What Ways Can Physiotherapy Help You?

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• Reduce acute and chronic pain

• Educate how to safely exercise and return to activity

• Improve mobility, flexibility and function (get back to doing the activities you love)

• Increase strength (prevent age-related muscle loss or recover strength from injury)

• Decrease muscle spasm and tension related to sedentary posture, injury or stress

• Improve balance and fall prevention

• Improve posture and ergonomics to reduce physical strain and prevent stiffness and pain

• Teach Pain Science Education to help clients understand persistent pain

• Reduce dizziness, vertigo, and motion-sickness

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Conditions Commonly Treated By Physiotherapy

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• Pain: acute or chronic, in all areas of the body

• Injuries: sprains, strains, falls, car accidents

• Arthritis: osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis

• Temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMJ disorders)

• Back pain:  spinal stenosis, herniated disc, degenerative disc disease, spondylolisthesis

• Sacroiliac (SI) joint pain

• Neck pain and whiplash

• Frozen shoulder/adhesive capsulitis

• Fibromyalgia, hyperalgesia/allodynia, central sensitivity, chronic regional pain sydrome

• Pre-operative preparation

• Post-operative recovery

• Migraines and headaches

• Nerve pain: sciatica, carpal tunnel syndrome

• Osteoporosis

• Generalized stiffness and re-conditioning

• Vertigo and dizziness (vestibular issues)

• Pre-natal and post-natal pain

• Numbness, tingling, pins/needles

• Repetitive strain injuries (common tendinopathies such as rotator cuff, tennis elbow, achilles, and DeQuervains and shin splints)

• Weakness or muscle atrophy

• Fall prevention/Balance

• Sports injuries

• Connective tissue disorders

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