CrossFit Physio Melbourne | Injury Prevention & Performance | Evolutio
When Iron Meets Artistry: CrossFit Physio That Understands Your Language
We've spent years watching bodies transform under barbells. The poetry of a perfect snatch, the brutal beauty of Fran, the quiet determination in someone's eyes during their first muscle-up—this is where we live, breathe, and practice as Evolutio Sports Physio Richmond.
At our Richmond clinic, we don't just treat CrossFit injuries. We translate them. Every torn callus tells a story, each tight hip flexor whispers secrets of compensation patterns, and those nagging shoulder impingements? They're manuscripts waiting to be edited by our expert team.
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All TAC injuries, we can bulk bill with a claim number. Feel free to give us a call or email info@evolutio.com.au and we will get back to you.
Workcover Injuries, individuals will need to pay our normal rates, we will then send you an invoice which you can claim back through your case manager.
There may be a small gap with workover, please keep in mind we look after patients with long detailed and in depth consultations.
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We accept EPC Care Plans through your GP. Please note that we have to charge our standard rates. We will then send you an invoice which you can claim back approximately $60 per session from Medicare.
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Gold Card Members can be bulk billed, White Card members just need a GP referral before Physio. Please send us an email to info@evolutio.com.au, or contact us on our whatsapp number below to organise your Initial Session.
You can now chat with us for free, 8am - 6pm Monday through Friday, via WhatsApp, to find out if we can help you, message +61430436531
The Evolutio Team would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which the clinic is situated. This land belongs and always will belong to the Woiworrung and Boonwurrung peoples, who speak the traditional Indigenous languages of Woiwurring and Daungwurrung.
As a team, we pay our respects to the vibrant and endless Indigenous culture of this country and to the leadership of Elders past, present and emerging. Recognising their strength and resilience, as this land was taken from them, and that sovereignty was never ceded.
CrossFit Injury Prevention Programs: Beyond the WOD
Prevention isn't sexy. It doesn't get posted on Instagram with inspirational quotes. But it's the difference between a five-year CrossFit journey and a five-month one that ends in surgery.
Our injury prevention programs aren't cookie-cutter protocols downloaded from some generic fitness website. They're crafted like film photography at Evolutio Sports Physio Richmond—carefully composed, meticulously developed, and uniquely yours.
We assess how you move before you move poorly. Your overhead position during a warm-up tells us more about your shoulder health than any X-ray could. The way you land from a box jump reveals chapters about your knee mechanics that most practitioners never read.
Pre-WOD Movement Screening: Reading Your Body's First Draft
Every morning, your body writes the first draft of its movement story. Some days it's poetry—fluid, effortless, sublime. Other days? It's more like a rough manuscript that needs serious editing.
That's where pre-WOD screening becomes essential at our Richmond clinic. We watch you move through fundamental patterns: overhead reach, deep squat, single-leg stance, spinal rotation. Not checking boxes on a standardised form, but reading the narrative your nervous system is telling us.
Your hip mobility might be screaming about yesterday's deadlift session while your thoracic spine whispers complaints about too many hours hunched over keyboards. We listen to both.
CrossFit Performance Optimisation: Where Physio Meets PR's
There's this moment—every CrossFitter knows it—when everything clicks. Your clean feels weightless, your pullups flow like water, and time slows during those final thrusters. That's not accident; it's optimization.
Performance physio isn't about pushing through pain at Evolutio Sports Physio Richmond. It's about eliminating the movement restrictions that prevent you from accessing your full potential. When your shoulder blade glides properly across your ribcage, suddenly overhead movements become meditation instead of struggle.
We work with athletes who want to optimize their movement patterns, not just survive their next workout. This isn't about getting you back to where you were—it's about discovering where you could go.
Movement Assessment That Actually Matters
Traditional physio assessments often miss what matters most for CrossFit athletes. Testing your shoulder flexion lying on a table doesn't tell us how you'll perform under a loaded barbell at minute twelve of a grueling metcon.
That's why we assess you the way you actually move at our Richmond clinic. Under load. Under fatigue. Under the beautiful pressure of competition with yourself.
We examine your:
Overhead stability during progressive loading
Hip hinge mechanics under fatigue
Landing patterns when you're exhausted
Breathing efficiency during high-intensity intervals
Recovery between rounds
Your body compensates differently when it's tired. Those compensation patterns? That's where future injuries are born, and where Evolutio Sports Physio Richmond intervenes.
Common CrossFit Injuries We Treat: The Greatest Hits Album
After treating hundreds of CrossFit athletes at our Richmond practice, certain themes emerge. Not because CrossFit is dangerous—it isn't when done properly—but because humans are beautifully, predictably human.
Shoulder Impingement: The Overhead Epidemic
Kipping pullups didn't cause your shoulder problem. Years of sitting at desks, driving cars, and living in a world designed for forward head posture did. CrossFit just revealed what was already brewing.
