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Orthopaedic Sport Institute

Orthopaedic Sport Institute works with you to transition from rehabilitation to exercise therapy. By providing you with comprehensive instructions on proper biomechanics, a personalized exercise program can be developed by a qualified therapist from our Collingwood team to help you regain optimal physical function. We have the best trainers and therapists in Collingwood that know how to work with immobile or unstable patients.  Our therapists assess your needs and provide you with strengthening and mobility exercises to rehabilitate and prevent injury, disability, and maximize your bodies output.

  • Moist Heat
  • Functional Strengthening and Conditioning
  • Muscle Stimulation
  • Gait Evaluation and Treatment
  • Manual Therapy and Mobilisations
  • Manual Therapy

The Collingwood Orthopaedic Sports Institute therapists can provide you with hands-on manual therapy techniques that aim to manipulate and mobilize your soft tissue (ie. muscles, ligaments, tendons, fascia etc), improve joint mobility, develop efficient movement patterns and decrease pain. Common manual therapy techniques include: deep tissue release, trigger point therapy, myofascial release, friction scar/adhesion release, joint mobilizations and on occasion joint manipulations.

  • Myofascial Release Therapy
  • Electrotherapy
  • Electrotherapy can aid in promoting healing, improving circulation, decreasing pain and decreasing swelling.
  • Acupuncture

Medical Acupuncture is one of the oldest forms of medicine. It has been extensively researched in science to prove its efficacy.

It has shown to:

  • Reduce Acute or Chronic Pain
  • Encourage Natural Healing
  • Improve Function of Body Parts
  • Improve the Body’s Biochemical Balance

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