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Motus Merivale Physiotherapy

Physical therapy clinic · Strowan, Christchurch

What your customers see when they look for you, and where that puts you among 203 Christchurch physiotherapy businesses.

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Checked12 October 2026
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Motus Merivale Physiotherapy

Physical therapy clinic · Strowan, Christchurch

Where you stand#48of 203 physiotherapy businesses
Overall health7.7/10across the eight areas

Going well

01Google listing9.807Google search and traffic8.808Opening hours8.305Facebook page7.1

Where we can help

03Map positions5.402Reviews5.004Listings and social4.906Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

Motus Merivale Physiotherapy is a Christchurch-based clinic in the Strowan suburb offering tailored rehabilitation programmes. The clinic is part of the Motus network and draws on a multidisciplinary team, including physiotherapists, podiatrists and occupational therapists, with access to specialist clinicians. It emphasises ongoing clinical education for its staff and individualised care for clients.

Motus Merivale Physiotherapy is a physiotherapy clinic located in the Strowan suburb of Christchurch. It works with clients to design and implement rehabilitation programmes that are tailored to individual needs and recovery goals.

Services focus on individualised rehabilitation delivered by a network of clinicians. The team includes physiotherapists, podiatrists, occupational therapists and nurses, and the clinic states it has access to sports physicians, orthopaedic surgeons, pain specialists and rehabilitation physicians when additional input is needed. Clinicians at Motus Merivale take part in a clinical education programme to keep skills up to date.

Clients commonly report a welcoming reception experience and describe physiotherapists who are attentive, caring and professional. Reviews indicate staff take time to listen and tailor treatment, provide clear take-home care notes and make the booking process straightforward. Several comments single out specific clinicians for patient-centred support during injury recovery and post-surgery rehabilitation.

Locally, Motus Merivale is distinguished by its membership of the wider Motus Health network and its multidisciplinary referral options. The combination of a structured clinical education programme for staff, readily available specialist contacts and a focus on tailored rehab programs positions the clinic as a practical option for Christchurch clients seeking coordinated physiotherapy care.

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Your Google listing

Motus Merivale Physiotherapy shows a healthy Google Business listing with a strong basic setup and a high health score. The most notable finding is that key information is complete (phone, website, claim status) and the listing highlights an open-for-business status. The opportunity remains to further strengthen the listing description to compete with local peers.

Strengths

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    Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.
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    ClaimedYour listing is claimed, so you control what it says, you can reply to reviews, and edits suggested by the public come to you first.
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    NameYour business name is showing on the listing, so a customer searching for you by name finds you, and everything else on the listing hangs off it.

Top opportunity

  • 1
    Description lengthYour description gives a reader more than most listings here do, so a customer choosing between three of you gets more of your case than of theirs.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 4 of them.
9.8Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Motus Merivale Physiotherapy
Motus Merivale Physiotherapy✓✓
4.6 ★★★★★ (11)
Physical therapy clinic · Strowan
Open 5 days · late Mon, Tue and Thu ✓
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From the business

We work with you to design and implement a rehabilitation program that is tailored to you and your needs. We strive to constantly offer you the best service available. At Motus we ensure all our clinicians are continually updating their skills through our clinical education program. As well as our network of highly skilled physiotherapists, podiatrists, occupational therapists and nurses we also have access to numerous specialists including sports physicians, orthopaedic surgeons, pain specialists and rehabilitation physicians. Through this network we can ensure you are seeing the right people at the right time.

