Why wait for an injury? Targeted screening and strengthening programs designed to identify your weak links and fix them before they break.
Most injuries don’t happen out of nowhere. They build up over weeks and months — from muscle imbalances, movement compensations, insufficient recovery, or training errors. By the time pain shows up, the problem has been developing for a long time. Prehab flips the script: we find and fix the issue before it becomes an injury.
At Move to Motion, our prehab programs are designed for athletes preparing for a season, weekend warriors who want to stay active, workers in physically demanding jobs, and anyone who’s had a previous injury and wants to prevent recurrence. We use evidence-based screening tools to identify your specific risk factors, then build a targeted program to address them. Serving Surrey, Newton, North Delta, and Cloverdale.
Pre-season screening identifies strength deficits, asymmetries, and movement patterns that increase injury risk. Fix them before the season starts.
Hip and core weakness, poor cadence, and overstriding are the leading causes of running injuries. Prehab addresses all three. Running assessments →
Stronger muscles going into surgery means faster recovery coming out. Prehab before knee or hip replacement improves outcomes significantly. Pre/post-op rehab →
Prolonged sitting creates predictable patterns of weakness and tightness. Prehab corrects these before they become chronic pain. Ergonomics assessments →
Repetitive lifting, bending, and overhead work creates cumulative strain. Targeted strengthening protects the areas under most stress.
If you’ve been injured before, your risk of re-injury is higher. Prehab identifies and corrects the residual deficits that put you at risk.
Your physiotherapist performs a comprehensive movement screening — assessing flexibility, strength, balance, and sport or work-specific movement patterns. We use validated tools like the Functional Movement Screen (FMS), Y-Balance Test, and sport-specific hop tests to objectively measure your baseline and identify areas of concern.
From there, we design an individualized program that targets your specific deficits. This typically includes corrective exercises, progressive strengthening, balance training, and mobility work. Sessions may include manual therapy to address existing restrictions and IMS for chronic muscle tightness that limits movement quality.
Prehab is proactive — it identifies and addresses injury risk factors before an injury occurs. Rehab is reactive — it treats an injury after it happens. Both use similar techniques (strengthening, mobility, manual therapy), but prehab focuses on prevention rather than recovery.
Most prehab programs involve 2–4 initial sessions for screening, program design, and technique coaching. After that, you train independently with periodic check-ins (every 4–6 weeks) to update your program and re-test your progress.
Yes. Prehab sessions with a registered physiotherapist are covered by most extended health plans. We direct-bill all major insurers. ICBC and WorkSafeBC may also cover prehab in the context of an existing claim.
Research consistently shows that targeted prehab programs reduce injury rates by 30–50% across various sports. Programs addressing known risk factors (like hamstring weakness for ACL injury) are particularly effective.
Absolutely. Prehab is valuable for anyone who wants to stay active and pain-free. Desk workers, parents, manual labourers, and older adults all benefit from identifying and correcting movement deficits before they cause problems.
Surrey, BC · Serving Newton, North Delta & Cloverdale · Direct Billing
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