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Pain Free Fluid Movement for Life

Regain your mobility& get the best out of life

Gentle Ortho-Bionomy on the Sunshine Coast. No forced manipulations — just the information your body needs to self-correct.

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Back and joint pain relief

Increase mobility& reduce joint pain

with Ortho-Bionomy. Working with the nervous system lets muscles relax, bones realign, and joints become more stable.

Woman holding her lower back in pain, the kind of lumbar discomfort Ortho-Bionomy is used to ease

Neck, shoulder and lumbar pain

You don't have to live with back pain

Hear what others are saying after gentle sessions with Rob Rich — from frozen shoulders to training injuries.

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For practitioners

Ortho-Bionomy courses

with instructor Rob Rich

Rob is an Advanced Practitioner and Instructor of Ortho-Bionomy, constantly studying to broaden the work.

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Rob Rich, Advanced Practitioner and Instructor of Ortho-Bionomy

Advanced practitioner & instructor

Rob Rich

  • B.Nat.Res (UNE)
  • Instructor
  • Sunshine Coast

Rob holds a B.Nat.Res (UNE) and is an Advanced Practitioner and Instructor of Ortho-Bionomy. He believes in ongoing learning and is constantly studying to broaden his knowledge. He practises on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland.

If you want to go deeper into how the body self-corrects, his book Exploring Your Intelligent Body is a practical companion to the work in session — mindfulness and simple self-care exercises for musculoskeletal, mental and emotional dysfunction.

Listen now to Rob’s Exploring Your Intelligent Body on Spotify

“Upon receiving treatment during a volleyball tournament I had immediate relief of some of my shoulder pain. The exercises helped my shoulder sit in a stronger position.”

Jordan Mowen

Semi-pro beach volleyball, Team Mowen

“Highly recommend. Rob is very knowledgeable and skilled at what he does. I always walk out feeling so much better, and he genuinely cares about making sure your body is moving well and functioning as it should.”

Nadia Grace

Google review

“I have had a lot of bodywork done over the years — decades of it. What Rob does works… it creates a shift, a tangible shift that has you walking out of the treatment feeling considerably better than when you walked in. Rather than forcing anything to happen, it’s almost like a physical suggestion is made to your body that it knows how to heal.”

Aaron Hogben

Google review

“A master of his craft. As a professional bodyworker myself I’m very picky with who I let work on my body. Rob not only knows his stuff, but he offers a genuinely good quality treatment, focusing on a gentle and targeted approach. If you’re after a really good bodywork session, get on his table.”

Chase Erbacher

Google review

“I’ve finally sorted out my posture after hunching all my life after Rob’s treatments. So grateful!!”

Aniya Arnström

Google review

“I have been having trouble with my lower back for a few years now. I have had a few treatments and already the results are remarkable. I can move around freely without pain. I would highly recommend Rob for treatment.”

Melissa Gannon

Google review

“In one session Rob has helped me gain some belief that my whiplash is on the way out — he was able to talk to me and my body in a way I felt heard, with my overall symptoms lessening inside the session.”

Kean Buckley

Google review

“Having dealt with chronic body pain for the last several years, I am deeply relieved to have found Rob’s service. After just one session the majority of my pain has vanished. Honestly feels like he has given me a new body. This has been the most profound and transformative session I have received.”

Victoria Reid

Google review

“Tried everything. Five stars doesn’t even come close to the gratitude, results and benefits I have received from Rob’s treatments. My L5 kept going out of alignment — I’ve been hospitalised from the pain. I arrived in a back brace, 10 seconds off calling an ambulance, and left walking and at ease in my body from one session.”

Adam Rankin

Google review

“I pulled my rotator cuff and had two months of weekly physio with no real results. After the first treatment with Rob I had half my range of motion back. After the second I was doing full push-ups again.”

Jo Lamond

Personal Trainer, Bundaberg

“Before I saw Rob I could not lift my arm up past my shoulder. Two sessions later I can. If you are a cynic I suggest you see Rob — you have nothing to lose and everything to gain.”

