Physical Therapy

The following is what you can expect from the PT appointments and how they can help you along your journey to a stronger, pain-free life.

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• Comprehensive Assessment: Your journey begins with a thorough PT evaluation conducted by our experienced physical therapist, where you will discuss your medical history, current symptoms, and goals. Through this evaluation our physical therapist will provide insights into your condition, assess your strength, range of motion, and discuss areas in need of improvement.  

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• Individualized Treatment Plan: The treatment plan serves as your roadmap to recovery, outlining specific goals, interventions, and timelines. Whether your focus is on pain relief, mobility and strength restoration, or performance enhancement, each session is designed to challenge you to optimize your outcomes and reach your goals.  

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• Stability Exercise Program: After identifying areas of weakness, your PT team will develop a program that attacks those deficiencies with specific, targeted exercises that will build your strength where you need it most.  

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• Hands-On Therapy: Our manual therapy consists of various techniques including instrument assisted soft tissue mobilization to joint manipulation, these interventions play a vital role in restoring range of motion, reducing muscle and joint pain, and improving mobility.

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• Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) Therapy: Involves the use of a tight strap to partially restrict blood flow during exercise to help promote muscle hypertrophy and accelerate strength gains.

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• Concussion Protocols: These protocols focus on the assessment and management of symptoms. Our PT, Chiropractic and Medical team work together to address the physical, functional, and cognitive aspect of individuals recovery through specific exercises and training. The PT team will specifically focus on the Vestibular Rehab and Exertion Therapy side of concussion management (see more below).

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• Instrumented Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization (IASTM): This technique (also known as scraping) uses specific tools to break through fascial restrictions and scar tissue to reduce inflammation and stimulate blood flow to the affected tissues.

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• Class IV Laser Therapy: This type of therapy works by sending photon energy deep into the cellular level, which helps to stimulate blood flow, reduces inflammation, decreases pain and activates the mitochondria in our cells.  

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• NormaTec Compression Sleeves: This technique utilizes compression sleeves that pulsate air to massage the limbs to increase blood flow, reduce muscle soreness and accelerate recovery.

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• Cold Compression Therapy: This technique utilizes the Game Ready device to facilitate a combination of cold therapy with compression to help reduce inflammation, swelling and pain for those suffering from accute injuries or post-surgery.  

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• Balance Therapy: Aims to help improve proprioception, stability and coordination to mitigate fall risks and rehab after orthopedic injuries/surgeries, concussions, or vestibular disorders.  

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• Sports/Orthopedic Physical Therapy: Our PT department specializes in sports/orthopedic focused care by forming specific care plans tailored to that individual to restore function, strength and flexibility to return you to your sport/activity as soon as possible. This may include therapy for sports related injuries, joint replacements, ligament/tendon injuries and more.  

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• Post-Op Rehab: We provide tailored exercise programs and interventions to facilitate recovery after surgical procedures like tendon repairs, joint replacements, and ligament reconstructions.  

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• Injury Prevention: With a focused injury prevention plan we can help assess movement patterns by addressing muscle imbalances and providing education and specific exercises to reduce the risk of injuries, especially the all too common, ACL tear.  

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• Dry Needling: A technique that uses very thin, non-medicated needles into a trigger point that is causing spasms or tight muscle knots, to help alleviate muscle pains and increase blood flow.  

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• Vestibular/Exertion Therapy: Vestibular therapy focuses on addressing dysfunction within the vestibular balance system through specific exercises and training to help improve balance, spatial orientation, and coordination.  Exertion therapy involves carefully managing increased physical activity to gradually reintroduce individuals to exercise without exacerbating symptoms. This is commonly used during the management of concussions.

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