Welcome to Embrace Physiotherapy & Massage!
Evidence Based Wellness – Pelvic Health & Physiotherapy
Embrace Pelvic offers expert services for all genders and ages:
– Pelvic Health & Physiotherapy
– Orthopedic physiotherapy
– Massage
We direct bills all major extended health care benefits.
Embrace offers daytime, evening, and weekend appointments at our clinic, located in Airdrie: #105 28 Gateway Dr NE (Inside the Modern Elevation Float Spa)
Phone: 403.992.9151 or
Send email, as instructed in Contact section.
Health and Safety
Precautions For In-Person Appointments
Embrace’s physiotherapists are governed by their regulatory college: Physiotherapy Alberta College + Association.
We adhere to COVID-19 protocol, based on direction from the Government of Alberta’s Chief Medical Officer of Health.
Embrace offers a unique clinic space in that your only contact person will be your health care practitioner.
Precautions for in-person appointments include:
- Embrace conducts pre-screening for COVID-19 symptoms for every client and staff member, prior to all appointments.
- You are emailed a COVID-19 survey 2 hours before your appointment – this step is repeated prior to every in-person appointment.
- You will go to the Clinic door at your scheduled appointment time.
- Only necessary items can be brought into the clinic.
- Hand-sanitizing is completed in the entrance area, prior to proceeding into the treatment room.
- Masks protect everyone; therefore, all staff will be wearing a mask – you must also wear a mask when in the treatment room and/or clinic during appointments.
- We clean and disinfect treatment tables, chairs, and equipment between all client appointments.
If you have any of the symptoms listed below, please self-isolate, call 811, and re-schedule your appointment with Embrace:
- Fever
- New onset of cough
- Sore throat
- Shortness of breath
- New loss or decrease in sense of taste or smell
- Runny nose
- Sneezing (not allergy related).
Telehealth appointments are a good option if you need to stay home.
Heal Your Pelvic Floor - Pelvic Health & Physiotherapy
Pregnancy Care
Prepare your body for birth. Learn how to improve or maintain your fitness safely throughout your pregnancy. We can help reduce your back, hip, or sacroiliac joint pain. We’ll teach you what your body will need after birth so you can go into labor with confidence. We can teach you how to push to open your pelvic floor and discuss delivery positioning and perineal massage.
Postpartum Care
At Embrace Pelvic Health Physio and Massage, we help people heal after birth by taking a holistic approach to your health. We look at your pelvic floor, posture, breathing, and strength to help you return to activities you love. We also help birthing people alleviate back pain, safely return to fitness, have pain free and pleasurable intercourse, and stop leaking. Checking your abdomen for a diastasis rectus abdominis will also assist in putting you on your path to recovery. We will have you achieve your functional goals.
Breastfeeding Assessments
Physiotherapist are known as the movement experts, and while physiotherapy treatment is not the first to come to mind with breastfeeding- breastfeeding is a mechanical skill for both baby and mom. I am specially trained in assessing and identifying infant factors that contribute to breastfeeding difficulties such as tongue tie, torticollis, and tight jaw musculature, all of which have the potential to cause latch difficulties. I am also trained to treat maternal issues that can arise with breastfeeding such as Mastitis, and breast/nipple soreness/pain.
Pelvic Pain
We treat all forms of pelvic pain including pain with intercourse, bladder pain, pain with sitting, tailbone pain, and abdominal discomfort. Stress and trauma can manifest in your pelvic floor. We can help resolve pain by teaching you pelvic floor relaxation, breathing mechanics, posture assessment and correction, manual therapy such as tension release, and strengthening.
Bladder and Bowel Concerns
Leaking is common, but not normal. Learn how to improve your pelvic floor muscles, your posture, and breathing to alleviate leaks, and reduce urgency/frequency. Leaking isn’t all about kegels and pelvic floor muscle strength. It’s about posture, coordinating your pelvic floor muscles to work at the right time, breathing, correctly using your abdominal muscles, and timing.
Constipation can be caused by many body functions from beginning to end sort to speak. The pelvic floor can be a cause or contributing factor. Many people suffer from not knowing how to push to move their bowels, accidentally squeezing their pelvic floor muscles, and sitting with incorrect posture all leading to constipation. We will teach you the correct habits and techniques to get your bowels moving regularly.
Prolapse
We treat (and help to prevent!) bladder prolapse (cystocele), bowel prolapse (rectocele), and uterine prolapse. We can help you prevent or recover from surgery. Pelvic organ prolapse can affect your activities, how you feel about your body, and your life. We’ll use the best evidence to help you support your pelvic organs and get back to what you love. Healing prolapse isn’t all about kegels. We’ll assess you from head to toe from your posture, breathing, pelvic floor and whole body strength, and mechanics.
