At Spark Performance and Physiotherapy we love helping athletes and active adults maintain their healthy lifestyle, a life you deserve. This means a life that will keep you off painkillers, out of doctor’s offices, and discard the fear of pain holding you back.When something like pain shows up in your knee, back, shoulder, neck, or if you get injured while playing your sport/exercising – we know it is human nature to say “it’s not that bad” or “it’ll go away after I sleep it off” – but, more times than not, that is not the case. The pain typically stays around for much longer than expected or desired. We also understand how easy it is to just grab some painkillers from your local pharmacy when you feel the pain strike again. But, all they do is mask the pain and do not get down to the root cause of the pain. Plus, there are plenty of negative side effects from long-term use of painkillers. Or, maybe you are skeptical about physical therapy because other healthcare professionals have let you down in the past. Or, maybe it was a bad experience at another physical therapy clinic. Can you relate? If that sounds like you, you are not alone. We hear these stories all the time at Spark Performance and Physiotherapy