When you come for your first physiotherapy appointment, we do a thorough assessment that involves looking at your injury or problem in the context of your lifestyle. Rather than asking you to strip to your underwear , for example, we may simply ask you to walk around the room so we can see how you move when you are relaxed. Our experience shows that this is the best way of seeing what’s really going on. At the same time, we’ll also be checking whether there is anything medically important going on beneath the surface.