PHYSIOMED Don Mills - Your health is in reliable hands

Is something keeping your body from moving well? Whatever the cause of your physical problem, injury, illness or simply wear and tear, physiotherapy can speed your recovery with a wide range of treatment therapies to reduce your pain, manage your condition and improve the quality of life that you are missing. These therapies include:

• Ultrasound
• Laser therapy
• Manual therapy
• Electrical stimulation
• Muscle retraining, balance and coordination
• Bracing
• Negative Biofeedback
• Exercise program to help manage your condition

When your body is out of line, your overall wellbeing could be on the line. Chiropractic care is widely recognized as one of the safest drug-free, non-invasive therapies to correct and prevent joint and muscle pain. The word Chiropractic literally means "done by hand", which incorporates diagnosing exactly what the problem is, as well as the hands on treatment. Chiropractors at Don Mills tailor treatment to each patient and can include any combination of acupuncture, soft tissue therapy, joint manipulation, education, electrical modalities, and rehabilitative exercise. Helping patients decrease pain, increase function, and understand what causes pain is what Chiropractic care is all about.

On the road, accidents can happen. While a minor collision may not result in immediate, catastrophic injury, even if you are hit at low speed, you may develop serious and severe injuries that cannot be ignored and that may affect your ability to work and live normally. At PHYSIOMED Don Mills, we provide a complete range of pre- and post-recovery therapies to successfully treat your injuries, put you on the road to recovery and help you return to daily activities in the shortest possible time.

There are tremendous benefits to be achieved through regular massage therapy treatments. Whether your need is to have a moment of relaxation, reduce muscle tension or attain relief from chronic pain, a registered massage therapist can enhance your overall sense of emotional and physical well-being as well as your quality of life.

Massage therapy benefits people of all ages. While it benefits the injured, the ill and the stressed, the strength of massage therapy in preventing illness and conditions before they develop cannot be overlooked. Massage therapy can be used in the treatment of both acute and chronic stages of conditions.

Even as a healthy person, you may need more support than you think to stand on your own two feet. If you are experiencing pain in your feet, ankle, knees, hip and low back, improper biomechanics may be the cause! At PHYSIOMED Don Mills, our team of expert foot specialists (chiropodists) will assess your foot biomechanics as part of our comprehensive approach to treatment. During our evaluation, we will observe your gait, all joint function in your feet, ankles, hip, knees and back. A computerized gait analysis is performed to confirm the chiropodist’s findings. A cast impression of your feet is than taken should the chiropodist determine that you would benefit from corrective orthotics. Orthotics are then sent to a professional laboratory where your orthotics are made by qualified technicians. Custom-made orthotics establish a neutral foot foundation to improve your functional level and give you effective support that will keep you on your toes!

How can orthotics / orhtopedic shoes help?

Orthotics can help all the following conditions

• • Supination
• • Overpronation / Hyperpronation
• • Fallen longitudinal arch
• • Fallen transverse arch
• • Flat feet
• • Plantar fasciitis
• • Morton's neuroma
• • Metatarsalgia
• • Achilles tendonitis
• • Shin splints
• • Tibialis posterior syndrome
• • Iliotibial band syndrome
• • Runner's knee
• • Sacroiliac joint syndrome
• • Bunions
• • Hammer toes
• • Hallux rigidus
• • Dropped metatarsal heads
• • Diabetic feet
• • Back pain

PHYSIOMED Don Mills has highly trained foot specialists to fit you with over 200 hundred styles of orthopaedic shoes to choose from. These include Naot, Mephisto, Birkenstock, New Balance, ASICS, Adidas, Rockport, Clarks, Timberland, Hush Puppies, ARA, Dr. Comfort, AETREX, and many more. Come see our wide variety.

Chiropody is a regulated primary health care profession, involved in the treatment, assessment and prevention of foot problems. A Chiropodist or Foot Specialist is exclusively trained to manage and treat foot problems. Some of the most common conditions treated by a chiropodist include:

• Heel pain
• Arch pain
• Warts
• Callous and corns
• Heel fissures
• Diabetic Foot care
• Ingrown toe nails
• Fungal toe nails
• Athlete’s foot
• Foot pain

Certain devices prescribed by a chiropodist include:

