What is physiotherapy?
Physiotherapy can help people affected by an injury, illness or disability through manual therapy, movement and exercise, education and advice. Physiotherapy is a treatment to restore, maintain, and make the most of patient’s mobility, function, and well-being. Physiotherapy helps through physical rehabilitation, injury prevention, and health and fitness.
Physiotherapists get you involved in your own recovery. Physiotherapy offers a range of specialized services of benefit to patients with acute or chronic conditions, accident/ slip and fall/ workplace/ athletic injuries, arthritic joints, pre and post surgical need.
Our practitioner, Pawandeep Kaur, will work with you individually to restore and maintain physical functionality that allows an independent life.
Benefits of physiotherapy
In addition to alleviating acute or chronic pain in various parts of the body (neck, lower back, shoulder, elbow, wrist, hips, knees, back, feet etc.), physiotherapy has several benefits.
Some of them are listed as below:
- Minimizes pain and inflammation
- Increases joint mobility and flexibility
- Improves posture
- Prevents injury
- Increases range of motion
- Increases strength and function
- Improves quality of life
- Improves balance and coordination
- Improves activities of daily life
What to expect during your physiotherapy session?
At the beginning of a session, Pawandeep Kaur, our registered physiotherapist at Better Living, will perform a detailed initial assessment. Once the assessment is done, our physiotherapist will provide the diagnosis and explain the root cause of your pain.
At this point and time, a specific and customized treatment plan would be planned for you. The physiotherapist would deliver the care in a one- on-one model and a hands on session would be performed based on your diagnosis.
The physiotherapist would also show some simple home exercise program to fasten your recovery. The initial assessment usually lasts 60 minutes. The duration for the follow up session can vary from 30 minutes to 60 minutes.
The cost of the treatment sessions is as below:
Initial Assessment and Treatment:
- (45 minutes) – $100.00
Follow up Treatments:
- (30 minutes) – $70.00
- (45 minutes) – $90.00