SmartRehab

What SmartRehab offers English speakers in Antibes

Start with the practical problem, because a reviewer arrived late for exactly this reason: SmartRehab is inside Les Algorithmes on the Route des Lucioles at Biot, and the address is poorly mapped on both Google Maps and the booking platforms. Call for directions before your first appointment rather than trusting your phone. Once you are there, it is a sports rehabilitation and réathlétisation practice, meaning structured return-to-sport work rather than treatment on a table.

Pauline Nottoli previously worked as a physiotherapist at the Mouratoglou tennis academy and now runs this practice with two other physiotherapists, and the record splits between two quite different populations: athletes recovering from injury, and women doing postnatal abdominal and perineal rehabilitation, with babies treated for torticollis as well. One reviewer puts the expectation-setting better than any brochure: if you want a massage, go elsewhere, because she is the sort who repairs things properly. Diagnosis before treatment is a recurring theme, including a stubborn tendinitis whose actual cause had been missed. The team works in English, Spanish and German alongside French, and hours run Monday to Friday with an eight o'clock start most days.