The Harden-Murrumburrah Local Health Advisory Committee (LHAC) is pleased to announce Harden Physiotherapy will be reopening the Hydrotherapy Pool by January 2025.
For the last two years, Alex and Liz Sherborne have been liaising with Hilltops Council about reopening the state-of-the-art hydrotherapy pool in Harden.
Alex is a highly qualified physiotherapist and Vice Chair of the Harden-Murrumburrah LHAC. Alex and Liz opened Harden Physiotherapy in January 2024.
The community has been campaigning since its closure that Hilltops reopen the much needed resource. Many felt if it had been in Young it wouldn’t have been shut at all, or if it was, not nearly as long.
Alex and Liz came along with a wouldn’t say die attitude and some dedicated former users who saw the resolve they had, backed them.
Alex quickly won over the locals with his lovely bedside manner but more importantly his skill set honed from decades in the profession.
As well as impacting the health and well-being of local residents, the pool’s closure almost three years ago had an economic impact on the local community. Many people previously travelled to Harden from towns and villages in the region (and often stayed overnight) just to use the hydrotherapy pool located at the Kruger Health and Wellness Complex in East Street, Harden.
In recent weeks, a contract arrangement to operate both the hydrotherapy pool and treatments rooms for at least the next three years was reached, and preparation to reopen the facility has begun. There is a lot of clean-up and repairs to be done given the pool and treatments rooms sat idle for such a long time, but Alex and Liz rolled their sleeves up and got stuck in to cleaning up as soon as a contract was in place.
A Harden Hydrotherapy Facebook site is already up and running and the Harden-Murrumburrah LHAC encourages people to follow this page for updates and notices about when bookings can be made.
Alex said he is “looking forward to enhancing the treatments I provide to existing clients and enabling many others to access a hydrotherapy pool locally.
As well as individuals needing therapy, we hope to welcome local sporting club members, aged care residents, and possibly even swim classes for babies in future.”
“In addition to hydrotherapy, we will continue to offer our regular physiotherapy services and will also be creating a Pilates studio space. We are excited to improve on the existing allied health services available in our region”.
Harden-Murrumburrah LHAC’s Communications Officer, Angla Leitner said “the reopening is great news for the many individuals and their families that will benefit from treatment once again being available to them locally. It will help many local residents overcome illness and injury, as well as providing many preventive health benefits for our community”.
With humour in mind, the Sherborne’s shouldn’t be allowed to leave the twin towns. We can’t afford for this to happen again. If anyone knows a vet in their late 20s who we can capture, there may be a finder’s fee, along with a few other professionals the twin towns need.
