Physiotherapy NW Calgary University Heights

What is Physiotherapy?

Physiotherapy or “physical therapy” is a regulated healthcare profession and the terms physiotherapist and “physical therapist” are interchangeable. Our physiotherapists are highly trained at assessment and creating individualized treatment plans specific for each patient be it of the nerves, bones, joints, muscles, ligaments, and tendons and the injuries, diseases, or disabilities associated with these anatomical structures.

In a nutshell, physiotherapists can get you moving. We are trained to help people in a one-on-one approach to health and treatment to restore, maintain and maximize your strength, movement and function. Our physiotherapists also take an integrated team approach and are specialized with hands-on techniques to help alleviate pain and restore movement.

Effective Treatments

Exercise is the treatment that physiotherapists are most known for and is what consistently produces the best outcomes in research. Therapeutic exercise is what physiotherapists are experts at prescribing and is a staple health care treatment plan. When appropriate, our physiotherapists use many different hands-on techniques and intramuscular stimulation (IMS) in addition to therapeutic exercise. These specialized techniques can produce amazing improvements in pain, mobility, and function and can make it easier to perform therapeutic exercise.

How can physio help me?

We could go on for days about this. Here is a shortlist:

• Improve mobility
• Improve strength
• Help you breath easier
• Reduce pain
• Reduce pain and restore normal mobility in orthopedic conditions
• Neurological conditions
• Migraine headaches
• Prevent and injury management(e.g. sports injuries, shoulder injuries, occupational injuries, neck injuries, muscle injuries, motor vehicle accident injuries)
• Increase activity level
• Help with long term disability conditions

The list could go on. But the end goal of all of the above is pain relief, injury prevention, help you get back to your daily activities and improve your quality of life!

I have had physiotherapy before, and it didn’t work. Why choose Maximum Potential NW Calgary?

We hear this a lot. First of all, physiotherapy has changed a lot in the past decade (or two). You may be surprised by what you see now. Secondly (and most importantly), physiotherapy is not the same everywhere you go.

Although we wish that some things were consistent throughout the profession, diversity is a good thing! We highly recommend that you give physiotherapy another try. Just about every week we hear someone talk about how our clinic changed their perception (in a positive way) of physiotherapy.