What is Physical Therapy?

Physical Therapy improves quality of life by decreasing pain and increasing what you are able to do through exercise, hands-on care and education to help you reach your goals.

 

How do we help you reach your goals?

We use many different ways to help you. Each person has their own treatment routine that is created especially for their needs.


These treatments may include:

  • Mobilization of the spine or joints to increase movement, decrease pain, or help restore normal movement of a joint. This might help you reach overhead, walk or turn your head.

  • Massage is performed along with exercise and other treatments. Regular insurance does not cover massage alone. No Fault or Worker's Comp may approve massage alone and we do provide it for these insurances with the proper paperwork/approval.

  • One of the core treatments of physical therapy. Exercise is used to strengthen and stretch muscles, improve joint movement and decrease spasm. By stretching and strengthening normal joint movement can be restored and pain can be reduced. Lengthening and strengthening muscles does not happen overnight. It can take 4 weeks of regular exercise to see changes at the muscular level.

  • Are you afraid of falling? We will evaluate why you are having difficulty with balance and then challenge your balance in a safe environment so that you feel more confident when walking and reduce your risk of falling.

 

Modalities

  • Tends to be used prior to manual therapy or massage to loosen the muscles to make mobilization and massage easier.

  • TENS, NMES, IF are all types of electrical stimulation. We use these to decrease pain to allow a patient to perform exercises that might be painful if done without the e-stim. They can also be used to help strengthen a very weak muscle.

  • Used for deep heat to help increase blood flow to an area and promote healing.

  • Also known as Low Level Laser. This goes into the mitochondria (power house) of the cell to increase energy to promote healing, increase blood flow to the area and increase the permeability of the cell membrane to take out the waste products and bring in the products needed for healing.