Physiotherapy

Physiotherapists are health care professionals, known as movement specialists, who play a significant role in health promotion and treatment of injury and disease. They work with the health care team, patients and their families to assess, diagnose and treat symptoms of illness, injury or disability and expedite discharge planning.

The Physiotherapists at SJGHEL, work in close collaboration with their Physiotherapist Assistants, and use their in-depth knowledge of the body and their specialized hands-on clinical skills to provide assessment, treatment, education and consultation to inpatients that require ongoing intervention for specific goals in the area of range of motion, strength, mobility and gait training, balance training, endurance and functional retraining. Our Physiotherapists and Physiotherapist Assistants work on the Medical Surgical Units, Intensive Care Unit, and in our Continuing Care Unit.

Services

Physiotherapy may be provided during your Hospital stay as an inpatient. Please note that SJGHEL does not provide outpatient/community-based Physiotherapy services. The benefits of Physiotherapy may include improved mobility, pain management, improved range of motion and strength, improved cardiorespiratory function, enhanced balance and coordination and prevention of injury/condition reoccurrence.

Physiotherapy can be beneficial:

• after surgery,
• after traumatic injury,
• for fall prevention and/or frail individuals,
• and for patients with:
  • neurological disease,
  • musculoskeletal disease,
  • cardiac and respiratory disease,
  • cancer, and
  • complex medical conditions with multiple system involvement.

Our Team 

Our team at SJGHEL includes Physiotherapists and Physiotherapist Assistants. All Physiotherapists at SJGHEL are licensed by the College of Physiotherapists of Ontario.