Physiotherapy in Shanghai (2026): English-Speaking Clinics and Insurance

Shanghai has a solid cluster of English-speaking physiotherapy clinics, concentrated in Jing'an, Changning and Pudong. UP Clinic runs four branches, the clinic by International Rehabilitation Specialists sits on Jiashan Lu in Xuhui, and United Family, Parkway, Jiahui and Raffles all run rehab departments. None of them publish their session rates, so you have to call and ask, and the questions below are the ones that matter. I put this guide off for a while because I wanted to open with a price table, the way we usually do. I could not build one honestly. Not a single clinic in this category publishes a session rate, and the numbers floating around forums and AI-generated health pages do not hold up when you check them. So this guide does something more useful instead: it tells you exactly who exists, where, and what to ask them on the phone so you find out the price before you are lying on the table. Is this physiotherapy, or is it a massage? Worth settling first, because Shanghai bundles four different things under headings that look similar in English: evidence-based physiotherapy, chiropractic, tuina, and sports massage. They are not interchangeable, and the person treating…