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Therapeutic Boosts & Physiotherapy
Columbus Ohio

Recover and heal more efficiently

Go beyond the basics with our wide range of natural physiotherapy remedies that will complement your overall health regimen.

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Heal Faster & Stronger with Physiotherapy

We incorporate a wide range of interconnective physiotherapy treatments and techniques that will boost your overall health regimen, regardless of your stage of care. These modalities are designed to help our patients recover and heal faster, stronger, and better.

Some of the more commonly known therapies include:

Heal Faster & Stronger with Physiotherapy

We incorporate a wide range of interconnective physiotherapy treatments and techniques that will boost your overall health regimen, regardless of your stage of care. These modalities are designed to help our patients recover and heal faster, stronger, and better.

Some of the more commonly known therapies include:

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Cupping

    • Cupping brings blood and nutrients to the surfaces of muscle tissue
    • Cupping therapy is great for releasing muscle tension and restoring flow to areas of stagnation
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Dry Needling

    • Dry needling uses acupuncture needles to reduce trigger points and muscle spasm
    • Dry needling is especially helpful for stubborn, deep, or long reaching muscular tension.
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Electric Muscle Stimulation 

    • Great for relaxing tight muscles and reducing muscle aches and pains
    • EMS is designed to elicit your body’s physiological need to relax after muscle contraction. Effects of electric muscle stimulation continue after use. This is different from the common home “tens unit” which is designed to bombard your pain sensors. Tens units are effective while they are on while EMS has lasting benefits.
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Infrared Sauna

  • Heat therapy is great for boosting your immunity, detoxification, lymph flow, circulation,weight loss, and muscle recovery. 
  • Infrared saunas heat you from the inside out rather than the outside in. As a result, it is often handled better, especially by people with heat intolerances than traditional saunas. 
  • Regular sauna sessions are especially recommended in combination with functional medicine protocols.
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Intersegmental traction

    • Intersegmental traction is designed to improve general movement throughout the spine. It is a great supplement to adjustments and can be used between treatments to prolong the results. 
    • We commonly use this therapy in combination with electric muscle stimulation for added benefit.
    • Intersegmental traction is especially helpful in reducing pain in and along the spine. This can have far reaching effects on extremities as well dependent on the cause of the extremity discomfort.
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Inversion Therapy

    • Inversion tables are great for reversing the burden of gravity on the spine and elongating the intervertebral spaces of the spine for proper alignment and nerve flow
    • This therapy is a great adjunct to most health regimens but may require caution as pressure to the head is increased.
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Light Therapies

    • Infrared heat lamps can help decrease pain, bring nutrients, and flush toxins from local areas. 
    • Daylight therapy can be especially helpful during winter months for improving mood and energy.  
    • Red light therapy can effectively reduce pain and inflammation as well as boost collogen production to enhance overall health and decrease recovery time. Red light can be especially helpful for healing soft tissues.
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Normatec Compression Therapy

  • Compression therapy is great for post-workout recovery, flushing lymph, and relieving aches and pains.
  • Our units have attachments for your arms, pelvis, or legs
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CES-PEMF

  •  ICES-PEMF therapy elicits deep healing at the cellular level. By exposing cells to restoring and healing frequencies, this simple therapy effectively decreases inflammation and improves body’s healing capability.
  • Clinically, we’ve seen reduced healing time for bone, muscle, ligament and tendon injuries, improved GI health, better brain function, and more with the use of these pain free and wearable devices.
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Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA)

    • Body composition scan which assesses factors like inflammation, toxcisity, body fat to lean muscle distribution, and overall health 
    • We’ll reassess your BIA throughout care at AE to assess progress 

Snapshot Diagnostics

    • This urine and saliva test gives us a quick picuture of indicators that may be affecting your healing including infection, stress, and inflammation to name a few. 
    • This is included in your Discovery Evaluation and may be checked periodically to assess progress
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Deep Dive Blood work

    • This is a series of 21 pannels that gives a broad view of your current state of health and direction for care
    • We recommend running this annually to make sure you’re staying well and addressing any dysfunctions or imbalances before they really create problems.

Other diagnostics

    • We may order other tests to assess hormones, organic acids, mineral levels, food sensitivities, or any number of other things as needed. 

