We Put You First.
Here's What That Actually Means.

Nigel joined Riccarton Physio over 20 years ago, fresh from four years working across private practices in London, Cornwall, and the Isle of Wight. He came back to Christchurch convinced that good physio travels well and that it's built on listening to what patients actually need.

Nigel spent his earlier years at Riccarton Physio as a hands-on physio working alongside patients in the treatment room and over the past 7 years has been leading the team in vocational rehabilitation, helping people who've been injured get back to work safely. It's a different kind of physio: more about communication, coordination, and knowing when to push and when to hold back.

Cate spent 18 years in the UK working with clinicians who built relationships across specialist networks, an approach that still shapes how You First Physio works with GPs and specialists today.

She lives with arthritis herself and she's still on the ski slopes, which gives her a particular conviction about evidence-based care for osteoarthritis. Her "why not?" approach challenges assumptions about what's possible.

Cate draws on 30-plus years of clinical experience and her own journey with managing persistent conditions to help people find their own way forward.

Katherine's post-grad work crystallised something she'd been working toward her whole career: a more rigorous, evidence-based approach to complex cases that others sometimes struggle to unpick.

She's shaped by sport and by injury, both as a patient and as a clinician.

Her understanding of pain science, and how cognitive, social, and environmental factors shape how people experience it, has been fundamental to how the team approaches even the trickiest cases. When a patient's been stuck on a roundabout for years without getting anywhere, Katherine's the one who often finds the way through.