Physical Therapy

Physical therapy services are performed by a physical therapist (PT)
or physical therapy assistant (PTA) acting under the PT’s direction. A
team of highly trained professionals diagnose and treat our patients
with various medical problems, illnesses, or injuries that limit their
abilities to move and perform functional activities as well as they
would like in their daily lives. Some of the services provided
include:

• • Manual (hands-on) Therapy: Consists of myofascial release techniques, stretching of restricted structures and specific strengthening of weak muscles, soft tissue and joint mobilization/manipulation. They help restore your back, neck, or other painful areas to resilience.

• • Pain Management: Use of moist heat, cryotherapy, ultrasound, phonophoresis, iontophoresis, and massage.

• • Therapeutic Exercises: Customized for each condition including strengthening, stabilizing, and stretching restricted structures to restore normal range of motion with reduced pain. These exercises help improve movement and proper muscle balance.

• • Postural Corrections: This addresses behavior modification, postural exercise, and self-awareness. We concentrate on correcting musculoskeletal derangements.

• Home Management Program: Once your physical therapy program ends, you will need to be able to sustain the benefits on your own at home. We provide you with a short and detailed home exercise program corresponding to the appropriate stage of a condition, including the do’s and don’ts of self-management.

Some of the medical conditions treated with physical therapy:

• Sports and running injuries
• Repetitive stress injuries
• Shoulder/rotator cuff injuries
• Foot and ankle pain
• Tendonitis and bursitis
• Arthritis
• Post-surgery management
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
• Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMJ)
• Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• Musculo-Skeletal Disorders