Physiotherapy in Concord

Physiotherapy is a degree-based healthcare profession. Physiotherapists use their knowledge of how the body moves to assess, treat and help prevent problems affecting your muscles, joints, nerves, heart and lungs. The goal is simple: help you get back to the activities that matter to you, and stay there.

Your physiotherapist looks at the whole picture: where it hurts, how you move, what you do day to day and what you want to get back to. From there, treatment usually combines hands-on techniques, exercise you can continue at home and, where appropriate, modalities such as shockwave, laser or interferential therapy.

Physiotherapy can help with conditions across several body systems:

• Neuromusculoskeletal: back pain, whiplash-associated disorders, sports injuries and arthritis
• Neurological: stroke, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's
• Respiratory: asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and cystic fibrosis
• Cardiovascular: chronic heart disease and rehabilitation after a heart attack

Patients come to us after sports injuries, car accidents, concussions, long days at a desk, or simply when an ache has hung around longer than it should.

We don't run an assembly-line treatment plan. Your physiotherapist does a quick evaluation at every visit to check that your plan still fits how you're progressing, then adjusts it.

Most plans combine three things: hands-on treatment such as manual therapy and soft-tissue work, individualized exercise that's taught and progressed in the clinic so you can carry it on at home or at the gym, and, where it helps, one of the treatments listed above, such as dry needling or shockwave therapy.