ICBC Functional Rehabilitation in Surrey.
Recovering after a motor vehicle accident is about more than reducing pain. It is about rebuilding your ability to walk, bend, lift, carry, use stairs, return to work and move confidently through everyday life.
Therapy Now Wellness Clinic provides personalized ICBC kinesiology and active rehabilitation in Surrey focused on strength, mobility, balance, endurance, coordination and functional movement.
What is functional rehabilitation?
Functional rehabilitation focuses on improving the movements and physical abilities you use in real life. Rather than training muscles only in isolation, exercises can be connected to the tasks you need at home, at work and in your community.
Walking
Build confidence, tolerance and control for everyday walking.
Standing & Sitting
Improve tolerance for the positions required at work and home.
Bending
Practise controlled bending for dressing, household tasks and lifting.
Lifting
Rebuild the strength and coordination needed for loads that matter in daily life.
Carrying
Develop capacity for groceries, children, bags, equipment and work tasks.
Reaching
Improve mobility, control and strength for overhead and functional reaching.
Pain can improve before normal function returns.
After an accident, people may continue to have difficulty with work, walking, stairs, lifting or exercise even as pain begins to improve. Functional rehabilitation focuses on rebuilding those abilities.
Pain
Symptoms may change how confidently you perform normal movements.
Stiffness
Restricted movement may make everyday tasks feel less natural.
Weakness
Reduced strength can make lifting, stairs and carrying more demanding.
Reduced Endurance
Work, walking or prolonged activity may become tiring sooner.
Balance Changes
Walking, stairs and uneven surfaces may feel less controlled.
Reduced Mobility
Bending, turning, reaching or lower-body movement may feel restricted.
Protective Movement
You may move differently to avoid discomfort after the collision.
Movement Confidence
Activities you previously did automatically may now feel uncertain.
Rehabilitation should focus on what you actually need to do.
Walk Comfortably
Improve walking tolerance, confidence and everyday mobility.
Lift Safely
Build the strength and coordination needed for groceries, children, equipment or work materials.
Carry Everyday Objects
Increase endurance and control while carrying loads.
Climb Stairs
Improve lower-body strength, balance and coordination for stairs.
Return to Work
Progress rehabilitation toward the physical demands of your occupation.
Return to Exercise
Build toward gym activities, recreation, hiking or sport when appropriate.
Multiple abilities come together during real-life movement.
Functional rehabilitation may combine mobility, strength, balance, trunk control, endurance and task-specific practice depending on your assessment and goals.
Your program may include:
- ✓Movement retraining
- ✓Progressive strengthening
- ✓Mobility exercises
- ✓Balance & coordination
- ✓Core & trunk control
- ✓Endurance and return-to-activity training
Every exercise should have a reason for being in your plan.
General Exercise
May focus mainly on overall fitness, strength, conditioning or athletic performance.
Functional Rehabilitation
Connects exercise selection to your accident, current limitations, movement assessment, work demands and return-to-activity goals.
Build from basic movement toward real-life demands.
Assess Current Function
Identify mobility, strength, balance, endurance and functional limitations.
Restore Basic Movement
Improve mobility, control and confidence with manageable exercises.
Build Strength
Progress exercise resistance and physical capacity over time.
Increase Functional Demands
Exercises begin to resemble work, home or recreational activities.
Return to Activity
Progress toward the real-world movements and activities that matter most.
Your goals should shape your functional rehabilitation.
Functional rehabilitation is most useful when it prepares you for the activities that are important in your work, home life, recreation and community.
Your goals may include:
- ✓Returning to work
- ✓Walking longer distances
- ✓Carrying groceries
- ✓Lifting children
- ✓Household activities or gardening
- ✓Returning to the gym, hiking or recreation
Different rehabilitation components work together.
Movement Assessment
Identify mobility, strength, balance and functional limitations that guide rehabilitation.
Explore Movement Assessment →Mobility Exercises
Restore comfortable, usable movement where stiffness or restriction affects function.
Explore Mobility Exercises →Progressive Strengthening
Build strength and physical capacity with gradually progressed exercise.
Explore Strengthening →Core & Trunk Control
Improve trunk strength and whole-body control during lifting, carrying and movement.
Explore Core & Trunk Control →Balance & Coordination
Improve stability, stepping, direction changes and movement confidence.
Explore Balance & Coordination →Weakness & Deconditioning
Learn how reduced activity can affect strength, endurance and physical capacity.
Explore Weakness & Deconditioning →Reduced Mobility
Learn how accident-related movement limitations can affect everyday activities.
Explore Reduced Mobility →Return to Activity
Learn how rehabilitation can progress toward work, exercise, recreation and everyday life.
Learn More →Your functional rehabilitation step by step.
Comprehensive Assessment
Review movement, strength, mobility, balance, endurance and functional limitations.
Goal Setting
Identify the work, home, exercise and recreational activities that matter to you.
Personalized Exercise Plan
Select exercises based on assessment findings and your current capacity.
Progressive Rehabilitation
Increase exercise challenge as strength, endurance and movement improve.
Ongoing Reassessment
Monitor progress and adjust the plan as your abilities and goals change.
Personalized ICBC functional rehabilitation in Surrey.
Personalized Rehabilitation
Your plan is based on your assessment, current abilities and goals.
Evidence-Informed Exercise
Exercise selection is guided by assessment findings, function and progression.
Functional Focus
Rehabilitation is connected to real-life movement rather than isolated exercise alone.
Collaborative Clinic
Registered Massage Therapy, acupuncture, kinesiology and clinical counselling are available in one Surrey clinic.
ICBC functional rehabilitation FAQs.
What is functional rehabilitation?
Is functional rehabilitation different from regular exercise?
Can functional rehabilitation help me return to work?
Can functional rehabilitation help me return to sports or the gym?
What exercises are used in functional rehabilitation?
How long does functional rehabilitation take?
Do I need a referral for ICBC kinesiology?
Where can I get ICBC functional rehabilitation in Surrey?
Rebuild everyday function close to home.
Therapy Now Wellness Clinic provides ICBC functional rehabilitation, kinesiology and active rehabilitation from our clinic at 240–13711 72 Avenue in Newton, Surrey.
We serve patients from Newton, West Newton, Fleetwood, Panorama Ridge, Guildford, Surrey Central, Cloverdale, North Delta and surrounding communities.
Therapy Now Wellness Clinic
240–13711 72 Avenue
Surrey, BC V3W 2P2
Conveniently located in Newton near Newton Exchange, the Newton Bus Loop and King George Boulevard.
Ready to get back to everyday life? Build function one step at a time.
Therapy Now Wellness Clinic provides personalized ICBC functional rehabilitation in Surrey to help rebuild strength, mobility, balance, endurance, coordination and confidence after a motor vehicle accident.
