Get Going with Physiotherapy and Sports Rehab in North Bay
Owing to their rigorous training schedules and physical activities, sportsmen can accrue a lot of injuries, including musculoskeletal injuries. Football has the highest incidences of catastrophic injuries, with gymnastics and ice hockey close behind. At Premier Physical Therapy and Sports Rehab in North Bay, we help you recover from such injuries so that you can get up and get back on track. We also provide rehabilitation that helps in limiting the injuries, reduces the impairment, and corrects the disability. Our services also include pediatric therapy, where we work on improving gross motor skills in newborns through adolescents to increase overall independence and mobility. Reach out to us for assistance.
Physiotherapy
To augment our physiotherapy techniques, including massage, fascial release, exercise, education, and more, we use several modalities such as ultrasound, electrical stimulation, transcutaneous stimulation and acupuncture, used in conjunction. The following are the benefits of physiotherapy:
Pain reduction
Improved mobility
Improved strength balance
Education to learn about your body to prevent recurring injuries
Sports Rehab
Rehabilitation is the restoration of the optimal form (anatomy) and function (physiology). At Premier Physical Therapy and Sports Rehab, we help you cure tissue injuries which are also pretty common amongst sportspersons and can be classified as macro-traumatic and micro-traumatic.
Macro-traumatic injuries are led by a strong force. It could be a fall, accident, collision or laceration. It is more common in contact sports such as football and rugby. These injuries can be primary (due to direct tissue damage) or secondary (due to transmission of forces or release of inflammatory mediators and other cytokines).
Micro-traumatic injuries are chronic injuries. They result from excessive use of a structure such as a muscle, joint, ligament, or tendon. This type of injury is more common in sports such as swimming, cycling and rowing.
We help alleviate these problems through rehabilitation. It should start as early as possible after an injury and form a continuum with other therapeutic interventions. It can also start before or immediately after surgery when an injury requires surgical intervention.
Rehabilitation Plan
The ultimate goal of the rehabilitation process is to limit the extent of the injury, reduce or reverse the impairment and functional loss, and prevent, correct or eliminate the disability altogether.
Multidisciplinary Approach
The physical therapist, in this case, works closely with the athlete and the coach to establish the rehabilitation goals, discuss the progress resulting from the various interventions, and establish the time frame for the return of the athlete to training and competition.
Communication is a vital factor. A lack of communication between medical providers, strength and conditioning specialists, and team coaches can slow or prevent athletes from returning to peak capacity and increase the risk of new injuries and even more devastating re-injuries.
Principles
Principles are the foundation upon which rehabilitation is based. Here are seven principles of rehabilitation, which can be remembered by the mnemonic ATC IS IT:
A: Avoid aggravation.
It is important not to aggravate the injury during the rehabilitation process.
T: Timing.
The therapeutic exercise portion of the rehabilitation program should begin as soon as possible—that is, as soon as it can occur without causing aggravation. The sooner patients can begin the exercise portion of the rehabilitation program, the sooner they can return to full activity. Following injury, rest is necessary, but too much rest can actually be detrimental to recovery. Athletes can, however, rest the portion of the body that is actually injured and work the rest of the body, often referred to as “relative rest”.
C: Compliance.
Without a compliant patient, the rehabilitation program will not be successful. To ensure compliance, it is important to inform the patient of the content of the program and the expected course of rehabilitation. Setting goals and including athletes in decision-making thereby increases focus, endurance, and direction for the athletes to continue.
I: Individualization
S: Specific sequencing.
A therapeutic exercise program should follow a specific sequence of events. This specific sequence is determined by the body’s physiological healing response.
I: Intensity.
The intensity level of the therapeutic exercise program must challenge the patient and the injured area but at the same time must not cause aggravation. Knowing when to increase intensity without overtaxing the injury requires observation of the patient’s response and consideration of the healing process.
T: Total patient.
Treating the Whole Patient. It is important for the unaffected areas of the body to stay finely tuned. This means keeping the cardiovascular system at a pre-injury level and maintaining the range of motion, strength, coordination, and muscle endurance of the uninjured limbs and joints.
Advanced Stage of Rehabilitation
After the replacement of damaged tissue with collagen fibres, the body can remodel and strengthen the new tissue. Understanding the demands of the particular sport becomes essential as well as communication with the coach becomes imperative during this phase. This phase also represents an opportunity to identify and correct risk factors. We help in reducing the possibility of re-injury through therapy.
Functional Training
Through clinic-based and sport-specific functional techniques, we provide an individualized, sports-specific rehabilitation protocol for every athlete. Examples of functional training include joint angle-specific strengthening, velocity-specific muscle activity, closed kinetic chain exercises, and exercises designed to further enhance neuromuscular control. Strengthening should transition from general exercises to sport-specific exercises designed to replicate movements common in given sports.
Return to Sport
At some point in the recovery process, athletes return to strength and conditioning programs and resume sport-specific activities in preparation for return to play. The preparation for competition requires the restoration of strength, power, speed, agility, and endurance at levels exhibited in sport.
Return to play is defined as the process of deciding when an injured or ill athlete may safely return to practice or competition. Early return to training and sport are considered sensible goals if the rate of return is based on the affected muscle, the severity of the injury and the position of the athlete.
Monitoring
Monitoring athlete well-being is essential to guide training and to detect any progression towards negative health outcomes and associated poor performance. Objective (performance, physiological, biochemical) and subjective measures(mood disturbance, perceived stress and recovery and symptoms of stress) are all options for athlete monitoring. Appropriate load monitoring can aid in determining whether an athlete is adapting to a training program and in minimizing the risk of developing non-functional overreaching, illness, and/or injury.
Pediatric Care
As pediatric physical therapists, we perform assessments of age-appropriate gross motor tasks. According to the outcomes of the assessment, we have tailor-made treatment for each child. We help kids improve their overall motor skills and correct their movement and posture.
How Is Pediatric Physical Therapy Different from Adult Physical Therapy?
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Pediatric physical therapy is largely play-based with structured and unstructured activities.
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Pediatric physical therapists are specialists in childhood development as well as childhood disorders and diseases that are associated with movement dysfunction and motor skill difficulty. They use everyday objects and specialized equipment to challenge each individual to reach their full potential.
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Families play an important role in therapy, collaborating with the therapist to create an individualized program. Parent education and support is also an important component of pediatric physical therapy.
What Are the Goals of Physical Therapy?
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Help children reach their full potential and become as functionally independent as possible.
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Increase participation with peers.
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Improve motor skills and motor planning.
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Improve balance and stability.
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Increase strength.
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Promote safety, health, and wellness.
What Physical Therapy Interventions May Include?
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Therapeutic exercise
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Parent/caregiver education and training
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Functional mobility training
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Adaptive equipment and assistive technology recommendations and training
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Range of motion exercises
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Proprioception/balance training
