Physiotherapy is a hands-on, drug-free treatment of injuries, diseases, or physical issues using techniques like massage, heart and heat therapy, stretching, and exercises.
Physiotherapy can make a difference in an individual’s ability to live an active, healthy lifestyle.
For many seniors, disabled or chronically ill people, physiotherapy is the key to restoring and maintaining a level of physical function that permits independent living.
Benefits of physiotherapy include:
- Decrease in pain
- Improved joint mobility
- Increased strength and coordination
- Improved cardio-respiratory function
Whether you’re living with a chronic illness, recovering from a work injury, or suffering after that weekend hockey game, physio can increase your independence and give you the Freedom to Function™.
Physiotherapy offers a range of specialized services of benefit to patients
with:
- Heart and lung disease
- Traumatic, workplace and athletic injuries
- Amputations
- Arthritic joints
- Stroke
- Brain injury
- Spinal cord
- Nerve injury
- Cancer
- Pre and post-surgical needs