Newsletter – December 2008

December 11, 2008

Season’s Greetings!

Welcome to Royal Centre Physiotherapy’s newsletter, “PREHAB” Edition.  Before getting too tucked into the holiday season (and perhaps the holiday goodies), why not prepare for that New Year’s Resolution now?  This season at Royal Centre Physiotherapy, we are encouraging our patients to come in for a prehab session with one of our highly trained physiotherapists, either before Christmas or first thing in the New Year.

It is common for many people to start the New Year off right with a new fitness regime.  Unfortunately, weighed down by the guilt of Christmas excesses, we often go too hard too soon and find ourselves quickly slowed down with injuries … and so goes another year.  While we do appreciate the surge in our business treating the resulting injuries, we at Royal Centre Physiotherapy would prefer our role to be helping you with your prehab rather than your rehab.  Wouldn’t you like to avoid injury this year?

“PREHAB”
Prehab refers to the prescription of specific exercises, tailored to your body and your sport. Physiotherapists are “body specialists”;  we are highly trained in the assessment of the body and how it moves, and in the prescription of specific exercises. If you’re reading this newsletter, it is likely that you have had an injury in the past that has required treatment by one of our skilled therapists.  If you are planning on starting a new activity, or just getting ready to resume one you haven’t done in a few months, it’s a good idea to make sure you’re all “lined up” and ready to go!  Even if your previous injury is not painful right now, if you don’t properly prepare the right muscles at the correct speeds of movement, specific to your sport or activity, then you may be setting yourself up for re-injury.

Our goal in prehab is to assess for any limitations your body may have specific to your desired activity.  From there, we’ll set out a home exercise program and we’ll propose a realistic timeframe for you to be able to participate in your sport/activity of choice. Once you start your regime, you may need a couple of ‘tune ups’ along the way, but hopefully a little prehab will go a long way to preventing serious injury and pain.

To learn more about Exercise Therapy and how we can help, please click here.

WHAT’S COMING UP IN 2009?

In cooperation with Inspirations Fitness, we’re running two clinics to get you started on the right foot in the New Year. Please check out the links below for further details:

NORDIC WALKING CLINIC
Starts Monday, January 12, 2009.

LEARN TO RUN 5KM CLINIC
Starts Friday, January 16, 2009.