Get Back To A Comfortable Life With Physical Therapy
Find the Relief You Need with Physiotherapy, Chiropractic, or Massage.
Is your everyday life being affected by acute or chronic pain? Are you struggling to recover from back pain, joint pain, or an injury caused from a car accident? You’re not alone – and you don’t have to continue living this way. Physical therapy is just what you need.
Whatever condition you might be facing, our clinic doors are open. We encourage you to call us today and schedule an appointment with one of our physical therapists, whether that’s a physio, chiro, or massage therapist. We are specialized in improving how you move.
At Leaps and Bounds: Performance Rehabilitation, we offer many non-invasive, natural, safe modalities and therapeutic techniques to help our patients. Our goal is not only to treat your pain symptoms, but to get to the bottom of what your painful source is. That way we can address it and help you control, or even eliminate, future episodes.
Read these five ways working with a physical therapist can help you get your active, normal lifestyle back!
1. Getting to the source of your pain.
Your therapist’s goal is to identify and solve underlying issues contributing to your painful condition. These issues could very well be increasing your risk of chronic pain and contribute to a dependency on medication.
Physical therapy won’t just mask your pain either, the way prescription medication might.
Common conditions that may be contributing to a painful experience include improper dynamic or static loading strategies, training error, altered body mechanics, ergonomics, or things at the tissue level – scar tissue, shortened muscles, or some type of pathology.
Through a detailed examination and clinical reasoning process, your physical therapist can diagnose and address the causes of your condition and its symptoms, and get you back on track to leading a healthy, active lifestyle.
2. Enhancing multiple aspects of your life, including mobility and performance.
Physical therapy can improve your mobility, strength, endurance, coordination, agility, and other physical skills that help you get back to doing the activities you love. These things are just as vital to the young and athletic, as they are to the elderly who are trying to minimize the effects of the age-related changes in their bodies.
3. Avoiding risky pain relief measures, such as opioids.
Did you know that the CDC actually recommends utilizing the benefits of physical therapy before even trying opioids for acute and chronic pain management? It’s a no brainer!
The current opioid abuse epidemic in our country suggests that these potentially harmful drugs are frequently overprescribed. According to the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction, “Recent estimates indicate that 9.6% of Canadian adults who used opioid medications in 2018 reported some form of problematic use (e.g., taking in amounts greater than prescribed, tampering with the product before taking it or using to get high or improve mood).”
Treatment modalities used in physical therapy are “evidence-based,” meaning they are tested in scientific research studies in order to ensure that they are effective and safe. Again, this just goes to show that there is little to no risk to start your physio, chiropractic, or massage treatment.
4. Avoiding harmful side effects.
Our therapeutic techniques are safe for use on people of all ages, require less downtime, and can be changed as needed. As opposed to solutions – like medications – and invasive procedures – like surgery, physical therapy services have a very low risk of side effects while remaining highly effective for reducing soreness, inflammation, pain, and swelling.
Physical Therapy is also helpful with recovery from illness and disease, like COVID19, as it is with recovery from injury. Why opt for the negative side effects of over-the-counter medications and opioid prescriptions, when something much safer is available to you?
5. Receiving an individualized treatment plan, just for you.
Choosing the physical therapy route means your plan of care and recovery will be completely customized to fit your needs. The main objectives of any plan of care are to address a patient’s physical goals, pinpoint and treat the pain source, optimize the patient’s ability to function independently, and set him or her up for long-term success.
These outcomes can be achieved through the following kinds of therapeutic strategies:
- Manual therapy, such as joint mobilizations and massage therapy
- Therapeutic exercises for mobility/stretching, neuromuscular re-education, and proprioception
- Strengthening and loading strategies.
- Modalities like, dry-needling, acupuncture, electrical stimulation, cupping, and ultrasound, as indicated.
The success of the plan relies on your feedback throughout the treatment process, which gives you more control in your recovery.
Make your move toward a more comfortable life today!
Discover the holistic methods of physical therapy today!
If you are ready to find some long-lasting relief and stop settling for constant discomfort and pain. then call Leaps and Bound Rehabilitation today to schedule an appointment with a physiotherapist.
You don’t have to keep dealing with your pain alone.