Physio & Rehab Lab - Andreas Antoniou

Physio & Rehab Lab - Andreas Antoniou 👊🏻 What we offer:
✅ Physiotherapy
✅ Exercise Therapy
✅ Manual Therapy
✅ Sports Rehab
✅ Spinal Care
✅ Pilates (Reformer, Mat Classes, Pre & Post Natal)

12/12/2025

Whether you’re returning to your sport after an injury, recovering from musculoskeletal surgery, or simply wanting to improve on your weak points, our team is here to support you.

At Physio & Rehab Lab CY, we guide, educate, empower, reassure, and coach you through every stage of your rehabilitation. Your journey is unique, and our goal is to help you rebuild strength, restore confidence, and return to the activities you love with long-term resilience.

Reference:
Rehabilitation outcomes improve significantly when patients follow individualized, exercise-based programs supported by physiotherapy guidance and education. (Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group, 2023)

11/12/2025

// Why do so many women fear resistance exercise?
Most of the time, it comes down to myths — not facts.\\

💭 Common Myths Women Believe:
• “I’ll get bulky.” – In reality, women’s hormonal profiles make large muscle gains extremely difficult without very specific training.
• “Strength training is dangerous.” – With proper guidance and technique, it’s one of the safest forms of exercise.
• “Cardio is enough.” – Cardiovascular exercise is important, but it cannot replace the benefits of resistance training.
• “Lifting weights isn’t for my age.” – Strength training is essential at every stage of life, especially after 30 when natural muscle mass begins to decline.

✨ Why Resistance Training Is Vital for All Women:
Strength and resistance exercise improves metabolism, builds bone density, reduces the risk of osteoporosis, improves posture, supports healthy body composition, boosts confidence, and drastically enhances quality of life.

At Physio & Rehab Lab CY, we empower women to train safely, intelligently, and confidently — helping every woman feel strong, capable, and in control of her health.

Reference:
Current evidence shows that resistance training is one of the most effective interventions for improving musculoskeletal health, bone density, and long-term functional capacity in women across all ages. (Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group, 2023)

10/12/2025

📌 Chronic neck and back pain isn’t “just part of life”, it’s often a sign that your body needs proper movement, stability, and guided rehabilitation. At Physio & Rehab Lab CY, we focus on identifying the root cause, restoring mobility, improving strength, and helping you return to pain-free daily function.

Our evidence-based physiotherapy approach combines manual therapy, corrective exercise, and tailored rehab programs designed specifically for long-term results, not quick fixes.

Your recovery is a process. We’re here to guide every step. 💪✨
Book your assessment today.

Reference:
Chronic spinal pain responds best to a combination of exercise therapy, education, and targeted physiotherapy interventions. (Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group, 2023)

01/12/2025

Communication = Treatment 🗣️💪
We don’t just prescribe sets & reps, we guide, educate, and co-plan, then assess–reassess with your feedback to keep the dose right. That active communication builds a strong therapeutic alliance, which is linked to better pain outcomes in chronic MSK conditions. 

Why it works (evidence):
• Alliance matters: A stronger clinician–patient relationship is associated with lower pain/disability in physio for chronic MSK pain. 
• Adherence improves: Communication/adherence strategies boost exercise follow-through (moderate effect). Better adherence → better results. 
• Motivation helps: Motivation-based/MI-style conversations can improve pain, disability, and self-efficacy (esp. remote/structured delivery), though findings vary by population. 
• Reassurance, done well: Validating concerns, giving a clear plan, and de-threatening language are associated with better confidence and outcomes in back pain. 

Our promise:
Encouragement, guidance, reassurance, technical coaching, and constant feedback—so you feel empowered, stay consistent, and return to performance with confidence. 📈🧠

Refs (quick): Kinney 2020 (TA & MSK outcomes); Pérez-Maletzki 2024 & Ley 2024 (adherence strategies); MacKean 2024 / MI remotes; Simonsen 2021 (reassurance & outcomes); Zolnierek & DiMatteo 2009 (communication ↑ adherence). 

30/11/2025

🦵📈 Patellofemoral Pain: From Sensitive to Strong || Read more....

