Physiotherapy is anchored in movement sciences and aims to enhance or restore the function of multiple body systems. Our holistic approach incorporates a broad range of physical and physiological therapeutic interventions and aids.
Physiotherapy can help you with:
• Orthopaedic injuries (sprains, strains, joint injuries)
• Neurological conditions (STROKE, Muscular Sclerosis, Muscular Dystrophy, Parkinson’s)
• Pre- and post-operative (joint replacements, shoulder repair, low back surgery, Achilles tendon repair)
Massage therapy can help reduce muscle tension and obtain relief from chronic pain. A therapeutic massage can enhance your overall sense of emotional and physical well-being.
Massage therapy can help manage:
• Pain
• Improve joint mobility
• Improve circulation
• Reduce edema (swelling in extremities)
• Reduce muscular tension
IMS is a therapeutic treatment where fine needles are inserted into tight and sore muscles for the purpose of resetting or releasing them.
IMS is used to release tight muscles in order to return them to their normal, healthy state.
IMS therapy may help you with:
• Restore muscle imbalances
• Relieve nerve irritation
• Retrain movement patterns
• Improve how your body moves and performs
• Prevent the return of tightness in muscles
• Greatly decrease the likelihood of re-injury.
Pelvic floor physiotherapy assesses the pelvic floor musculature and function, checking their position, length, strength, and how they are working with the rest of the body.
From a detailed assessment, the root cause of your symptoms and problems can be determined.
Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy may help with:
• Constipation
• Sacroiliac, hip, and low back pain
• Pregnancy-related pain
• Pelvic scar tissue
• Interstitial Cystitis and bladder pain
• Pelvic pain
• Prostatitis
• Prostatectomy-related pain and dysfunction
Kinesiologists are human movement specialists who help you feel better, move better, and live better.
Our kinesiologists are accessible to work with you on improving your health and wellness.
Kinesiologists provide a wide range of health services ranging from:
• Fitness and health evaluations
• Exercise prescription
• Postural assessment and education
• Athletic training
• Exercise therapy and interventions
• Therapeutic application of heat and cold
• General nutritional counselling
• Hydrotherapy / Pool Therapy
Acupuncture is a therapeutic technique involving the insertion of extremely fine needles into specific points on the body.
Insertion of needles targets tissues, muscles, nerves, tendons and ligaments on the body as well as the entire nervous system.
Accupunture from our skilled therapist may help you:
• Drastically reduce pain
• Reduce inflammation of orthopaedic conditions
• Feel relaxed and revitalized after treatment
• Promote physical and emotional well-being
Temporomandibular disorders (TMD) are related to the problems associated with jaw movement and pain in and around the temporomandibular (jaw) joints.
TMD can affect the jaw and jaw joint as well as muscles in the face, shoulder, head, and neck.
TMD therapy may help you:
• Improve joint pain
• Reduce muscle pain
• Alleviate headaches
• Eliminate joint sounds
• Eliminate trouble with fully opening the mouth
• Fix jaw locking
A concussion is a brain injury which usually doesn’t cause any external brain damage or internal bleeding.
The cells that make up the brain are essentially strained, banged or stretched.
Our therapists will perform a clinical assessment to:
• Figure out which systems are involved (neurological, cervical, vestibular, vision, cardiovascular)
• Help treat and retrain the involved systems
• Provide guidelines for return to work, sports, school and exercise
Vestibular rehabilitation is designed to improve balance and reduce problems related to dizziness.
At your appointment, a physical therapist will evaluate your symptoms treatment plan is to improve any deficits that were identified.
Vestibular rehabilitation therapy may help you:
• Improve your ability to function in activities of everyday living
• Reduce your risk of falling
• Improve your quality of live
• Improve post-concussion syndrome
• Impromt postural disorder
• Improve motion sickness
We offer assessment and prescription of braces.
Our braces are fitted and ordered based on your specific needs to ensure you have the right brace for your injury.
Bracing can help you with most injuries including:
• Knee injuries (ligament instabilities, osteoarthritis, meniscus injuries)
• Ankles (sprains, osteoarthritis)
• Elbows (tennis elbow, contractures)
• Wrists (tendinitis, carpal instabilities)
• Thumbs (tendinitis, osteoarthritis)
• Lower back
We offer assessment and prescription of orthotics.
Our custom orthotics can help reduce symptoms from the following conditions:
• Over-pronation
• Medial knee pain
• Hip pain
• Back pain after running
• Uneven leg length
• Heels spurs or sore spots on feet
• Shin splints
Shockwave is a device used in physical therapy and sports medicine that delivers a series of high energy percussion to an affected area.
It is used for quick pain relief and mobility restoration and can speed up recovery for various conditions causing acute or chronic pain.
Shockwave therapy may help you alleviate the following conditions:
• Plantar Fasciitis
• Tennis Elbow
• Shin Splints
• Trigger points in muscles
• Rotator cuff calcification
• Achilles/hamstring tendinopathy
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