Physiotherapy

Acute and chronic pain causes guarding resulting in tightness or spasm. Over long periods of time this can cause tight/ unbalanced muscles and fascia, this can also be linked with weakness. It is important to retrain the body to normal activities of daily living including work and recreational health. With these types of pain you tend to move less, so you become less fit and less flexible. Unfortunately this can increase your pain. Physiotherapy helps to break this cycle. 

Physiotherapy can relieve pain, promote healing, and help you move and function better, they are trained in evidence based pain management principles. 

Apart from manual techniques, different modalities of treatment are used. This includes acupuncture, dry needling,  heat/cold, and TENS. It is also important to always include exercises, curated specifically to improve your individual work and exercise tolerance. 

Physiotherapy can treat many musculo-facial-skeletal disorders:

  1. Acute and chronic pain

  2. Joints, muscles and fascial restrictions

  3. TMJ (temporomandibular)

  4. Headaches

  5. Lower back pain

  6. Ergonomic assessments

  7. Post trauma and surgical rehabilitation

  8. Work and exercise hardening

  9. Sports specific rehabilitation 

  10. Stability exercises

  11. Physical manifestations of stress

Treatment Modalities include:

  1. Myofascial release

  2. Joint mobilization 

  3. Exercise prescription

  4. Acupuncture

  5. Dry needling

  6. Cupping

  7. Body scan mindfulness

  8. Coping/resilience strategies