Our treatments
What treatments are available at Motion Matters?
A physiotherapy treatment session at Motion Matters may involve a variety of modalities:
- Acupuncture and Trigger Point Dry Needling
- Manual therapy
- Exercise prescription and core strengthening
- Injury prevention
- Pain management
- Gait retraining
- Massage therapy
- Postural re-education
- Interferential current
- Low Level LASER therapy
- Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation (NMES)
- Spinal traction
- T.E.N.S.
- Ultrasound therapy
- Prenatal exercise sessions
- Postnatal exercise sessions
What conditions can benefit from physiotherapy?
The positive effects of physiotherapy have been well documented in the successful treatment of:
- Acute, chronic or postoperative pain
- Arthritis
- Back and neck pain
- Capsulitis and Frozen Shoulders
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS)
- Disc Disease or herniation
- Scar tissue
- Stiffness
- Muscle spasms and strains
- Myofascial disorders
- PatelloFemoral Syndrome (PFS)
- Plantar Fascitis
- Radiating pain, numbness and nerve root irritation
- Tendonitis and bursitis
- TMJ Disorders
What are the clinical scientific effects of physiotherapy treatment?
Each physiotherapy treatment option offered at Motion Matters has its own combination of therapeutic effects. The following clinical effects of physiotherapy are scientifically documented to:
- Encourage nerve stimulation, regeneration and cell repair
- Improve microcirculation and revascularization
- Improve muscle relaxation and soft tissue and joint healing
- Promote inhibition of pain
- Soften and reduce scar tissues and contractures
In your words
"Motion Matters offers the most highly skilled physiotherapists, innovative techniques and equipment and have helped me to improve and manage my limitations."
"I had a chronic rotator cuff and I'd been to a half a dozen clinics in Ottawa looking for help. Finally, I found Joëlle Segers [at Motion Matters]."
News
Session 3 of RetroFit starts April 16th, 2012 and runs for 10 weeks. Please see our promotion section for more information.
With spring upon us, now is the time to get ready for the running season. Book an appointment to have our trained physiotherapists help you run pain-free. See our promotions section for more details.
We are excited to announce our newest physiotherapist, Natalie Morris! Do not hesitate to phone us to get more information or to book an appointment with her.
Motion Matters is sad to see our massage therapist Sue Harris leave our clinic. Good luck to her. We also would like to inform our clients that our physiotherapist Monate, who is expecting her second child at the end of April will be on maternity leave for a year.
Congratulations to Cindy Thibodeau on receiving her Diploma of Manual and Manipulative Therapy (formally known as Part B). Way to go!
