Treatments

Sport & Spine offers a variety of treatments with a focus on patient education. We specialize not only on treating the pain but determining where the pain originated and why.

  • Physiotherapy
    • Injury Assessment
    • Biomecanical Orthopaedic Assessment
    • Manual Therapy Techniques
    • Therapeutic modalities for management of pain and recovery
      • Laser
      • Ultrasound
      • Interferential Current
      • T.E.N.S.
      • Muscle Stimulation
      • Traction
    • I.M.S. (Intra Muscular Stimulation)
    • Therapeutic Taping
    • Sports Injuries
    • Work Injuries (WCB)
    • Automobile Injuries (ICBC)
    • Post Surgical (knee and hip replacements)
    • Back Pain
    • Shoulder and neck Pain
    • ETPS Therapy (Electro Therapeutic Point Stimulation Therapy) applies brief, concentrated DC micro-stimulation to acupuncture points that relate to specific muscles, tissues and nerves that isolate and then treat, root causes of pain.

 

  • Kinesiology:
    • Individual exercise prescription
    • Healthy lifestyles education
    • Spinal stability programs
    • Water therapy programs
    • Stretching programs
    • Exercise for mobility limitations/ailments
    • Sport specific training
    • Functional evaluations
    • Job demands analysis
    • Work place assessments
    • ICBC/WCB Rehabilitation in a medical setting
    • Ergonomic assessments

 

  • Massage Therapy:
    • Headache/migraines
    • Post injury rehabilitation
    • Post surgical rehabilitation
    • Sprains and strains
    • Fibromyalgia / chronic fatigue syndrome
    • Back pain
    • Tendinitis
    • Neck and shoulder tension
    • Muscle spasm
    • Pain due to pregnancy
    • Whiplash
    • Sports injuries
    • Temporomandibular joint pain
     
     
  • Functional Capacity Evaluations
    • A Functional Capacity Evaluation is an assessment for people who have sustained injuries that could affect their employment. The worker's ability to perform work and their physical tolerances to a variety of real and/or simulated work activities is assessed.

     

  • Rehabilitation Programs
    • Occupational Rehabilitation 1 Program (OR1P) - WCB
      This is a structured, active rehabilitation program focused on return to work through physical and functional conditioning. This program is directed by a physiotherapist and kinesiologist.
    • Work Hardening Program (WHP) –3rd Party eg.ICBC, Extended Health
      This is an interdisciplinary, individualized, job specific program of activity with the goal of return to work and life. The WHP uses real or simulated work tasks and progressively graded conditioning exercises that are based on the individual’s measured tolerance.