5 reasons to see a All Care Physiotherapist
1. You have pain or injury.
You are sore, it hurts. The pain is limiting some part of your life, whether it is the ability to walk, sit, bend over, run after the kids or play sport. The pain has not settled after a day or two. Something is wrong and you need to find out what is causing it and why it happened. This is where having an appointment with an All Care Physio will help you answer these questions.
Musculoskeletal pain (from joints, muscles, bone or ligaments) is normally either as a direct result of an injury or more commonly due to a repetitive overload on some part of your body resulting in pain.
Our Physios are experts in both the assessment of what is injured and why that injury or pain occurred in the first place. The good news is our long-term treatment solution is to address the factors that have lead to you to feel pain in the first place.
Our motto is to “get our clients out of pain and back into what they want to do in life”. So whether you have a sprained ankle or a sore back we are ready to help you recover today. Call now to book an appointment.
2. Prevention of injury
The secret to not suffering an injury is to prevent it. Sounds simple and it is if you know what to look for. And the good news is prevention of injury is not just for sports people. Our skill set is to provide an assessment that drills down and targets the underlying factors that may result in an injury to you in the future.
Let’s use back neck or back pain as an example. The statistics are that 90% of the population with suffer from at least one episode of neck or back pain in their lives. We know that if you are to avoid suffering an acute episode of back or neck pain, you will need to have good postural control, muscular strength, and flexibility where it is needed and know the lifestyle hacks that make a real difference over your lifetime. Having an assessment with an All Care Physio will provide you with the right exercises and advice to help you in the future.
So, whether you play sport or are an office worker, an All Care Physio assessment is an essential part of maintaining a healthy and pain free lifestyle. Call today for an appointment.
3. Pre and post pregnancy
Pregnancy involves changes to your body and adaptation that can lead to stresses on your body’s muscle and ligament system. Signs and symptoms of back pain, pelvic pain, wrist pain, carpal tunnel syndrome and pelvic floor dysfunction are common during pregnancy and we can help improve and manage you through your pregnancy with these conditions.
Having a check up with an All Care Physio during the second trimester and third trimester can effectively help treat any pregnancy related conditions and help you prepare your body for birth. Muscle retraining of your low abdominals and pelvic floor muscles has been shown to decrease the incidence of urinary incontinence by 62% if you start a pelvic floor programme early in your pregnancy. Preparing the pelvic floor for birth with specific techniques can also significantly reduce your risk of pelvic floor injury, perineal trauma and need for episiotomy during birth.
It is highly recommended by many healthcare providers to have a physiotherapy pelvic floor check- up 6 weeks after you give birth, no matter if it’s vaginally or via c-section. This is to ensure you are healing and recovering properly and to guide you safely back into normal exercise, lifting and life activities without risk of further injury, incontinence or prolapse later in life.
Seeing an All Care Physiotherapist during and after pregnancy is important for your recovery so you can enjoy your new baby in good health.
4. Vertigo or dizziness
Your dizziness may be as a result of a dysfunction of your inner ear canals with displacement of crystals leading to your symptoms. Many people brush their vertigo or dizzy symptoms aside as something to just “put up with” and then stop their favourite activity like dancing, yoga or change their sleeping position because of it. Do not just put up with these symptoms – vestibular physiotherapy can improve and completely resolve many causes of vertigo and dizziness. You can dance, flip upside-down and lay flat once again!
Our All CareVestibular physiotherapists are trained with specialised equipment to pinpoint and diagnose what is causing your dizziness and use pain-free, non-invasive techniques and exercises to have you feeling like your normal self again in a few treatments.
If you are suffering dizziness, call today for an appointment with our vestibular physiotherapists.
5. Headaches
Headaches come in many forms and affect everyone slightly differently. Many headaches actually stem from neck pain or tension and stiffness in the joints of the neck. Our Physiotherapists are highly trained in assessing and treating various forms of headaches, neck pain, whiplash, concussion and jaw pain (that can all contribute to headaches) and implement an effective treatment plan for you to have long term relief.