Southern Rehabilitation Institute

Southern Rehabilitation Institute (SRI) is a leading South Island interdisciplinary rehabilitation health centre situated on the St George’s Medical Centre site. SRI is a pioneer in the development of interdisciplinary rehabilitation and continues to be the largest private provider of rehab services in Canterbury and New Zealand.

SRI treats and assists people to manage all aspects of their conditions including musculoskeletal, persistent pain, orthopaedic, neuropsychological, psychological, spinal cord, vocational including return to work, post concussion, brain injury and pre and post surgical.

The SRI team includes, rehabilitation and musculoskeletal physicians, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, clinical psychologists, career practitioners, nurses, speech language therapists, dietitians and social workers. Our orthopaedic provision is complimented by co-location with Leinster and Elmwood orthopaedic surgeon groups as well as the Canterbury Radiology Group. 

SRIs Interdisciplinary provision reflects the current evidence that persistent pain and disability resulting from injury is a composite of multiple interrelating physical, psychological, social and occupational factors. This concept is known as the biopsychosocial model. The biopsychosocial model is intrinsic to the way our clinicians treat patients in such a way that the patients’ treatment is fully integrated and the  journey of care avoids fragmentation and confusion.

People can be referred to SRI for their injury rehabilitation through a variety of means including self-referral, GP referral, ACC and Health insurance.