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Google listingChristchurch physiotherapy · 203 businesses
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02ReviewsMarketbase business report

Your reviews

Motus Merivale Physiotherapy shows an overall health score of 5.1 out of 10 for Google reviews, indicating average performance. The strongest current point is a solid review count and a good rating trend, while engagement with reviews remains low. The main opportunity is to start responding to reviews to build trust with customers.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Response rateNone of your reviews have a reply, which means a customer reading them sees your happiest and your angriest customers with nothing from you in between.
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    Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together sit behind half the businesses here, so a customer weighing three listings has slightly less reason to trust yours.
  • 3
    Star ratingYour rating sits below what half the businesses here carry, which gives a customer choosing between three of you a reason to pick one of the others.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
5.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Motus Merivale Physiotherapy
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4.6★★★★★11 reviews
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Google reviewsChristchurch physiotherapy · 203 businesses
You are #102 for your Google reviews
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03Map positionsMarketbase business report

Where you show up on the map

Motus Merivale Physiotherapy shows a stable health score of 5.6/10 on Google Maps, indicating average visibility but room for improvement. The strongest performance comes from top keywords ranking highly in Merivale and Strowan, especially for physiotherapy and physical therapy clinics. The top opportunities focus on improving aggregate map results and maintaining borough presence to move toward top performers.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

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    Maps visibility across the city groupYou turn up across fewer of the surrounding suburbs than half the businesses here, so someone two suburbs over searching for your service is shown your competitors and never sees your name.
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    Maps visibility in your own suburbYou show up in local Maps searches more often than the middle of your suburb, so a customer searching nearby is likely to see you in the first handful.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
5.4Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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physiotherapist
1Top three for "physiotherapist" in 2 suburbs, seen in 6
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Four Physio and Health5.0 ★ (43) · Physical therapy clinic
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Motus Merivale Physiotherapy24.6 ★ (11) · Physical therapy clinic
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Liberty Pelvic Health Physiotherapy - Merivale4.5 ★ (8) · Physical therapy clinic
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In Touch Hand Therapy - Papanui5.0 ★ (1) · Physical therapy clinic
Map positionsChristchurch physiotherapy · 203 businesses
You are #94 for map positions
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Where customers find you

Motus Merivale Physiotherapy shows an overall health score of 4.6 out of 10, indicating average performance in social presence and local directory presence. The strongest current assets are a very high-trust Facebook profile and an accurate LinkedIn Company listing, which support credibility and professional reach. Primary improvement is building active profiles on Instagram, TikTok and directory listings to widen visibility.

Strengths

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    Having a Facebook page at allWe found your Facebook Profile page, and the trail is strong enough that nobody would question it is yours - it is linked from something you own, or it dominates a search for your name.
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    Healthpoint ListingWe can see your Healthpoint Listing listing (https://healthpoint.co.nz/motus-health) found via: Google search results.
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    Physio NZ MemberWe can see your Physio NZ Member listing (https://physio.org.nz/928) found via: Google search results.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Instagram ProfileWe could not find an active Instagram Profile profile for your business, so a customer who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 2
    Tiktok ProfileWe could not find an active TikTok account for your business, so anyone who looks for you there finds nothing.
  • 3
    Yellow ProfileWe could not find an active Yellow Profile listing for your business, which means anyone checking you there finds nothing and moves on to whoever is listed.
15 checks on your listings and social. You're seeing 6 of them.
4.9Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Healthpagesphysiotherapists-motus-russleyMotus Merivale Physiotherapy | Healthpages
FacebookMotusMerivaleMotus Merivale Physiotherapy | Facebook✓
Physio NZ Member928Motus Merivale Physiotherapy | Physio NZ Member✓
Healthpointmotus-healthMotus Merivale Physiotherapy | Healthpoint✓
LinkedInmotus-health-ltdFound through search, not linked from anything you own
InstagramNo account found1
TiktokNo account found2
YellowNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch physiotherapy · 203 businesses
You are #104 for listings and social
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05Facebook pageMarketbase business report

Your Facebook page

Strengths

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    A page address you choseThe address on your page carries your business name, so a customer told about you at a barbecue can find the page by typing what they heard.
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    A phone numberA phone number shows on your page, so the person who found you on Facebook before they found your website can ring straight from it.
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    An email addressCustomers can see an email address on the page, which gives the one who wants a quote in writing a route that does not depend on anyone picking up the phone.

