Specialist Knee Physiotherapy

Knee pain can affect walking, stairs, exercise, work, sport and confidence in movement. Symptoms may follow a specific injury or operation, develop gradually over time, or continue despite rest, exercises or previous treatment.

Specialist knee assessment and rehabilitation are available at our Gosport, Clanfield and Emsworth clinics, delivered by Victoria Smith, Suzanne Gray and Mike Saegert. All three clinicians assess and manage a broad range of knee conditions, with Suzanne also having a particular interest in tendon-related problems. 

Our focus is on detailed assessment, clear diagnosis and evidence-based rehabilitation, with imaging, injection therapy and onward orthopaedic referral considered where clinically appropriate.

More Than an Exercise Programme

Our clinicians provide specialist assessment, diagnosis and rehabilitation, with access to imaging referral and interpretation, injection therapy and onward referral where clinically appropriate.

Why Knee Problems Require Specialist Assessment

The knee must absorb force, control rotation and transfer load efficiently between the hip and foot. Pain may arise from tendon overload, joint degeneration, ligament injury, meniscal pathology, bone stress or altered movement control.

These presentations often overlap and can appear similar in early stages. Swelling, stiffness, instability or anterior knee pain may reflect very different underlying drivers.

Without precise assessment, individuals frequently move between temporary symptom relief and recurring flare-ups.

Specialist evaluation examines joint irritability, ligament integrity, tendon load tolerance, strength symmetry and how the hip and foot influence knee mechanics. Rehabilitation can then be targeted towards the factors most relevant to your presentation rather than relying on a generic strengthening programme.

Explore Knee Conditions

Select the condition or rehabilitation pathway most relevant to you below to find out more. If your condition is not shown, we can still help. If you are unsure what is causing your symptoms, a specialist assessment can help identify the most likely source of your pain.

What Makes Our Knee Service Different

Knee rehabilitation within our specialist clinics is delivered by experienced physiotherapists working in Band 8 specialist roles within the NHS alongside their private practice. Their day-to-day work includes complex diagnostic decision-making, persistent and post-operative presentations, imaging pathways and close collaboration with orthopaedic knee surgeons and wider medical teams. 

This depth of clinical experience is particularly valuable when symptoms have persisted despite previous treatment, the diagnosis is uncertain, several structures may be contributing, or rehabilitation needs to progress safely back towards demanding work or sport.

Many individuals referred for knee pain have already completed general strengthening programmes without lasting improvement. This is rarely due to structural “failure.” More often, the load strategy or movement driver has not been correctly identified.

Specialist assessment evaluates how your knee behaves under load — including dynamic control during walking, running and change of direction, rotational stability, tendon capacity and force distribution through the lower limb.

Rehabilitation is structured around tissue behaviour and objective tolerance rather than fixed timelines.

For tendon-driven pain, progression restores tensile capacity while refining load distribution. In ligament or post-ACL rehabilitation, structured progression aligns with graft healing timelines and neuromuscular retraining. In degenerative joint presentations, management focuses on load optimisation, flare control and long-term joint resilience.

Programmes are individualised. Progression is guided by measurable strength milestones and 24-hour symptom response.

Care is guided by advanced clinical reasoning and specialist experience rather than protocol-driven or generic rehabilitation approaches.

Where appropriate, imaging such as X-ray, ultrasound or MRI can be requested or reviewed to clarify the clinical picture. Findings are interpreted alongside your symptoms and examination rather than in isolation. Injection therapy can also be considered selectively where pain or joint irritability is significantly limiting function or preventing rehabilitation from progressing.  Where further investigation or a surgical opinion is required, we can also facilitate onward referral to an appropriate orthopaedic knee specialist.

This integrated approach reduces prolonged symptoms and supports confident return to sport, work and daily activity.

Book your specialist knee appointment

Specialist knee appointments are available at our Gosport, Clanfield and Emsworth clinics. All three clinics provide specialist assessment and rehabilitation for a broad range of knee conditions.

Assessment includes detailed evaluation, clear explanation of the likely source of your symptoms and an individually tailored treatment and rehabilitation plan.

Online booking is available for self-funding knee appointments with Victoria Smith in Gosport, Suzanne Gray in Clanfield and Mike Saegert in Emsworth. If you have WPA insurance, please contact us before booking.

Our knee specialist spinal clinics run on Wednesdays and Fridays, and appointments may book several weeks in advance. If no appointments are showing online for your chosen clinician, please contact us, as additional availability may sometimes be possible.

Prefer to Speak to Us First?

If you are unsure which clinician to book with, would prefer not to book online or have a question before arranging your appointment, please contact us and we will help direct you to the most appropriate specialist.

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Telephone: 0330 133 9090

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