The Pure Motion Approach
Curious and unsatisfied with the status quo, at Pure Motion Centre in North York, we continually seek new understandings and techniques that dive deeper into your nervous system. This helps us create deeper and faster changes in your recovery and performance, and is why we’re often sought out by other healthcare providers to consult on difficult cases.
Our physiotherapists, chiropractors, osteopaths, and massage therapists at Pure Motion Centre in North York integrate multiple techniques to correct muscle imbalances, increase the efficiency of your movement patterns, and strengthen your body’s natural healing ability and resilience.
List of Approaches:
NeuroKinetic Therapy (NKT)
NKT is like a detective for your movement — it tracks down muscle imbalances and sneaky compensation patterns that might be behind your pain or clunky movement. Once NKT finds the culprit, it helps correct it, so your body can move better and stay that way for the long haul.
Applied Functional Science (AFS)
Applied Functional Science looks at the big picture — how your whole body moves together, not just one joint or muscle acting alone. It blends physical, biological, and behavioural science to understand how everything’s connected and how you actually move through your day. That means treatment built around you, so you can move with less pain and a whole lot more confidence.
Proprioceptive Deep Tendon Reflex (PDTR)
Think of P-DTR as a reset for your body’s wiring. It targets the miscommunication happening between your muscles and your senses — kind of like clearing out glitches in your body’s software. By blending neurology, biomechanics, neurophysiology, and anatomy, P-DTR uses precise muscle tests to pinpoint exactly where things are misfiring. The result? Smoother movement, less discomfort, and a body that runs the way it’s supposed to.
Anatomy in Motion (AiM)
Anatomy in Motion gets deep and nitty-gritty about how you walk. It hunts down movement restrictions and fine-tunes your gait mechanics, so your body isn’t working overtime just to get you from A to B. The payoff? Less strain, smoother steps, and movement that just flows.
Contemporary Medical Acupuncture
Contemporary Medical Acupuncture bridges old and new — using precise needling to re-activate nerves and muscles that have gone offline. Backed by modern clinical understanding, it’s a proven way to cut pain, restore proper muscle function, boost circulation, and get your body moving well again.
Craniosacral Therapy (CST)
CST is a gentle, hands-on approach that softly releases deep tension held within the body, easing pain and restoring balance. Through calm, light touch, it invites your body into a state of gentle yet deep recalibration — soothing dysfunction, softening tension, and gently supporting your body’s natural ability to heal and recover
Manual Lymph Drainage Therapy (LDT)
Lymph Drainage Therapy is a gentle, calming treatment that softly encourages the natural flow of lymph fluid through your body. With light, soothing movements, it helps ease swelling, supports healthy circulation, and gently aids your body’s healing process after surgery or injury — leaving you feeling lighter, calmer, and more at ease
Visceral Manipulation
Visceral Manipulation is a gentle, hands-on therapy modality that focuses on restoring mobility in the body’s internal organs and surrounding connective tissue systems. Improving the movement of the body’s tissue can help reduce tension, improve movement, and helps your body function more efficiently.
Vestibular Rehabilitation Therapy
Vestibular Rehabilitation therapy at Pure Motion Centre in North York is a personalized treatment that aims to improve communication among the inner ear, eyes, brain, and body. Treatment consists of specific manual therapy and exercises that target the integration and performance of your vestibular system, visual system, proprioception, and movement, improving everyday movements.
Neural Manipulation
Neural Manipulation is a gentle, precise, and hands-on manual therapy that focuses on improving the mobility of nerves and the surrounding tissues to restore healthy communication throughout the body. By addressing restrictions affecting the nervous system, this approach can help reduce pain and irritation, improve movement, and release dysfunctional tensions and pressures from the nerves.
Muscle Energy Technique
Muscle Energy Technique (MET) is a gentle manual therapy that uses your own muscle contractions, followed by a stretch or mobilization to improve joint mobility, reduce muscle tension, and restore efficient movement. When integrated into a personalized treatment plan, MET helps improve flexibility, reduce discomfort, and correct muscle imbalances.