Top three opportunities

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    What your page says about youYour intro runs to a line, shorter than most pages here, so it names the business without settling whether you do the particular job the reader came about or cover the suburb they live in.
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    People following your pageYour following sits ahead of half the pages here, so an ordinary post reaches a real local audience without you paying for it.
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    Where your page link pointsYour page points customers at a booking system or directory rather than a site of your own.
8 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
7.1Good
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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480 followers 2
Motus Physio Merivale Open Monday to Friday1
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🌐 nzappts.gensolve.com/motus/site/details/merivale3
☎ +64 3-358 4878✓
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Facebook pageChristchurch physiotherapy · 203 businesses
You are #60 for your Facebook page
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Your website

Motus Merivale Physiotherapy shows strong on-page elements with a high text-to-page ratio and a valid favicon, and an H1 tag that aligns with content. The overall health score is 4.9 out of 10, indicating room for significant improvement. The most impactful findings are the need to improve page load time and fix mixed content, plus refining meta description and title tag length to avoid truncation.

Strengths

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    FaviconThe tab your site opens in carries your own icon, so a customer with a dozen tabs going can find their way back to you by sight.
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    Page file sizeYour home page is light enough to open quickly on a phone with a weak signal, which is where most people meet a local business for the first time.
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    H1 heading tagYour home page opens with a proper heading, so a visitor landing cold and a search engine reading the page are both told what this business is in the first line.

Top three opportunities

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    On-page scoreSeveral checks on your home page fail at once, and a visitor meets all of them in the first few seconds: a slow open, no clear heading, nothing under your name in search that says what you do.
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    Page titleYour home page headline does not fit the space a search result gives it, so a searcher sees either a half-empty line or one that trails off before your name arrives.
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    Domain HealthYour site answers, but something did not check out - an insecure link, a redirect chain, a domain shared with other businesses, or a listing pointing at a social page.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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✓H1 heading tag
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How people find you on Google

Motus Merivale Physiotherapy shows a very healthy website traffic profile with a strong organic footprint and high visibility in local search. The main takeaway is the continued strength in organic metrics, while paid performance shows solid progress but room to grow.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

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    Search terms you advertise onYour ads cover fewer search terms than most businesses advertising here, so there are few searches where you appear at the top.
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    What you spend on adsYour paid search activity is larger than the middle of the businesses advertising here, so ads are a real line in your marketing rather than a trial.
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    Monthly ad visitsYou are getting more visitors from paid search than the middle of the businesses advertising here, so ads are a real channel for you rather than an experiment.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
8.8Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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activehealth.co.nz5 Christchurch Clinics - Active Health
www.facebook.comFour Physio and Health (@fourphysio) - About
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Health Science (Physio). is a generalist physiotherapist who works confidently with all injuries, and has a special interest in back, neck and shoulder ...

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Google search and trafficChristchurch physiotherapy · 203 businesses
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08Opening hoursMarketbase business report

Your hours against demand

Motus Merivale Physiotherapy's opening hours largely align with local demand, with 52 well-aligned peak hours and no low-demand open hours, suggesting efficient scheduling. Notable alignment occurs mid-mornings and mid-afternoons on weekdays. However, 13 missed high-demand hours remain - especially early mornings, early evenings and Sunday afternoon - representing practical opportunities to capture extra bookings.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Hours aligned with demandYour hours line up with demand better than nearly every business here, so most of the time you are open, people are actually looking.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
8.3Strong
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
Motus Merivale Physiotherapy
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Hours 1
Monday7:30am-7pm
Tuesday7:30am-7pm
Wednesday7:30am-6pm
Thursday7:30am-7pm
Friday7:30am-5pm
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
Popular times Friday · Strowan
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Opening hoursChristchurch physiotherapy · 203 businesses
You are #36 for opening hours
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01Google listing1 opportunity

02Reviews3 opportunities

03Map positions2 opportunities

04Listings and social3 opportunities

05Facebook page3 opportunities

06Your website3 opportunities

07Google search and traffic3 opportunities

08Opening hours1 opportunity

Where you'd stand#48of 203 Christchurch physiotherapy businesses
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Christchurch physiotherapyOverall · 203 businesses
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