Our Services
Massage Therapy
with Simon, Tyra, or Adeline
Manual therapy is the application of hands-on techniques to body tissues with the intent to assess and treat therapeutically.
Simon specializes in...
• Deep Tissue Massages - used to break up scar tissue and muscle adhesions (the “knots” that we feel in our muscles that inhibit our circulation and cause pain and inflammation).
• Neck Discomfort - providing quick neck pain relief and improved range of motion.
Tyra specializes in...
• Deep Tissue Massages - used to break up scar tissue and muscle adhesions (the “knots” that we feel in our muscles that inhibit our circulation and cause pain and inflammation).
• TMJ Massage - external and/or intraoral massage, used as treatment for clenching, grinding, and TMJD with effective pain relief and improved range of motion.
Adeline specializes in...
• Massage - a form of manual therapy used to reduce tension, anxiety, stress, and promote overall circulation, relaxation, and flexibility.
• Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization - a popular treatment for myofascial restriction. IASTM uses specially designed instruments to provide a mobilizing effect to myofascial adhesions and scar tissue.
• RAPID Neuro Fascial Reset - RAPID NFR is new soft tissue, movement-based therapeutic technique that addresses the central nervous system's role in alleviating pain, tension, and restrictions within muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia, and nerves.
Osteopathic Manual Therapy
with Stephanie
A hands-on manual therapy treatment method that looks at the way the body functions as a whole, rather than viewing its parts or symptoms separately (i.e. a hurt shoulder here, a neck strain there).
Conditions Treated with Osteopathy:
Headaches
Digestion issues
Stress
Concussion symptoms
Pain/ discomfort (muscle & joint)
Through gentle manipulation, osteopathic manual practitioners can help re-align the body to remove any obstruction of nerves, blood& lymph vessels so the physiology can function as intended. During Osteo treatments, Steph targets the nervous system to help calm the body. By calming down the nervous system the body can collectively function, both mechanically and physiologically, to create a better balance from the inside out. Her goal is to remove any compensations caused by new or old injuries, habitual postures and stressors, with the entire body in mind.
Overall alignment
Pelvic dysfunction
Sinus issues
Diaphragm/ rib movement
& more!
Acupuncture
with Dr. Rae
The gentle stimulation of specific points on the body using single-use, sterile disposable needles. (1) Activating these acupuncture points opens communication pathways through the body's various systems. (2) Acupuncture stimulates the central nervous system activating our body’s natural healing potential to effectively fight disease, support good health and modulate pain.
Conditions Treated with Acupuncture: Acupuncture is recognized by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and World Health Organization (WHO) as being an effective treatment for a variety of health conditions such as pain, injuries, insomnia, stress, mental health, digestive health, women’s health, fertility, and more.
Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine (CHM) for Pregnancy and Fertility: Acupuncture and CHM have shown great results in both men and women, in restoring fertility, improving sperm and egg quality and balancing the endocrine system and hormones. Acupuncture and CHM can be applied from preparing to conceive to pregnancy to postpartum care.
IMS (Intramuscular Stimulation)
and Dry Needling
With Any Physiotherapist and Acupuncturist
IMS is a versatile treatment option for chronic pain, new injuries, and neuropathic pain. When nerves become compressed or irritated, they can send exaggerated pain signals, leading to pain even without visible inflammation or tissue damage.
Benefits of IMS:
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Chronic Muscle Shortening Relief: IMS effectively addresses chronic muscle shortening, often caused by overactive muscles due to irritated nerves. This condition can lead to muscle spasms, tendon strain, joint stress, and increased wear and tear, potentially contributing to conditions like tendonitis, osteoarthritis, and degenerative disc problems.
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Muscle and Nerve Reset: By using a fine needle to stimulate the muscle, IMS sends a signal through the nerves to help reset the system. This process decreases nerve activity, relaxes muscles into a fully lengthened position, and alleviates chronic muscle shortening and associated symptoms.
