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Physical Therapy
Physical Therapy can help improve, maintain or restore movement patterns for those living with neurological conditions.
Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapy focuses on daily tasks and is complimentary to other forms of rehabilitation, including physiotherapy.
Massage Therapy
A wide variety of techniques can be incorporated into an effective treatment plan for individuals coping with a neurological diagnosis or injury.
Respiratory Therapy
Respiratory Therapy involves the evaluation and diagnosis of respiratory issues, offering options for treatment, management, and ongoing assessments to improve breathing.
Functional Neurological Chiropractic
This therapy focuses on how the central nervous system's communication with the brain has been impacted from spinal cord injuries or neurological diagnoses.
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is part of our multi-disciplinary approach that may be used to treat and manage spinal cord injuries or neurological conditions.
Speech-Language Pathology
This therapy is beneficial when dealing with difficulties involving speech, language, voice, fluency, and dysphagia (swallowing disorders), resulting from a traumatic brain injury, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's, or Stroke.
Mental Health Support
Coping with a life changing spinal cord injury or neurological diagnosis can greatly impact personal well being, family and interpersonal relationships and the ability to contribute to society.
Neuro Supportive Nutrition
We recognize the profound impact diet can have on symptoms. Our Nutritional Consultants collaborate with our clients to create a customized dietary plan specific to their symptoms.
Physical Therapy can help improve, maintain or restore movement patterns for those living with neurological conditions.
Treatment can involve any of the following:
Restore Range of Motion
Improve Functional Movement & Strength
Improve Motor Planning, Control & Coordination
Rehabilitate Gait Retraining
Retrain Postural Alignment
Stabilize The Core
Decrease Spasticity & Tone
Spina Bifida
Long Covid
Retrain Visual Perceptual Skills
Improve Cardiovascular Endurance
Ensure Safe Transfers
Progress Activities Of Daily Living
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Occupational therapy focuses on daily tasks and is complimentary to other forms of rehabilitation, including physiotherapy.
Occupational therapy helps with physical and/or cognitive challenges that interfere with a person’s ability to complete everyday tasks that are important to them. This can have an impact on physical and mental health when a person loses their sense of purpose or independence. There is some overlap with physiotherapy but also key differences. Physiotherapy may focus on building strength, coordination, and mobility, whereas occupational therapy will focus on these elements, combined with goals that are specific towards the execution of daily tasks. For example, physiotherapy may help with standing tolerance and occupational therapy will help with standing at the sink to do dishes.
Everyday tasks that occupational therapy can help include:
Self-care (dressing, grooming, toileting, showering)
Productivity (going to work or school, getting groceries, taking care of a house, child, or pet, managing finances)
Leisure Activities (sports, recreation, social activities, hobbies)
A wide variety of techniques can be incorporated into an effective treatment plan for individuals coping with a neurological diagnosis or injury.
Massage can help with muscle tone changes resulting from spinal cord injuries, relaxing painful distortions that can occur. It can benefit muscle function, flexibility, range of motion, muscular tightness and increase circulation. Exercise and stretching massage can provide relief for those confined to a wheelchair.
Integrating Craniosacral Therapy (CST), using light touch to manipulate the joints in the cranium or skull, increases the movement of the cerebral spinal fluid in the brain. CST can also be used on parts of the pelvis and spine. Along with reducing physical pain, massage contributes to improved mental health and wellness, decreasing anxiety and depression.
Respiratory Therapy involves the evaluation and diagnosis of respiratory issues, offering options for treatment, management, and ongoing assessments to improve breathing.
Many neurological diseases, spinal cord injuries, lung diseases, lung infections and lung injuries can cause respiratory problems that can progress to impaired pulmonary function. Even mild breathing impairment can make you less energetic, be anxiety inducing and can affect quality of life. Through a number of strategies, tools, technology, and equipment, we can help you find ways to manage symptoms and improve your breathing.
