Physiotherapy

The human body is a complex system made up of hundreds of bones and joints as well as muscles and ligaments all working in balance. Physiotherapy is a health care profession that offers a wide range of specialized physiotherapy services ranging from expert diagnosis to effective treatments to disease prevention. When an accident or illness affects your body, a physiotherapist can help restore mobility.

At Elite Physiotherapy Clinic, Progressive Sports Medicine, and Total Health Link, our physiotherapy treatment encourages your independence and involves you in setting your own treatment goals. It provides preventive, diagnostic and rehabilitative services to help you achieve optimal function after injury or disease.

Through a variety of hands-on treatments, education, and exercise programs, the physiotherapist will help you maximize your ability to function. Physiotherapy is focused on drug-free pain relief and maximum function.

Physiotherapy exercises can help you become stronger and more flexible, increase your freedom of movement and mobility. It can help you breathe easier, reduce pain, prevent injury and help you to stay active.

Your physiotherapist can show you how to prevent and treat sports injuries, restore and increase your range of motion, and increase your coordination, alleviate pain. Your physiotherapist can also design a plan to make your home and work more user-friendly.

Our Burlington physiotherapists are here to treat and prevent joint and muscle strains, neck and back complaints. To help you restore function after surgeries and fractures by providing rehabilitation services. They also help to correct and prevent postural dysfunction and muscular imbalance as well as help you to manage arthritis.

Physiotherapy treatments may involve:

• Special exercises
• Mobilizations
• Manipulations
• Stress management
• Relaxation techniques
• Patient education

The use of these treatments helps to correct or prevent skeletal damage and stimulates function of muscles, nerves, joints, ligaments, and blood supply.

Physiotherapy treatment options include:

• Manual Therapy – this treatment consists of hands-on therapy consisting of joint mobilizations and manipulations, designed to decrease pain, restore movement and improve function.
• Mechanical and Electrical Therapy – this treatment consists of use of different modalities for pain relief, muscle spasm, inflammation and swelling, wound healing, increasing movement and strength. Examples of modalities are: hot and cold therapy, traction, ultrasound, TNS, IFC, EMS, and Laser.
• Homework – this requires you to participate outside of the clinic and do some work
• between visits.

To learn more about what Elite Physiotherapy Clinic, Progressive Sports Medicine, or Total Health Link can do for you, please request an appointment. For more information, Contact Us Today at Burlington, ON Center.