Massage Therapy
Massage therapy is a form a manual therapy with the purpose of developing, maintaining or rehabilitating physical function so you can return to your regular daily activities. Assessment of connective tissue and joints of the body allow the therapist to develop a treatment plan with you to help meet your specific goals.Treatment includes manipulation and mobilization of connective tissue and joints of the body.
The Lasting Changes
Patient education is essential to yield lasting changes, understanding your body and how it works helps with your rehabilitation and performance goals. Empowering you with this knowledge to facilitate your own rehabilitation journey, enhance performance and prevent future injury is what we strive for. Developing awareness of your own body is important; this will help you recognize when you may need to make modifications to your training, adjust something in your day to day life that may be causing you some pain or come in for some treatment. We will work together to equip you with the tools required to meet your individual goals.
Personal Training
We will help navigate the information out there for you and simplify it. Put together a training program tailored to your specific goals, help track your progress and keep you accountable while working towards your goals. Here's the truth... the simple things done correctly and consistently over an extended period of time will yield the best results. However, the simple things can appear complex. With all the information and resources out there in todays world, it can feel overwhelming to try and figure out which exercises you should be doing, how many sets and reps are necessary and how often you should train. There isn't necessarily a wrong exercise but there is a wrong time to be doing certain exercises, some will be more beneficial in achieving the desired adaptations. Take the thinking out of training so you can focus on working hard.​​
ELDOA
An ELDOA practice is a great compliment to manual therapy and an exercise program. Postural exercises you can do yourself with he primary goal being to increase space between a specific joint. Most well known for its effects on the spine, some of the effects may include facilitation of new synovial fluid introduced to the targeted segment, decreasing the pressure on the intervertebral discs and facilitating auto-normalization of the functional spinal unit. This is achieved through putting tension on the myofascial chains creating a decoaptation - creation of space - in the targeted joint. This decoaptation helps increase your end range strength allowing your body to feel safe and strong throughout a full range of motion.
EFFECTS
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A more resilient and adaptable spine
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Improved body awareness and kinaesthetic sense
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Reduction of pain and improved sense of well being
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Correction of postural discrepencies
"The ELDOA put the myo-fascial chains into tension around the point of a primary lesion, the centre of decoaptation. This myo-fascial solicitation engenders a postural normalization."
- Guy VOYER, DO
The ELDOA program was invented by Guy VOYER, DO. He has several degrees, holds a Doctorate in Osteopathy and has a PhD in Educational Science. His background in high-level athletics, manual therapy, and medicine allowed him to develop the ELDOA program to aid in peoples performance and recovery.