When we conduct our initial breathing assessment, we listen to your story and conduct a series of breathing measurements. By evaluating your breathing chemistry including your blood oxygen levels and exhaled carbon dioxide, we can determine if you are breathing appropriately for your body’s metabolism. Through the analysis of your functional movements and core stability, we discover if you can coordinate breathing movement at the same time.
Respiratory therapy can help you breathe easier and improve lung function and oxygen absorption.
Synaptic has a specialized Breathe Long COVID Support Program for those dealing with Long COVID symptoms.
Introduction to Respiratory Therapy
This therapy focuses on how the central nervous system's communication with the brain has been impacted from spinal cord injuries or neurological diagnoses.
The treatment is specific to our clients’ individual needs with a focus on supporting brain function and enhancing neuro pathways. It may include adjustments to joints, light and sound stimulation, balance-focused exercises, physical exercises, and cognitive care. It can lead to improvements in function and has been highly effective in treating pain.
Acupuncture is part of our multi-disciplinary approach that may be used to treat and manage spinal cord injuries or neurological conditions.
We offer both traditional acupuncture based on Chinese medicine and dry needling release. This can have a positive effect that can increase range of motion, relieve muscle tension, improve spasticity, and contribute to an improved quality of life. For those that have a fear of needles or are hesitant to try this treatment, we can help you feel comfortable and understand the benefits.
Speech-Language Pathology is beneficial when dealing with difficulties involving speech, language, voice, fluency, and dysphagia (swallowing disorders), resulting from a traumatic brain injury, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's, or Stroke.
Articulation is how we say something. Conditions such as Apraxia affects the planning and programming of the muscle, whereas Dysarthria, involves the motor execution of the muscle or the ability to produce clear and accurate speech.
Expressive language is what we say, and receptive language is understanding what we say. Stroke or neurological events can result in common language disorders such as Aphasia, which can affect both expressive and receptive language, impacting comprehension and communication.
Fluency is the flow of speech. Issues with fluency refer to stuttering, which causes breaks in the rhythm of speech. This could be repetition of syllables in words, prolongation of a syllable or blocks before speech is created.
Voice refers to the quality of sound produced during speech. Issues with vocal function can create tension in the throat, impacting loudness or a decreased range of pitch.
Dysphagia refers to difficulty swallowing, impaired chewing, difficulty moving food in the mouth, choking, coughing, and clearing of the throat, while eating.
Paying attention to our mental health is just as important as our physical health. Coping with a life changing spinal cord injury or neurological diagnosis can greatly impact personal well being, family and interpersonal relationships and the ability to contribute to society.
Mental health and mental illness are often used interchangeably but they are actually different. Mental health includes our everyday emotional, psychological, and social well-being. Mental illness is a mental health condition that results in impaired functioning, which is diagnosed by a psychiatrist using the Diagnostic Statistical Manual. Speaking to a Synaptic counsellor is an important part of our care plans to ensure our clients are provided with all of the tools, resources and support that will contribute to their overall mental health. This is a crucial element to helping our clients reach their personal goals and improve their quality of life.
Nutrition is foundational to our client's successful results. We recognize the profound impact diet can have on symptoms. Our Nutritional Consultants collaborate with our clients to create a customized dietary plan specific to their symptoms.
Most people know that diet can be used for weight management, heart health or diseases like Type II Diabetes, but there is typically less awareness around the impact diet can have on reducing symptoms. When it comes to nutrition, it is not about the diagnosis but instead, addressing issues at the biochemical level, which can help support the body’s repair and recovery.
Our Nutritional Consultants explore an extensive list of questions with our clients reviewing their medical history, family’s medical history, digestion, and sleep patterns, which provides the necessary clues to recommend a customized diet that will best support our clients’ individualized needs. Based on these recommendations, easy to execute meal plans and recipes will be provided. For those that don’t have time or can’t shop or cook for themselves, they can be connected to resources to help ensure the nutritional plan can be successfully executed.