|
Our Professionals
Physiotherapy
Physiotherapy aims to restore movement
and function, relieve pain, and prevent further injury. Treatments combined
with an active approach of kinesiology/exercise therapy results in a quicker
return to activities of normal life, care giving, and/or work and helps
minimize the risk of deconditioning.
Physiotherapists are trained to:
- Perform the evaluation and treatment
of numerous physical conditions of all age groups
- Treat people with musculoskeletal disorders
such as back strains or knee injuries, neurological deficits such as
stroke patients
- Helps people live more active and independent
lives - helping people help themselves!
- Treatments include patient education
to teach how to deal with a current problem and how to prevent this
problem from recurring in the future
- Functional training for work-related,
Motor Vehicle Accidents (MVA), home activities, and recreational and
sports interests
- Assessment and education on use of
ambulatory devices such as canes, walkers, wheelchairs, etc.
- Hands-on treatment including joint
mobilization, soft tissue techniques, range of motion exercises and
patient education
Chiropractic
Chiropractic is a branch of health sciences,
which focuses upon the body's neuromusculoskeletal system. A chiropractor
is concerned with how your body's skeletal and nervous system is functioning.
Since your spine is the key highway for your central nervous system, a
chiropractor is trained to use a variety of diagnostic measures to examine
and treat your spine and bone structure.
- Initial Assessment: consultation/examination
- Subsequent treatment
- Hands-on art of spinal adjustment
- Adjustment is the use of a specific
force applied in a precise direction to a joint that is troublesome
(perhaps it is fixated, locked-up or not moving properly)
- Help restore a more normal position
or motion, often relieving pain
- Each treatment and each adjustment
is unique
- Age, size, and individual spine problems
will determine which adjustment technique will best put you on the road
to a pain-free back and neck
Massage Therapy
Eveyone enjoys the benefits of massage,
whether to help in the treatment of injuries or the important relaxation
and stress relief benefit that come with such a treatment.
Treatments include:
- 30 minute, 45 minute, or 1 hour sessions
are available
- Hands on manipulation of the soft tissues
of the body
- Develop, maintain, rehabilitate or
augment physical dysfunction and pain as well as enhance the well being
of the client
- Therapeutic effect and improve health
by acting directly on the muscular, nervous and circulatory systems
|
|