Vancouver Physiotherapy Clinic

Manual therapy puts skilled hands to work on your joints and soft tissues directly. Our physiotherapists use specific techniques to mobilize stiff joints, release tight muscles, and restore normal movement patterns. These hands-on methods complement your exercise program, often providing immediate improvements in how you move and feel. Manual therapy isn't just massage but targeted treatment based on thorough assessment of your movement dysfunction. It's a core part of how we help you recover and get better.

Living with pain that persists beyond normal healing time requires a different approach than acute injury treatment. We help you understand your pain, identify factors that make it worse, and develop strategies for managing flare-ups effectively. Treatment addresses physical contributors while also considering sleep, stress, and activity patterns that influence chronic pain conditions. Our goal is helping you function better and do more of what matters, even while we work on reducing pain over the long term.

The right exercises accelerate your recovery and prevent problems from returning in the future. We design personalized programs based on your specific condition, goals, and current fitness level. Every exercise serves a purpose, whether building strength, improving flexibility, or correcting movement patterns that contribute to pain. We teach you proper form, progress your program as you improve, and adjust when needed. Your exercise prescription is a key part of treatment that empowers you to take charge of your recovery.

Dizziness, vertigo, and balance problems often stem from your vestibular system, the motion sensors located in your inner ear. Vestibular rehabilitation uses specific exercises and movements to retrain how your brain processes balance information. Treatment varies depending on your diagnosis but typically involves progressive exercises that challenge your system and promote adaptation. Many patients see significant improvement in their symptoms, often faster than they expect from this specialized treatment approach.

Concussion recovery requires careful management and gradual return to activity over the appropriate timeframe. We assess your symptoms, identify what's driving ongoing problems, and guide you through a structured recovery protocol. Treatment may address neck issues, vestibular dysfunction, visual problems, or other factors contributing to your symptoms. We monitor your progress and advance your activity level safely, whether you're returning to school, work, sport, or daily life after sustaining a head injury.

Good balance prevents falls and supports confident movement through all of your daily life activities. Our balance training programs assess your current stability and progressively challenge your system to improve. Training targets the sensory, muscular, and neurological components of balance. Whether you're an older adult concerned about fall risk, recovering from injury, or an athlete wanting better body control, improved balance makes everything you do easier, safer, and more confident overall.

Why wait for pain when you can prevent it from developing in the first place? Our injury prevention assessments identify movement patterns, muscle imbalances, and flexibility limitations that increase your injury risk. We then design programs addressing these vulnerabilities before they become painful problems. This proactive approach suits athletes wanting to stay healthy through training, workers with physically demanding jobs, or anyone who's had recurring injuries and wants to finally break that frustrating cycle.

Getting back to sport safely requires more than just being pain-free after your injury heals fully. Our return to sport programs test your readiness with sport-specific movements and address any remaining deficits in strength or mobility. We progress you through running, jumping, cutting, and other athletic demands to ensure your body can handle what your sport requires. The goal is confident return to full participation with reduced risk of re-injury. We don't clear you until you're truly ready.

Your workstation setup directly affects how your body feels throughout each day at work. Poor ergonomics contribute to neck pain, back problems, and repetitive strain injuries over time. We evaluate how you sit, position your monitor, use your keyboard, and organize your workspace. Then we provide practical recommendations you can implement immediately. Small adjustments often make big differences in comfort and injury prevention. We also address movement breaks and habits that reduce strain from desk work.

Whiplash from car accidents or trauma affects more than just your neck and can impact your whole body. We assess the full impact of your injury, including neck mobility, muscle guarding, headaches, and any neurological symptoms. Treatment combines gentle manual therapy to restore movement, exercises to rebuild strength and stability, and education about recovery expectations. Most whiplash injuries improve significantly with proper treatment, though recovery timelines vary based on injury severity and individual factors.

Arthritis doesn't mean you have to stop moving. In fact, the right movement helps manage symptoms and maintain joint health over the long term. We design exercise programs that strengthen muscles supporting arthritic joints while respecting your pain levels. Manual therapy can improve mobility and reduce stiffness effectively. Treatment also includes strategies for pacing activities and protecting joints during daily tasks. Our goal is helping you stay active and functional despite arthritis changes in your joints.