Patient Education

According to a report compiled by the VancouverSun, around 86,000 Canadians are living with spinal cord injury in the country with its frequency increasing at an alarming rate of 4,300 new cases every year. A Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) usually is the result of a slip and fall or motor vehicular accident in which your spinal cord gets injured. A direct consequence of this injury is a loss of motion or paralysis. Other issues associated with an SCI are a loss of mobility and balance, difficult...

Pelvic floor dysfunction is a common disorder found in both men and women. Some symptoms of pelvic floor dysfunction are urinary incontinence, fecal incontinence, and pelvic organ prolapse. The causes of this disease differ from person to person. Among women, the usual causes are childbirth, aging, and obesity. On the other hand, in men, pelvic floor dysfunction can be caused due to genetics, repetitive lifting of heavyweights and aging.  Patients suffering from this condition resort to ...

Who doesn’t like a good massage? Relaxing your muscles and releasing stress is exceedingly soothing. After a tiring day, opting for a massage session is something that everybody looks forward to. A massage session apart from being relaxing can also have various therapeutic benefits. This is one of the reasons why physiotherapy experts get specially trained to provide a more detailed therapeutic massage. You can bifurcate them as physiotherapy and massage. Read on to understand this differe...