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🎄Christmas ’24 – New Year ’25 Clinic hours🎄

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As 2024 comes to a close, we want to extend our heartfelt thanks to all for your trust and continued support with IC Sports Therapies throughout the year. It’s because of your continued support that we remain committed to delivering industry-leading services that help you thrive.

Clinic Holiday Hours

For Christmas 2024 – New Year’s 2025 our Clinic hours will be as follows:

  • We will be closed from COB Monday December 23rd 2024.
  • Jason will be available again Thurs 9th Jan onwards.
  • Lisa will be back on Monday December 30th 2024.
  • Nicki will be available by appointment for existing clients only.

We will open for our normal hours from Monday January 13th 2025 onwards. Book today to get in first for the best appointment times in January.

On behalf of the team – Nicki, Steve, Jason, Lisa, and Eamon – we wish all our clients a safe and happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year!

Pricing effective 1-Nov-2024

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After checking the effects of inflation over the last few years, we are adjusting our fees for a number of services. We are sure you understand, and we thank you for your continued loyalty and custom.

Effective 1st November 2024, our pricing schedule will be as follows:

Remedial Massage, Sports Massage, Lymphatic Drainage (Nicki)$95/Short (~25min),
$140/Long (~55min),
$195/X-Long (~85min)
Remedial Massage, Swedish Relaxation Massage (Lisa)$70/Short (~25min),
$110/Long (~55min),
$140/X-Long (~85min)
Physiotherapy (Jason)$95/~30min,
$150/Extended (~55 mins)
Sports Massage (Jason)$95/~30min,
$125/Extended (~55 mins)
Pilates one-on-one$60 (~45min)
Hot Stone Massage, Remedial or Relaxation$140/~hr,
$170/~90min
Shockwave Therapy$90/15mins
Low Level Laser Therapy$90/15mins
Moor Therapyfrom $90/hr
Postural Assessment$90
Balance Assessment$90
Management & Treatment of Sports InjuriesP.O.A.
Sports & Postural Tapingfrom $10
Sports Trainer Coveragefrom $50/hr
Sports Event Risk Assessmentfrom $80/hr
Sports First Aid SuppliesSee our online shop
Sports Strapping (on customer site)P.O.A.
Sports Taping Training / First Aid Trainingmin. 6 participants

Bookings made before 1st November 2024 will reflect the prices current before that date.

Half-hour Treatments and Concession Rates are available.

We accept most payment methods.

eWAY Payment Gateway


Welcome to athlete and author, Eamon Wood

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Eamon Wood
Eamon Wood – Founder of Nudge Assist

IC Sports Therapies welcomes Eamon to the team, as a provider of Assistive Technology through his company, Nudge Assist.

A childhood accident in Nelson, NZ, launched Eamon’s journey with adaptive living. He became the number one seed in the Kiwi men’s wheelchair tennis rankings, and represented his country on the men’s wheelchair basketball team, travelling the world.

At twenty-eight, he set off on an epic journey, with little more than his backpack, his guitar, and an open mind. He hitchhiked around New Zealand’s southern island. The travelling bug took him to the UK and the USA, then along the fjords and lakes of Europe. His journals became the book “A Backpack, a Chair and a Beard.” 

He then tackled engineering, crafting solutions for over a decade. Now, with 30+ years of experience “rolling around”, Eamon founded Nudge to use his unique perspective to empower individuals and communities.

Father’s Day

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Father’s Day is a celebration honouring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society.
In Australia, Father’s Day is celebrated on the first Sunday of September (this year it’s the 1st), which is the first Sunday of Spring in Australia.
All fathers — as well as stepfathers, grandfathers, uncles, husbands, and anyone else who fills the role of a protector, advisor and caretaker — deserve to be honoured for everything they do.
It’s easy to give that recognition with a Father’s Day massage. Specials at department stores might provide a tie or pyjamas he’ll rarely wear, but the gift of health and wellness helps show Dad how much he really matters to you.

We suggest a gift voucher* which entitles the bearer to a one-hour Remedial Massage / Sports Injury treatment session in our clinic. (Physiotherapy and Relaxation Massage sessions are also available.) Excellent as a gift for Father’s Day, or any other time of the year!

You can order your Gift for Dad on-line and have it delivered by email, be posted to Dad, or pick it up at our clinic.

* Cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer.

New tech turns thoughts into speech

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A new brain-computer interface (BCI) developed at UC Davis Health can translate brain signals into speech with an impressive accuracy of up to 97%—claimed to be the highest accuracy ever achieved by such a system.

The researchers implanted sensors in the brain of a man with severe speech impairment caused by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Remarkably, he was able to communicate his thoughts within minutes of using the system.

