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The Motiva Approach is specifically designed for people with difficult pain, injuries, and physical health conditions. It achieves results even in persistent or severe conditions because it addresses every contributing and affected system in the body in a holistic and complete process. This requires specialized training and expertise. This is what we do at Motiva.

DO YOU HAVE ANY OF THE
FOLLOWING QUESTIONS?

Your Motiva team is composed of physiotherapists and kinesiologists. Why? An
important part of what makes Motiva more effective is that our process is multi-
dimensional. These approaches can include: a wide range of manual therapy,
such as spinal adjustment or soft tissue mobilization, advanced exercise
instruction, biomechanics retraining, ergonomics and movement analysis (for
sport, work, and gym), and application of numerous physical tools, such as
ultrasound, traction, and electrotherapies. The specifics of each approach evolve
as research improves. Physiotherapists are the only physical rehabilitation
professionals who are uniquely educated and trained to provide the wide-ranging
treatment approaches we use at Motiva necessary to address every dimension of
your problem or injury to full resolution and to prevent recurrence. In our
experience, kinesiologists are the best suited to work together with
physiotherapists as we are educated in the same (university and science-based)
system. Together, your Motiva physiotherapist-kinesiologist team will help you
optimize all affected systems to help you achieve your best and fullest recovery.

Many therapies address only a component of all the body’s systems that either contribute or are affected by pain, injury, disease, or degenerative change. Addressing only a part of what’s affected can lead to chronic pain or incomplete recovery of strength and function. Have you fully addressed pain and inflammation, joint and muscle mechanics, neuromuscular control, strength, flexibility, and safe return to sport, work, and leisure activities?

CALM PAIN & INFLAMMATION

Pain is a normal consequence of injury, disease, and degenerative change. Pain can
be acute and inflammatory. It can also be the result of a persistent disruption of the
body’s pain-reporting system. The best way to address pain depends greatly on the
type and cause. Your Motiva team has specialized training specifically in pain science
and can help you navigate this to conquer acute or persistent pain.

restore joint &
muscle mechanics

Not just overall flexibility but also the mobility vs stability of each individual joint, body part, and system of body parts can greatly affect your function and how susceptible the body is to pain and injury. Injuries and other conditions can lead to lasting hyper- mobilities, which can then lead to stiff joints above and below the affected area and is often also the cause of stiff muscles. This is why just addressing stiff muscles does not cure the problem! This is also why just ‘adjusting’ the neck and back repeatedly does not lead to lasting relief. Both too much and too little flexibility, not just in the body as a whole, but also in each specific joint, can lead to lasting or recurrent pain and injury. A detailed biomechanical examination is part of the Motiva process to identify what needs to be strengthened and what needs to be stretched to truly get you better.

RESTORE
neuromuscular CONTROL

Neuromuscular control refers to the body’s finely-tuned control of each individual muscle and thus how each joint, bone, body part, and then whole body as a system moves in synchrony. Much more than just strength and speed, it’s neuromuscular control that separates elite athletes from weekend warriors in sport, or experts from novices in other work and life skills. Pain and injury disrupt the body’s neuromuscular control and can prevent full recovery and optimized function in sport, work, and life, without specialized intervention. The Motiva recovery process focuses hard on restoring and optimizing neuromuscular control so that, in addition to resolving your pain and mobility, you get back to optimal physical function for work, sport, and living life to the fullest.

strength & flexibility

Working diligently at the gym but your body still hurts? Bewildered by the volume of complex and sometimes conflicting advice on the internet? In fact, research on protocols for optimal strength training results has improved by leaps and bounds in recent years. Motiva therapists are specially trained in helping you navigate the key research findings to optimize your results, with the education background combined with training to give advice specific to the context of your injury, condition, and lifestyle.

SAFE RETURN TO
SPORT, WORK & LIFE

Every sport, every job, and every individual’s life has different physical and mental
demands that require a different emphasis to return to optimal performance. Your team
at Motiva includes runners, hikers, soccer players, baseball players, basketball players,
volleyball players, and dancers. Each is a regular at the gym. Motiva prioritizes
understanding your specific sport, work, and life demands to customize your treatment
to your needs. In combination with academic theory, Motiva’s team-based approach is
designed to take advantage of the full range of our collective experience to get you back
to what you love to do safely, effectively, and without pain.