Massage Therapy
Hands on technique used to manipulate the soft tissue to help relax the muscles, reduce stress and rehabilitate injuries.
Services at Advantage Physiotherapy
The number of sessions is determined through assessment and ongoing progress, ensuring care that is effective, appropriate, and tailored to you.
Manual & Manipulative Therapy
A systematic, problem-solving approach to patient-centered assessment and treatment techniques used in the comprehensive management of spinal, upper extremity, lower extremity, temporomandibular joint and neuromusculoskeletal dysfunctions. Your physiotherapist will integrate a variety of manual techniques such as mobilizations, manipulations, neural flossing, soft tissue lengthening and joint specific stability exercise to maximize the return to normal joint mobility and function. In addition to manual therapy, therapeutic modalities will be incorporated into your care to ensure pain levels are minimized and maximal medical recovery is achieved.
Dry needling is the insertion of sterile single use acupuncture needle directly into the myofascial (muscular) trigger points of the body. The benefits of dry needling include helping to restore muscle activation, initiates tissue repair, increasing blood flow, releasing trigger points, and decreasing pain.
Pediatric Physiotherapy
A full motor assessment is performed in clinic with the child and their parents. Range of motion, strength, positioning, gross motor skills, muscle tone, primitive reflexes, functional abilities and walking mechanics are assessed to identify your child’s needs. Physiotherapy is used to ensure secondary effects such as delays in gross and fine motor development, difficulty with breastfeeding, impaired posture, muscular imbalances and asymmetries in movements are avoided. A combination of education, play based therapy, Dynamic Movement Intervention (DMI) and exercises are used to help children ages 0 months -18 years improve to keep playing and growing!
Massage Therapy
Massage therapy uses hands on techniques to mobilize the soft tissues, and joints of the body. The main purpose of massage therapy is to help relieve pain caused by stress, overuse, or chronic pain. While we certainly provide therapy for pain through massage therapy, we also provide more relaxing techniques for overall body rejuvenation.
Sports Therapy
We work with athletes to not only treat injuries, but to prevent them. By understanding the nature of sport and the effect on the body, we can help plan exercises and techniques that make your athletic efforts more successful. And if injured, we can help lessen your rehabilitation time to get you back to competition.
We provide an in depth training and experience and focus it all on your quick recovery and return to sport. We will work closely with you to define the issue and build a program that is individualized to you and your injury. By understanding how your injury occurred, we can create new exercises and routines for you to avoid experiencing the same issues in the future.
