One to one physiotherapy, inside the walls.
A three-room practice on Ermou, a short walk inside the Venetian walls. Sessions run fifty minutes and the physiotherapist who assessed you is the one who treats you. Nobody puts you on a machine and leaves the room.
What a session actually looks like
You get fifty minutes and one physiotherapist. The assessment and the treatment happen in the same room, in the same appointment, and the person who assessed you is the person you see next time.
Most of that time is hands-on work and loading. We find what hurts, we test what it can take today, and you leave with the smallest amount of homework that will move it. There is no machine you get plugged into while somebody sees another patient next door.
Marios Konstantinou runs the practice with two colleagues. Between them they see runners, people whose backs have had enough of a desk, and knees and shoulders working their way back from surgery.
What we work on
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Runners
Achilles, shins, hamstrings, knees and the calf that keeps going on the same run. We look at how you load it as well as where it hurts, and we build the return week by week rather than guessing at a date.
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Backs and necks that sit all day
Low back pain and neck and shoulder pain that show up around a desk. Hands-on work to settle it, then the specific loading and the small changes at the desk that keep it settled.
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After knee or shoulder surgery
Post-surgical rehabilitation at the pace the tissue allows, from the first weeks of range and swelling through to strength and getting back to what you actually do. We work to your surgeon's protocol.
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Return-to-running group
A small Saturday-morning group for people coming back after a layoff or an injury. Running technique, progressions and the honest answer about how much you can add each week.
The practice
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One of the three rooms. A plinth, a chair, a roller and a band. -
Ermou at first light, before the heat. -
The wall the practice sits inside.
Answers to the questions we get asked
The same questions come up at the end of a session and then get looked up again at one in the morning. Marios writes the answers here, in the words he uses in the room.
- A desk setup that actually helps Most desk advice is a diagram with angles on it. Ninety degrees here, ninety there, screen at eye level. It is not wrong exactly, but it puts the emphasis in…
- Does cracking your joints cause arthritis? Short answer: no. Longer answer below, because the question comes up in the room most weeks and the reassurance tends to land better with a reason attached.
- Coming back to running after a long layoff Injury, work, a baby, winter, whatever it was. You have not run in months and you want to start again without ending up back here in three weeks.
- The first 48 hours after you roll an ankle You went over on it. It swelled up within the hour. Here is what actually matters in the first two days, and what does not.
Ermou 44, inside the walls
The practice is on Ermou, a short walk inside the Venetian walls in the old town of Nicosia.
Appointments are made by phone: 22 456 901.
Book by phone
There is no booking form. Call the practice and you will speak to one of us about what is wrong and when we can see you.