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What treatments are available at Ancaster Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Centre?
A physiotherapy treatment session at our Centre may involve a variety of modalities:
- Acupuncture
- Athletic taping
- Balance and proprioceptive retraining
- Core stabilization exercises
- Exercise prescription and personal training
- Gait retraining
- Interferential current
- Low Level LASER therapy
- Manual therapy
- Massage and soft tissue mobilization
- Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation (NMES)
- Postural re-education
- T.E.N.S.
- Ultrasound therapy
What conditions can benefit from physiotherapy?
The positive effects of physiotherapy have been well documented in the successful treatment of:
- Acute, chronic, or postoperative pain
- Arthritis
- Back and neck pain
- Capsulitis
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS)
- Degenerative Disc Disease (DDD)
- Disc bulge or herniation
- Dupuytren´s Contracture
- Excessive scar tissue and tissue shortening
- Frozen Shoulders
- Joint stiffness
- Ligament sprains
- Muscle spasms
- Muscle strains
- Myofacial disorders
- Nerve root impingement
- Open wounds, decubitus ulcer
- PatelloFemoral Pain Syndrome (PFPS)
- Plantar fasciitis
- Postoperative scar reduction
- Radiating pain and/or numbness in limbs
- Resorption of calcium deposits
- Spinal nerve root irritations
- Tendonitis and bursitis
- Tennis Elbow
- TMJ Disorders
What are the clinical scientific effects of physiotherapy treatment?
Each physiotherapy treatment option offered at Ancaster Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Centre has its own combination of therapeutic effects. The following clinical effects of physiotherapy are scientifically documented to:
- Encourage nerve stimulation and regeneration
- Improve microcirculation and revascularization
- Improve muscle relaxation
- Improve soft tissue and joint healing
- Improve the inflammatory phase of cell repair
- Increase or decrease tissue temperature
- Increase soft tissue mobility
- Promote inhibition of the pain-spasm-pain cycle
- Reduce compression of joint surfaces
- Relieve pain by healing the underlying source of pain
- Relieve pain by the Gate Control and Release of Endorphins theories
- Soften and reduce scar tissue and contractures