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What Is Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy?
Pelvic floor physiotherapy is a specialized area of physical therapy that focuses on the muscles, ligaments, and connective tissues that support the pelvic organs. These muscles play an important role in bladder and bowel control, core stability, posture, sexual...
Navigating Hip, Knee, and Back Pain in Ottawa: How Rapid Access Clinics and Physiotherapy Can Help
Living with ongoing hip, knee, or low back pain can wear you down—not just physically, but mentally too. The good news? If you’re an Ontario resident, there are programs designed to help you get expert advice and move forward faster. Rapid Access Clinics (RACs) are...
Tissue Tolerance: Often the most important factor in reducing your pain and improving your function
Injuries can result from immediate trauma, such as an ankle sprain, or from repetitive overuse, such as ‘tennis elbow’ or ‘rotator cuff tendinopathy.’ Other injuries may not seem to have any obvious cause (chronic or recurrent neck pain, shoulder pain, elbow pain, low...
Physiotherapy via Video Appointments (Telehealth/Virtual appointments)
With the current public health recommendations in light of the COVID-19 pandemic we find ourselves in an unprecedented situation. For many people life has essentially been put on hold. The ministry of health has asked the public to practice social distancing and that...
What is the Difference Between Tendinitis, Tendinosis and Tendinopathy?
What’s in a Name? Tendinitis vs Tendinosis vs Tendinopathy… Tendinopathy is the general term that is now used to describe most tendon problems. The reason for the use of the term is that is remains uncertain what the exact mechanism is that creates the clinical...
What is the Best Treatment for Osteoarthritis? Physiotherapist Allen Hicks Explains
Osteoarthritis is a clinical diagnosis. It should not be made just from viewing diagnostic images. Degenerative changes in our bones and joints happens with age. It happens at different rates in all of us. There are not direct correlations between symptoms and...
What makes Evolution Physiotherapy a leader in physiotherapy and rehabilitation?
There are many physiotherapy clinics, and there are even more clinics that provide rehabilitation. Rehabilitation can be provided by a broad group of health care professionals, including: physiotherapists, chiropractors, athletic therapists, physicians, osteopaths,...
Physiotherapist Allen Hicks Explains why “Exercise is your Medicine”
Exercise is Medicine May is both National Physiotherapy month and Exercise is Medicine® month. This makes May the ideal month to highlight the importance of increased physical activity in our everyday lives! If there was a drug that could reduce your risk for heart...
I’m in Pain! Who Should I see? What Type of Treatment Do I Need?
You’re Not The Only Person Who Is in Pain; Get Help That’s Proven to Work! The majority of people who consider a physiotherapy consultation do so because they have pain. Pain will affect the way you move. The way you move will affect your pain. It can be a vicious...
How Do I get the Right Coaching and Exercise Program with Results?
Exercise – Prescribing the Right Program and Coaching for Results Some healthcare providers offer only two answers regarding exercises and activities You can’t do anything You can do whatever you want What about the 98% that falls in between these two extreme and...