s knee, shin splints and ITB pain
- Tennis elbow, golfer’s elbow and other overuse injuries
- Shoulder and rotator-cuff tightness
- General DOMS and slow recovery between sessions
How myotherapy supports recovery
Using dry needling, myofascial cupping, deep soft-tissue release and joint mobilisation, myotherapy improves circulation, releases trigger points and restores range of movement. You’ll also get corrective exercises to reduce the chance of the issue returning.
Timing it around your training
The instinct is to book for the day after the hardest session, when everything hurts most. That’s often the least useful time. Firm soft-tissue work is a load in its own right, and mild soreness for a day afterwards is normal — stack that onto an already-fatigued muscle before a heavy session and you’ll feel flat.
- 24–48 hours after a hard session, or on a rest day — the best window
- Avoid deep work within 48 hours of competition — keep anything in that window short, light and familiar
- Deload weeks are ideal — nothing competing with the treatment
Timing treatment around training covers the windows in more detail, and how often to book sets out a sensible frequency at different training volumes — generally monthly if you train two to three times a week, fortnightly in a build phase.
Recovery isn’t only treatment
Worth being straight about the order of things. Sleep, eating enough and sensible load management account for the overwhelming majority of recovery. Hands-on treatment is genuinely useful and it won’t rescue a week of five hours’ sleep a night. Building a weekly train–recover–perform routine lays out where each piece sits.
Coming back from an injury
If a niggle has become something that’s keeping you out, the return decision isn’t really about whether it still hurts. Pain typically resolves well before capacity returns, and that gap is where re-injury lives. How physiotherapists decide you’re ready sets out the criteria — strength symmetry, movement quality under fatigue, sport-specific conditioning — that matter more than the calendar.
For a diagnosed injury or anything with nerve-related symptoms, physiotherapy is usually the better starting point than soft-tissue work.
Elite-level experience, for everyone
Your treatment is led by Senior Myotherapist Anthony “Frenchie” Garnier, who has worked with Carlton and Essendon Football Clubs, the Boomers and the Australian Ballet. And because Complx is an integrated clinic, your recovery can be paired with strength and conditioning and physiotherapy under one roof — which is what makes the handover from rehab back into training actually happen.
Book sports myotherapy in South Melbourne
Sessions are $110 (45 min) or $130 (60 min), HICAPS-claimable on the spot with no referral needed, at 101 Moray Street, South Melbourne — handy for active locals across Port Melbourne, Albert Park and the CBD. Open Mon–Fri 6am–9pm and Sat 6am–11am. 👉 Book myotherapy in South Melbourne and recover like a pro.
