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Manual Therapy

Hands-on healing techniques that restore motion, reduce pain, and promote your body’s natural recovery.

What is Manual Therapy?

Manual therapy is a hands-on treatment approach used to manage neuromusculoskeletal conditions. Our skilled therapists apply various techniques to joints and soft tissues to restore optimal movement, ease pain, and promote healing. It’s about improving your body’s mechanics — so you can move better and feel better.

Therapist performing manual therapy
Joint mobilizations and hands-on techniques to restore your range of motion.
Focused pressure to a shoulder trigger point — a hands-on technique used to release muscle knots and relieve pain.
Focused pressure to a shoulder trigger point — a hands-on technique used to release muscle knots and relieve pain.
Joint mobilization on a client’s knee — a targeted technique used to restore joint movement, alignment, and reduce pain.
Joint mobilization on a client’s knee — a targeted technique used to restore joint movement, alignment, and reduce pain.
  • Improves range of motion
  • Restores joint mobility
  • Reduces inflammation and swelling
  • Relieves pain and muscle tension
  • Increases circulation
  • Supports tissue healing and remodelling

Types of Manual Therapy We Use​

Joint Mobilization / Manipulation

Joint mobilization and manipulation are hands-on techniques used to restore joint movement, improve alignment, and relieve pain. They help loosen tight tissues, reduce stiffness, and promote better mobility.

Soft tissue mobilization

Soft tissue mobilization is a variety of techniques, including deep, transverse frictions, instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization, scar massage. These techniques aim to break up adhesions in tissues, promote circulation, and ease the pain.

Massage

Kneading and therapeutically applying pressure to muscles to relax tension, ease pain, promote circulation.

Trigger Point Release

Applies pressure to hyperirritable nodules in the muscles, referred to as “knots,” to release tension in the muscle.

Passive Stretching and Muscle Energy Techniques

These techniques include assisted stretching of muscles and tendons to increase flexibility and extensibility of those tissues. In addition, therapists may use a “contract-relax” technique to help increase the extensibility even more.

Manual Traction

Manual traction is a technique where the therapist aims to create space within a joint and stretch the structures surrounding it. Physiotherapists use these varieties of manual therapy techniques in conjunction with education and exercise to restore optimal motion, function and reduce pain.

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