We use graded exposure: start with low-load, symptom-calming work (e.g., isometric holds) → build hip + knee strength, tempo/ROM control, then heavier, faster tasks. Goal: ↑ tissue load-tolerance, better tracking/stability, and a confident return to movement. 💪📊

Refs (mini):
JOSPT CPG, Patellofemoral Pain (2019) • BJSM Best-Practice Guide for PFP (2018) • Rio et al., BJSM 2015 (isometric analgesia) • Kongsgaard et al., Scand J Med Sci Sports 2009 (HSR).

“PFP isn’t a stop sign, it’s a dosing problem. Dose it well, grow capacity, move with confidence.” ✨

22/11/2025

// Clinical Pilates and therapeutic exercise are widely used in physiotherapy because research consistently shows they improve pain, mobility, posture, and functional movement.

✅ 1. Reduces Chronic Low Back Pain
Multiple studies show that Clinical Pilates significantly reduces chronic low-back pain and improves function compared to general exercise.
• Improves activation of deep stabilising muscles (transversus abdominis, multifidus)
• Reduces pain intensity
• Improves disability scores (ODI, RMDQ)

Book Your Slot Today: +357 99 282647



📚 Reference:
— Wells et al. (2014), Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies
— Patti et al. (2016), Medicine
— Lim et al. (2011), Clinical Rehabilitation

17/11/2025

(ENG) Stronger backs are trained, not tip-toed 💪🧱
In this video we load the spine through different patterns (hinge, squat, carry, anti-rotation). The goal isn’t pain—it’s capacity: graded exposure that helps tissues adapt, improves pain & function, and reduces flare risk when we avoid rapid spikes. How we dose: small weekly progressions in volume • intensity • velocity, check the 24–48h response, then nudge the load. 📈🧠
Overlay (one-liner): “Load it, don’t fear it, graded exposure builds resilient backs.”

(GR) Οι δυνατές μέσες χτίζονται με προπόνηση, όχι με φόβο 💪🧱
Στο βίντεο φορτίζουμε τη σπονδυλική στήλη με διάφορα πρότυπα (hinge, squat, carry, anti-rotation). Στόχος η ικανότητα: βαθμιαία έκθεση για να προσαρμοστούν οι ιστοί, με λιγότερο πόνο και καλύτερη λειτουργικότητα χωρίς απότομα spikes.
Δοσολογία: 'μικρές αυξήσεις σε όγκο • ένταση • ταχύτητα, έλεγχος'

16/11/2025

🖋️ We believe excellence comes from staying curious. That’s why we stay updated with current research, follow global leaders in the field, and invest in seminars, conferences, and educational experiences that keep us at the top of our game.

09/11/2025

🇬🇧 // Rehab isn’t just about healing what’s local, it’s about restoring the body’s global harmony.
After load and movement exposure, the real progress starts when the whole system learns to work together again.

🇬🇷 // Η αποκατάσταση δεν αφορά μόνο την τοπική επούλωση, αλλά την αποκατάσταση της συνολικής αρμονίας του σώματος. Μετά την έκθεση των ιστών σε φορτίο και κίνηση, η πραγματική πρόοδος ξεκινά όταν ολόκληρο το σύστημα μαθαίνει ξανά να λειτουργεί ως ένα.
Contact Physio & Rehab Lab Cy to start your personalized healing program.
📞 +357 99 282647

01/11/2025

✨ Always Learning, Always Growing! ✨
Our clinic is committed to staying up to date and continuously upgrading our skills and knowledge with the latest research and practices.

Today, as the Physio & Rehab Lab Nicosia, we had the pleasure of attending an incredible workshop with Dr. Tim Gabbett. 💪📚

A big thank you to everyone who participated, learning never stops when you love what you do! 🙌

01/11/2025

📌 Movement Optimism (inspired by Greg Lehman)
Your body is robust, adaptable, and safe to load. Pain isn’t a perfect mirror of tissue damage—it’s influenced by context, threat, stress, sleep, and expectations. We don’t need “perfect posture” or magical alignments to move well; we need gradual exposure, variability, and capacity.

- How we apply it:
• Calm it down → build it back up: reduce aggravators, then reload progressively.
• Graded exposure: start where symptoms are tolerable (e.g., ≤3/10, settles within 24–48h), progress 5–10% at a time.
• Options over rules: more ways to move = less fear, better resilience.
• Capacity > perfection: strengthen, build cardio, improve sleep & recovery.
• Hurt ≠ harm: pain can guide dosing, not stop movement.

Move with confidence, not fear. 💪🧠

Address

Georgiou Griva Digeni 56
Kolossi
4632

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