Practitioners

Two osteopaths who have worked together since 2004

George is here Monday to Friday and sees most patients. Rachael consults on Mondays and largely manages her own bookings. Either way you see the same person each visit, and between us we know everyone on the books.

Dr George Demirov

Osteopath · B.App.Sc, B.Clin.Sc (Osteopathy) · Provider no. 2622174K · Graduated 2004 · Available Monday to Friday

I started here with Rachael in 2004, and we moved the practice to Wantirna Road in December 2013. Most of my week is desk-driven work, necks, headaches, upper backs, along with lower limb loading problems in runners, which I have an obvious personal interest in. Twenty-two years in, the thing I have changed most is how much of the appointment I spend on what happens between visits rather than during them.

Married with one, piccolo latte, form guide, Hawthorn, Larry David and Seinfeld.

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Dr Rachael Fisher

Osteopath · B.App.Sc, B.Clin.Sc (Osteopathy) · Provider no. 2222268A · Graduated 1997 · Available Mondays

I graduated in 1997 from a class of nineteen at RMIT, then the only osteopathy course in Australia or New Zealand. Twenty-nine years later the work I find most interesting is the complicated end of the caseload, the back that has been sore for two years, the pelvis nobody has been able to explain, the patient who has already tried three other practitioners.

Married with 4 boys, obsessed cleaner, shopper, pickleballer and tea drinker.

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How we work

A few things we have settled on over the years

We explain before we treat

You will be told what we are about to do and why, before it happens. If a technique isn't one you want, say so and we will use another. There is almost always another.

We are careful with the words we use

Terms like crumbling, degenerating and out of place frighten people out of moving, and fear of movement is one of the reliable predictors of a problem becoming persistent. We describe what we find plainly and without drama.

We give the number of visits at the start

Not at the end, and not one visit at a time. Where we can't estimate it honestly, and sometimes we can't, we say that instead of picking a figure.

We would rather refer than persist

Sending someone to the right person is part of the job, not a failure of it.

We are a small practice on purpose

You see the same person each visit. When you need to be seen sooner we will tell you and help you find someone who can.