Athletic Therapy Winnipeg

Our dedicated team of athletic therapists is here to help you recover from injuries, enhance your performance, and achieve your movement goals. We specialize in a wide range of injuries, providing personalized treatment plans tailored to your needs. Whether you're an athlete or simply active, our services can help you get back on track.

What is Athletic Therapy?

Athletic therapy focuses on the prevention, assessment, and rehabilitation of injuries related to physical activity. Our certified athletic therapists utilize a combination of hands-on techniques, exercise therapy, and education to promote healing and improve function.

Why Choose Home Stretch Therapy?

Expertise: Our certified athletic therapists have extensive training in injury assessment and rehabilitation.

Personalized Care: We tailor each treatment plan to your specific needs, ensuring effective recovery.

Holistic Approach: We focus on the whole person, addressing not just the injury but the implications on the whole body, how it impacts your lifestyle and activity levels.

Evidence-Based Practices: We utilize the latest research and techniques to provide the best possible care.

Common Injuries We Treat

At Home Stretch Therapy, we categorize injuries to provide focused treatment strategies tailored to your specific needs. Here are the main types of injuries we commonly treat:

Spine and Nerve Pain

  • Sciatica: Pain radiating along the sciatic nerve, often due to herniated discs or spinal issues. Plan: Symptom control and strategies to reduce radiating pain and strengthening the low back and hips.

  • Disc Herniations: Bulging or ruptured discs in the spine causing pain and discomfort. Plan: Control pain and promote extension to reduce symptoms. Progressive overload and functional core to stabilize the spine.

  • Low Back Pain: Chronic or acute pain in the lower back, requiring comprehensive exam to determine strategies and management.

    Thoracic Outlet Syndrome: Compression of nerves and blood vessels near the shoulder, causing pain and numbness. Plan: Reduce compression: stretch the pectorals, upper trapezius and improve mobility of shoulder and neck.

Foot and Ankle Injuries

  • Plantar Fasciitis: Inflammation of the plantar fascia, leading to heel pain. Plan: Reduce tension and load management focus, strengthen the entire posterior chain.

  • Achilles Rupture: Severe injury to the Achilles tendon, often requiring surgical intervention. Plan: Restoring function, mobility and a focus on prevention.

  • Ankle sprains: Rolling the ankle, often the ligaments on the outside get stretched. Plan: Balance, ankle stability and control swelling with PEACE and LOVE acronym

    Shin Splints: repetitive impact typically from running or excessive walking (rucking). Plan: Load management and lifestyle strategies

Concussion and Whiplash Injuries

  • Concussions: Brain injuries resulting from impact, requiring specialized rehabilitation. Plan: Follow SCAT and return to work and play protocols.

  • Whiplash: Neck injury from sudden movement, often seen in car accidents, requiring careful management. Plan: reduce strain and strengthen the ligaments and muscles supporting the neck

Post-Surgical and Rehabilitation

  • Post-Operative Recovery for Joint Replacements: Rehabilitation after surgeries to restore function and mobility. Plan: Post-op protocol

  • Post-Fractures: Care following bone fractures to promote healing and regain strength. Plan: Restore mobility and strength and return to activity levels

  • ACL and meniscal tears: Progressive rehabilitation following protocol for healing stages and return to play. Plan: Improve Range of motion, strength, load, and stability at each stage of healing with a tailored functional approach to lifestyle demands.

Shoulder Pain

  • Rotator cuff: The muscles on your scapula keep the humerus of your shoulder back. Often these muscles are under strain. Plan: we treat the postural imbalances, strengthen and improve mobility. Plan: control pain,

  • AC joint separation: From a fall or hit to the shoulder they can present with a “step deformity” and the ligaments can be sprained from 1-3rd degree. Plan: Control Pain. Regain function with ROM and stability exercises.

  • Frozen Shoulder: A gradual loss of all movements of the shoulder from immobilization and is a secondary complication to a prior shoulder injury and some illnesses. Plan: Joint mobilizations, circular movements of the ball and socket joint, and fascial release.

Pelvic injuries:

  • Pelvic Pain: Discomfort in the pelvic area from heavy loads, impact and pregnancy. We treat the external muscles of the pelvis that are related to the injury or condition. Plan: Train pelvic control, stretch tightness, strengthen weakness

  • Pubic symphysis dysfunction: The ligaments and cartilage that connect your right and left pubic bones shift either from impact or pregnancy. Plan: realign the joint with Adductor/Abductor strengthening and core focus.

  • Tailbone and Sacroiliac injuries: These structures can be injured with impact and load on the body as they are very stable bones and joints. Plan: offer comfortable positions to take the pressure off, strengthen and reduce tendon of the muscles around it.

  • Adductor Strains: resulting from a big stretch of the inner thigh muscles from a slip or quick uncontrolled lateral lunge in a sport. Plan: Adductor strengthening and muscular control

Hand, Wrist & Elbow injuries:

  • Carpal Tunnel: typically caused from extending and flexing the wrist over a period of time putting pressure on the median nerve. Plan: Release tightness, strategies for lifestyle including wrist brace + awareness of wrist positions at work, activities and sleep.

  • Tennis and Golfers Elbow: Repetitive gripping found with follow through hand sports. Plan: Reduce tightness, possible bracing strategies, load management.

  • De Quervain (Thumb/radius wrist tendinitis): Repetitive grasping and gripping with thumb from work or hobbies. Plan: Reduce strain, load management and strategies.

Get Started Today!

Don’t let pain or injury hold you back! If you're looking to work with an athletic therapist, we’re committed to helping you achieve optimal health and performance and get you to the HOME STRETCH. Schedule your Athletic Therapy assessment and start your journey toward recovery TODAY!