Why patients across the Sutherland Shire choose PACT
There is no official ranking of physiotherapists, so this page will not tell you we are number one. It does something more useful: it lays out the facts about PACT Physio & Rehab in Miranda that you can verify for yourself. Who leads it, how long appointments run, what we genuinely focus on, and what you pay under each funding pathway.
There is no official ranking of physios, and that is worth knowing
Search for a physio in the Sutherland Shire and you will meet plenty of confident labels. Here is the reality: physiotherapists in Australia are not ranked by any official body, and national advertising rules restrict registered health practices from claiming to be better than others, because claims like that cannot be verified. So the label a clinic gives itself tells you very little.
What actually helps is checking things that can be verified: registration, experience, appointment length, whether the clinic has a genuine focus that matches your problem, and whether it covers the way you are funded. Our guide to choosing a physiotherapist walks through those checks neutrally, for any clinic. This page is the other half: the same checks applied to PACT, with the evidence, so you can judge us the way you would judge anyone.
The checks we suggest for any clinic, applied to us
PACT Physio & Rehab is a single clinic at Unit 1, 196 Sylvania Road, Miranda, founded and led by physiotherapist Andrew Ellis. Patients come to us from across the Shire, from Cronulla, Caringbah, Sutherland, Gymea, Engadine, Menai, Sylvania and beyond, and every point below can be checked before you ever book.
- Registration: every PACT physiotherapist is AHPRA registered, and you can confirm any practitioner free on the public register at ahpra.gov.au
- Experience: Andrew holds a Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science and a Master of Physiotherapy, in clinical practice since 2010 across private, sports and work injury settings
- Appointment length: initial consultations run a full 60 minutes, one on one, so assessment is never rushed
- A genuine focus: trigger point dry needling since 2012, shared publicly through @thedryneedlingphysio with around 15,000 followers
- Work injury depth: a decade in occupational rehabilitation as a Senior Rehabilitation Consultant and WHS Advisor sits behind our workers compensation care
- Funding cover: private, Medicare CDM, workers compensation and CTP, with approved claims billed directly to the insurer and nothing out of pocket
Founded and led by Andrew Ellis
PACT was founded by Andrew Ellis, our principal physiotherapist. A physiotherapist since 2010, Andrew has focused on trigger point dry needling since 2012, runs the @thedryneedlingphysio channels where he shares dry needling education with around 15,000 followers, and is the founder and host of World Health Webinars, an online education platform that delivered courses to more than 5,000 clinicians across 14 countries.
That depth sets the standard for the whole clinic. Whoever you see at PACT works to the same approach Andrew built and treats alongside him, so you get the same careful assessment and the same reasoning behind every treatment decision. You are never on a production line.
Unhurried appointments, honest plans
Every initial consultation at PACT runs a full 60 minutes, one on one with your physiotherapist. That time exists for a reason: a proper history, a real movement assessment, treatment started on day one, and a plain language explanation of what we think is going on and roughly how long recovery should take.
The plan you leave with is honest. If physiotherapy is not the right answer for your problem, or your GP or another practitioner should be involved, we say so. Follow ups run 40 minutes, so there is time to treat and progress the plan, not just repeat it.
- 60 minute initial consultations, 40 minute follow ups
- One on one for the whole appointment
- A plan agreed with you in plain language
- Honest advice if physio is not the right answer
Covered whichever way you come to us
Private patients pay $165 for a 60 minute initial consultation and $142 for a 40 minute follow up, with every fee published in full on this site. Medicare CDM patients with a care plan from their GP pay $103.20 for an initial and $80.20 for a follow up after the $61.80 rebate.
Workers compensation and CTP patients with an approved claim pay nothing out of pocket. We bill the insurer directly, handle the certificates and reporting, and under NSW rules you can choose your own physio, so you are free to be treated where you decide, not where a claim letter first pointed you.
One clinic in Miranda, patients from every corner of the Shire
We run one clinic, at Unit 1, 196 Sylvania Road, Miranda, in the centre of the Sutherland Shire. That keeps every patient under the one team and the one standard. We are open Monday to Friday 7:30am to 9pm and weekends 8:30am to 6pm, so patients travel in from every suburb, often before work or after dinner, and same day appointments are often available.
If getting to Miranda is not practical, PACT Virtual Care offers telehealth physiotherapy Australia wide, and our location pages cover parking, routes and local detail for every Shire suburb.
What you pay, with or without cover
Every appointment is a full, unhurried session with the time to work through complex, persistent problems. The fee is $165 for an initial visit and $142 for a follow up, and if you have Medicare, private health extras or an accepted claim, here is what you pay.
Paying privately
No referral or paperwork needed. Every visit is a full, unhurried session with the time it needs.
With a Medicare plan
A GP Chronic Disease Management referral rebates $61.80 on every visit, up to 5 a year.
With private health extras
Claim on the spot through HICAPS. The gap depends on your fund and level of cover. See all health funds
Workers comp & CTP
Accepted workers compensation and CTP claims are billed straight to your insurer, and we handle the paperwork.
Every bar is drawn to the same scale, from $0 to the standard fee. Private health gaps vary with your fund and your level of extras cover.
Good to know
How should I choose between physio clinics in the Sutherland Shire?
Why do patients travel from across the Shire to PACT in Miranda?
Is PACT AHPRA registered and how do I check?
Does PACT treat workers compensation and CTP injuries?
What does physiotherapy cost at PACT?
What if I cannot get to the Miranda clinic?
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