Is It Covered By Insurance?

Written By Bronwyn Cook

Many insurance benefits renew each January without even being used! If you’re not experiencing illness or injury, you may not think about using them but that doesn’t mean they should be ignored. This article highlights all the ways your benefits can be used to improve your life in unexpected ways!

Health Spending Accounts

Often referred to as a Health Spending Account or Wellness Spending Account, these flexible benefits are the BEST part of your insurance. Are you using yours?

Typically offering a high ceiling for reimbursement, these accounts can be used as additional coverage for benefits that you’ve maxed out (like Physiotherapy or Optical), but did you know they can do so much more for you? Many policies will cover exercise equipment, gym memberships, and many other things that you may not expect. Be sure to check your policy details to see all of the eligible goodies that you can claim!

 

What Can Physiotherapy Cover?

It can’t be said often enough- Physiotherapy can help you for so much more than traditional sprains and strains! Let’s look at some unexpected treatment types that are all eligible under Physiotherapy health benefit plans.

Women’s Health Physiotherapy

  • Pelvic floor concerns including incontinence and urinary urgency, chronic constipation, etc.

  • Painful sex

  • Perinatal care: All sessions including our birth prep, prenatal, and postpartum treatments

  • Abdominal separation (diastasis)

  • Pelvic organ prolapse

  • Pelvic or low back pain

Female physiotherapist in downtown edmonton holds pelvis model that she uses to explain pelvic health condition to new patient in our private room setting.
 

Vestibular and Concussion Physiotherapy

  • Dizziness and balance problems

  • Concussion therapy (including education, visual exercises, etc.)

Ashley (left) holds a rope with beads strung along it during a vestibular treatment with a female patient (right) in downtown Edmonton.
 

Sport Performance

  • Running: Running gait analysis, returning to running programs, running after pregnancy programs

  • Climbing: Climbing Performance Assessments, improving performance after a climbing injury, learning injury prevention for Bouldering

  • Golfing: Golf Swing analysis, performance improvements, and injury prevention

Ashley videotapes a patient from behind who is running on a treadmill. This is part of the gait analysis to assess the foot striking pattern and other factors of this runner.
 

Jaw Pain and Dysfunction Physiotherapy

  • Jaw pain and tension

  • Clicking or popping sounds

  • Episodes of your jaw locking (open or closed)

Female physiotherapist in downtown Edmonton uses skull replica to explain a TMD condition to a new patient. Education is an important part of our Physiotherapy treatments at Corona Station Physiotherapy. part of our
 

Exercise and Movement Plans

  • Physiotherapists can help guide you safely when you first start exercising, or start working out after long periods of no exercise. This can include education on pacing and what weight is appropriate for you to work with, as well as actual exercise demonstration and guidance.

Physiotherapist guides a patient in a grey shirt who is doing a pull up. He is explaining which muscles should be working and how to improve the posture.
 

Muscle Tension

  • Wanting to relieve your tight muscles but your Massage Therapy benefits are maxed out? Consider Physiotherapy with Dry Needling! This treatment technique uses an acupuncture needle to quickly release those little balls of muscle tension that may be holding you back- and it’s eligible under your Physiotherapy benefits.

Close up picture of a physiotherapist's gloved hands using an acupuncture needle on a patient. This is called dry needling and is releasing muscle tension in the patient's back.
 

If you are unfamiliar with your policy, check out our article that explains what to look for in your policy and the key points you need to understand. Now you know all the ways your Physiotherapy benefits can be used, even if you’re not injured. Don’t let those benefits pass you by!

 
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