We treat shoulder impingement by addressing the whole kinetic chain at Evolutio Sports Physio Richmond. Your neck position affects your shoulder blade movement. Your ribcage position influences your rotator cuff function. Your breathing pattern changes everything.
External research supports this integrated approach. Studies from the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery consistently show that isolated shoulder treatment fails when proximal stability is compromised.
Lower Back Pain: The Price of Poor Hip Mobility
Your lower back isn't the problem—it's the victim. Usually of tight hip flexors, weak glutes, and thoracic spines that forgot how to extend.
When we treat lower back pain in CrossFit athletes at our Richmond clinic, we're really treating a movement system that's compensating for restrictions elsewhere. Your back pain might disappear when we restore your hip hinge pattern.
Knee Pain: The Landing Pad for Poor Movement
Knees are honest joints. They tell the truth about what's happening above and below them. Hip dysfunction creates knee pain. Ankle immobility creates knee pain. Poor landing mechanics create knee pain.
We've seen too many athletes receive cortisone injections for knee pain when what they really needed was better movement education at Evolutio Sports Physio Richmond. Your knees don't need drugs; they need better mechanics.
Research from the American Journal of Sports Medicine shows that movement retraining significantly reduces knee injury rates in jumping athletes. CrossFitters are jumping athletes who also happen to lift heavy things.
Pre-Competition CrossFit Screening: Fine-Tuning Your Machine
Competition changes everything. Heart rates spike, adrenaline floods systems, and movement patterns either hold up under pressure or crumble spectacularly.
We screen competitive CrossFitters differently than recreational athletes at our Richmond physio practice. Competition demands different movement tolerances, different energy system requirements, different mental preparation.
Pre-competition screening at Evolutio Sports Physio Richmond includes:
Movement pattern stress testing
Energy system assessment
Recovery strategy optimization
Competition-specific warm-up protocols
Mental preparation techniques
Your ACL stability might be perfect during training but compromised under competition fatigue. Better to discover that in our clinic than during Open workout 23.3.
The Evolutio Difference: Physio Through an Artist's Lens
We don't practice assembly-line physiotherapy at Evolutio Sports Physio Richmond. Every CrossFit athlete is a unique movement signature requiring individualized interpretation.
Some athletes need more mobility work than stability training. Others are hypermobile and require strength through range rather than more flexibility. Some carry emotional tension in their tissues that no amount of manual therapy will resolve without addressing the nervous system.
This is why your first visit with us lasts 45 minutes. We need time to read your movement story, understand your training history, and glimpse your goals.
We work together to optimize your movement, not just treat your injury. Prevention and performance enhancement aren't separate services at our Richmond clinic—they're different chapters in the same book.
Integration with Strength & Conditioning
We don't just send you away with a sheet of exercises at Evolutio Sports Physio Richmond. We collaborate with your coaches, understand your programming, and ensure that your rehab complements rather than competes with your training.
Your physio exercises should enhance your CrossFit movements, not replace them. When designed properly, corrective exercise becomes invisible—integrated seamlessly into your warm-ups, cool-downs, and accessory work.
Working closely with facilities like CrossFit Hawthorn East and CrossFit CBD, we understand how different coaches program, what movements appear frequently, and which weaknesses consistently emerge.
When to Seek CrossFit Physio at Evolutio Sports Physio Richmond
Don't wait until injury forces your hand. Some signs it's time to invest in movement optimisation:
Asymmetrical movement patterns you can feel but can't fix
Chronic tightness that stretching won't resolve
Performance plateaus despite consistent training
Nagging discomfort that isn't quite injury but isn't quite normal
Wanting to prevent injury before it occurs
Early intervention prevents minor issues from becoming major problems. We've seen too many athletes push through discomfort until it becomes an issue.
Frequently Asked Questions: CrossFit Physio Melbourne
Q: Is CrossFit dangerous for my joints?
No more dangerous than any other athletic pursuit when performed with proper technique and appropriate progression. Research published in the Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness shows CrossFit injury rates comparable to weightlifting, powerlifting, and gymnastics.
The key is matching intensity to your current movement capacity. We help athletes at Evolutio Sports Physio Richmond understand their movement limitations and work within them while systematically expanding those boundaries.
Q: How soon after a CrossFit injury should I see a physio?
Immediately. Not next week when it's "still bothering you." Not next month when you've "tried everything else." Today.
Early intervention dramatically improves outcomes at our Richmond clinic. Acute injuries respond better to immediate treatment than chronic compensation patterns that develop when you "push through" pain.
For acute injuries: within 24-48 hours For persistent discomfort: as soon as you notice it's affecting your movement For prevention: before problems develop
Q: Can you help me get back to CrossFit after an ACL reconstruction?
