ICBC Progressive Strengthening in Surrey.
Strength can decrease after a motor vehicle accident because of pain, reduced activity, time away from exercise or hesitation with certain movements.
Therapy Now Wellness Clinic provides personalized ICBC progressive strengthening and active rehabilitation in Surrey to help rebuild strength, endurance, movement confidence and functional capacity over time.
What is progressive strengthening?
Progressive strengthening means exercises are gradually adjusted as your abilities improve. Instead of repeating the same routine indefinitely, the challenge can change to help your body continue adapting.
Resistance
Weight, resistance bands or bodyweight demands can gradually increase.
Repetitions
The number of repetitions or sets may increase as your tolerance improves.
Range of Motion
An exercise may gradually move through a larger comfortable range.
Complexity
Simple exercises can progress toward more coordinated or functional movements.
Speed
Movement speed may be adjusted depending on your control and activity goals.
Position
Exercises may progress from supported positions toward standing or functional tasks.
Balance Demand
Stability and balance challenges can be added when appropriate.
Functional Load
Exercises can gradually reflect the lifting and carrying demands of real life.
Weakness after an accident can come from more than one source.
Strength loss is not always caused by the injury itself. Reduced activity, changed movement habits and time away from normal exercise can all influence physical capacity.
Reduced Activity
You may be walking, exercising or working less than before the accident.
Protective Movement
You may avoid loading an area because certain movements feel uncomfortable.
Time Away From Exercise
Strength and conditioning may decrease when your normal routine is interrupted.
Lower Endurance
Tasks may feel more tiring when physical conditioning has decreased.
Pain
Symptoms may make it harder to use your normal strength during everyday activities.
Movement Hesitation
You may become unsure about movements that have felt uncomfortable since the collision.
Work Interruption
Time away from physical job demands may reduce work-specific capacity.
General Deconditioning
Overall fitness may decline when activity is reduced for a period of time.
Strengthening can be targeted to the demands of your recovery.
Lower Body
Hip, glute, thigh and calf strengthening can support walking, stairs, squatting, standing and lifting.
Upper Body
Shoulder, upper-back and arm strengthening can support reaching, carrying, lifting and work tasks.
Core & Trunk
Trunk strengthening may support bending, lifting, carrying, standing and functional movement.
Whole-Body Strength
Functional exercises can combine several body regions to prepare you for real-life demands.
Stability
Strength and control exercises may help you manage movement with greater confidence.
Muscular Endurance
Repeated or sustained exercises can help build tolerance for longer periods of activity.
How progressive strengthening works over time.
Start Where You Are
Exercises are selected according to your current strength, movement and tolerance.
Build Tolerance
You practise movements at a manageable level and build consistency.
Increase the Challenge
Resistance, repetitions, range or complexity can increase gradually.
Add Functional Tasks
Exercises can become more specific to work, home, sport or everyday life.
Reassess Progress
Your strength and functional ability can be reassessed as your rehabilitation progresses.
Progressive strengthening is more than “just exercise.”
Random Exercise
Exercises may not be connected to your current limitations, accident history, recovery stage or functional goals.
Progressive Rehabilitation
Exercises are selected from assessment findings, adjusted to your current capacity and progressed according to your response and goals.
Assessment-Based
Your plan begins with understanding your current movement and strength.
Individualized
Your exercises should reflect your abilities rather than a generic routine.
Goal-Oriented
Strengthening should prepare you for the activities you want to return to.
Your strengthening program should match what you need to do.
Strength is most useful when it helps you return to the activities that matter in your everyday life.
Your program may work toward:
- ✓Returning to work
- ✓Carrying groceries
- ✓Lifting children
- ✓Using stairs
- ✓Walking farther
- ✓Returning to the gym or sport
Strength is one part of a complete recovery plan.
Movement Assessment
Identify mobility, strength, balance and functional limitations that can guide rehabilitation.
Explore Movement Assessment →Mobility Exercises
Restore comfortable, usable movement where stiffness or restriction is limiting function.
Explore Mobility Exercises →Reduced Mobility
Learn how accident-related movement limitations can affect everyday activity.
Explore Reduced Mobility →Weakness & Deconditioning
Understand how reduced activity may affect strength, endurance and physical capacity.
Explore Weakness & Deconditioning →Your progressive strengthening program step by step.
Assess Strength & Movement
Your kinesiologist reviews how your strength and movement have changed since the accident.
Identify Functional Goals
Discuss what you need to return to, such as work, lifting, walking, exercise or sport.
Start at the Right Level
Exercises are selected according to your current capacity and tolerance.
Progress Gradually
Your exercises become more challenging as strength, control and confidence improve.
Build Toward Real Life
Strengthening can progress toward work, exercise, sport and everyday demands.
Strengthening should challenge you without ignoring your recovery.
Exercise should be appropriate for your current abilities, symptoms and stage of rehabilitation. Your program can be adjusted based on how you respond.
Your kinesiologist may modify:
- ✓Resistance
- ✓Repetitions and sets
- ✓Range of motion
- ✓Exercise position
- ✓Speed and complexity
- ✓Rest time
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Learn about active rehabilitation for mobility, strength, balance and return to activity.
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Learn More →Return to Activity
Learn how rehabilitation can progress toward work, exercise, recreation and everyday activities.
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Learn about care for shoulder pain, reduced movement and lifting limitations after a collision.
Explore Shoulder Pain →ICBC Hip & Knee Pain
Explore care for lower-body pain, walking limitations and return to activity.
Explore Hip & Knee Pain →ICBC Neck Pain & Stiffness
Explore accident-related treatment and rehabilitation for neck pain and reduced movement.
Explore Neck Pain →ICBC progressive strengthening FAQs.
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Where can I get ICBC progressive strengthening in Surrey?
Rebuild strength and confidence close to home.
Therapy Now Wellness Clinic provides ICBC progressive strengthening, 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 rebuild your strength? Start at the right level and progress from there.
Therapy Now Wellness Clinic provides personalized ICBC progressive strengthening and active rehabilitation in Surrey to help rebuild strength, endurance, confidence and functional capacity after a motor vehicle accident.
