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​Physiotherapy Treatment
Physiotherapy involves several treatment and preventative approaches. The treatment recommended depends on the specific issues you are facing. When you go to the doctor for this treatment, your doctor will assess your condition and help determine the treatment you may need.
The top three approaches used by our Edmonton physiotherapy group includes:

• Advice and education
• Exercise and movement
• Manual therapy

In some cases, other treatments and techniques are used, as well, such as acupuncture, dry needling, and more.

Manual Therapy
Manual therapy is a specialized form of physical therapy delivered with hands rather than a machine or device. With manual therapy, practitioners will use their hands to apply pressure to the muscle tissue and manipulate the joints. The goal is to reduce back pain that is caused by joint dysfunction, muscle tension, or a muscle spasm.
While all physical therapists can use manual therapy, there are some who do not spend the resources our time to become efficient at delivering this type of care or treatment. Patients need to know it is a lesser known technique used by most physicians, and it is not commonly prescribed. Also, many conditions that are treated with manual therapy are not demonstrated with lab tests or imaging, but instead during a motion test or treatment. This means that reimbursement from an insurance company is often limited.
Even though this treatment modality is not widely used, it can be beneficial for treating joints that don’t have proper mobility or range of motion in specific Musculo-skeletal conditions. This is a limitation that may cause pain, discomfort, and alteration in movement, posture, and function.
The manual physical therapy process involves the restoration of mobility to any joints that have become stiff and reduce muscle tension to help return the patient to more natural state of movement without experiencing pain. This means that manual physical therapy can provide back pain relief for patients who suffer chronic back pain that involves the joints, like sacroiliac joint dysfunction, along with acute back pain from soft tissue injuries like a pulled back ligament or back muscle strain.
The manual physical therapy techniques used today are designed to help relax tense back muscles along with restricted joints to help reduce back pain while increasing flexibility. Generally speaking, manual physical therapy techniques use the following movement types:

• Soft tissue work: This includes massage, which will apply pressure to the soft tissues of the body, like the muscles. The pressure will help to relax the muscles, break up scar tissue, increase circulation, and reduce pain in your soft tissues.
• Mobilization and manipulation: This process will us measured movements with varying speeds (fast to slow), force (forceful to gentle), and distances, which are called amplitude to push, pull, or twist the joints and bones into the desired position. This helps to loosen up tight tissues that have developed around a certain joint, reduce joint pain, and help with alignment and flexibility.

Physiotherapy near me : Sports Injury, Car Injury, Aches and Pains
If you suffer an injury while playing a sport, after a car accident, or are just suffering from general aches and pains, seeking physiotherapy exercises and treatments will be beneficial. When you seek care, there are several steps in the treatment process. The first is determining if you have an acute or chronic injury.

• Acute Injuries: Acute injuries are ones that are recent – usually less than 10 days old. They usually cause a reduced range of motion, warmth near the injured area, and swelling. The pain with these injuries is usually described as being throbbing and your sleep may be disrupted. However, this depends on how severe the injury is.
• Chronic Injuries: This is an injury that lasts longer. It usually has a healing time frame of up to three months. While the term “chronic” gets a bad rap, it means there are other types of contributing factors along with nervous system sensitivity involved.

Helping You Move Forward to Improved Health
Our team can help you move beyond the diagnosis by assessing, evaluating, and treating the source of your pain. Once we have conducted a complete and thorough assessment of your body and the way you move, our team will customize a treatment plan that is specifically designed to help you return to a pain-free life.
Why Choose Physiotherapy Treatment?
There are several reasons to choose physical therapy as a treatment option. These reasons include:

• It’s a specialized field that is committed to the assessment and treatment of movement dysfunction.
• Customized treatment for nerves, muscles, ligaments, and joints.
• Focused on uncovering the underlying cause of the pain.
• Address issues from debilitating to just annoying movement related pain.
• Physiotherapists are dedicated to ensuring their patients receive evidence-based treatments.

We offer an array of treatment options, including TENS and IFC to help with pain. These treatment methods help to modulate pain using similar devices and mechanisms. The receptors found in your skin are stimulated through the gentle, yet effective vibrations created by IFC and TENS electrodes. This is a type of non-painful stimulus that will block the entry of painful stimulus and helps to prevent pain messages from going to the brain. Usually, TENS is used for providing pain relief while IFC works to provide anti-inflammatory benefits.
When injuries occur, it is also recommended that you use heat and ice to help alleviate the pain. The question you may have is when should heat be used and when should ice be used. Both can be beneficial, but one may be better than the other in some situations. Usually, you should use ice for acute or new injuries to help reduce inflammation. Heat should be used for treating chronic or older injuries along with muscle tightness.
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Personalized Exercise Program
Exercise therapy refers to a plan or a regimen of specific physical activities designed by and prescribed by a doctor to help patients recover from illnesses, injuries, and other problems that may impact or disturb movement or normal activity levels. The systematic execution of these planned physical movements, activities, or postures are designed to help patients reduce their risk of further injuries, enhance function, prevent or remediate impairment, optimize their overall health, and improve their overall health and well-being.
The therapy prescribed may relate to specific parts of the body or muscles, or it could include strenuous or general activities that may help a recovering individual return to the peak of their physical condition. The exercises are typically repetitive and often intensive. They require dedication and time on the part of the patients to help ensure neuroplasticity. The therapy will be handled by professionals who have a background in exercise science, exercise physiology, or another similar area. To help ensure success is achieved for the patient, those administering the treatment must:

