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SERVICES

When you are suffering from an unexpected illness or injury, or planning for or recovering from surgery, we are the provider you need. Our licensed physical therapist is equipped to handle a comprehensive range of medical conditions and injuries, with services tailored to your needs. 

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​You can be assured – we have a commitment to excellence when it comes to the level of care we provide.

PRE-SURGERY  SERVICES

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TREATMENTS

Physical therapy addresses connective tissue and joint health. Extended use, overuse, misuse, accidents, and age all can compromise these vital areas.

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Physical therapy looks at the systems these areas work with, at the patient's activities, and seeks to provide treatments and create habits that help these areas gain strength and flexibility.

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ARTHRITIS

“If you can’t take away the arthritis, why should I even try PT?

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How you lift an item, how you pace or break up an activity, affects the joint and the tissues around it.  

 

In many surprising ways, we can
teach you how to limit tissue stresses and descrease the friction in the joint.

 

Less friction = less pain!

POST-SURGERY  SERVICES

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JOINT  REPLACEMENT

"As far as after surgery...therapists are very important for regaining the motion and strength after the controlled trauma of the surgery.  Based on the significant amount of swelling, pain and loss of strength during the recovery phase ... [patients] need a therapist to help them through that path."

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-Dr. Eric B. Pifel, Orthopedic Surgeon

 M Magazine April 2017

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JOINT  PAIN  &  ARTHRITIS

  Physical therapy is very important for people who have arthritis and have symptoms.  

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"... keeping the joints mobile, keeping flexibility up, keeping strength up, and keeping core strength and balance appropriate. "

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-Dr. Eric B. Pifel, Orthopedic Surgeon

M Magazine April 2017

ROTATOR  CUFF

 Actually, four joints make up the very mobile shoulder rotator cuff.  A tear in a tendon may be a major disruption, as in the tendon tearing from the bone, or a lesser tear, involving a variety of kinds of tears.

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Instructions in posture, and training in limiting stresses to the injured tendon can result in improvement to a partial tear, allowing the body’s healing mechanisms to progress.

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Decreased inflammation and a healthy scarring of the tear can result in improvement, without ever having a complex surgery or taking the potentially addictive opioid medications.    

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Many of the less severe tears respond to PT, which may involve techniques to decrease joint/muscle friction,  decrease pain/spasm and improve movement.

Strengthening involved muscles or other area muscles can take stress off the involved tendon tear, in part because the top of the arm-bone, the humerus, will “sit” in a different location in what we call the shoulder joint.

SPRAINS  &  STRAINS

 We will show you better how to move and use your body. How you lift an item, and how you pace/break up the activity, affects how much
force is experienced by the joint and the tissues around the joint.


This true for various joints and in many surprising ways, we can
teach you how to limit tissue stresses.

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As we reduce spasm and loosen muscles/tissue that cross the joints, we are decreasing the friction in the joint. This results in decreased joint pain/inflammation and less wear/irritation.

 

You will get instructions to strengthen your muscles. very specific muscles become stronger, orientation or function of certain joints can change.

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For example, strengthening your quad can alter the tracking of your kneecap. This can spread the forces out, taking
stress off the kneecap, allowing for decreased pain and inflammation.


The above techniques have been effective to the point that some who were initially said to need certain surgeries ultimately did not have to undergo the procedures, sparing them associated risks and side effects.

PLANTAR'S  FASCIITIS

 A common report from those who come in to the clinic: “It’s like I have a nail in my heel!”

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I have very good result treating these problems, but do not use a typical approach that can involve: ultrasound, transverse friction massage, stretching and perhaps a footwear insert.

 

I get excellent results with a technique called strain-counterstrain, a skilled
hands-on treatment. This involves in-clinic treatments to decrease the tenderness in the heel and a home program involving a positioning
exercise, to maintain/build on the results achieved in the clinic.


After the tenderness is decreased, THEN the stretching exercises can
be done effectively.

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Before that, stretching when there is a reactive spasm in muscles around the problem can make the pain worse.

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If you have PF and have been treated by another practitioner for specifically this, I will see you one time, for no charge, to give you a sampling of the treatment I use. If you are not at all better after the first visit, then it is your choice not to schedule further
treatment.

 

What do you have to lose?  Maybe just that “nail” in your foot.

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