Physiotherapy

Our physiotherapists will customize your treatment plan to include movements that will improve your strength, flexibility, balance, and overall mobility. They will help you with many of these exercises, and will also provide some simple ones that you can do at home.

The result of physiotherapy is that you can live the active life you want, free of painful limitations. That can only happen if you apply what you’ve learned in your treatments to the real world.

At For Health’s Sake, our Downtown (Queen St West), Leslieville (Queen St East) and Kingsway (Etobicoke) physiotherapists are as dedicated as you are, and will encourage you to achieve all the goals you outlined in the beginning.

The Pelvic Health Physiotherapist will take a multimodal approach to assessing and treating your issue(s) and/or pain. The assessment may involve an internal (vaginal and/or rectal) examination depending on the issue and your comfort with this type of exam day one. An internal exam is the only way we can truly assess the status of the pelvic floor muscles (tight, tender, weak). Treatment differs depending on the status of these muscles. If they are tight, we have to work on relaxing them, which may include some internal myofascial work, education and home exercises. If they are weak, we need to work on activation, strength, and endurance of the pelvic floor muscles, which may include some education and home exercises.

Implementing the right treatment from the beginning will help resolve your issues and/or pain more effectively and efficiently. Taking this approach typically leads to more meaningful and long-lasting changes versus a temporary relief or quick fix. All sessions are one on one with a Pelvic Health Physiotherapist. Overall, treatments may include: soft tissue/myofascial techniques internally (vaginal and/or rectal) and/or externally, core exercises (strengthening, lengthening, or endurance), breathing exercises, functional exercises with core engagement (squatting, bending, running, lifting, etc), and joint mobilization, and acupuncture as necessary.

You may be required to perform simple movements such as sitting, standing, walking, lifting, stretching, or other motions during your initial evaluation.

Once our physiotherapist understands your needs, they will begin developing a personalized treatment plan to help relieve your pain and achieve your goals.

Everyone has various needs depending on the state of their bodies and the amount of pain they are in. There is no such thing as a cookie-cutter approach to health since one treatment plan can not work the same way for one person as it does for another.

Our physiotherapist will work with you closely to assess your mobility, balance, range of motion, and pain intensity. Your physical objectives, as well as any health risks that might be holding you back, will be considered when developing your treatment plan.

During your session they may use a variety of modalities such as manual therapy, acupuncture, dry needling, strengthening exercises, mobility exercises, taping, lymphatic massage, cupping and more! Our Physiotherapists have a tool box of modalities to draw upon based on your needs and wants they will customize your session.

• Therapeutic Exercise
• Sports Taping
• Soft Tissue Techniques
• Scar Tissue Release
• Patient Education
• Myofascial Release
• Medical Acupuncture
• Manual Lymph Drainage (MLD)
• Joint Mobilization
• Electrical Stimulation
• Dry Needling
• Physiotherapy
• Deep Tissue Release/Sports Technique
• Cupping

Our Physiotherapy team is dedicated to helping you move better, feel stronger, and live pain-free. What sets us apart is that all of our physiotherapists treat you one-on-one, in private rooms — giving you their full attention for your entire appointment. We take a hands-on, evidence-based approach to not only resolve acute pain and injuries, but to create long-term, lasting changes in how your body moves and feels. Our goal is to help you reach a place of health where you no longer need to rely on physiotherapy — giving you the tools, knowledge, and confidence to maintain your progress and keep doing what you love.The purpose of physiotherapy remains the same, no matter what you are seeking its services for to help you feel better from whatever kind of pain or discomfort you’re experiencing.

Perhaps you are still living with the lingering pain of an injury. Perhaps you are recovering from surgery and trying to get your range of motion back. Perhaps your joints simply aren’t what they used to be, and you are looking for relief.

Whatever the case may be, physiotherapists are dedicated to relieving your pain and getting you back to your peak level of physical health.

A physiotherapist is a movement specialist, educated in analyzing mobility issues with walking, running, jumping, bending, stretching, and almost every other form of physical activity.

Through in-office sessions and at-home exercises, clients strengthen their muscles and joints, improve their balance, build endurance, and experience pain relief, all without the unwanted harmful risks of drugs or surgery.