Sports injury rehabilitation in North York.

We will not put a number on it before assessing you, and be wary of anyone who does. The same-sounding injury behaves very differently depending on the tissue involved, the demands of your sport and what you could do beforehand. What we will give you is the list of things you need to be able to do before returning, so progress is something you can see rather than a date you are waiting on.

Pain usually settles well before capacity comes back, and the gap between those two is where most re-injuries live. Strength, control and tolerance for repeated high-speed or high-load work all lag behind comfort. Returning at the point pain stops — rather than when the physical criteria are met — is one of the more reliable ways to end up injured again.

Most non-contact injuries follow a change in load rather than a single bad moment — a jump in training volume or intensity, a new surface or footwear, a return after time off, a compressed season, or poor sleep and a heavy week stacking up. Finding what changed matters, because if the load pattern goes back exactly as it was, so often does the injury.

Usually you can keep doing something, and that is generally better than stopping completely — but which parts are safe depends on the diagnosis. There are injuries where continuing to load them is exactly right and injuries where it is exactly wrong, and they are not distinguishable by how much they hurt. That is the point of the assessment.

It is worth a conversation. Growing athletes have growth plates that respond to load differently from adult bone, and some injury patterns in young athletes are specific to that. High training volume in a single sport year-round, and rapid growth periods, are both worth factoring into how the plan is built. We assess young athletes with those differences in mind rather than as small adults.

A suspected concussion means no return to play that day, full stop, and a medical assessment. That is not a cautious opinion — it is the standard everywhere. We do not clear head injuries; that decision belongs to a physician. Once you have been medically assessed and cleared to progress, we work within that plan.

Under most extended health plans, yes, and we direct bill the major insurers. If it happened at work it may go through WSIB, and if it happened in a collision it is billed to your auto insurer. Coverage is confirmed before treatment begins.