Know where you stand.
Understand your goals and establish a relevant starting point through appropriate clinical assessment and objective measures.
Clinical philosophy
The Active Base Method: BASE → BUILD → PROGRESS
A continuous framework for establishing where you are, identifying what is limiting you, building capacity and showing meaningful progress.
Southern & central Gold Coast
What to expect
A framework, not a fixed appointment sequence
BASE → BUILD → PROGRESS is a clinical reasoning framework, not a package or sequence of three visits. The cycle continues as capacity changes: reassess, identify the next target and keep building.
It applies across adulthood and across musculoskeletal rehabilitation, post-operative care, active ageing, DVA and community physiotherapy.
- BASE — know where you stand
- BUILD — build what you are missing
- PROGRESS — see how far you have come
- REASSESS — establish the next meaningful target
- CONTINUE BUILDING — move toward greater capacity
The full framework
Build what you’re missing.
Target the strength, movement, balance, conditioning, confidence or task capacity limiting meaningful function.
See how far you’ve come.
Progress rehabilitation, reassess meaningful measures and use the change to establish the next goal.
Physical capacity is specific to your life.
The qualities that matter depend on what recovery, home, community, work, recreation or performance asks of you. Assessment and rehabilitation therefore remain individual rather than following a standard test battery or fixed three-appointment sequence.
BASE → BUILD → PROGRESS → reassess → continue building.
Professional referrals
Refer a patient or discuss a service pathway.
Responsive communication, mobile assessment, progressive rehabilitation and clear reporting where appropriate.