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Physiotherapy

Unfortunately, injuries from auto accidents are all too common. They can be severe and cause substantial pain and suffering. Sustaining an auto injury can also result in lost work time and cause serious difficulties performing common every-day activities. Vehicle accident injuries can be complicated to treat, requiring detailed treatment plans involving multiple methods. With all the complexities of MVA injuries, you’ll want a physiotherapist with significant expertise and experience in treating MVA issues.

While many motor vehicle accident injuries are immediate and obvious, many others can be delayed or subtle, but no less serious. It’s vital to seek treatment right away — as quickly as possible. Our physiotherapists will take meticulous care in assessing and diagnosing your injuries while devising a thorough treatment plan to start your recovery.

Once you report your MVA to your insurer, all you have to do is provide us with the claim number, and your insurer’s name and policy number, and we can take it from there. We’ll manage your claim from start to finish, so you can focus exclusively on your recovery.

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Are you preparing for (or recovering from) an operation? We know how stressful this can be, both physically and emotionally. Pre and post-operative physiotherapy is crucial and can make all the difference for faster and more effective healing and recovery. Whether it’s knee, hip, back, or any other orthopaedic surgery, our physiotherapists are trained to give you a preoperative examination and devise a customised treatment and prevention plan for your postoperative care.

There’s no doubt about it, a physiotherapy program can help you recover faster. You’ll see a rapid decrease of stiffness and pain, and quicker increase of your mobility and strength.
Don’t go through the pain of surgery without including pre and post-operative physiotherapy. Your body will thank you!

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We know how daunting being diagnosed with a neurological condition can be, and how it can affect all areas of your life. Neurological rehabilitation patients may suffer from conditions like paediatric brain injuries, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, stroke, and others.

Our team of physiotherapists are trained in neurological rehabilitation. We can help improve important functions such as balance and coordination, improve muscle strength, and correct improper movement patterns. It’s designed to boost and enhance your ability to live an independent life, and can take care of your daily needs yourself.

The effects from concussions can be serious. 85% to 90% of all concussion injuries can clear up within 7-10 days. However, the other 10-15% of injuries will persist with more prolonged symptoms. It’s imperative to seek a proper medical assessment and treatment if you suspect you’ve suffered a concussion. Untreated symptoms can linger and potentially never fully resolve. In rare cases, untreated symptoms have become fatal.

Post-concussion syndrome occurs when symptoms linger beyond a normal recovery time of 3 to 4 weeks. For years, medical advice after a concussion directed patients to spend their days in dark, quiet rooms and avoid any electronic devices and screen time, reading, exercising and even socialising.

Resting and sleep are still essential elements of concussion recovery, but our physiotherapists can help treat whiplash associated with a concussion, provide gentle treatment to help reduce your symptoms and improve your recovery time. We can also make supplement and diet recommendations that go hand in hand with your physical treatment, to aid your recovery.

Balance disorders can strike at any age. If you’re feeling dizziness or vertigo, you could be experiencing symptoms of a vestibular balance disorder. The vestibular system of the inner ear and brain helps control our balance. Conditions or damage to this processing area can have symptoms such as vertigo, dizziness, visual disturbance, and imbalance.

Your physiotherapist can help treat these balance disorders with vestibular rehabilitation that includes gentle cranial techniques to help relieve your symptoms, and an exercise-based program that helps your body compensate for vestibular damage and conditions. We’ll help alleviate your symptoms while training your brain and body to use your other senses to assist your vestibular system.

Ageing doesn’t have to mean living a less robust life. To maintain a healthy, active lifestyle, seniors can seek care for common issues such as arthritis, chronic pain, balance impairment, musculoskeletal problems, neurological dysfunctions (such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s) and incontinence.

Our physiotherapists are experts at helping treat these conditions to boost the quality of life for seniors. Therapy will incorporate some gentle hands-on remedies, exercises and treatments such as cold laser therapy that can improve healing by up to 40% in chronic cases. Physical therapy and geriatric rehabilitation are safe, natural, and improves overall strength and physical condition.

Dry needling is a treatment used to relieve muscle pain, spasms and knots. It looks similar to acupuncture but there’s a key difference. A dry needling practitioner inserts short, thin, stainless steel needles directly into affected muscles to help release knots, relieve muscle pain and spasms and improve range of motion.

Acupuncturists insert needles in acupuncture points — anatomical locations on the skin — to help release endorphins, have a positive effect on the nervous system and align your internal energy.

Dry needling is great for treating:

• Acute/chronic injuries
• Muscle knots, spasms and tension
• Headaches and migraines
• Neck/back pain
• Tendonitis
• Fibromyalgia
• Tennis/golfer’s elbow
• Overuse injuries

Dynamic tape is used by athletes at the highest levels of sports around the world. This strongly elastic tape has very strong resistance and recoil which acts as a bungee-like effect that supports joints and muscles.

Our physiotherapists can use dynamic tape with you to help stabilise or support an injured area. It is extremely soft, highly conformable, breathable, and water-resistant — and just might be the most comfortable athletic tape on the market. We can help relieve your pain by using the tape to help de-load tender, painful areas, or to help facilitate more normal movement, muscle action, or posture.

Percussive therapy is a treatment method that uses rapid, concentrated, short-duration pulses that resonate deep into your body’s tissues. These deep pulses increase blood flow to damaged areas to accelerate growth and repair. Providing deep pulses and muscle stimulation, percussive therapy can also gently stretch your muscles to help improve mobility and ease pain. You’ll feel much-needed pain relief, increased range of motion and function, and better overall performance and responsiveness.

Percussive therapy is an excellent treatment for many common injuries and conditions, helps with recovery after training, helps break up muscle knots and scar tissue, and is used in combination with many other rehabilitation treatments.

Shockwave therapy is a non-invasive treatment used in orthopaedics, physiotherapy and sports medicine. The “shockwave” is simply a sound wave that delivers energy to painful spots and enhances blood circulation. It promotes regeneration and repair of your bones and soft tissues, and helps ease pain.

Shockwave therapy triggers the body’s natural healing response and many patients feel reduced pain and better mobility after just one treatment. It’s a great option if you have persistent chronic pain and injuries, especially those involving connective tissue like ligaments and tendons in your shoulder, back, heels, knees or elbows. There’s no anaesthesia or other drugs required and it has very limited side effects.

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