Physiotherapy
At Active Balance Physiotherapy Studio, our physiotherapists are experts in analyzing movement patterns and creating individualized treatment programs that help you accomplish your goals. We value the importance of a holistic approach to determine the root cause of your symptoms. By listening to your story, understanding your goals, and providing a hands-on assessment, we are able to determine the primary underlying cause of your injuries. We use hands-on physiotherapy treatment, movement retraining, exercise prescription, therapeutic modalities, taping, and coaching to normalize our clients’ body biomechanics and kinetics to create effective, connected, and efficient body performance.
Your session may include one or more of the following:
- Joint mobilization or manipulation
- Soft tissue release, myofascial manipulation and deep tissue massage
- Mechanical traction
- Interferential current (IFC) or TENS
- Ultrasound
- Dry Needling (IMS)
- Taping
- Cryotherapy or Heat therapy
- Exercise therapy
- Personalized home exercise programs
What do physiotherapists treat?
Sprains, strains, & aches
Sports injuries & performance
Pre- & post-operative rehabilitation
Neck and back pain
Rotator cuff and shoulder pain
Balance & falls prevention
Oncology rehab
Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) dysfunction & jaw pain
Movement dysfunction
Pregnancy & postpartum
And so much more...
Physiotherapy
Our Physiotherapists are trained to diagnose injuries and implement individualized treatment plans. By listening to your story, understanding your goals, and providing a hands-on assessment, we are able to determine the primary underlying cause of your injuries. We use hands-on physiotherapy treatment, movement retraining, exercise prescription, therapeutic modalities, taping, and coaching to normalize our clients’ body biomechanics and kinetics to create effective, connected, and efficient body performance.
Our physiotherapists at Active Balance Physiotherapy Studio use a hands-on and active approach to address your injuries from sport. We are experts in assessing your technique and designing sport specific exercise programs to optimize your movement patterns, build your strength, improve your endurance and get you feeling better. We will correct your compensatory strategies and optimize your mechanics to keep you efficient and injury free in the sport you love.
Staying on track with your exercise program is essential to well-being, healthy aging, optimized performance, and lifelong pain-free activities! Therapeutic exercise is facilitated by your physiotherapist and sessions are provided by Kinesiology graduates or students. These sessions are designed to augment your physiotherapy program.
We will guide you in achieving a variety of health goals through:
- Individual training
- Virtual group fitness classes
- Correcting your technique
- Balance & falls prevention
- Core strengthening & stability
- Strength, mobility, & cardio
- Personalized home exercise programs specific to your hobbies, sports, or activities of daily living
- Training plans for grandfondos, marathons, triathlons, bike trips, hiking expeditions, and walking trips
Pelvic Floor Physiotherapists assess and treat conditions that involve the muscles located at the base of the pelvis. These muscles control the function of the urinary, bowel and sexual organs as well as being contributors to your overall core stability. Like other muscles, we can improve strength, endurance, and coordination of pelvic floor muscles. We treat incontinence, urgency, pelvic pain, prolapse, diastasis recti (separation of the abdominals), low back and hip pain originating from the pelvis, post-surgical (prolapse, hysterectomy, oncology) rehabilitation, pregnancy and postpartum symptoms and many other conditions. Pelvic floor dysfunction can affect all people and is not limited to elderly or pregnant people. Pelvic health dysfunction is not a natural part of aging nor is it considered “normal.”
Vestibular therapy and vertigo treatment includes a thorough assessment of your vestibular system including benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) tests, eye-tracking tests, and balance and gait assessments. With the results, they will develop a customized treatment plan to minimize vertigo, dizziness, imbalance, and falls. A treatment plan might include the Epley maneuver, gaze stability exercises, balance retraining, hands-on treatment, aerobic exercise, and/or recommendations around planning and pacing. Our goal is to help you return to the activities you love.
Dry needling (also referred to as IMS) involves inserting a monofilament needle into a taut band of muscle/fascial/subcutaneous tissue to help with relieving pain, restoring function and neurophysiological balance. The use of dry needling follows a theory of neuromuscular physiology and pain science.
Are you preparing for a total knee replacement, total hip replacement, rotator cuff surgery, or anterior cruciate knee surgery? The physios at Active Balance Physiotherapy Studio are movement specialists. We are trained to not only follow your surgeon’s rehabilitation protocol, but also to assess your whole body to optimize your body mechanics and empower you to a successful recovery.
Our Registered Physiotherapists are professionally trained to prescribe and measure for your custom brace. We are movement specialists and we take the time to find out about how you move, analyze your activities, and find the brace that works for you so that you can keep moving and active! We sell high-quality products from the leading brace manufacturers worldwide including Bauerfeind, Push, Serola, and M Brace.
Ergonomic assessment may be indicated if you or your employees are experiencing back pain, neck pain, headaches, shoulder pain or carpal tunnel syndrome. If your workstation is not set up properly, the repetitive strain on your body can affect productivity, lead to acute or chronic pain, and limit your ability to enjoy doing the things you love.
Our Ergonomic Assessment is performed by a Registered Physiotherapist and includes a review of employee-specific concerns, pre-existing injuries, work history and work tasks. An office assessment includes specific measurements of the workspace, chair set up, and position of monitor, keyboard, and mouse. The therapist will make recommendations for improvements, adjustments, and product recommendations in a report. You will also receive education on how to reduce the effects of repetitive strain injury including preventative measures, exercises/stretch breaks and postural correction.
"I am very pleased with the services I have received from Active Balance Physio. The staff and physiotherapists are professional, knowledgeable, kind and truly care about your entire well-being. Your sessions are personally geared towards full body recovery. A little gem in the town of Sidney and I would not hesitate in recommending them!"
Delilah Watson 
"For the past 2 months I've been battling insomnia. After my treatment yesterday by Cydney I had one of the best sleeps I've had in a long time. Cydney Smith at Active Balance will take good care of you!"
Mike Jean
"Fantastic expertise from Emma, who listened carefully, diagnosed my issue, performed some stretching and manipulation of my spine, gave me some exercises and stretches to perform at home and made me feel so much better. Highly recommended."
Lindsay Bradshaw
"Emma was thorough, had actually read the notes I sent via the online system and very quickly got to grips with the couple of issues. Professional, friendly and knowledgeable about many of my chronic health issues which would make her better placed than many others had been to fashion an exercise regime tailored to my needs."
Carol Spode
"This was my first visit with Shelley and I was so impressed with her professionalism and thorough assessment of my knee injury. The exercise program she prescribed is comprehensive and doable. She exudes warmth and is extremely approachable; I'm delighted to have found her."
Joan Richardt
"Shelley is a thorough and conscientious Physiotherapist; she wants to help you keep active and she develops an exercise strategy and plan to help you recover from injuries and to continue engaging in your sports activities. She is on your team."
The Williams Family
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