The Hanbury Method
One body. One picture. One plan.
Your pain, strength, recovery, fitness and wider health do not operate independently. The Hanbury Method gives the people supporting you one way to assess what matters, act on it, and see whether it changed.
Five ways to work with us. Six areas we consider. One method connecting them.
The problem
When nobody sees the whole picture, you become the person joining it together.
You see a physiotherapist about the knee. You change your training somewhere else. You try to improve your recovery on your own. A health test gives you another set of numbers. Each part may be useful, but nobody asks how one affects the others. Hanbury was built so that responsibility does not sit with you.
Four founding directors — a consultant orthopaedic surgeon, physiotherapists and a movement specialist — working to one shared plan. Built on Physix (physiotherapy, since 1998) and Yogomotiv (movement, since 2016).
Recognised by
- Bupa
- AXA Health
- Aviva
- Vitality
- WPA
- Healix
The Hanbury Method
How the Hanbury Method works.
The Hanbury Method is a four-stage process, Test, Train, Track, Transform, repeated over time so progress is tracked with each cycle.
- 01
Test
A measurable baseline: force-plate testing, biomarkers, movement analysis. Nothing assumed.
- 02
Train
Targeted work built on what the baseline showed.
- 03
Track
Scheduled re-testing against your own numbers, with progress checked at each stage.
- 04
Transform
You stop reacting to the same problem on repeat. Progress that holds.
How it works in practice
What joined-up care looks like
Three examples of how the method connects services together. These are illustrative, not real patient cases.
- 01
The knee that keeps returning
Physiotherapy → Movement → Retest
Physiotherapy testing shows a meaningful strength difference between sides. Rehabilitation rebuilds it, and Reformer Pilates becomes the way to maintain that strength once formal rehabilitation ends. Testing is repeated later to confirm whether the difference has actually narrowed.
- 02
Thinking about the next twenty years
HealthSpan → Movement / Performance → Retest
HealthSpan testing identifies good blood markers but lower than expected strength and aerobic capacity. Those findings become specific movement and cardiovascular priorities, and the relevant measurements are repeated some months later to check progress.
- 03
The athlete who has plateaued
Performance → Training → Recovery → Retest
Performance testing shows the limiter is aerobic rather than strength related. Training changes accordingly, and recovery is structured around the harder sessions rather than used at random. Testing later shows whether the targeted weakness has moved.
The system
One coordinated system: six pillars, one method.
The six pillars are the areas we consider when we build your plan. Every pathway, physiotherapy, movement, recovery, HealthSpan medicine and performance testing, runs on the Hanbury Method and works across whichever pillars matter for you. A body does not separate its systems the way a list does.
The Six Pillars
What are the Six Pillars of Health?
No single pillar works alone, and no programme targets just one. Six areas we consider, not six services you have to buy. Not every person needs attention across every pillar; they are simply the wider factors the team keeps in view when they are relevant to your health, recovery or performance.
- 01
Move
Strength, mobility, movement and rehabilitation.
What it means for you: the strength and mobility to stop the same injury returning.
- 02
Fuel
Metabolic health and nutrition factors relevant to your goals.
What it means for you: how well your body actually uses what you give it, measured directly.
- 03
Energise
Cardiovascular fitness, endurance and aerobic capacity.
What it means for you: the aerobic fitness behind your energy, your stamina and your long-term heart health.
- 04
Connect
Cognition, stress and the wider wellbeing factors that affect how you function.
What it means for you: how you think, sleep and feel, measured, because it drives the physical as much as it follows it.
- 05
Recover
Sleep, recovery, restoration and your ability to adapt to physical and mental load.
What it means for you: recovering properly between demands, instead of running yourself down.
- 06
Restore
Hormonal health, cellular health and other clinical markers that may change gradually over time.
What it means for you: the slower changes measured early, before they become problems.
Why us
Why Hanbury is different.
- 01
One team, one plan.
Your physiotherapist can flag something for medical review the same week, and your Pilates or recovery sessions are prescribed as part of the plan. Nothing falls through the gap between providers.
- 02
Clinically grounded, as a team.
Every programme is reviewed against a consultant-level clinical standard, bringing orthopaedic surgical, physiotherapy and movement expertise together. Professor Arul Ramasamy (Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, PhD, 100+ peer-reviewed papers) is one of four founding directors, each an expert in their field.
- 03
Measured, then re-measured.
Where a finding sits within Hanbury's scope, the same team can act on it and measure the relevant change again, using VALD force-plate testing, biomarkers and movement analysis. Where it doesn't, you leave knowing what needs further clinical follow-up.
- 04
Built on real expertise.
Physix (physiotherapy, Milton Keynes since 1998) and Yogomotiv (movement, since 2016), established teams, same directors, same clients, now under one roof.
- 05
Capability, not dependency.
The aim is to make you more capable over time, and need us less, not to keep you coming back.
In their words
“Physix have enabled me to make transformative improvements. I no longer suffer any back pain, and my golf has improved dramatically!”
The payoff
What this means for you.
You stop repeating your story to people who don’t talk to each other. You stop reacting to the same problem on repeat. You get a plan built on what your body is actually doing — measured, coordinated, and adjusted as you go. That’s what health, built for the long run, looks like in practice.
Start here
Start with one conversation.
You won’t be passed around here. One conversation, no obligation — we’ll help you find the right starting point.
Health, Built for the Long Run.