We get a lot of clients who come to us and say “I’ve had PT before and this is nothing like I gave experienced before.” This always brings a smile to our faces. The field of Physical Therapy has grown over the years from a uniform series of protocol driven exercises and passive treatments all based on the body part that is painful. We know that in order to effectively treat the pain we have to know the person. Every client that comes in the door get personalized, one-on-one care from a trained licensed therapist 100% of the time.
Manual Therapy
We take extensive measures to stay up to date on the latest hands on techniques to give out clients the fastest most effective relief. Physical Therapists are trained in many manual skills including joint mobilizations, manipulations, massage, myofascial release, instrument assisted soft tissue release as well as other techniques. We guarantee a full hour of one-on-one time with your therapist which allows us the time we need make an accurate and effective assessment and treatment plan.
Exercise Prescription
These days we know that our clients have access to many platforms such as You Tube and various internet gurus for exercise programs and protocols. In our experience, its more important to assess HOW the client does the exercise rather than what exercise they are doing. We all have patterns and compensations we use to make movements easier or more comfortable. Unfortunately this can cause early joint degenration and inflammtion. Because your visit is 100% with your therapist we are constantly assessing this and teaching you how to work away from these patterns and coaching you into better movement patterns and awareness for everyday activities.
Dry Needling
Dry Needling is a technique physical therapists use for the treatment of pain and movement impairments. The technique uses a “dry” needle, one without medication or injection, inserted through the skin into areas of the muscle. Other terms commonly used to describe dry needling, include trigger point dry needling, and intramuscular manual therapy. Dry needling involves a thin solid needle that penetrates the skin and stimulates underlying myofascial trigger points and muscular and connective tissues. The needle allows a physical therapist to target tissues that are not manually palpable. We often notice a “twitch response” where the muscle contracts involuntarily when the needle approaches the trigger point. Electic stimulation is often used inconjuction with dry needling to address inflammation and to interrupt patterns in chronic muscle spasms that can limit mobility and cause chronic and acute pain syndromes.
Bloodflow Restriction Therapy
Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) training is a technique that combines low intensity exercise with blood flow occlusion that produces similar results to high intensity training. It has been used in the gym setting for some time but it is gaining popularity in rehabilitation settings. The benefit of BFR is that it provides us with a way to develop strength without causing the amount of breakdown and irritation in joints because they are not loaded in the traditional resistance training programming. This is extremely useful in Physical Therapy b/c we have many clients who are
- pre surgical and need the strength but can’t tolerate the increaesd load due to pain.
- post surgical and have limitations & precautions that do not allow for traditional loading or weightbearing.
- have bone density defecits and can’t tolerate excessive loading but need muscle strengthening.
- in severe pain and just can’t tolerate the increaesd mechanical resistance required to build strength.