Mary

Brisbane

“Within one session I was feeling a lot freer and I wasn’t getting the aches and pains that I was regularly getting.”

David Norman

Hervey Bay

“A patient with severe disabling pain from degenerative spinal and facet joint disease was remarkably improved after three sessions. She is generally pain free and no longer requires analgesic medication.”

Dr Kylie Francis

Central Medical, Mackay

How it works

Your body already knows how to heal

Ortho-Bionomy developed out of Osteopathy in the mid 1970s, so it has been around for about 50 years. It treats your body as an intelligent system — with a protective mechanism that helps you avoid injury, and a self-corrective mechanism that heals when something goes wrong.

Think of a sprained ankle: your weight shifts automatically to spare the sore joint. When pain persists, the body simply needs two things.

  1. 01

    The right information

    Specific input so the nervous system can understand the dysfunction — where the bones are, how the joints are moving — and choose a better pattern.

  2. 02

    A sense of safety

    When the protective mechanism relaxes your body can change faster. Feeling safe speeds up the healing process. Forced or painful techniques often make the body feel threatened, which makes the body brace — which slows the very change you want.

Muscles relax. Bones realign. Joints become more stable.

Working with the nervous system is far more efficient than trying to “fix” the body. Ortho-Bionomy also works with the relationship between suppressed emotion and the physical body. Grief, stress and heartbreak change how you function. When those patterns get stuck, we release the body — and the emotions release themselves. There is no need to discuss the trauma.

Approaching the body differently leads to different results.

If you have tried many different forms of therapy and are still suffering with chronic pain, Ortho-Bionomy may be what you are searching for.

Book a session today

Discover Ortho-Bionomy

See how a gentle approach changes the body

Watch Rob Rich introduce the work. Then notice what a session is actually like: clothed, unhurried, and aimed at the pattern — not just the sore spot.

  • Fully clothedNo oils, no undressing — you stay in what you arrived in.
  • Gentle, not forcedThe work talks to the nervous system instead of pushing through pain.
  • About an hourTime to listen, treat the pattern, and leave you with simple self-care.

What people come in with

From lower back pain to frozen shoulder

Ortho-Bionomy helps a wide range of musculoskeletal and nervous-system conditions — including complex pain after car accidents, falls or other impacts.

Gentle hands-on work along the back during a session

Spine & back

  • Lower back pain
  • Sciatica
  • Postural issues
  • Post-surgical musculoskeletal pain

Head, neck & shoulders

  • Neck & shoulder pain
  • Frozen shoulder & rotator cuff injury
  • Whiplash
  • Thoracic outlet syndrome
  • Headaches & migraines
  • Teeth grinding & TMJ

Arms, hips & feet

  • Bursitis
  • Tennis elbow
  • Wrist, hand & finger issues
  • ITB & runner's knee
  • Unstable ankles
  • Plantar fasciitis & foot pain

Nervous system

  • Athletic performance
  • Trauma, PTSD, anxiety & panic
  • Complex pain after accidents, falls or impact
If this sounds like you, book today

Approaching the body differently leads to different results.

What to expect

Gentle, clothed, and effective

  1. Rob treating a client’s foot and ankle on the table01

    About an hour

    We start with what you would like to work on. Then you lie on a massage table — fully clothed.

  2. Rob treating a fully clothed client’s neck on the table02

    The whole body

    A sore neck is rarely just a neck. We look at the lower back, pelvis, feet, thoracic spine and shoulders to find the postural pattern underneath.

  3. Clothed client resting while Rob supports the jaw and neck03

    Deep relaxation

    Most people leave deeply relaxed. The body can take two or three days to integrate the changes that happen during the session. Mild new sensations are often a sign that the broader underlying pattern of dysfunction is releasing.