Absolutely. ACL recovery for CrossFit athletes requires sport-specific rehabilitation at Evolutio Sports Physio Richmond. Traditional ACL rehab protocols often miss the multi-planar, high-intensity demands of CrossFit.
Your return-to-sport progression needs to include:
Plyometric landing mechanics under fatigue
Rotational stability with external load
High-intensity interval conditioning
Competition-simulation scenarios
We work with orthopedic surgeons who understand athletic demands and design rehab programs that prepare you for the full spectrum of CrossFit movements.
Q: Do you treat both recreational and competitive CrossFit athletes?
Yes, though our approach differs significantly at Evolutio Sports Physio Richmond. Recreational athletes typically prioritize injury prevention and movement quality over performance optimization. Competitive athletes require more aggressive progressions and sport-specific preparation.
Both deserve expert care tailored to their goals. Your grandmother doing CrossFit for general fitness needs different movement standards than someone qualifying for Regionals.
Q: How long does CrossFit physio treatment typically take?
That's like asking how long a piece of string is. Treatment duration depends on:
Injury complexity and chronicity
Your movement history and compensation patterns
Training goals and timeline
Compliance with home exercise programs
Whether we're treating injury or optimizing performance
Acute injuries: 3-6 sessions typically Chronic movement dysfunction: 6-12 sessions often required Performance optimization: Ongoing relationship, like having a coach
Q: Can you work around my CrossFit schedule?
Of course. We understand at Evolutio Sports Physio Richmond that missing training for physio appointments creates more problems than it solves.
We offer:
Early morning appointments before your workout
Evening sessions after work/training
Weekend availability for competitive athletes
Telehealth consultations for exercise progression
Your physio schedule should support your training schedule, not disrupt it.
Q: Do you provide exercises I can do at the gym?
Yes, and we design them to integrate with your CrossFit training at Evolutio Sports Physio Richmond. Your corrective exercises should enhance your CrossFit movements, not compete with them.
We provide:
Warm-up sequences using equipment available at your box
Accessory exercises that complement your programming
Movement prep specific to the day's workout
Recovery protocols using tools you have access to
Q: What's the difference between CrossFit physio and regular physio?
Understanding. Regular physiotherapists might understand anatomy and movement, but CrossFit physio requires understanding the culture, terminology, training methods, and specific demands of the sport.
When you tell us your shoulder hurts during kipping pullups at Evolutio Sports Physio Richmond, we understand the movement mechanics involved. When you mention that you're struggling with butterfly pullups specifically, we know what that reveals about your thoracic extension and lat flexibility.
CrossFit physio is movement-based treatment delivered by practitioners who speak your language.
Q: Can you help with nutrition for CrossFit performance?
While we're not nutritionists at Evolutio Sports Physio Richmond, we work closely with sports dietitians who specialize in CrossFit performance nutrition.
We can address how nutrition affects:
Recovery between training sessions
Inflammation and tissue healing
Energy availability for high-intensity training
Sleep quality and nervous system recovery
For detailed nutrition planning, we refer to specialists who understand the specific demands of CrossFit training.
Q: Do you offer group sessions or team treatments?
Yes, for CrossFit gyms wanting to invest in their members' movement quality. Group movement screenings can identify common patterns and prevent widespread injury patterns at Evolutio Sports Physio Richmond.
Team services include:
Group movement assessments
Educational workshops on injury prevention
Warm-up design for specific workouts
Recovery strategy education
Individual treatment remains the gold standard, but group education can prevent many issues before they develop.
Q: How do you stay current with CrossFit training methods?
Our team at Evolutio Sports Physio Richmond trains alongside the athletes we treat. Not because we're competitive, but because understanding the movements from inside your own body creates better treatment strategies.
We also maintain relationships with top CrossFit coaches, attend continuing education specific to CrossFit athletes, and stay current with research on high-intensity functional training.
Understanding your sport isn't optional when treating its athletes.
Q: What should I bring to my first CrossFit physio appointment?
Your movement history is more valuable than any imaging or reports. Bring:
Training log if you keep one
List of current symptoms and when they occur
Previous injury history
Any imaging or medical reports you have
Your usual workout gear (we may want to see you move in it)
Most importantly, bring your questions. This is your opportunity to understand your body better at Evolutio Sports Physio Richmond.
Take our quiz to see if our approach aligns with your needs, or learn what to expect as a new patient.
Q: Do you accept health insurance?
Yes, we process most private health insurance on the spot through HICAPS at Evolutio Sports Physio Richmond. You pay only the gap between our fee and your rebate.
We also accept:
Workers compensation claims (WorkSafe)
Motor vehicle accident claims (TAC)
EPC plans from your GP
DVA gold cards
Check our FAQ section for detailed information about insurance and payment options.
Ready to optimize your CrossFit performance? Book your comprehensive movement assessment at Evolutio Sports Physio Richmond and discover what your body has been trying to tell you.