Physiotherapy & Athletic Therapy

Physiotherapy is a science-based profession which helps people affected by injury, illness and disability. At Arbeau Sports Medicine Centre, we like to treat the person as a whole, addressing the injury in addition to each person’s general lifestyle, health and fitness. By doing this, we strive to get to the root cause of your problem and help eliminate contributing factors allowing you to return to sport or to simply fully enjoy your normal activities in daily life.

The therapist will aim to relieve pain and restore range of movement and normal movement patterns to allow full resolution of your issue, or if this is not possible, to help alleviate and manage your symptoms. Through education, advice and exercise the therapist will also provide you with the knowledge to continue with individually tailored home exercises alongside a management program to help prevent recurrence of the injury.

Physio and athletic therapy can help people of all ages from a young infant to the elderly. They commonly treat sports injuries, post-surgical rehab and overuse injuries as well as those suffering from neck and back pain. Physio and Athletic therapy can be used to help all muscle, ligament, tendon and joint problems including:

• Acute injuries such as ligament sprains or muscle strains

• Post-surgical rehabilitation

• Sporting injuries including specific return to sport rehabilitation

• Post fracture rehabilitation

• Tendinopathies eg. Achilles, patella or tennis elbow

• Shoulder problems such as impingement or rotator cuff tears

• Knee, ankle or foot pain

• “Shin Splints” 

• Overuse injuries

What you can expect during therapy at ASMC:

• Evidence-based and individualized care

• One-on-one care, 1-hour assessments and 30-minute follow up appointments

• Education on self-management strategies to manage pain and dysfunction

• Individualized exercises to be performed in-clinic with your therapist and comprehensive home exercise programs

• Hands-on treatment with targeted manual therapy techniques including joint mobilizations, and soft-tissue mobilization