Does insurance cover Physiotherapy?

Yes, we accept most insurance plans including those associated with motor vehicle accident and work place injury claims. Please have a look at our insurance page for more information.

Many workers in Ontario have partial or full coverage for Physiotherapy through their workplace health plans. The physiotherapy patient is provided with a detailed itemized receipt listing the services provided, the credentials of our therapist, as well as payment details for reimbursement. You do not necessarily require a physician's referral to attend physiotherapy however some insurance companies may require this for reimbursement purposes.

We are happy to offer direct billing for our Physiotherapy services. Please give us a call or inquire during your next visit.

What types of treatment do you offer?

Physiotherapy management combines many factors in order to treat and diagnose problems

What Conditions Can Physiotherapy Treat?

Physiotherapy can help you if you are are trying to recover from injury or better manage a chronic condition. Physiotherapy aims to restore movement in the body where there has been injury. Our experts have treated a wide variety of conditions:

How effective is Physiotherapy?

Physiotherapy can be a safe alternative for individuals who may be considering medications or surgery to manage or treat their condition. Results from Physiotherapy are supported by scientific research and literature. Often it is used as a conservative measure which is easily accessible to patients over other more invasive and riskier interventions such as surgery or pharmaceuticals. With a good Physiotherapist your injuries may be resolved sooner and without spending as much!
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Physio can be effective for many people for a variety of problems. Below we have provided links to some of the most up to date research supporting physical therapy interventions.

"..."all three treatments in our study led to substantial improvements in patient-reported shoulder pain and function. None of the treatments were clearly superior. Arthroscopic capsular release resulted in the least number of further treatments but carried higher risks and costs. The early structured physiotherapy pathway with steroid injection could be accessed quickly in the NHS, but more patients who had physiotherapy needed further treatment. Manipulation under anesthesia was the most cost-effective option but with a longer waiting time to access than physiotherapy. These findings should help clinicians to discuss treatment options with patients during shared decision making and encourage surgeons to use capsular release more selectively when less costly and less invasive interventions fail."

The differences in patient-reported outcomes between the treatment groups at 3 months were influenced by longer waiting times for the surgical interventions (26 [13%] manipulation participants and 46 [23%] capsular participants commenced treatment after the 3-month follow-up). The planned analysis of our primary outcome, OSS, adjusted for variable waiting times between the three interventions using additional data that was collected on the day of treatment and 6 months after treatment. In this analysis, the difference in benefit of capsular release over physiotherapy at 12 months included a confidence interval that marginally overlapped with the minimal clinically important difference of 5 points. Therefore, clinically meaningful group differences might potentially exist between capsular release and early structured physiotherapy in the wider population. We observed no meaningful differences in OSS between the two surgical interventions at any timepoint. Although patients with diabetes had poorer outcomes than patients without diabetes at all timepoints, we found no evidence of an effect on the primary outcome of participants' diabetes status, receipt of previous physiotherapy, baseline treatment preferences, or length of frozen shoulder symptoms at baseline.

Serious complications were rare, although the arthroscopic capsular release group was relatively less safe.