Navigating Your Body: How to Choose the Right Treatment & Therapist
At Back At It Sports & Wellness, we operate as a collaborative multidisciplinary team across all of our clinic locations, offering a variety of distinct therapies from massage therapy and acupuncture, to osteopathy and naturopathic medicine. This means we can support a wide variety of patient goals!
However, we know that figuring out how to handle an injury, condition, chronic soreness, or general body fatigue can be overwhelming. When you’re in pain or feeling out of balance, the last thing you want to do is guess which discipline or practitioner to book.
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đź’¬ Ask Us!
Our Support Team is available to help guide you to finding the right care for your needs. We encourage you to reach out to us to help you find a good fit. Get in touch HERE.
We also encourage you to read on for a step-by-step guide to help you book with confidence. If you’re not sure who to book, you don’t need to know exactly what treatment you need. Start with what’s bringing you in, then use our guide to find the right discipline and practitioner for you.
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💡Step 1: Identify what’s bringing you in & choose which discipline is a good starting point for your care.
What’s bringing you in?
- Muscle or joint aches and pains or recovery from a sports injury? Any of our disciplines would be happy to help you! We recommend choosing the style of treatment you’ll enjoy the most. Consider osteopathy for a gentler approach that includes stretching and mobilizations while you are clothed.
- Digestive support? Starting with our naturopathic medicine or acupuncture team is a great choice.
- Fertility support? Our acupuncture team supports many patients with fertility. Naturopathic medicine is another great option.
- Pregnancy or postpartum? Our massage therapy team includes practitioners who offer targeted treatment for pregnant or post-partum patients. Osteopathy, naturopathic medicine, and acupuncture are also options to meaningfully support your perinatal goals.
Each discipline has its own style, philosophy, and benefits for various conditions. To read more about each discipline, including benefits, conditions treated, and style, check out their information pages by following the links below:
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Step 2: Choose the practitioner from your selected discipline
Massage Therapy
In addition to feeling great, massage is a beneficial treatment to support recovery and management of a variety of conditions. We are proud that our team is continually learning and many of our therapists are offering targeted treatments to meet the needs of specific populations. To choose a practitioner to meet your needs, choose what you’re looking for from the list:
Muscle and joint aches and pains related to overuse, posture, or sports injuries; For any adult, whether you’re an athlete, desk jockey, or household manager! This is the specialty of our massage therapy team.→Book with any of our massage therapists; select based on style, experience, and availability
Relaxation and mindfulness; for people who want to destress and take some time to themselves.→Book with any of our massage therapists; select based on style, experience, and availability
Pre and post natal patients; For people who are pregnant or postpartum and looking for massage adapted to the needs of pregnancy and recovery. →Book our “Targeted Massage: Pre and Post Natal Treatments”
Scar treatment; For people looking for support with scar-related pain, stiffness, sensitivity, mobility or appearance following surgery or injury. →Book our “Targeted Massage: Scar Treatment”
Temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMJD); For people experiencing jaw tension or pain, including concerns involving the jaw, face and neck. →Book our “Targeted Massage: TMJ Treatment”
Kids and youth; Massage adapted to the needs and comfort of younger clients.→Book a general massage therapy appointment, but be sure to select the “Child/Teen Massage” options
| Booking from your mobile device? | Booking from your computer? |
| After selecting your location, scroll down through the disciplines until you find Massage Therapy or the Targeted Massage you are looking for. | After selecting your location, choose your treatment from the left-hand side table |
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🧠We are a proud bunch of nerds and are continually learning, so if your specific concern isn’t listed yet, please check back with us, or reach out to find out which practitioner is best suited to you!
Looking for a specific style or pressure? Each practitioner has a slightly different style and offers varied modalities and techniques. To learn more about style, such as deeper pressure, sports massage, a gentler approach, or the tools they use in treatment, such as graston, read the “style” section of their bios HERE.
Choosing a practitioner from another discipline:
Our Acupuncture, Chinese medicine, Osteopathy and Naturopathic Medicine teams are currently small. We recommend booking in advance, particularly if you have a specific practitioner in mind.
To read more about each practitioner, visit their bios HERE. To read more about the care they provide and conditions they treat, visit the discipline’s description page:
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We Collaborate!
Still not 100% sure if you picked the “perfect” service or practitioner? Don’t stress.
When you book with Back At It, you aren’t just getting one therapist, you’re getting a whole team. During your first appointment, your practitioner will evaluate your body and symptoms. If they feel another therapy or team member in our clinic would yield better results, we will seamlessly refer you internally.
And if your injury requires care beyond our scope (like physiotherapy or chiropractic care), we have trusted local relationships in the Bow Valley and will help direct you to the right outside care provider.
- đź“© Unsure? Send us an email by contacting us HERE
- đź“… Ready to book? Click HERE to BOOK ONLINE at Canmore Downtown, Bow Valley Trail, or Banff
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