Physiotherapy

Physiotherapy is a health care profession providing services to develop, maintain and restore maximum movement and functional ability throughout a person’s lifespan.

Physiotherapists are able to provide a diagnoses and therapeutic intervention.

They evaluate your physical function, abilities, needs and limitations considering your environmental and life style factors. They develop personalized treatment plan to help you maintain, resolve or maximize your mobility, strength and endurance while relieving your pain.

Common Conditions Treated Include:

Low Back Pain

• Disc & Nerve Injury
• Muscle Strain
• Work related
• spinal stability

Neck Pain

• Disc & Nerve Injury
• Muscle Strain
• Work and Ergonomic Related

Lower Body

• Hip Pain
  • Bursitis
  • Muscle Imbalance
  • Post operative hip replacement
• Knee Pain
  
  • ACL injury
  • Cartilage/Meniscus injury
  • hamstrings/quadriceps injury
  • muscle imbalance
  • post operative knee replacement
• Foot & Ankle
  • Ankle sprains
  • Plantar fasciitis
  • Fallen Arches
  • heel pain

Upper Body

• Shoulder
  • Rotator cuff injury & post operative rehabilitation
  • Bursitis & Tendonitis
  • AC joint injury and separation
  • Shoulder dislocation
  • Muscle Imbalance
• Elbow
  • Tennis Elbow
  • Golfers Elbow
  • Strains & Sprains
• Hand & Wrist
  • Carpal tunnel syndrome
  • Wrist fracture care and rehabilitation
  • Wrist sprains
  • Tendonitis
  • Tenosynovitis

Running related injuries

• • Shin Splints
  • Plantar fasciitis
  • Hip pain
  • IT band syndrome
  • Patellar Tendonitis

Motor Vehicle Accident & Personal Injury

Work related injuries

• ProActive Physiotherapy is a registered provider of physiotherapy with The Workplace Health and Safety Compensation Commission (WHSCC) of Newfoundland and Labrador

What to expect when you arrive the first time?

• Initial assessments and consults are approximately 1 hour in length
• Arrive a few minutues early to fill in appropriate paperwork
• Wear or bring comfortble clothing that you can easily move in for assessment.
• Depending on the therapist's biomechanical assessment, you may start with exercise prescription right away or have clnical treatment. The therapist will determine an appropriate  treatment plan once the initial biomechanical assessment has been completed.
• The therapist will provide you with information gathered from the initial assessment and explain and advise you on your condition, treatment plan and fequency of further physiotherapy treatment sessions required to appropriately treat and address your individual condition.
• Future treatment sessions are approximately 45 minutes in length.

As always, feel free to email or call for further information!

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