Is IMS painful? The level of discomfort experienced during IMS can vary depending on the treatment area and the duration of the existing pain, which affects tissue sensitivity. Typically, the sensation is minimal, often described as the muscle 'grabbing.' If you have concerns about pain, please inform your therapist so they can adjust accordingly.
How much is it? Unlike other clinics, we offer IMS/ Dry Needling at no extra cost
Are you an athlete or do you play sports? Our specialized 1-on-1 assessment, led by skilled physiotherapists, is designed to minimize the risk of common sports injuries, such as sprains, strains, and joint issues.
Comprehensive Assessments: Our thorough evaluations identify individual risk factors, including training habits and physical condition. Based on these assessments, we create personalized fitness plans that include:
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Cardiovascular Exercise
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Strength Training
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Flexibility Routines
These tailored plans aim to enhance your overall performance and safety in your sport.
Expert Guidance: We offer expert advice on staying hydrated, nourished, and well-rested. Our guidance on nutrition and recovery strategies ensures you maintain peak performance and reduce injury risk.
Whether you’re a seasoned athlete or just starting, our physiotherapists are dedicated to helping you stay injury-free and enjoy your sport to the fullest. Book your session today and take the first step towards safe and effective sports participation.
Hypermobility or EDS
with Hypermobility Specialist, Rebecca
For individuals with or suspected hypermobility and/or Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) we provide specialized assessments with Rebecca, one of our top-rated physiotherapists.
Expert Care: With extensive experience in treating hypermobility and EDS, Rebecca provides specialized, compassionate care aimed at enhancing your quality of life. These conditions require careful and experienced management due to unique challenges such as joint instability and pain, making it essential to work with a practitioner who can advocate for and with you.
Our treatment includes:
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Tailored Exercises: Designed to improve joint stability, enhance muscle strength, and promote better posture.
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Pain Relief and Management: We prioritize pain relief and teach effective pain management techniques.
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Avoiding Excessive Movements: Emphasizing the importance of avoiding movements that could exacerbate hypermobility.
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Patient Empowerment: By helping you understand your condition, we empower you to manage it effectively.
At our clinic, we understand the complex nature of hypermobility and are committed to providing personalized, effective care to help our patients lead more comfortable and active lives. Book your specialized assessment with Rebecca today and take the first step towards better management and improved well-being.
Shockwave Therapy
With Any Physiotherapist and Kinesiologist
Our top-notch shockwave therapy is a non-invasive and efficient treatment designed to stimulate the body's natural healing process. This three-step process targets specific areas in need, effectively relieving pain and promoting healing in tendons, ligaments, and other soft tissues.
Comprehensive Treatment Approach: Combined with essential injury management strategies, including exercise therapy and activity modification, this comprehensive approach ensures optimal results and faster recovery, allowing you to return to your favourite activities sooner.
What to Expect
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Session Duration: Typically lasts between 5 to 10 minutes.
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Customized Intensity: Therapists adjust intensity levels for your comfort.
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Recommended Frequency: Multiple sessions (usually 3 to 5) are recommended, spaced 3 to 10 days apart for maximum effectiveness.
Concussion Management
with Rebecca , Jacalyn, and BreAnne
Fix Physio is a certified Complete Concussion Management™ clinic. We utilize a comprehensive, multi-modal approach to concussions, based on latest advances in concussion research.
What is a concussion? A concussion is a disruption in neurological functioning following a significant impact to the head or elsewhere on the body. This impact causes a biochemical imbalance within brain cells, decreased blood flow, and temporary energy deficits in the brain.
Essentially, the acceleration and deceleration of the brain within the skull stretch the nerves, causing the release of a molecule called ATP. This results in a surge of nerve activity, leading to an energy crisis due to low ATP stores. ATP is crucial for nerve function, enabling us to perform and comprehend tasks. Recovery involves replenishing these ATP stores, but symptoms often subside before full recovery, leaving the brain vulnerable to re-injury.
