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What is Physiotherapy?

Freedom of Motion

When you are free to move--when you have mobility you feel better and enjoy life more. Physiotherapy is the primary care profession dedicated to enhancing and restoring that mobility. Physiotherapy's unique contribution to the health care stems from its advanced understanding of how the body moves, what keeps it from moving well and how to restore mobility.

Physiotherapists have the education, applied knowledge and treatment techniques to help you and your family:

Improve and maintain your physical mobility and independence.

Manage and reduce pain, physical limitations or disabilities that may limit your activities.

Improve your overall fitness, health and well-being.

How Physiotherapy can help?

Physiotherapy will get you moving again

Physiotherapists provide valuable health care for people throughout their lives--from birth to old age. Physiotherapists can help you:
Get back on yourfeet after surgery.
Treat neck and packpain and other joint injuries.
Treat sport injuries and provide advice on prevention to avoid recurrence.
Assist you with rehabilitation in your home after you have been ill or injured.
Maximize your mobility if you have a neurological disorder such as stroke, spinal cord injury or Parkinson's disease.
Work with you to treat and manage respiratory and cardiac conditions.
Provide pre and post natal care and advice on other women's health issues.
Treat children with pediatric conditions such as developmental delay, fractures and cardio respiratory conditions.
Treat incontinence, pelvic pain and related sexual dysfunction.
Help you manage thephysical complications of cancer and its treatments.
Care for physical challenges associated with arthritic conditions and repetitive strain injury.
Help you get back to work after workplace injuries.

What Physiotherapists do?

Your Physiotherapist will keep you moving

Your physiotherapist will follow four steps to keep you moving.

Assess your level of mobility, strength, endurance and other physical abilities to determine the impact of your condition on your physical function, whether at work, rest or play.

Diagnose your condition and develop a treatment plan to restore movement and reduce pain or limitations on your mobility. Together, you and your physiotherapist will agree on a plan that involves your active participation.

Treat your condition and help you understand its effect on your function. Your physiotherapist will measure your progress regularly and adjust your treatment according to your needs and preferences.

Advise you on how to manage your condition independently and prevent avoidable recurrences or complications.

Provide advice for more athletic training.