• Create a personalized and comprehensive individual management plan
• Implement several therapeutic interventions that are complementary to the exercises such as heat application prior to mobilization along with passive stretch and active exercises to use the new mobility in a functional and effective manner.
• Rely on their clinical ability and decision-making skills.
• Help to promote a patient’s independence possible through self-management exercise programs, patient-related instruction, and home management.

In-house physical therapy that is provided by caregivers, friends, or family members for delivering the right exercise therapy in a home can help reduce overall healthcare costs. This can limit the intervention that is needed. This is why it is so important to train and educate these individuals to ensure the exercise therapy effort is successful.

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​Acupuncture
Acupuncture is a process that involves needles being inserted throughout the skin and tissue and across various parts of the body. Acupuncture has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for an array of conditions for many centuries. In “classical acupuncture” treatment, the premise is that bodily functions are being regulated through Qi, which is an energy that flows through a person’s body. When Qi is disrupted, it creates imbalances in the body. Acupuncture can be used to help restore this balance of energy and to promote better health.
In physical therapy, acupuncture is used in a more modern method. It is actually called anatomical acupuncture. Doctors combine the knowledge of pathophysiology, physiology, and anatomy to determine how to use acupuncture effectively. Usually, acupuncture is used for controlling pain, providing regeneration, resolving inflammation, normalizing nervous system function, and restoring physical function.
It does not matter if you are dealing with a chronic or acute injury, acupuncture can prove to be beneficial. With acute injuries, acupuncture will help reduce inflammation, manage pain, improve mobility, and promote healing. If you are dealing with a chronic or repetitive overuse injury, acupuncture can help to normalize the function of your nervous system.
Some of the most common conditions treated with physical therapy include:

• Tennis elbow
• Strains
• Facial pain
• Sprains
• Headache
• Shoulder pain
• Knee pain
• Sciatica
• Low back pain
• Postoperative pain
• Neck pain

Acupuncture can be done at virtually any time. The risks and adverse effects associated with acupuncture are minimal. With this process, thin needles are used, and the discomfort is minimal. The total amount of treatment that is required is dependent on the person and the type of injury they are dealing with.

Dry Needling
​Dry needling is a procedure where a doctor uses an acupuncture needle or another type of fine needle. The needle selected is placed in the skin and the muscle at a certain trigger point. The goal is to reach trigger points, which are hyperirritable spots on the skeletal muscle associated with hypersensitive palpable nodule in taut bands. With trigger point dry needling, a doctor can provide treatment at a deep tissue or superficial level.
Superficial dry needling was a treatment modality created by Peter Baldry. When created, he recommended the insertion of needles of five to 10 mm over the MTrP for approximately 30 seconds. The palpation of the MTrP would then determine the total level of response and if needle stimulation was adequate to alleviate the MTrP pain. If it was not enough, then the needed would be reinserted.
The trigger point method is a type of dry needling technique that is designed to target myofascial trigger points. They are believed to be because of the excessive release of acetylcholine, which comes from some motor endplates. It is possible to divide these into latent and active myofascial trigger points.
Sometimes, active trigger points can trigger referred or local pain spontaneously. This will result in restricted ROM, and even some cases of muscle weakness. Latent trigger points will not result in any pain unless they have been stimulated. They could alter muscle activation patterns and could contribute to a restricted ROM. This means that both latent and active trigger points can result in allodynia at the site of the trigger point and also hyperalgesia, further away from the trigger point after pressure is applied.
Sometimes muscles develop knotted areas that are referred to as trigger points. They are highly sensitive and often painful when touched. They are also the cause of referred pain or pain that affects other parts of the body. During the dry needling process, a doctor will push thin but solid needs through the skin and into trigger points. The needles will help to stimulate the tissue, they are not designed to inject any type of medication.
Pain will affect the way that your body moves. It is believed that dry needling will change the muscles and brain, so they speak to one another and let the system return to a more set and normal pattern of movement.
Individuals may experience various sensations when they are being needled, aching, and muscle soreness, and even a muscle twitch when needles are inserted. This is considered a good sign and something that should be placed. The needles may be placed superficially or deeply for longer or shorter periods of time depending on the type of pain that is being treated and how long it has lasted. 

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