General Inquiries
Many extended benefit plans cover all or a significant portion of Physiotherapy assessments and treatment fees. To learn about your specific plan’s coverage, we recommend that you get in touch with your insurance provider directly.
No, Physiotherapists have been considered Primary Health Professionals since 1995. With this change, Physiotherapy services may be accessed directly without a referral from your Physician. However, if you have an extended Health Care Provider, the Provider may still require a Physician’s referral to Physical Therapy before reimbursing your fees.
If there are any immediate medical concerns, please see your Physician to assess these concerns and ensure that there are no contraindications to beginning Physiotherapy. If there are no immediate medical concerns or once any medical concerns have been cleared, accessing Physical Therapy immediately can help with an accurate diagnosis, provide you with a proper environment for healing of your injury and prevent any delays in healing.
At present, DaVinci Wellness Centre is not an Alberta Health Services contracted clinic. Therefore, we do not offer any Community Rehabilitation Programs (CRP).
Currently, our Clinic is set up for direct billing through Alberta Blue Cross (including Alberta School Employee Benefits Plan, RCMP, Department of Veterans Affairs), Sunlife, Standard Life, Manulife, Great West Life, Chamber of Commerce and Johnston Insurance (also known by Maximum Benefits). We are working with other benefits providers to allow us to be able to direct bill. Please feel free to contact our office to see if your extended health plan allows direct billing for Physiotherapy or Massage Therapy. We are also able to direct bill on your behalf to Motor Vehicle Insurance companies (as legislated by the Diagnostic and Treatment Protocols of Alberta) and WCB.
Absolutely! We focus on providing one and one Treatments with our patients. In addition to time spent directly with your Physiotherapist, you may also interact with our Registered Personal Trainer or Kinesiologist as they assist with exercise supervision.
At DaVinci Wellness Centre West Edmonton, our first step in managing your injury is to perform a detailed assessment to accurately determine what we need to focus on. Following the assessment, our Physical Therapists will provide you with a balanced Orthopedic Physical Therapy treatment plan, which may include, but is not limited to, Manual Therapy, Therapeutic Exercises, Thermal Modalities, Electrical Modalities and/or Dry Needling/IMS.
An assessment is needed to get to the root of your pain and movement related problems. An assessment allows us to identify the cause of your symptoms, provide a diagnosis, establish goals for treatment and develop a treatment plan.
This is a difficult question to answer without any context. The number of treatments you’ll have to attend depends on many things including the severity of your injury, other medical issues and goals for treatment. Following your Initial Assessment, your Physiotherapist will be able to give you an approximate timeframe for your recovery and how many sessions may be required.
You may feel sore following your Initial Assessment, because in an effort to get to the root of your pain, your Physiotherapist needs to identify what reproduces your pain. Part of your Initial Assessment will include a discussion about ways to decrease and manage your pain post assessment.
Booking a Physiotherapy Assessment is really easy! You have the option to call DaVinci Wellness at 587-635-3222 and choose a day and time that works best for you. If you are more internet savvy you can book your appointment online. No doctor’s prescription or referral is needed, unless specified by your extended health benefit plan.
Please wear something that you are comfortable in. Your Physical Therapist will need to see the area of the body that is being assessed/treated, so please ensure that that area can be shown or please bring a change of clothes to be able to expose the area. If you forget the change of clothes, we do have medical gowns and shorts on site.
The Initial Assessment may take a little while longer than regular visits. For your assessment, you’ll find yourself at the clinic for approximately 45 minutes while treatment visits last around 30 to 45 minutes.
Some of our goals with Physical Therapy are to decrease pain, improve function, improve mobility and strength, decrease inflammation and swelling, and to give you the proper tools to manage your injury at home. Sometimes, when your injury is quite irritable, your Physical Therapist can provide different remedies to help settle down your symptoms and/or instruct you on the necessary tools to help you manage at home. However, if the benefit of coming in does not outweigh the suffering you would experience in traveling to the clinic, it may be best to reschedule your appointment.