We offer both baseline tests and post-concussion testing to accurately determine when it's safe to resume regular activities.
Concussions often occur with various 'peripheral' issues: neck pain, dizziness, blurred vision, cognitive difficulties, headaches, and more. These are areas where our physiotherapists can significantly aid in recovery. Through targeted exercises and manual techniques, we provide effective solutions to help you recover fully.
Allow us to help you return to your sport and daily activities safely and effectively.
Vestibular Rehabilitation
with BreAnne or Rebecca
Are you feeling dizzy, lightheaded, experiencing vertigo (room spinning), nausea, or imbalance? Whether your symptoms are caused by Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) or an issue with the system controlling dizziness and balance, we offer various treatments and exercises to alleviate your symptoms.
What Does Treatment Involve? Depends on the underlying cause!
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BPPV: This condition has a specific treatment protocol involving positioning techniques tailored to the part of the inner ear affected. Erin, our certified Vestibular Therapist, will determine the appropriate technique by assessing your eye movement during each test.
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Other Conditions: Treatment may include a combination of manual therapy and a tailored exercise program. Exercise prescriptions are based on three principles:
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Adaptation: Adjusting the system to reduce dizziness.
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Habituation: Reducing sensitivity to dizziness-inducing stimuli.
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Substitution: Training the system to use alternative mechanisms to maintain balance.
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Our goal is to retrain your system so that certain stimuli no longer cause dizziness.
Temporomandibular/ Jaw Joint Physiotherapy (TMJ)
with Rebecca
Experiencing jaw pain, difficulty in jaw movement, clicking or popping sounds when you move your jaw, frequent headaches, or ear-related symptoms?
Physiotherapy can help alleviate many common symptoms associated with Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) disorders. The TMJ is crucial for activities like talking, chewing, and yawning, but disorders can cause pain and discomfort in the jaw joint and surrounding areas.
How We Can Help
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Pain Relief: Techniques to reduce pain in the jaw and surrounding areas.
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Muscle Relaxation: Methods to ease tension in the jaw muscles.
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Jaw Mobilization and Stabilization: Strategies to improve jaw movement and stability.
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Individualized Exercises: Tailored exercises to strengthen and support the jaw.
Running Injuries & Prevention
with Rebecca
At Fix Physio, we understand that running is one of the purest forms of human movement. Book with Rebecca to prevent running injuries or treat them if they occur.
What to Expect: During your 90-minute appointment, Rebecca will:
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Assess Your Strength, Mobility, and Stability: Conduct a thorough evaluation of your physical capabilities.
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Gait Analysis: Observe your running on a treadmill. Video your run in slow motion. Review and analyze the videos with you to identify gait issues.
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Individualized Exercise Plan: Receive a personalized exercise plan targeting areas of weakness, limited mobility, or instability found during your assessment. Learn ways to improve your gait to reduce injury risk and enhance performance.
Why Choose Rebecca?
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Experienced Runner: Rebecca loves to run and understands the challenges and joys of running.
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Specialized Training: She has taken several courses on treating, assessing, and analyzing runners.
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Personal Experience: Rebecca has been on her own runner's rehab journey and is passionate about helping others.
Rebecca assesses the whole body, including the trunk, shoulders, feet, and legs, ensuring a comprehensive evaluation.
Women's Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy
with Aly, Christina and Jacalyn
Our Women's Health Programs are designed to help women prevent, recover from, or cope with various health issues that can arise throughout their lives. From puberty to menopause, pregnancy to post-partum, and addressing conditions like breast cancer, osteoporosis, and post-surgical recovery, our specialized care is tailored to support women at every stage.
Expert Care Providers: Our treatments are provided by licensed Physical Therapists with extensive training and expertise in diagnosing and treating women’s health conditions. We offer a comprehensive range of treatments addressing:
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Body Dysfunction
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Sexual Health
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Pre/Postnatal Care
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Pelvic Floor Care
Our Approach: Our Women’s Health Program is designed to empower women through manual therapy techniques and education. By making information and evidence-based treatments readily available, we aim to help women stay as healthy and active as possible through life's changes and challenges.
