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Chiropractic

Doctors of Chiropractic provide non-invasive, hands-on health care that focuses on the neuromusculoskeletal system. Chiropractors practice a manual approach, emphasizing accurate diagnoses; treatments and preventive care for disorders related to the spine, pelvis, nervous system and joints. Chiropractors use a combination of treatments, all of which are predicated on the specific needs of each individual patient.

Chiropractors are primary care practitioners, extensively trained to develop and carry out comprehensive treatment/management plans, recommend therapeutic exercises, and provide nutritional, dietary and lifestyle counseling.

For many conditions, such as lower back pain, chiropractic care is frequently the primary method of treatment. Where other conditions exist, chiropractic care may complement or support medical treatment by relieving the neuromusculoskeletal aspects associated with the condition.

Chiropractic care may also be used to provide symptomatic relief for patients with chronic conditions. Chiropractors work closely with your medical doctor, many of whom refer to chiropractors when they believe chiropractic treatment will help alleviate a patient’s condition. Similarly, chiropractors frequently refer to medical doctors or specialists when necessary.

Chiropractic is a regulated health profession, recognized by statute in all Canadian provinces and American states. Almost 2 million patients in Ontario rely on chiropractic care every year to help them live healthy, active lives.

Chiropractic care may provide relief from many conditions, including:
• Back pain
• Neck pain
• Headaches, including migraines
• Whiplash
• Strains and sprains
• Shoulder, elbow and wrist pain
• Hip, knee and ankle pain
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
• Vertigo
• Repetitive strain injuries
• Work related and sports injuries
• Arthritis
• General health and well-being

When should I consider chiropractic care?

There are many reasons to seek chiropractic care. Work, accidents, sports injuries, house- hold chores, even the stress of daily living can cause painful joint and spinal problems. Even if you do not have painful symptoms, chiropractic care can help you maintain healthy spine and joint function.

A Chiropractic Adjustment

Adjustment of the joints of the body has been used in the healing arts for many centuries and is at the heart of modern chiropractic care.
Chiropractors are specialists in manual adjustment of the vertebrae of the spine and other joints. Adjustment helps relieve pain and restore normal functioning to the spine, joints and supporting structures of the body – so you can enjoy your everyday activities again as quickly as possible.

An adjustment is a highly skilled and precise movement usually applied by hand to a joint of the body. Adjustments help loosen the joint to restore proper movement, and optimize function. When a joint is adjusted, a gas bubble escapes causing the popping noise you may have heard about.

Patient-Centred Care

Chiropractic adjustment techniques have  been researched extensively. Complications are rare and side-effects, such as temporary soreness, are usually minor. Your chiropractor is well-trained to determine if your problem will respond to chiropractic care or if you require referral to another health care provider.
Following university studies, a chiropractor must then complete a rigorous four-year, full-time education program and pass rigorous comprehensive Canadian qualifying examinations in order to become licensed to practice. Chiropractors are regulated health professionals and the licensing college in each province is charged with protecting the public and setting standards for the profession.

On-site Corporate Health & Wellness

Dr. Baldassarra conveniently brings all the benefits of a wellness clinic directly to your office. Companies that incorporate wellness programs understand the long-term benefits they provide.

Why include corporate wellness:

Increase productivity
Improve employee morale and satisfaction
Decrease stress and tension
Decrease absenteeism
Decrease employee turn-over

Massage Therapy

Providing massage therapy services on-site not only stops the adverse effects of stress, anxiety and fatigue but prevents muscle tension and repetitive strain injuries. Providing employees perks such as regular RMT sessions greatly increases employee satisfaction and can be a significant draw for attracting new talent.

A massage program can be conducted on a regular basis (e.g., Massage Fridays), or as a one-time promotion for a special occasion such as wellness fair. Many companies have used massage days to boost company morale after completion of a project or to celebrate employee milestones.

The Massage Program is conducted by Registered Massage Therapists

Lunch and Learns

Smart companies understand that employee wellness is directly related to long-term cost savings. Give your employees the tools to lead healthy and stress-free lives. Lunch & Learns based on health and wellness topics can directly improve employee productivity, reduce absenteeism and increase efficiency by having a positive impact on the bottom line. Dr. Elysia provides dynamic presentations which empower employees to make changes to their lifestyles.

One hour lunch and learn topics can be catered to your office or workplace environment.

Choose from a variety of engaging health topics or have Dr. Elysia create one unique for your workplace:

Do You Suffer from Sitting Disease?
Office Ergonomics 101
How To Manage Stress and Boost Immunity
The Skinny on Trans Fats and Good Fats
Eat your vitamins—Top 10 foods to add to your diet today
Superfoods + Antioxidants

Book Dr. Elysia for your office or corporate event

Yoga in your office

More and more companies are conscious about the impact of healthy living on employee productivity. Stress, anxiety and mental health issues are more predominant in our society than every before. The benefits of office yoga are staggering, leading to: increased productivity, decreased medical claims, better relations with co-workers, improved attitudes, and increased motivation. Health Canada reports, for every $1 invested in workplace wellness, a company can expect $3.40 in cost savings or benefits.