This new tech innovation deciphers brain signals when a person attempts to speak, converting them into text, which the computer then vocalizes. The decoded words were displayed on a screen and impressively spoken aloud in a voice resembling Harrell’s own, as it sounded before his ALS diagnosis. This voice was synthesized using software that had been trained on audio recordings of his voice from before the onset of the disease.

“Our BCI technology helped a man with paralysis to communicate with friends, families and caregivers,” said David Brandman, UC Davis neurosurgeon and co-senior author of the study. “Our paper demonstrates the most accurate speech neuroprosthesis (device) ever reported.”

A study about this work was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Article text from Interesting Engineering.

Mark using the Vision Pro with his Brain-Computer Interface

New brain-computer integration for patients with limited mobility

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Neurotech company Synchron has made a breakthrough by connecting its brain implant to Apple’s Vision Pro headset. The company is building a brain-computer interface (BCI) that will allow patients with paralysis to operate technology like smartphones and computers with their minds.

The company has implanted its BCI in six patients in the U.S. and four in Australia, but still needs approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to commercialize its technology more broadly.

This integration allows patients with limited mobility to operate the Vision Pro headset solely through their thoughts, marking a significant advancement in brain-computer interface technology.

Users typically control the Vision Pro headset with eye movements, voice commands and hand gestures. Synchron has been working to make it accessible to patients who can’t speak or move their upper limbs.

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Price changes, effective 1st March 2024

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After checking the effects of inflation over the last 8 years, we are adjusting our fees for a number of services. We are sure you understand, and we thank you for your continued loyalty and custom.

Effective 1st March 2024, our pricing schedule will be as follows:

Remedial Massage, Sports Massage, Lymphatic Drainage (Nicki)$90/Short (~25min),
$130/Long (~55min),
$185/X-Long (~85min)
Remedial Massage (Lisa)$70/Short (~25min),
$110/Long (~55min),
$140/X-Long (~85min)
Physiotherapy$95/~30min,
$150/Extended (~55 mins)
Swedish Relaxation Massage$70/Short (~25min),
$110/Long (~55min),
$140/Long (~90min)
Pilates one-on-one$60
Hot Stone Massage$120/~hr
Shockwave Therapy$90/15mins
Low Level Laser Therapy$60/15mins
Moor Therapyfrom $80/hr
Postural Assessment$80
Balance Assessment$80
Management & Treatment of Sports InjuriesP.O.A.
Sports & Postural Tapingfrom $10
Sports Trainer Coveragefrom $50/hr
Sports Event Risk Assessmentfrom $80/hr
Sports First Aid SuppliesSee our online shop
Sports Strapping (on customer site)P.O.A.
Sports Taping Training / First Aid Trainingmin. 6 participants

Bookings made before 1st March 2024 will reflect the prices current before that date.

Half-hour Treatments and Concession Rates are available.

We accept most payment methods.

eWAY Payment Gateway


🎄Christmas 2023 – New Year 2024 Clinic hours🎄

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Clinic Holiday Hours

For Christmas 2023 – New Year’s 2024 our Clinic hours will be as follows:

  • We will be closed from COB Friday December 22nd 2022.
  • Nicki will be available by appointment only from January 23rd onwards.
  • Jason will be available again Thurs 11th Jan onwards.
  • Lisa will be available Jan 8-20.

We will open for our normal hours from January 11th onwards. Book today to get in first for the best appointment times in January.

We wish all our clients a safe and happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year!

Price changes, effective 1st Sept 2023

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A few change, most stay the same

In response to massive increases in our costs (e.g. our electricity and insurance charges ), we are adjusting our fees for some services. We are sure you understand. Thank you for your continued loyalty and custom.

Effective 1st Sept 2023, our pricing schedule will be as follows:

Remedial Massage, Sports Massage, Lymphatic Drainage (Nicki)$80/Short (~25min),
$120/Long (~55min),
$170/X-Long (~85min)
Remedial Massage (Lisa)$65/Short (~25min),
$100/Long (~55min),
$130/X-Long (~85min)
Physiotherapy$90/~30min,
$140/Extended (~55 mins)
Swedish Relaxation Massage$55/Short (~25min),
$90/Long (~55min),
$120/Long (~90min)
Pilates one-on-one$60
Hot Stone Massage$120/~hr
Shockwave Therapy$70/15mins
Low Level Laser Therapy$60/15mins
Moor Therapyfrom $40/hr
Postural Assessment$80
Balance Assessment$80
Management & Treatment of Sports InjuriesP.O.A.
Sports & Postural Tapingfrom $10
Sports Trainer Coveragefrom $35/hr
Sports Event Risk Assessmentfrom $40/hr
Sports First Aid SuppliesSee our online shop
Sports Strapping (on customer site)P.O.A.
Sports Taping Training / First Aid Trainingmin. 6 participants

Bookings made before 1st September will reflect prices current before that date.

Half-hour Treatments and Concession Rates are available.

We accept most payment methods.

eWAY Payment Gateway