Physiotherapy

Physiotherapy is available at The Health First Group Mississauga, focusing on helping individuals suffering with musculoskeletal problems. 

Physiotherapy has been proven to help those with pain, stiffness or injury in their muscles or joints. 

Most Physiotherapy sessions are covered by your insurance provider if you carry a benefit plan. At The Health First Group Mississauga, we offer direct billing to ease your stress.

Our registered physiotherapists in Mississauga Millcreek have studied the science of movement, allowing them to locate an injury’s root cause. Thus, allowing for a faster resolution to your pain and suffering.

Releases Pain: If you suffer with chronic pain throughout your body, physiotherapy can help you manage and reduce pain. Some causes of your pain may include arthritis, fibromyalgia or be related to a previous injury. Physiotherapy can help alleviate pain by stimulating specific pressure points through activating the nerve endings. This can help you manage severe chronic pain or minor pain such as a dull headache.

Injury Prevention: If you’re an athlete or spending long hours on your feet, you may be at risk of injury. Physiotherapy ensures your muscles and joints are in-tune. This will also improve your movement pattern and increase balance. Injury prevention is especially important for high-impact athletes, as they’re at an increased risk of injury occurrence. If you or someone you know is prone to injury, it’s important to visit a local physiotherapist.

Improved Posture: It’s important that your spine is well taken care of, as it’s the support system for your entire body. If you’re in the office for long hours, improper ergonomics can impact your overall posture. Poor posture can cause you to become prone to injury and may cause pain in your back, shoulders or hips. Physiotherapy helps align your spine and improve your posture.

Added Flexibility: When the muscles in your body become tightened due to inactivity, it can reduce your flexibility. A physiotherapist can help alleviate the stiffness in your muscles, thus improving your overall flexibility. Your local physiotherapist can provide you with a detailed stretching and mobility routine. Doing these exercises consistently will help improve your flexibility.

Minimize Recovery Time: If you’ve previously suffered an injury or underwent a surgical procedure, physiotherapy can help you recover quicker. Often, after an injury or surgery, your muscles remain inactive for long periods of time. Your physiotherapist will ensure you’re able to properly recover your muscle strength and activity. It’s important this process is done correctly, as your body is sensitive after a painful injury or surgery and shouldn’t endure additional stress.

Range of Motion (ROM) Exercises: ROM exercises enable circulation through the encouragement of movement and joint mobility. This helps promote independence in the patient and improve their flexibility. Movement of joints allows the prevention of muscle atrophy. By improving how far you can move your joints in different directions, it allows you to move each joint to its full range of motion. Thus, reducing pain while improving your balance, flexibility and strength.

Soft Tissue Mobilization / Therapeutic Therapy: This is a common treatment offered to those with sports injuries, as it allows for the reduction of swelling and helps relax the muscles. Soft tissue mobilization is more of a hands-on approach used to optimize your muscle function. It can be used to help with tennis elbow, golf elbow, carpal tunnel syndrome, tendinitis of your biceps or rotator cuff, and contractures. In one study where 198 individuals diagnosed with tennis elbow for 6 weeks were treated, those that received mobilization therapy saw the most improvement.

Electrotherapy: As the name suggests, this treatment is an energy-based physiotherapy approach through electrical stimulation, preventing muscle atrophy. Electrotherapy also helps to relax muscle spasms, increase your blood circulation, increase your range of motion, repair tissues, strengthen muscles, and promote bone growth. All of which allow for an increase in your physical functioning.

Cryotherapy and Heat Therapy: You may have been told by your family doctor to heat or ice a part of your body if you have been feeling pain. This pain could be caused by stiffness in muscles or joints which is a common complaint of athletes and those who work desk jobs. Heat therapy can be done in a few ways, such as with a hot water bottle, ultrasound, heat pad, whirlpool baths, heat therapy wraps, hot cloths or even hydrocollator packs. On the other hand, cryotherapy lowers your tissue temperature and slows down the blood which may be collecting in the tissues. This is done by icing an area, cold water immersion, ice bath and so forth.

Kinesio Taping: Kinesio taping allows for the alleviation of pain and healing in soft tissues through its application on manually stretched skin above the injury area.

Therapeutic Ultrasound: This method is basically an ultrasound which is used for therapeutic purposes to heal tissues. Ultrasounds are usually used to help speed the healing and further the quality of repair.

Physiotherapists study the science of movement. Through these studies they can determine an injury’s root cause.

Physiotherapists treat issues which may have been caused by an injury, disability, or disease.

Our registered physiotherapists focus on the prevention and rehabilitation of your injury. They can treat conditions such as:

At The Health First Group Mississauga, we ensure every patient is treated with the utmost care. Every appointment is about you and your needs, with your treatment plan uniquely catered to you.

Here are some general pointers:

• Our registered physiotherapist learns about your medical history
• We assess and diagnose your musculoskeletal problems
• A treatment plan with goals is created for you
• We prescribe you exercises and assistive devices (If applicable)

MISSISSAUGA – MILLCREEK

6981 Millcreek Drive, Unit 8
Mississauga, Ontario, L5N 6B8

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Mississauga, Ontario, L5R 3L7

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