Beverly Physiotherapy

Pediatric physiotherapy is on our service list, and it is the one parents almost never think to ask about.

It covers more than sport injuries. Coordination and movement development, toe walking, persistent limps, posture and back complaints as growth accelerates, and rehabilitation after a fracture or a procedure.

Children are not small adults. Growing tissue behaves differently under load, and the assessment and the plan both reflect that.

If something about how your child moves has been bothering you, it is worth asking rather than waiting to see if it settles.

Call (825) 435-4600 or message us.

Happy Thanksgiving from Beverly Physiotherapy. Thank you to our neighbours along 118 Avenue and across Edmonton for walking through our door this year.

A practical reminder for October rather than late December.

Most extended health plans run on the calendar year, so unused physiotherapy coverage disappears on December 31. It does not roll over and it does not get credited back.

Two things worth doing this month: check how much of your physiotherapy allowance is left, and check whether your plan resets on January 1 or on your employment anniversary. Both arrangements are common, and people regularly assume the wrong one.

We direct bill most major plans, so you usually pay only your portion on the day.

Call (825) 435-4600 or message us.

Dizziness is one of the most under-referred problems we see, largely because people do not know physiotherapy treats it.

Vestibular physiotherapy assesses the balance system directly. The room-spinning kind that comes on when you roll over in bed is often positional and frequently responds to a specific repositioning technique rather than to medication. Unsteadiness on your feet, and that foggy off-balance feeling when you turn your head quickly, are assessed differently again.

The first step is working out which one you actually have, because the treatments are not interchangeable.

Call (825) 435-4600 or message us to book an assessment.

Pelvic health physiotherapy at Beverly covers both sides of a pregnancy, not just the recovery.

Before birth, the useful work is usually about managing load as it changes: pelvic girdle pain, back pain, and staying active safely. After birth it is about returning to what you actually want to do, which for most people is more than walking.

Leaks, pressure, heaviness and pelvic pain are all common and all assessable. Common is not the same as something you have to live with.

No referral is needed in Alberta. Call (825) 435-4600 or message us.

Booking a first appointment is easier when you know what the hour looks like.

We start with the history: what happened, what makes it worse, what you are trying to get back to. Then movement, strength and joint testing, and hands on assessment.

You leave with a plain explanation of what we think is going on, a plan, and two or three things to start at home. Wear something you can move in and bring your benefits information.

No referral needed.

Beverly Physiotherapy, 4229 118 Ave NW, Edmonton. (825) 435-4600
Book an assessment: beverlyphysio.ca

Edmonton ice arrives before most people plan for it, and balance is a use it or lose it system.

The useful thing about September is that there is time. Balance responds to training, usually within weeks, and the work is unglamorous: standing on one leg while the kettle boils, walking heel to toe, getting up from a chair without using your hands.

If you have had a slip in the past year, or you notice you reach for the rail now when you did not used to, that is worth an assessment before the sidewalks turn.

Beverly Physiotherapy, 4229 118 Ave NW, Edmonton. (825) 435-4600
Book an assessment: beverlyphysio.ca

Post season knee pain is showing up now, and it usually has a pattern.

A summer of building mileage, then a race or a long weekend effort, then pain around or under the knee cap that shows up going down stairs and on descents. Rest helps for a few days, then it comes back at the same distance.

That pattern is a load tolerance problem, not a damage problem. It responds well to a graded plan and specific hip and quad work, and it responds badly to complete rest followed by going straight back to where you left off.

Beverly Physiotherapy, 4229 118 Ave NW, Edmonton. (825) 435-4600
Book an assessment: beverlyphysio.ca