Since 2014 · Otterford
Look.
The boathouse on Wharf Lane
Riverside started in 2014 with one physio, one room and a rugby club's worth of injured players. It is now seven physios, a sports massage therapist and a Pilates instructor in a converted boathouse, with a running clinic on the towpath side and a rehab floor in the old boat store.
- Your first session
- £68
- Length
- 45 minutes
- Open
- Mon–Fri 07:00–20:00
Since 2014
The story, in three paragraphs.
Hannah Reeve spent twelve seasons as a rugby club physio and six years in an NHS spinal service, and noticed the same thing in both: people got better fastest when they knew the plan, the number of sessions and what to do in between. When the boathouse came up for lease she took it, on the grounds that a clinic with a river outside the window would make people want to get back to what they love.
The studio came in 2020, because the patients who came back were the ones who had never got strong. The running clinic came the same year, because Priya asked for a treadmill and two cameras and was right. The rehab floor is the old boat store with the doors glazed; on a summer evening it is the best room in Otterford.
We count everything. The average number of sessions, who got back to sport, whose shockwave worked and whose did not. The numbers are on the site, and they are the reason we can say 'about four sessions' with a straight face.
- 01
A plan you can read
Diagnosis, the number of sessions, what to do between them and when we stop. In writing, in the app, the same evening.
02Tested, not guessed
Force plates, dynamometry and video on the treadmill. You go back to sport because you passed, not because it has been long enough.
03The studio is the exit
The clinic gets you out of pain. The studio keeps you out of the clinic. First class free, so the next step is not a sales pitch.
04Honest about what works
We audit every shockwave course and every return-to-sport test, and we publish the numbers, including the ones that did not work.
The four-session promise
If you are not measurably better after four sessions, we say so, refer you on to the right person at no charge for the letter, and do not book a fifth.
Strengthen.
This week in the studio: 6 levels, 6 days.
Physio-led Pilates on reformers and mats in classes of eight, one-to-one strength and conditioning, and a rehab floor you can use between sessions. This is where people stop coming back to the clinic.
| Time | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07:00 | Foundation | Over-60s Strong | Postnatal | Pregnancy | Runners | — |
| 09:30 | Strong Back | Foundation | Over-60s Strong | Postnatal | Pregnancy | — |
| 12:15 | Runners | Strong Back | Foundation | Over-60s Strong | Postnatal | — |
| 17:30 | Pregnancy | Runners | Strong Back | Foundation | Over-60s Strong | — |
| 18:45 | Postnatal | Pregnancy | Runners | Strong Back | Foundation | — |
| 09:00 | — | — | — | — | — | Strong Back |
| 10:15 | — | — | — | — | — | Runners |
Mon
- 07:00Foundation
- 09:30Strong Back
- 12:15Runners
- 17:30Pregnancy
- 18:45Postnatal
Tue
- 07:00Over-60s Strong
- 09:30Foundation
- 12:15Strong Back
- 17:30Runners
- 18:45Pregnancy
Wed
- 07:00Postnatal
- 09:30Over-60s Strong
- 12:15Foundation
- 17:30Strong Back
- 18:45Runners
Thu
- 07:00Pregnancy
- 09:30Postnatal
- 12:15Over-60s Strong
- 17:30Foundation
- 18:45Strong Back
Fri
- 07:00Runners
- 09:30Pregnancy
- 12:15Postnatal
- 17:30Over-60s Strong
- 18:45Foundation
Sat
- 09:00Strong Back
- 10:15Runners
Levels
- Foundation
- Strong Back
- Runners
- Pregnancy
- Postnatal
- Over-60s Strong
- Class pass£108 / block of six
- Studio£79 / month
- Studio Unlimited£129 / month
- Performance£189 / month
Walk.
The boathouse, room by room.
The boathouse from the towpath. Clinic door on the lane, studio door on the river. 
Reception. Beth, the shoe wall, and the river. 
The rehab floor: the old boat store, doors glazed, open to patients between sessions. 
The running clinic. Two cameras, pressure sensors, slow-motion on the screen. 
The studio: six reformers, eight people a class, one teacher who knows your notes. 
The towpath at 07:00. Most of the running clinic's homework happens here.
Marcus
Priya
Tomasz
Aisha
Callum
Lena
Jake
BethInjured today?
Same week, 48 hours for an acute injury.
Phone and Beth answers. Tell her where it hurts and when you can come in; she finds the physio and the slot, and checks your insurer's rules before you arrive.
01632 960800