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The Lung Mechanic

Physiotherapist · Christchurch Centre, 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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The Lung Mechanic

Physiotherapist · Christchurch Centre, Christchurch

Where you stand#166of 203 physiotherapy businesses
Overall health1.8/10across the eight areas

What you have

01Open statusYour listing shows the business as trading, so customers see accurate availability and Google treats the listing as live.01NameYour 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.01WebsiteYour listing links to your website, so a customer can move from Google to your own pages in one tap and read your account of the work before they ring.

Where we can help

05Facebook page5.807Google search and traffic4.304Listings and social3.908Opening hours2.702Reviews1.603Map positions1.001Google listing0.906Your website-
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What AI tells people about you

The Lung Mechanic is a Christchurch Central City physiotherapy practice specialising in breathing and respiratory rehabilitation. The clinic offers an online Long Covid course and management strategies for breathlessness, cough, anxiety-related breathing issues and related symptoms. It combines short, affordable education modules with the option of follow-up individualised appointments.

The Lung Mechanic is a physiotherapy practice based in Christchurch Central City that focuses on breathing and respiratory rehabilitation. Its online presence highlights accessible education and support for people with persistent breathlessness and related symptoms.

Services include a 2.5-hour Long Covid online course priced at $79, presented as bite-sized education and management strategies. The website emphasises practical self-management material and notes that individualised appointments are available for people who need tailored assessment or treatment after the course.

Information on the site lists common issues addressed, including unexplained breathlessness, stress or anxiety-related breathing problems, persistent fatigue and sleep disturbance, headaches and brain fog, chest pain where cardiac causes have been excluded, chronic cough, nasal congestion and difficulty improving fitness. The material frames these as symptoms the clinic aims to help with through breathing-focused education and strategies.

Locally, The Lung Mechanic distinguishes itself by offering a low-cost online entry point to respiratory physiotherapy combined with the option of personalised follow-up care. The practice is positioned for people in Christchurch seeking education-led management for long Covid, chronic cough or other breathing concerns, with a focus on practical techniques and staged support.

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Your Google listing

The Lung Mechanic shows very low overall health on Google Listing, reflecting gaps in claimed status and core visuals. The most important finding is that the listing is not claimed, which limits management and responsiveness, followed by a weak description that provides little context for patients seeking breathing and rehabilitation services.

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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    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.
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    WebsiteYour listing links to your website, so a customer can move from Google to your own pages in one tap and read your account of the work before they ring.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    ClaimedYour listing is not claimed, which means anyone can suggest an edit to it and you have no way to reply to a review or correct what is shown.
  • 2
    Description lengthThere is no real description on your listing, so when someone finds you on Google there is nothing in your own words telling them what you do.
  • 3
    Main imageYour listing has no main image, so the first picture a customer sees is whichever one Google chose for you.
11 checks on your Google listing. You're seeing 6 of them.
0.9Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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Physiotherapist · Christchurch Centre
Open 4 days ✓
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OverviewReviewsPhotosAbout
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Google listingChristchurch physiotherapy · 203 businesses
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Your reviews

The Lung Mechanic shows a very low health score on Google reviews, indicating weak overall performance and potential trust concerns among prospective clients. The main finding is that there is no established star rating and minimal or no reviews, which limits credibility. Customer engagement is also lacking due to no responses to feedback.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Review confidenceYour rating and your review count together put you at the bottom of this market - either the rating is low, or there are too few reviews behind it for anyone to trust it.
  • 2
    Star ratingYou have no star rating yet, so a customer scanning results sees an empty space where every other business shows a number.
  • 3
    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.
4 checks on your reviews. You're seeing 3 of them.
1.6Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Google reviewsChristchurch physiotherapy · 203 businesses
You are #171 for your Google reviews
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Where you show up on the map

The Lung Mechanic shows a very low overall health score on Google Maps of 0.7, indicating limited visibility. Top findings show stronger rankings for several physical rehabilitation keywords such as "physical rehabilitation center in north beach" and "physical therapy clinic in north beach," highlighting opportunities to build on core local terms while addressing suburb/address alignment to improve maps presence.

Strengths

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Top two opportunities

  • 1
    Maps visibility across the city groupYou appear in a handful of Maps searches across the suburbs around you, far fewer than most businesses here.
  • 2
    Maps visibility in your own suburbWe are not seeing you in Maps searches in your own suburb, which is the search a customer standing a street away actually makes.
2 checks on your map positions. You're seeing both.
1.0Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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1Seen in 7 searches across Christchurch, top three in none
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Map positionsChristchurch physiotherapy · 203 businesses
You are #182 for map positions
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Where customers find you

The Lung Mechanic shows a low health score for social presence, with key strengths in Facebook presence and a very high trust score for the clinic's Facebook profile. Opportunities exist across Instagram, TikTok, Neighbourly, LinkedIn, and Yellow Directory, all with missing or weak listings that limit local visibility and trust. Targeted completion of profiles could improve discoverability and credibility.

