The Lane Cove rooms are at 2 Austin Street, directly opposite the Lane Cove Library and a few metres from Longueville Road. If you are coming from the village it is a walk of two or three minutes, and the parking behind the library is the easiest option in the middle of the day.
Lane Cove sends a particular mix of problems through the door. There are the desk-and-commute necks and low backs from St Leonards and the city, the shoulders and elbows of a suburb that plays a lot of tennis, and the knees and Achilles tendons that come with living on a hillside — the stairs down to Tambourine Bay and the streets off Burns Bay Road are their own kind of training load. Lane Cove also has a lot of people in their thirties and forties carrying small children, which is its own demand on a back.
A first appointment is mostly questions and movement testing: where the pain is, what makes it worse, what it stops you doing, and how it has behaved over weeks rather than days. From there you should leave knowing what is proposed, roughly how long it is expected to take, and what would mean changing the plan.
Worth bringing: any imaging or specialist letters you already have, a list of medications, and the shoes you actually walk or train in. If the pain is new and severe, follows a significant fall, or comes with numbness, weakness, fever or any change in bladder or bowel control, see a doctor first — that is a medical assessment, not a treatment question.
The nearest alternative if Lane Cove does not suit you is the Freshwater side, about 14 kilometres away across the Spit.
When aches keep grabbing your attention, a tone to follow can offer a gentle anchor for mindfulness, presented simply as a relaxation practice.
If your lower back or hips nag at you through the day, the advice to clear your mind can feel impossible. The good news is that mindfulness does not ask for a blank mind. It asks you to notice where your attention has gone and bring it back, again and again, without criticism.
In a sound-based practice, you might follow a single tone, realise your thoughts have wandered to the ache in your knee, and then gently return to the sound. That small loop of noticing and returning is the practice itself. Nothing more dramatic needs to happen for the exercise to be complete.
You do not have to interpret tingling or warmth as an energy shift. Some people find sound pleasant and absorbing; others prefer silence, guided breathing or a slow walk. Dr Christine Shen, Acupuncturist, keeps this kind of practice optional and is happy to talk through what suits you. Sound healing here is offered for relaxation and wellbeing, not as a way to address a medical condition. If worry, low mood or poor sleep has been hanging around for a while, it belongs in a broader care discussion with your GP.
Comfort matters more than form. You can choose a chair with good back support, lie with a pillow under your knees or move whenever stiffness builds. Volume, how close the instruments are and the chance to pause can all be adjusted. There is no right emotional reaction and no need to stay frozen in place. Tell Christine what feels manageable, and treat the experience as a pleasant pause rather than a medical claim.
Sound-based relaxation is part of what Christine offers at the Lane Cove clinic. Some people like to begin with only a few minutes of listening, then decide whether to try a longer session once they know how their body copes with staying still.
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