Manual Therapy for the Spine and Extremities
The mobilization
of joints to increase the range of motion,
decrease pain, and improve movement.
Myofascial
Release
The stretching of
muscle and fascia (the connective tissue
overlying muscle) to increase circulation so
healing of injured tissue may occur.
Functional Spinal
Stabilization
The use of
muscles to appropriately stabilize the
spine/pelvis; we teach this in ways so one may
incorporate the exercises into everyday life.
Balance Training
and Fall Prevention
Our Physical
Therapist team has spent many years working in
the Home Health Care setting. This
experience plus numerous additional courses have
taught us how to effectively
improve one's balance and prevent falls. We know
how to make your home safe to decrease the
likelihood of a fall; our approach is
comprehensive and effective.
Vestibular
Rehabilitation
The inner ear is
one of our primary systems to keep us upright.
Our vestibular rehab program identifies the part
of the inner ear that is causing the imbalance,
vertigo, or dizziness, then treats the
problematic part. We also assess the vestibular
system when a person reports balance problems,
dizziness, or has had a head injury or car
accident.
Walking or
running Improvement
Through
assessment of biomechanics (how body parts move)
from the head to the toes can help a person walk
without pain, walk further, or meet that goal of
running further and faster. Walking and balance
go hand in hand for the elderly and can
eliminate nagging injuries for active persons.
We have also recently developed a Gait
Analysis Program that includes a
comprehensive physical examination plus video
taping that allows us to slow the motion to
identify more areas of restrictions that need
addressing.
Post-surgical
care
Total knee,
shoulder, and hip replacement; rotator cuff
repairs; neck and back surgeries, fusions; ankle
and foot surgeries; all are treated effectively
through physical therapy. Think of us after
other surgeries as well to obtain effective
recuperation programs to get get back your
strength and stamina more quickly.
Cardiac and
Pulmonary Rehab
Your heart and
lungs need exercise too; structured and
monitored rehab programs improve your safety and
outcomes after surgery or disease to the heart
and/or lungs. Few Physical Therapist do
pulmonary rehab; we have done this since 1996.
Post-pneumonia
Rehab
We will help you
return to your normal activity much more quickly
following a bout of pneumonia. We have a
comprehensive program to increase strength and
endurance, ease breathing and decrease shortness
of breath, and improve your balance that is
affected by strength loss while you were so ill.
Stroke Rehab
Strokes affect
strength, balance, transfers, walking, and
decision making; deficits with all of these
skills can be improved upon with our physical
therapy approach to stroke rehab.
Continued
Self-Care Instruction
Your physical
therapy care doesn't end with us after your
formal physical therapy ends. We want to be your
PT for life! Does your doctor ever discharge
you? No, but he/she ends an episode of care for
a condition. And if you need your Doctor again
you call him/her, or you go see him/her.
Treating through
the continuum of care
You can bring
your premature, newborn infant or your 105 year
old grandparent to us. We have treated all ages
and have worked in virtually every setting where
a Physical Therapist is found:
Compassion
We want to do our
part to make this world better for each of us;
to make this world more loving and caring. It is
our hope that by sharing our compassion for the
individual with each person that comes in our
clinic's door, that the person will in turn
share their compassion with others that day. We
want our one-on-one, patient centered approach to
be the model of health care.
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