Initial Assessment and Customized Treatment: Your journey begins with an initial assessment with one of our Physical Therapists, including an internal exam. Based on this assessment, a customized treatment program is designed specifically for you. This program may include sessions with a Physical Therapist or other members of our Health Care Team.
RAPID NFR
with Adeline
Rapid NeuroFascial Reset (RAPID NFR) is an innovative soft tissue, movement-based therapeutic technique designed to address the central nervous system's role in alleviating pain, tension, and restrictions within muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia, and nerves.
What to expect: Each session combines examination and treatment. The Rapid therapist uses their hands to evaluate the texture, tightness, and movement of muscles, fascia, tendons, ligaments, and nerves. Hypersensitive areas are treated with precisely directed tension and specific patient movements.
During the Session:
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Sessions may be uncomfortable during the movement phase as the neurological system is being stimulated to restore normal function.
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Treating the body at the neurological level stimulates a reprogramming of the tissue, resulting in tight muscles relaxing, restored range of motion, and pain elimination.
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Treatments are performed while the client is clothed in comfortable attire.
Why choose RAPID-NFR? Clients are drawn to RAPID NFR because of its effective and quick response to treatment, allowing active individuals to return to their normal activities rapidly.
How many sessions does it take? Most painful conditions are resolved within 2-8 treatments.
Conditions treated with RAPID NFR:
Migraines/Headaches
Frozen Shoulder
Golfer’s and Tennis elbow
Low Back Pain
Sacroiliac Dysfunction
Whiplash
TMJ-D
Vertigo and Tinnitus
Arthritic Joints
This is just a shortlist. If you are in pain, we can help! Call to book your RAPID appointment today!
Carpal Tunnel
Sciatic Bursitis
Plantar Fasciitis
Knee Pain
Quad, Hamstring, and Groin Pulls
Shin Splints
Baker Cysts
Tendinitis
Physiotherapy
Physiotherapy is a profession dedicated to evaluating, restoring, and maintaining physical function. Our goal is to equip you with the tools to repair damage and alleviate pain and stiffness. Our skilled Physiotherapists are trained in treating various musculoskeletal injuries and offer specialized services such as concussion management, vestibular (vertigo) therapy, Intramuscular Stimulation (IMS), custom foot orthotics, and comprehensive exercise prescription.
We can help you with:
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Back and Neck Pain
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Concussion Management
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Chronic Pain
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Dizziness
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Repetitive Strains
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Arthritis
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Sport-Related Injuries
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Post-Surgical Rehabilitation
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Prevention and Management of Work-Related Injuries
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Motor Vehicle Accident-Related Injuries
Your Physiotherapist may discuss using various modalities tailored to your needs, including:
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Joint Mobilization and Manipulation: To improve movement and reduce pain.
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Muscle and Tissue Stretching: To alleviate tightness and improve flexibility.
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Strengthening Exercises: To ensure proper movement patterns.
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Scar Tissue Breakdown: To enhance healing and restore function.
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Cupping and IMS/ Dry Needling: To alleviate tightness and increase blood flow.
Psychology
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Psychology is a profession that focuses on intervention strategies to improve and maximize mental, cognitive, physical, and other functioning of individuals. Our psychologist utilizes an integrative theoretical approach involving Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Narrative Therapy, Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy (REBT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) to consider each person holistically.
Our areas of focus include:
Depression/anxiety
Life transitions/adjustments (career, marriage, retirement, etc)
Trauma (MVA, PTSD, abuse)
Chronic pain management
Couples therapy
Disordered eating patterns
Substance misuse
We strive to help our clients live in a more intentional manner by exploring unconscious patterns that may be creating these difficulties.
For more information visit: flowpsychology.online/
Get in touch!
📍4505 Brisebois Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2E 0L6
P: 403-282-2545
F: 403-282-2241