Let Define: Health bring the benefits of yoga practice directly to your office.

Why include yoga at your workplace?

Convenience: Having yoga in the workplace offers a convenient way for employees to have a balanced life and to fit a workout in, without having to leave the premises. When you are sedentary all day at work, your mind and body fatigue faster, leaving you with less energy to give to your job and family. This is a cost effective method of incorporating exercise easily into your day!

Health: Stress is directly linked to the root cause chronic health problems including: heart disease, digestive problems, obesity, depression, insomnia and headaches.

Morale: Providing yoga classes to your employees allows them to meet and interact with co-workers and supervisors in a casual way that can lead to deeper work relationships.

contact dr.baldassarra@definehealth.ca to bring yoga to your office

Acupuncture

Acupuncture is used to encourage natural healing, improve mood and energy, reduce or relieve pain and improve function of affected areas of the body. It is safe and effective and it is often used as an adjunct to chiropractic care and physiotherapy. The World Health Organization has recognized the effectiveness of acupuncture in the treatment of many conditions including acute injuries, arthritis, digestive disorders, respiratory disorders and headaches.

Acupuncture treatment has been extensively studied in both eastern and western scientific literature, and has been practiced for thousands of years. Acupuncture stimulates the nervous system to put the body’s natural mechanisms of healing into action.

The practitioner will use acupuncture as a treatment modality along with other therapeutic approaches, as needed. The contemporary acupuncture practitioner applies treatment following a conventional view and regards the acupuncture as having certain local tissue effects as well as providing segmental analgesia, extra-segmental analgesia, as well as central regulatory effects on the nervous system. Only single use, sterile, disposable needles are used.

Acupuncture Treatments are safe and effective:

Promote healing of the joints, nerves, muscles, and other soft tissues
Decrease pain and inflammation
Increase circulation and promote tissue healing

Acupuncture produces many of its effects by stimulating nerve receptors in skin and muscle. Various substances are released that cause an increase of local blood flow that encourages tissue healing.

Acupuncture helps to reduce pain locally where the needles are inserted and throughout the body.
Acupuncture has a calming effect and produces well-being.
Acupuncture inactivates myofascial trigger points.
Acupuncture has effects on the brain.

Contemporary Medical Acupuncture

Needling certain points in the body stimulates the nervous system to release chemicals in the brain, spinal cord and muscles. These chemicals will change the experience of pain, or they will trigger the release of other chemicals and hormones which influence the body’s own internal regulating system. The improved energy and biochemical balance produced by acupuncture results in stimulating the body’s natural healing abilities, and by promoting physical and emotional well-being. One of the strengths of contemporary acupuncture is its safety. Serious side effects are very rare.

Who can benefit from acupuncture?

Acupuncture can be effective as the only treatment or as an adjunct to other therapeutic interventions.

The World Health Organization recognizes the use of acupuncture in the treatment of:

Neurological and muscular disorders: headaches, neck and back pain, sports injuries, sciatica, osteoarthritis, neuritis and facial pain
Digestive disorders: irritable bowel, constipation, diarrhea and gastritis
Menstrual and reproductive problems: dysmenorrhea and perimenopausal symptoms
Urinary tract disorders: prostatitis and bladder dysfunction
Respiratory problems: sinusitis, asthma, sore throat and recurrent respiratory tract infections
Stress

Does it hurt?

People experience acupuncture needling differently. Most patients feel only minimal pain as the needles are inserted; some feel no pain at all. Once the needles are in place, there is no pain felt. Acupuncture is safe and effective with relatively no side effects

Active Release Techniques

Active Release Techniques (ART®) is a soft tissue therapy that focuses on the muscles, tendons, fascia and nerves. This technique is most commonly recognized to help athletes improve performance and recover from injury.

Sport Performance Care

Detailed assessment and specialized care for performance enhancement in individual sports. Sport performance care emphasizes injury prediction and prevention. Performance care acts to elevate an athlete’s abilities in his or her chosen sport. Subtle changes in the physiology of an athlete body can have tremendous impact on the time and effort required to perform an activity.

Athletes, whether amateur or elite, are constantly aiming to perform at 100% within their personal sport domain. Occasionally, stiffness, low energy, loss of power or chronic injury prevents the athlete from performing at optimal levels. In these circumstances, sport performance care is the treatment of choice.

Sport performance care emphasizes sport specific protocols for treatment of both competitive and recreational athletes. Personalized treatment plans help speed recovery and enhance performance.