Benefits of Physiotherapy and Evolving Sciences

Here at Active Edge, we are committed to utilizing advanced therapeutic techniques and diagnostics as we believe that optimal health can be achieved through a tailored, holistic, and proactive approach. Health sciences are continuing to grow and expand, and we are routinely seeing more studies published about the benefits of natural techniques, physiotherapies, and alternative medicines that bring us back to our roots and how we’ve developed over time.

While traditional medicine has its place, natural therapies can elevate your health and eliminate root causes of pain without the consequences of negative side effects.

Experience the benefits and improve every aspect of your well-being with Active Edge.

Start With The Right Nutrition

We proudly partner with Metagenics to bring you nutritional supplements that act as the first line of defense in the prevention and treatment of disease.

Our Doctors' Credentials and Education

As Doctors of Chiropractic, our education is based on the foundation that our bodies are intelligent and interconnected. Our curriculum includes more nutrition education than medical doctors and some of the most in-depth training in anatomy, microbiology, diagnosis, and vertebral subluxations. We recognize the importance of all systems functioning well together, focus on prevention, and continue to refine our knowledge to heal problems from the inside out.

We are trained extensively regarding therapies that can be beneficial for improving health and decreasing pain both in conjunction and between sessions with your chiropractor. We continue to investigate new therapies and add to our offerings to boost your results. Continuous study ensures we are offering the most effective and cutting edge resources to our patients.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Goal of physical therapy and physiotherapy is the same, to help you recover from injury and relieve your aches, pains, and more. There are many cases where a physical therapist and physiotherapist are the same person. 

 

The biggest difference between the two therapies is that physical therapy is primarily focused on an exercise-based approach where physiotherapy can also include massage, stretching, joint manipulation, and others. 

Physiotherapy can be two different things.

  1. Physiotherapy can reference therapy similar to physical therapy, designed to restore balance, symmetry, efficiency, and strength to your body. Your physiotherapy treatments will begin by restoring range of motion and balance. If you do not have the proper range of motion, you can’t possibly move the correct way. Giving you exercises before restoring range of motion has the potential to reiterate inefficient patterns, exacerbate your symptoms and/or cause other compensations. As range of motion is restored, we’ll move into retraining movement patterns, strengthening, and increasing endurance. These elements usually stack on one another, so you don’t necessarily stop what you began doing initially, but instead you progress to a more challenging level so as to maintain range of motion and balance while increasing strength and endurance.
  2. Physiotherapies can also refer to therapies used to help you heal physically. These include healing strategies likelight therapies, electromagnetic therapies, heat and cryotherapies, vasopneumatic therapy, hydrotherapy, laser, ultrasound, inversion, mechanical traction, and more.

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Stage 3: Nourish & Refresh

At this point, you are feeling better than you ever thought you could as you are feeling energized and thriving. You have learned a lot about your body, you are moving more efficiently, you understand your body’s cues, and you have a good idea of what to do with these cues. This means you get to try new things, achieve new goals, and conquer new challenges!  As you do, we will be here as your resource, as needed, to help you nourish, boost, and refresh your health.

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Stage 2: Activate Healing

Pain is generally the last symptom to show up and the first to go away. This means that by the time you realize there is a problem, there has been a problem for a long time. Especially for chronic or recurring issues, understanding how you got to where you are is so important for getting to where you want to go. In this stage of your journey, you will resolve underlying dysfunction, remove cheats, and retrain habits. As we aid you in activating your body’s natural healing potential, we will help you regain movement, energy, and body function both inside and outside. Throughout this process, you will start to feel greater ease and inspiration as you restore communication and efficiency in your body. Together, we will constantly assess, observe, and reassess your body’s responses to boost your results.

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Stage 1: Discover Root Cause

You are your own person, with your own collection of life events which brought you to where you are today. You deserve to be heard, seen, and treated as the individual you are. Your journey begins with your Discovery Evaluation. This first visit includes your exam which works to uncover the root of your issue(s), new patient diagnostics, and, of course, your first treatment. This is how we will help you begin connecting the dots and feeling better. After your first treatment, we will ask you to observe your body’s responses– good, bad, or indifferent. There is no wrong answer as this is just starting point information and direction for moving forward. In your second visit, we will review this feedback and your diagnostics to further identify potential underlying causes and compensations. We will combine everything we have learned about you, consider your goals, and together create a plan to resolve your concerns from the roots up