Our Approach
Our Mission
At Restorative Sports Therapy, we are dedicated to fostering strong connections, both internally among our team members and externally within our community. Our mission is to ignite a spark in our patients, empowering them to discover strength through movement and nurture the vital mind-body connection. We embody the Restorative Lifestyle in all aspects of our work, speaking to our patients from a place of genuine experience and authenticity. Our goals encompass providing the foundation for individuals to reclaim ownership of their well-being, inspiring and educating with passion, leading the way in clinical excellence, creating a nurturing environment, fostering ongoing growth within our team and culture, pursuing cutting-edge education and prevention strategies, and facilitating the holistic healing journey by bridging emotional and physical well-being.
Our Culture
At Restorative Sports Therapy, our culture is grounded in our core values and traits. We strive to create an empowering and supportive environment where everyone thrives. Emphasizing teamwork, we cultivate strong relationships with family physicians, specialists, coaches, and trainers. Movement, education, and prevention form the cornerstone of our ethos. Continuously investing in personal growth, we aim to enhance our ability to educate and support our patients effectively. As leaders in motivating and challenging both ourselves and our patients, we prioritize true health, encompassing emotional and physical well-being. A positive attitude underpins our culture, as we endeavor to redefine allied healthcare through exemplary clinical care. We are committed to meeting our patients where they are, fostering a sense of community, and leaving a lasting legacy in Okotoks and the Foothills region. Guided by the principle of "ubuntu," we recognize the interconnectedness of humanity. Ultimately, we define wealth as an abundance of health and alignment with our core values, enriching lives through our dedication to holistic well-being.
Our Clinic
As your interdisciplinary team, we specialize in restoring function where breakdown occurs. We prioritize prevention, advocating movement as medicine. Our array of reset techniques includes Gunn IMS, joint and soft tissue manipulation, acupuncture, cupping, and Graston techniques. However, our differentiator lies in education and realignment, employing mobility exercises, yoga, nutrition, and environmental changes. We emphasize restoring movement patterns through stabilization, motor programming, and fundamental movement training.
What separates us from the rest? We value the importance of the mind-body connection through strength in movement. We feel healing truly takes place when patients find this connection and adopts it into their lifestyle and training regimen – and becomes even more powerful when you learn how to adapt it to the demands through different times or seasons of life. Restorative is not just a place of quick fixes, Restorative is place where people come to restore balance to both body and mind. We are very proud to have a special focus in 1-on-1 private individualized injury care, management, and prevention. We feel this is missing in sports rehabilitation and believe our approach heals you on a cellular level, and this healing takes place as soon as you walk through our doors.
Reset, Realign, Restore, Recover
your 4 R’s to Strength in Movement.
Reset
We have various ways to reset the muscle(s) that may be a cause or the result in tightness due to a mobility or stability motor control issue. Our physiotherapist uses various needling/acupuncture techniques, joint mobilization and manipulations, along with mobility home programs. Our Massage therapist is incredibility skilled with soft tissue manipulation to work out adhesions, fascial restrictions, or adaptive shortening. One of the benefits to visiting an interdisciplinary team is the ability to call in the strengths of each team member to help with the reset phase of treatment.
Realign
has everything to do with reinforcing proper movement patterns. Every activity has certain movement requirements or pre-requisites. Through our extensive knowledge and passion on how the body works is how we help you develop power through strength in movement. Restorative has a large focus on providing you with sufficient education during your treatment so you can take and incorporate it into your daily life, training regimen, and through the different seasons of your life.
Restore
Restore function and strength using full body functional movements under load. We will help guide you through the proper way to reload your tissues choosing the best exercise(s) and fundamental movements for the specific demands of your activity.
Recover
The final stage in your rehabilitation program - one often overlooked or under prescribed. Recovery can be as simple as having a rest day to allow the tissues to adapt to the new loads being applied, or it can be an active recovery where we add in an alternative form of exercise at a lower intensity so the nervous system can auto-regulate. Recovery is not to be underestimated, as the old saying goes, “train smarter, not harder”.