Enhance Performance

Throughout sport or vigorous activity your body tends to continuously break down and repair itself. The stress of training and high level performance causes your body to break down at a much faster rate than it can repair itself leading to “microtrauma.” Your body attempts unsuccessfully to heal itself by laying down scar tissue. Scar tissue forms adhesions and limits range of motion, ultimately affecting performance. Your nervous system that supplies your muscles and soft tissue adapts to this malfunction and thus begins to perform at sub-optimal levels.

Specialized Treatments

Sport performance care treatments utilize musculo-neuological and soft tissue techniques in order to assess function, diagnose and treat the barriers that your body creates. By breaking down scar tissue and facilitating proper nerve pathways to the injured tissues, sport specific therapy techniques increase oxygen and nutrients, and increase performance.

Optimize Function
Sport Performance Care helps each athlete maintain optimal muscle and nerve function in order to train harder, faster and more efficiently. Performance Care allows athletes to avoid injury during regular season and off-season training, enhancing form and function.

Benefits of Sport Performance Care:
• Offering relief from muscle aches and fatigue
• Preventing and treating delayed onset muscle soreness
• Enhancing recovery from exercise
• Relieving myofascial pain
• Relieving spasm and cramps
• Preparing for competition
• Increasing circulation
• Aiding recovery and rehabilitation following muscle injury
• Managing/controlling of aches and tension caused by repetitive activity
• Helping to restore and maintain flexibility

Laser Therapy

Laser therapy, also known as Phototherapy, utilizes, high-energy light to promote healing, reduce pain, inflammation and swelling in tissues. Phototherapy uses a specific type of light to penetrate the skin’s surface and underlying tissues to stimulate the body’s natural repair processes. The result is faster healing and reduced pain, swelling and inflammation.

Medical Gradient Compression Hosiery

Medical gradient compression stockings improve venous and lymphatic blood flow. Our THERAFIRM®stockings are designed to deliver a controlled amount of pressure which is greatest at the ankle of the garment and gradually decreases towards the top of the stocking. This gradient pressure promotes better venous blood flow which in turn helps to prevent leg fatigue, control swelling, varicosities, other problematic leg conditions.

Custom Orthotics

Orthotics are custom-made inserts that fit comfortably into shoes to support and improve foot function. The feet play an integral role in the biomechanics of the body. A custom orthotic is designed specifically to re-align the foot and improve the mechanics the ankles, knees, hips and back. Orthotic solutions will help alleviate common issues such as arch pain, fallen arches, over pronation and low back pain.

Registered Massage Therapy

Massage therapy treatment has a therapeutic effect on the body and optimizes health and well-being by acting on the muscular, nervous and circulatory systems. Physical function can be developed, maintained and the effects of stress can be relieved or prevented through the use of massage therapy.

There are tremendous benefits to be achieved through regular massage therapy treatments from a Registered Massage Therapist (RMT). Whether your need is to have a moment of relaxation, reduce muscle tension or attain relief from chronic pain, a therapeutic massage can enhance your overall sense of emotional and physical well-being as well as your quality of life.

Massage therapy consists primarily of hands-on manipulation of the soft tissues of the body, specifically, the muscles, connective tissue, tendons, ligaments and joints for the purpose of optimizing health.

A registered massage therapists uses their knowledge of anatomy and physiology to combine traditional and modern massage therapy techniques, along with exercise and other therapies to treat their clients.

As a regulated health profession, massage therapists are overseen by the College of Massage Therapists of Ontario in accordance with the Regulated Health Professions Act and the Massage Therapy Act.

Most progressive extended health insurance plans cover massage therapy treatments when provided by a Registered Massage Therapist, and no referral from your medical doctor is required.

Everyone can benefit from registered massage therapy.

Massage therapy is a proven treatment to reduce stress, anxiety, tension and pain in the body as well as relaxing the mind.
Massage has a holistic effect, increasing both physical and emotional wellbeing.
The general effect of massage includes strengthening the immune system function, increasing circulation and deep relaxation.

Add a Registered Massage Therapist (RMT) to your health care team to help relieve:

Inflammatory conditions such as arthritis and tendinitis
Stress relief and associated conditions
Headaches and migraines
Muscle and related conditions such as spasms, strains and sprains
Back pain
Repetitive strain injury
Circulatory and Respiratory problems
Pregnancy and labour discomfort
Post-injury and post surgical rehabilitation
And many other conditions.

Massage Therapy consistently provides significant improvements in the ability to manage pain and stress.

Therapeutic massage is an important part of a health maintenance plan, by:

Reducing or eliminating pain
Improving joint mobility
Improving circulation
Improving immune system functioning
Increasing lymphatic drainage
Reducing depression and anxiety
Reducing tension within muscles
Increasing body awareness