• Custom orthotics
• Orthopaedic footwear
• Compression stockings

Tired legs? Swollen ankles? Compression therapy is a safe and effective treatment that will prevent swelling. They provide comfort and decrease pain. They promote circulation of blood in your limbs. They prevent some of the problems associated with poor circulation, such as leg ulcers. They prevent blood clots from developing in your leg. They prevent the creation of problems associated with thrombosis disorders such as varicose veins. The hosiery is available for men and women in a variety of styles and colors. Compression stockings are fitted to your leg which means you will be measured for them. Specialists at PHYSIOMED Don Mills will indicate the compression ratio needed for you. If you experience any of the following, you should inquire with the staff at PHYSIOMED Don Mills:

• Tired/Achy Legs
• Standing at work for long hours
• Pregnant
• Varicose Veins
• Swelling (Edema)
• Spider Veins (Telangiectasia )
• Ulcer

PHYSIOMED Don Mills offers a new,state-of-the-art, medical solution to chronic, unrelenting pain. Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy is a new technology that uses shockwaves to treat chronic, painful conditions of the musculoskeletal system. A shockwave is an intense, but very short energy wave traveling faster than the speed of sound. This type of therapy can be used to treat a wide variety of musculoskeletal conditions, particularly those involving attachment points for tendons and ligaments in major joints like the shoulder (such as the rotator cuff), elbow (epicondylitis or tennis elbow), hip, and knee (tendinitis or "jumper's knee) are common sites for Shock Wave Therapy. Another common area treated with SWT is the foot. Some conditions in the foot treated with SWT include:

• Plantar Fasciitis
• Achilles Tendinitis
• Clacific Tendinitis
• Muscle Pain and Injuries
• Connective Tissue Pain and degeneration
• Morton’s Neuroma
• Stress Fracture
• Joint Injuries

Living with pain at any level is debilitating, but if you have lived with it for a long time, it will affect both your physical and mental states. PHYSIOMED Don Mills offers access to the interdisciplinary professionals required to handle a complete range of conditions such as fibromyalgia, chronic pain syndrome and various forms of arthritis. Our advanced facilities provide outpatients with unique, effective treatment programs

How long has that back been aching? How bad do your knees hurt when going up and down the stairs? Is it not time to come get those nagging issues looked at? Maybe you have a simple range of motion issue in your hips that is causing your knees to hurt. Something as simple as a flexibility program may relieve some of that pain. If you don't get it looked at you will never know.

Being in pain can spoil your day. Living with pain can devastate your life. It does not have to be that way. PHYSIOMED Don Mills specializes in clinically approved treatments and targeted exercises that will help to relieve your pain, give you back your day, and enhance your quality of life. Once your recovery is established, our clinical conditioning program can take you to the next level, enhance your performance by finding the underlying cause to your potential problems, fixing the pre-existing conditions and making appropriate changes to your rehabilitation and lifestyle. We will show you how to be an active participant in your progress and improve your ability to live better.

A strong core does not equal six pack abdominals. In fact there are many people with rippled abs that have low back pain. How is that possible? Well in most cases people lack the ability to activate their Transverse Abdominal muscle which provides stability for the low back when performing simple exercises and tasks. Experts at PHYSIOMED Don Mills help you do core strengthening.

In any sport, your body is the most important piece of equipment you have. Stance, posture, grip, speed, balance, aim, strength, flexibility, etc. There is a lot to think about. Throw an injury into that mix and your game can fall short. Our team will tailor a program of care and performance enhancement designed specifically for you and your game. We will keep you on the field, on the court, in the arena, and in the game.

Acupuncture is a therapy that has been used for thousands of years in the treatment of various conditions including but not limited to musculoskeletal pain, increasing blood flow, stress and anxiety relief and many more. Acupuncture can be used effectively on its own or as a complementary aspect to other treatments such as chiropractic or physiotherapy treatments. When acupuncture is used in combination with other treatment modalities your healing happens that much quicker and patients often require fewer treatments overall to return to optimal health.

Acupuncture is a relatively painless and very safe mode of treatment. In fact one of the major benefits of acupuncture is the complete absence of adverse effects and complications from its use. At our clinic only sterile single use needles are used and disposed of after your treatment. Ask your practitioner today how acupuncture can benefit you.

Practiced throughout many cultures, Reflexology is a non-invasive therapeutic treatment applied to the feet and hands using finger and thumb techniques thus relieving stress and tension and improving circulation. Reflexology work from maps of predefined pressure points that represent connection points throughout the nervous system and believed to act upon the energy of bodily organs and glands, thus bringing the body back into balance.