How does it work?

Have you ever hit your knee really hard and then rubbed it to make the pain go away? The pain doesn’t actually go away. What happens is the surrounding nerves are stimulated by the friction and the pain signal from your knee gets confused. The pain remains the same, but the brain doesn’t register it as much. When you go through TECAR Therapy, an electrode head will be placed on the site of your pain, and you will feel a zapping. This zapping creates the same effect, and it works for much more intense pain. This nerve stimulation can stop your nerves compounding the effect of the initial pain and can ease the inflammation, therefore reducing pain. In addition, the heat speeds up your metabolism. This causes your blood to flow faster and to become more oxygenated.

The result is that more oxygen, and other healing properties of your body’s natural systems, are rushed to the hurt area. The waste is also removed more quickly. The overall result is that your pain is reduced significantly, and the injury is healed more quickly.

All the above-mentioned benefits may also give therapists greater flexibility in the choice of treatment, as these are often limited by the level of tenderness, muscle spasms, or inflammation accompanying an injury or certain types of injuries, such as osteoarthritis and other inflammatory conditions, tendonitis, ankle sprain, contusions, and edema.

Therapy post surgeries for sports injuries or other physical injuries is important to nurse the individual back to health. Thanks to our state-of-the-art equipment in our dedicated physical rehabilitation center, we accompany patients through the recovery and restoration of a wide range of conditions from mild orthopaedic conditions such as joint pain to disabling neurological conditions such as spinal cord injuries and brain injuries, to post-operative rehabilitation of the patient’s knee and shoulder ligament reconstruction and repair. We work in close collaboration with the orthopaedic surgeon in the case of post-operative rehab.

Each condition and each patient are treated differently. We primarily use various therapies, orthosis, adaptive equipment, and assistive devices to treat patients however medications and injections are also used for neurological and orthopaedic conditions to maximise recovery. We also treat athletes having sports injuries such as muscle strain, ligament sprain, tennis elbow, back pain etc. Patients can exercise under the supervision of the physiotherapist.

At Life I Act we believe that knowledge and care are the key to feeling confident and in control of your birthing journey. Thanks to the expertise of our midwife, we have developed an extensive suite of classes, workshops to enable you to work to your strengths getting information in the method that best suits you for birth. Women having their first baby may make use of the full course, through birth preparation, to our antenatal classes, newborn care, breastfeeding class and finally support, sleep and settling after baby is born. Information in birth is power.