Manual Therapy
Manual therapy, or manipulative therapy, is a physical treatment primarily used by physical therapists, physiotherapists to treat musculoskeletal pain and disability; it mostly includes kneading and manipulation of muscles, joint mobilization and joint manipulation. It's also used by chiropractors, athletic trainers, osteopaths, and Sports physicians.Moist Heat Therapy
Moist heat therapy can be can be applied by either taking a hot bath, or using a steamed towel or moist heat pack. Using moist heat therapy is more effective than dry heat in the healing of deep tissues. It can penetrate further than just the surface area as compared to dry heat therapy. It is also fast acting. Patients being treated with moist heat therapy can quickly feel the heat treatment and feel pain relief throughout the body.Ortho Rigid Taping
Moist heat therapy can be can be applied by either taking a hot bath, or using a steamed towel or moist heat pack. Using moist heat therapy is more effective than dry heat in the healing of deep tissues. It can penetrate further than just the surface area as compared to dry heat therapy. It is also fast acting. Patients being treated with moist heat therapy can quickly feel the heat treatment and feel pain relief throughout the body.Spinal Injury Management
The spinal cord is a bundle of nerves that sends messages from the brain to other parts of the body. It is vital to a person’s ability to feel and control various body parts, such as the arms, legs, and bladder. There is no cure for a spinal cord injury. However, Physiotherapy rehabilitation and adaptive devices can help a person gain more independence and improve their quality of life.Neuro Developmental Skill Training
This therapy uses guided or facilitated movements as a treatment strategy to ensure correlation of input from tactile, vestibular, and somatosensory receptors within the body. NDT was developed with the understanding that patients with brain injuries have a limited repertoire of movement patterns. During treatment interventions, repeated experience in movement ensures that a particular pattern is readily accessible for motor performance. The more a patient performs certain movements, the easier these movements become. Without NDT interventions, the patient likely will develop a limited set of movement patterns that he or she will apply to nearly all tasks. NDT should begin before such generalized movement synergies become hard-wired in the patient's brain.Progressive Exercise Program
Progressive resistance training (PRT) is often used to increase muscle strength. During the exercise, participants exercise their muscles against some type of resistance that is progressively increased as strength improves. Common equipment used for PRT includes exercise machines, free weights, and elastic bands.Dry Needling
Trigger-point dry needling is an invasive procedure where a fine needle or acupuncture needle is inserted into the skin and muscle. It is aimed at myofascial trigger points (MTrP) which are hyperirritable spots in skeletal muscle that are associated with a hypersensitive palpable nodule in a taut band.Trigger point dry needling can be carried out at superficial or deep tissue level.Musculoskeletal Screening
Musculoskeletal Screenings involve targeted tests of muscle lengths, strengths and assessment of sporting technique that are relevant to the sport the person is participating in. They allow factors predisposing an athlete to injury or a performance hindrance to be highlighted and corrected. Screenings can also involve the use of sport specific fitness testing to ascertain the athletes’ preparation for their sport. Comparing the data from these tests to “normal” values and those that have been shown to pre-dispose to injury allows us to quickly identify areas of concern. This is feed back to the patient and/or coach is an easy to digest format that allows all parties to realise the areas that need to be worked on, with corrective exercises provided.Stroke Management and Rehab
Rehabilitation is the therapy and activities that drive the post stroke recovery. It helps to re-learn or find new ways of doing things that were affected by stroke. It aims to stimulate brain’s ability to change and adapt, which is called neuroplasticity. By creating new brain pathways, patients may learn to use other parts of their brain to recover the functions of those parts that were affected by stroke.Bobath
Bobath is a type of physiotherapy treatment which aims to improve movement and mobility in patients with damage to their central nervous system (brain and spinal cord).Balance And Coordination Training
Balance and coordination training can improve stability in older people to help prevent falls and injuries. Just as athletes can train their bodies, seniors can use exercise programs and moves that focus on balance to reduce and prevent falls.Electrotherapy
Electrotherapy uses electrical signals to interfere with the transmission of neural pain signals into the brain. It effectively slows down or distracts the message from the nerve to the brain. From a physiotherapy point of view, affecting one’s ‘Pain Gate’, whether in an acute or chronic pain episode, is crucial area of treatment and electrotherapy is a very useful resource where conventional medicines are not as affective. Electrotherapy can also involve the use of this electric current to speed tissue healing where tissue damage has occurred. It Includes TENS, IFT, Therapeutic Ultrasound.Sports Taping
Sports Athletic taping is the process of applying tape directly to the skin or over prewrap in order to maintain a stable position of bones and muscles during athletic activity. It is a procedure that uses athletic tape, attached to the skin, to physically hold muscles or bones at a certain position.Prehab (Injury Prevention)
Prehab is participation in therapy based movements and exercises in order to avoid injury, decrease pain or to prepare for a surgery. It is known as a proactive approach and can address deficits in strength, stability, range of motion, balance and overall joint function. It is common prior to a surgery or procedure in order to enhance recovery. It can be used as a preventative mechanism to decrease the risk of injury and/or to optimize your functional ability and quality of life. Prehab can include exercises for general strength/conditioning, sports performance or overall prevention of injury.Hand Rehabilitation
Hand therapy is the art and science of rehabilitation of the upper limb, which includes the hand, wrist, elbow and shoulder girdle. It is a merging of Physiotherapy and occupational therapy theory and practice that combines comprehensive knowledge of the structure of the upper limb with function and activity. Using specialized skills in assessment, planning and treatment, hand therapists provide therapeutic interventions to prevent dysfunction restore function and/or reverse the progression of pathology of the upper limb in order to enhance an individual's ability to execute tasks and to participate fully in life situations.Locomotion Training
Locomotor Training is based of how the brain and spinal cord control stepping and how the nervous system learns a motor skill. The ultimate goal is to retrain participants to stand and walk again. Locomotor Training is delivered in a systematic and standardized way across all NRN centers using three training components:Step training
Overground walking training
Community ambulation training