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This is used to improve mobility by treating muscles, tendons and fascia as it relates to pain, posture and joint dysfunction.  We believe it can help to relax tense muscles, stretch and lengthen fascia, ligaments, capsular tissue as well as scar tissue.  Specific techniques – such as myofascial release, contract/relax, active massage, and strain-counterstrain – are individualized to the patient’s dysfunction.  Soft tissue injuries often occur when your muscles are abnormally tense. Your muscles work by tensing, contracting, and then relaxing. They get shorter when they contract, which moves the part of the skeletal system they’re attached to. If they don’t relax completely, it can lead to problems, including sprains, strains, contusions, tendonitis, bursitis, and stress injuries.

These are passive procedures where the physical therapist uses his/her hands to assess and treat altered mechanics of joint systems leading to dysfunctions.  Wedges and bolsters may be used to improve altered mechanics as specifically guided by our physical therapists.  A joint dysfunction is where two or more bones come together such as the knee, hip, elbow, shoulder, or spine.  Joints can be damaged by many types of injuries or diseases.  Some of these include: Arthritis, Bursitis, Fracture, and Dislocation.

These are active, passive, and neural procedures where the physical therapist uses his/her hands or specific exercises to treat joints that are unstable.  Instability happens when tissues — such as muscles, ligaments, and bones — weaken. Once they are weak, they no longer hold the bones of the joint in proper place.  Joints are flexible, allowing for movement and when they move in a normal physiological motion, they are less at risk for reinjury.

Your physical therapist will supervise you in a dosed exercise program uniquely designed for your tissue injury and/or movement dysfunction.  Our specialized training and equipment allows for early rehabilitation of the most acute injuries.  Dosed exercise progressions will restore you to normal function and/or elite athletic performance.

Our physical therapists will educate you on how to best manage your problem during and after physical therapy; including self-care strategies, posture, lifting mechanics, home exercises and work ergonomics.  We can also advise you and, when necessary, your trainer on how to best reach all your fitness goals.

Kinesio Tape helps to facilitate the body’s natural healing process by prolonging the benefits of the manual therapy performed in the clinic. The tape microscopically “lifts” the skin to help alleviate pain, decrease inflammation, promote circulation, reduce muscle tension, manage scar tissue after surgery or trauma, and improve joint support and muscle control.  It may be used for conditions such as patellofemoral stress syndrome, plantar fasciitis, iliotibial band friction syndrome, or shoulder instability.

A therapy used to help prevent or treat conditions, including migraine headaches, chronic pain, incontinence, and high blood pressure.  It can help you gain more control over these normally involuntary functions.  Biofeedback for pelvic floor muscle retraining is a treatment to help patients learn to strengthen or relax their pelvic floor muscles in order to improve bowel or bladder function and decrease some types of pelvic floor pain.  Our specialized equipment helps guide you, the patient, to connect mind and body and increase your confidence that will carry over when performing your home exercises.

A device designed to align the foot and ankle into the most anatomically efficient position.  They are biomechanical medical appliances that are custom made to correct your specific foot imbalance.  Custom orthotics work on your feet much like glasses work on your eyes – they reduce stress and strain on your body by bringing your feet back into proper alignment.  The body of the custom orthotic helps to re-align the foot by redirecting and reducing certain motion that takes place during the gait cycle.  Custom orthotics fit into your shoes as comfortably as an insole – and they have the advantage of having been made from precise imprints of your feet.  The therapist will do a thorough lower kinetic biomechanical evaluation and will then cast you for your custom fit.

These are physical agents used to augment your PT program to help you regain your normal functional mobility.  There is an array of treatment modalities that can help strengthen, relax, and heal muscles such as electrical stimulation, ultrasound, hot packs/cold packs. The ones that your PT chooses to use may vary depending on your specific condition, your needs, and your overall rehab goals.  Although physical therapy modalities can help you feel better and move better, they should never replace an active exercise program for your condition. Most problems that result in functional limitations resolve best with the correct movement strategies and exercises that your PT can prescribe.