Our services

The Toronto Pain and Headache Clinic provides many different services. We combine the best from Eastern and Western medicines to effectively treat our patients. While we can treat many problems our patients face, if our diagnosis suggests the care of Western medicine, we will make the appropriate referrals.

In addition to our highly qualified doctors and therapists we maintain an extensive referral network with Dentists and TMJ Specialists throughout Ontario to provide complete health care to our patients.

To help our patients get better faster, we also incorporate the use of nutritional supplements, herbal remedies, orthopaedic devices and postural aids.

Click on one of the links below to learn about our different services:

Chiropractic Care

Chiropractic Care addresses joint problems (called subluxations) anywhere in the spine or extremities that can cause poor postures, abnormal spinal curvatures, malfunctioning muscular, neurological, and organic systems. A subluxation exists where bones, especially those of the spine become misaligned or lose their normal range of movement. These problem sites irritate local nerves, which interferes with proper communication between your brain and body. Using highly skilled, gentle adjustments these unhealthy effects on your body are reduced and corrected. Chiropractic is the third largest health care profession in Canada and a leader in natural, complementary and alternative healing. The Manga Report (a milestone study by the Ontario Ministry of Health) concluded that chiropractic is safer, more effective and more scientific, than any other treatment available for low-back pain.

Our Chiropractic doctors have over twenty years of experience in treating a wide variety of complaints including:

  • Headaches
  • Migraines
  • Lower back pain
  • Neck pain
  • Joint pain such as osteoarthritis
  • Sciatica
  • Postural problems
  • Jaw pain such as temporomandibular dysfunction
  • Neuralgias such as Bell’s Palsy, Shingles
  • Digestive problems such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome

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    Chirodontic Care:

    This treatment strategy integrates chiropractic, dental and cranial orthopedics to address distortions throughout the structure of the human body. Coordination of Chiropractic and Dental treatment means better and faster outcomes for our patients.

    Benefits of the Chirodontic syntax of treatment:

    • Faster treatment results for spinal and TMJ disorders
    • Integrated correction of spinal posture and facial symmetry
    • Better retention of improvements with less relapse
    • Dental and Chiropractic treatment integrated to bring resolution and completion of care

    Acupuncture Therapy:

    Acupuncture Therapy is an ancient Chinese medical technique that employs fine, sterile needles to stimulate energy channels (also called meridians) in the body to restore balance and harmony. This is done by stimulating specific points in the body that have been shown to give specific healing effects. The Chinese has mapped these points over a period of about 5 thousand years. Recently, Electromagnetic research has confirmed their locations.

    The World Health Organization has stated that acupuncture is effective for:

  • Headaches and migraines
  • Neuralgia (nerve pain), and nerve paralyses
  • Recuperation after strokes or transient ischemic attacks
  • Frozen shoulder or rotator cuff tendinitis
  • Tennis elbow
  • Low-back pain and sciatica
  • Osteo- and rheumatoid arthritis
  • Gynecological complaints
  • Gastrointestinal disorders such as IBS, duodenal ulcers,constipation and diarrhea, inflammatory bowel diseases
  • Asthma
  • Toothache
  • Colds and flu’s, sinus inflammation

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    Shiatsu Massage Therapy

    Shiatsu is a relaxing therapeutic massage from Japan that is based on over 4,000 years of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Literally translated, it’s the Japanese word meaning “finger pressure”. As a result it’s often referred to as acupuncture without needles, or acupressure.

    The intention of shiatsu is to relax your muscles and balance your Qi (vital energy of life). You will feel relaxed as deep tension is released from your body and your nervous system reaches a parasympathetic mode. Its activation provides a unifying experience of body, mind, spirit and environment. Only once this is achieved will your body begin to heal and rejuvenate itself.

    Regular shiatsu treatments help to maintain your optimum health by improving your circulation, strengthening your immune system and reducing the symptoms of stress, anxiety and pain.

    Shiatsu Therapists do not use oils during a treatment. Combining acupressure with stretching, to achieve balance within your body, they tailor the pressure to what your body requires using their thumbs, palms and elbows. You will feel relaxed as deep tension is released from your body and your energy begins to flow freely. This activates your body’s healing power.

    Shiatsu helps to relieve:

    • stress
    • lack of energy
    • muscular stiffness
    • back pain
    • whiplash
    • headaches
    • fatigue
    • neck and shoulder pain
    • migraines
    • carpal tunnel syndrome
    • muscle tension and spasm
    • PMS and menstrual pain
    • repetitive strain injury (RSI)
    • difficulty sleeping
    • water retention
    • pain from arthritis
    • constipation

    Registered Massage Therapy

    Hands on approach to manipulation of the soft tissues of the body. Massage therapy has been used throughout the ages to correct improper tone in muscles, connective tissue, tendons, ligaments, joints and fascia.

    With the advent of modern science massage therapists will also use specific orthopaedic testing to assess a patient’s condition.

    The use of specific massage techniques with hydrotherapy applications, specific remedial exercises will help achieve a balanced state in the patient, leading to physical and emotional well being.

    Massage therapy helps to relieve:

    • Migraine and Tension headache
    • Whiplash
    • Overuse injuries( tendinitis, bursitis, frozen shoulder)
    • Scoliosis
    • Tempormandibular Joint Dysfunction
    • Multiple Sclerosis
    • Parkinson's
    • Radial/Ulnar/Median nerve lesions
    • Sciatica
    • Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
    • Fibromyalgia
    • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

    Trigenics Therapy / Muscle Release Techniques:

    Trigenics Therapy a neurologically-based manual treatment system for the release or muscles and soft tissues which dramatically alleviates pain, accelerates healing and strengthens muscles. It is fast, painless and effective for injury rehabilitation.It is also effectively used in athletic performance enhancement and energetic balancing of the body’s energy meridians.

    Muscle Release and Trigenics techniques are performed by simultaneously stretching the muscle and applying trigger points.

    Trigenics and Muscle Release techniques aims to:

    • resolve muscular and fascial adhesions
    • restore normal physiological glide to the body's structures
    • improve range of motion
    • alleviate pain
    • enhance physiological function and athletic performance of muscles, ligaments, and tendons

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