Physiotherapy
When pain has stayed past its welcome — when something is structurally wrong and conventional approaches haven't shifted it — this is where we start.
Physiotherapy at DeepBody Matrix uses SESM® (Subtle Structural Manipulation) to address chronic pain, old injuries, post-surgical restrictions, and the kind of conditions that have quietly outlasted every other treatment you've tried.
For bodies with long stories — presentations conventional therapy does not fully resolve.
SESM® - assesses and addresses the body through a specific structural perspective.
Who this is for ~
You may recognize yourself here:
You've had lower back pain for so long it's become "normal"
A shoulder, hip, or knee that clicks, locks, or aches frequently
An old sports injury that healed on paper but never quite came right
long time tennis elbow that just won't go away
Post-surgical scar tissue still pulling at the surrounding structures
hip pain from wear and tear occuring suddenly, surgery considered.
Headaches, migraines, or jaw tension that no painkiller fully reaches
A diagnosis like rheumatoid arthritis, or repetitive strain that's been treated medically but not structurally
Lower back pain (chronic, recurring)
Knee pain (clicking, locking, post-injury, "wear and tear", runner's knee
Heel pain
Tension headaches, migraines, TMJ / jaw tension
Rheumatoid arthritis (including "in remission" symptoms)
Repetitive strain injuries (wrist, elbow, shoulder)
Post-accident recovery
Pre-surgery considerations for chronic pain
Unexplained pain — when imaging is clean but the body isn't
Whether your doctor has cleared you of red flags or has told you the imaging looks bad and that there's nothing more to do — if the body is still in pain, still restricted, or still being asked to give up activities it shouldn't have to give up, physiotherapy with SESM® is built for exactly that gap.
This pathway is designed for people whose bodies have been signalling something for weeks, months, or years — and who are ready to stop managing the symptom and start resolving the cause.
Sessions are forty-five minutes, or ninety, your choice. By appointment only, at Absolute Performance in Central, Hong Kong. The first session includes a full clinical intake — the history of the presentation, previous treatments tried, imaging or medical findings you have been given, and the specific outcome you are looking for. Your body's presentation, where you are now, what's happening. And then the start of the work.
Every session is structured around one question: what is your connective tissue telling us today? That will inform the day's session in the goal in plan. Subsequent sessions continue the work from where the previous session left off but again, as when the tissues are presenting on that day.
Most clients see meaningful shifts within the first session, more in three to four sessions. Presentations with longer histories typically settle into a slower, deeper arc — measured in months of committed work, not weeks, depending of the rate of attendance.
How Sessions Run
What you won't experience in a SESM® session
No needles — dry or wet, no skin puncture, no accidental blood spills
No bruising — no unsightly red and purple blots after your session
No sudden uncontrolled forceful moves — nothing snaps, cracks, or jolts
No screaming from painful forced stretches
No external machinery
SESM® can be gentle or strong depending on what your tissue needs — but it is never violent, and it is never forced.
What a Physiotherapy here Is Not
That's where the gym matters.
Because DeepBody Matrix operates from inside a fully-equipped private training studio, sessions can incorporate rehabilitation loading directly into the work when the tissue is ready for it — using resistance, weight, or specific movement patterns to "hammer in" the changes SESM® has just unlocked.
To be clear about what this is, and what it isn't:
✅ This is structurally-led rehabilitation, where loading reinforces the tissue change Sheryl has just produced
✅ This is Sheryl teaching you the specific movements your body needs — so you can take the work forward yourself
❌ This is not personal training, programming, or general fitness coaching
❌ This is not a workout dressed up as therapy
They need someone who can release what's stuck, show them the exact movements that consolidate that release, and trust them to do the rest.
That's the model.
It is part of a therapy session, when called for.
However if a trainer is desired, there are recommendations for excellent ones from the gym itself.
The Gym
SESM® is the core of every session — but the body often needs more than release work to fully reorganize. Once the connective tissue has been freed at the source, the new range and capacity need to be re-educated, loaded, integrated, and made permanent.
This pathway is worked directly by Sheryl Hooi, a Hong Kong registered physiotherapist of three decades, lifelong sportsperson, and the originator of the proprietary SESM® method and approach she developed across her career.
Every session is forty-five minutes, one-on-one, and applies SESM® (Subtle Structural Manipulation) — the manual method
For her complex presentations are the interesting cases. That is what this pathway is designed for. Though the simplicity of direct cases is included. At this point in her career, the joy of the work is in the craftsmanship, artistry and mastery with SESM® in application.
About Your Practitioner
If your situation is not quite an active clinical presentation,— if you have been medically cleared or medically stabilized but not fully back, or if what you are carrying feels quieter and more diffuse than an identifiable injury — the other two pathways may be a better fit.
[In-Between Wellness →] for bodies medically cleared but not fully back
[Somatic Wellness →] for the layer that emerges from the structural work itself
The Other Two Pathways
If something has been wrong for more than three weeks and isn't shifting — let's take a proper look at it.
Ready to actually resolve it?
Central, Hong Kong • By appointment
AVAILABLE HOURS
Monday - Saturday
8:00 - 20:00
By Appointment
Central
At Absolute Performance
6F, On Lok Yuen Building
25 Des Voeux Road Central
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