Longevity therapy, in its purest sense, is a field of alternative health that focuses on optimizing health not just to increase one’s lifespan, but to improve quality of life throughout. The concept is growing in popularity across the country and continent, including here in the BC Lower Mainland. Treatment is holistic, encompassing a number of medical interventions, therapies, nutritional guidelines, and lifestyle practices. Liking the sound of this (who wouldn’t?) you are online and searching “longevity clinic Vancouver” and have come across this resource. You’ll be glad that you did, as one of the most critical disciplines in any holistic longevity treatment plan is physiotherapy. Read ahead to find out why.
4 Direct Ways a Physiotherapy Clinic Contributes to Your Longevity Treatment Plan
Corrects Pain and Malfunction to Improve Quality of Life
If we live with physical pain and malfunction, we can’t participate in a large number of healthy activities that will not only improve our quality of life, but extend it. Furthermore, recent research has found that ongoing pain is associated with an increased risk of dying early. This link between chronic pain and mortality is evidence enough that physiotherapy must be integrated into your longevity treatment plan.
Directly Targets Age-Related Concerns
Early intervention prevention and mitigation of existing symptoms connected to age-related concerns is another critical component to longevity treatment. It is known that physiotherapy is instrumental to managing a number of common age-related concerns, including (but not exclusive to) arthritis (view treatments) and osteoporosis.
Boosts Libido and Sexual Satisfaction for a Longer Life
A wide body of research has shown that an active sex life is closely correlated with a longer life. Studies have found that sex may lower the risk for heart attacks, heart diseases, strokes, and more. Therefore, anything you can do to have more healthy sex, the better! The great news (for anyone reading this) is that there are three direct ways physiotherapy can treat sexual dysfunction and greatly improve and extend one’s sex life. View these juicy details, right here.
Physiotherapy Assessments Catch Medical Issues for Early Intervention
Sometimes the chronic pain we feel is not due to a musculoskeletal injury or malfunction, but an underlying medical issue such as a disease with symptomatic pain and muscle/joint malfunction. A physiotherapy clinic assessment can dismiss pain and malfunction due to injury, and refer a client to a physician (or their own family doctor) for a medical diagnosis which can lead to early intervention treatment. Given that prevention of age-related diseases is a major part of longevity treatment, you can see why an assessment from a physiotherapist is instrumental.
Your search for a longevity clinic in Vancouver begins here. Let Absolute PhysioCare take care of the musculoskeletal component of your treatment plan beginning today – book a consultation at our Burnaby clinic via the contacts provided below.