  4. Fully clothed client resting with legs elevated04

    Self-care to keep it

    The last part of the session is simple exercises. Do them and you get the best results. If anything feels too strong, text Rob — you may just need a tweak.

Common patterns

Shoulders, knees, ankles and the ITB

These are the stories Rob hears most often — and the patterns of dysfunction that usually sit underneath the painful conditions people experience.

For athletes

Increase peak performance — not just patch injuries

“Less energy for the basics. More power when you ask for it.”

Long hours of training lay down fascia patterns that support your most common movements — and restrict everything else. You feel it as “tightening up” when you push to the limit.

Releasing those patterns reduces injury risk, restores range, and means less energy for the basics. A tennis serve and backhand both need rotation through shoulder, ribcage and pelvis. Increasing the range of movement and freedom of movement in both directions increases power in both directions.

For runners

Small changes in how the pelvis works can lengthen your gait — the easiest way to cover more ground in running sports. Athletes often recover faster after sessions too.

Train with a body that cooperates

If this is your body, Ortho-Bionomy will help

  • Lower back pain
  • Tight ITB or knee pain
  • Unstable ankles or painful feet
  • Tight hamstrings
  • Piriformis or glute tension
  • Shortened gait
  • Shoulder pain or history of dislocation
  • Pins and needles in arms and hands
  • Headaches after exercise
  • Shin splints

Real results

Hear what others are saying

From frozen shoulders and training accidents to headaches that finally ease — these are the people who tried a different approach. Rob has 31 five-star Google reviews.

Larry Thompson

“It has now been around 10 months since receiving treatment from Rob and my shoulder has still zero pain. He has truly changed my life.”

An awkward landing playing touch football injured Larry’s right shoulder. Fifteen years of physio and living with pain followed. After one hour with Rob the pain dropped; after two more sessions and simple exercises it went from a constant 7/10 to zero — and stayed that way.

Larry Thompson

Hervey Bay

Ben Naug

“After only a couple of appointments with Rob my body was back in its natural position and my running and recovery time had improved dramatically.”

Ben Naug

Beachfit Outdoor Fitness

Dr Mark A. Williams

“I dislocated my shoulder and six months later it still hadn’t healed. After one session with Rob I was amazed at how much it improved.”

Dr Mark A. Williams

NSW

Video testimonials

Press play to hear clients describe what changed after sessions with Rob.

“Amazing. I am not having as many headaches. My back pain is better and my chest pain is less. I’m feeling a lot better and I have a lot more energy.”

Bev Whish Wilson

Tin Can Bay

“I found it to release a lot of tension in the joint and eased the pain dramatically… a lot of pain relief nearly down to no pain at all.”

Dane Karolak

Maryborough

“Ortho-Bionomy has made the most enormous difference to my life.”

Jean Wood

Hervey Bay

“Ortho-Bionomy is completely different to any therapy I’ve ever had. I would recommend it to anybody.”

Louise McLean

Hervey Bay

For students

Are you interested in learning Ortho-Bionomy?

Learning Ortho-Bionomy is a way of discovering how your body works — and how to help it self-correct, without forced manipulations. Rob teaches the practitioner program on the Sunshine Coast. These two ebooks are a free starting point before you join a course.

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Free PDF · 9 pages

A study guide for Ortho-Bionomy students

How the practitioner program fits together — Phase 4 through 7, proprioception, and why each course is a piece of the puzzle rather than a set of forced techniques.

Download ebook
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Free PDF · 9 pages

Exploring the Principles of Ortho-Bionomy

The work is based on principles, not recipes. This ebook introduces how those principles apply to your own body, your clients, and the rest of your life.

Download ebook

Ready for the hands-on training? Ask Rob about upcoming practitioner courses when you get in touch.

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Free PDF · 6 pages

Self-Care Exercises for When You Are Pregnant

Gentle Ortho-Bionomy exercises you can do at home while you are pregnant — for lower back, SI joint, sciatic and coccyx discomfort. A free PDF from Rob Rich.

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