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/the-lung-mechanic) 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 5 of them.
3.9Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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FacebookthelungmechanicThe Lung Mechanic | Facebook✓
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InstagramNo account found1
TiktokNo account found2
YellowNo listing found3
Listings and socialChristchurch physiotherapy · 203 businesses
You are #125 for listings and social
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Your Facebook page

Strengths

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    Where your page link pointsThe link on your page goes to a domain that is yours, so a visitor who came for the photos leaves on your terms and the enquiry lands in your inbox rather than someone else's.
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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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    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

  • 1
    A phone numberNo phone number is published on your Facebook page, so someone who found you there and wants to ring has to go hunting elsewhere or send a message and wait.
  • 2
    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.
  • 3
    What your page says about youYour intro is shorter than half the pages here.
8 checks on your Facebook page. You're seeing 6 of them.
5.8Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
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Facebook pageChristchurch physiotherapy · 203 businesses
You are #85 for your Facebook page
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Your website

The Lung Mechanic shows a below-average on-page SEO health score, with a 4.1 out of 10. The site has solid wins in technical setup such as a valid favicon, fast page load under 3 seconds, and no render-blocking resources, but key issues remain in meta description length, title tag length, URL structure, and frames usage that could limit indexing and user experience.

Strengths

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    On-page scoreFew sites in this market clear these checks as completely as yours: fast to open, readable, and accurate about itself to Google and to the person who lands on it.
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    Domain UniquenessYour web address is yours alone, so everything your site earns - links, mentions, search standing - accumulates under your name and stays with the business.
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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.

Top three opportunities

  • 1
    Separate sites linking to youNo separate website links to yours.
  • 2
    The shape of your link profileNo links to your site were found, so there is no shape to read yet.
  • 3
    Meta descriptionThe summary under your name in search results is either too brief to say anything or long enough that Google cuts it mid-sentence.
23 checks on your website. You're seeing 6 of them.
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What customers seeWhere you rank
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1Separate sites linking to you
2The shape of your link profile
3Meta description
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How people find you on Google

The Lung Mechanic's website traffic shows an average health score of 4.4 out of 10. Overall, paid traffic is unclear but organic metrics are improving, sitting around the 25th-50th percentile for local rankings. The most notable findings are some organic traffic value above the 25th percentile and gaps in paid coverage that offer targeted opportunities.

Strengths

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Top three opportunities

  • 1
    What that traffic is worthThe search visitors reaching your site are worth less than most businesses here, which means the work coming in arrives through word of mouth and repeat customers rather than through people searching for what you do.
  • 2
    What you spend on adsWe can see no paid search activity for your site, which in most local markets is the norm rather than a gap.
  • 3
    Monthly ad visitsYour site receives no visitors from paid search, which for most local businesses in this market is the norm rather than a problem.
6 checks on your search and traffic. You're seeing 3 of them.
4.3Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
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The Lung MechanicNot in these results
1About 33 visits a month from search, across 15 searches
Google search and trafficChristchurch physiotherapy · 203 businesses
You are #117 for Google search and traffic
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Your hours against demand

The Lung Mechanic's opening hours partially match local demand: 27 well-aligned peak hours but 38 high-demand hours are missed. Strong alignment occurs on Tuesday 10-11am, Thursday 10-11am and Monday 2pm. Missed opportunities include Wednesday 3-4pm, Thursday 3pm, Tuesday 9am and Friday 11am. No hours are open during low-demand windows, suggesting efficient use of staffed time.

Strengths

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Top opportunity

  • 1
    Hours aligned with demandYour hours line up with demand worse than nearly every business here, which means a good share of your open time passes with nobody looking for what you do.
1 check on your opening hours. You're seeing it.
2.7Room to grow
What customers seeWhere you rank
9:41
The Lung Mechanic
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Hours 1
Monday8:30am-4pm
Tuesday10am-5:30pm
Wednesday8:30am-3pm
Thursday8:30am-3pm
FridayClosed
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
Popular times Sunday · Christchurch Centre
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Opening hoursChristchurch physiotherapy · 203 businesses
You are #148 for opening hours
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01Google listing3 opportunities

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#166of 203 Christchurch physiotherapy businesses
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Christchurch physiotherapyOverall · 203 businesses
You are #166 overall
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