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Core Stabilization

Core stabilization techniques are utilized to work the abdominal muscles and other postural muscles to help create and maintain an ideal alignment. Many physical therapy and rehabilitation clinics are now offering programs to improve core strength for their neck and back patients. These programs are designed to focus on the abdominal and back muscles needed to improve postural alignment. Core strength is also important to support the kind of ... More

Sports Therapy

Sports physical therapy is an area of practice that specializes in the performance enhancement, evaluation, prevention, rehabilitation, and treatment of the athlete or physically active individual. This might include performing a pre-participation screenings, making equipment recommendations, prescribing individualized fitness programs, and many more. It is the job of the sports physical therapist to incorporate the most up to date research ... More

Work Injury Rehab

Worker rehabilitation is a program that helps care for employees who have suffered overuse injuries and even traumatic injuries both on the job and off the job. The program's goal is to help increase the workers physical tolerance so they can return to work. Work Rehab Programs are based around physical therapy treatments designed to help ensure a timely and complete recovery. Therapy treatments are focused on body performance and ... More

Orthopedic Rehab

This type of physical therapy involves the diagnosing, managing, treatment, and prevention of injuries to the musculoskeletal system. Orthopedic physical therapists will often care for individuals of all ages that have a disorder or dysfunction of the musculoskeletal system. These therapists specialize in the assessment of movement and are able to help individuals move better, often with less pain. This can be achieved through therapeutic ... More

Exercise Training

Physical reconditioning or individualized exercise training is designed to help a client regain their movement and flexibility along with muscle strength and muscle endurance. Performing physical exercise is essential for maintaining physical fitness, maintaining a healthy weight, maintaining muscle strength, and promoting joint mobility, physiological well-being, and healthy immune system functioning. Physical reconditioning is an ... More

Post-Surgical Rehab

Physical therapy can help with the many issues that arise following a surgery. Typically following a surgery, a patient may experience more pain and swelling, loss of motion, increased stiffness, muscle weakness, the development of scar tissue, decreased functioning, in addition to issues with walking both up and down stairs. Post-surgical treatments can be provided to help regain the client's strength and range of motion. These can be ... More

Office Ergonomics

Office ergonomics is the specific study of science in the work environment. It will pertain to the work that is performed, the environment of the work being performed, and the tools that are used. The goal of office ergonomics is to set up the work environment as best as possible to support the worker. When workstations are set up ergonomically, workers may: a) be less prone to headaches and eyestrain. b) experience a ... More

Vehicle Accident Rehab

Rehabilitation from motor vehicle accidents is a collaborative type of rehabilitation with the ultimate goal of returning the client to the physical state that they were in prior to the injuries. This type of rehabilitation will often require many different health care providers and may include blended treatments. For example, a blended treatment might include active rehabilitation with massage or may incorporate treatments like acupuncture, ... More

Electrical Stimulation

Electrical muscle stimulation or EMS is a treatment method that uses an electrical current to contract a single muscle or group of muscles. Electrodes are placed by the physical therapist on the skin in certain locations, typically on the appropriate muscle fibers. By contracting the affected muscle using electrical muscle stimulation, the muscles can be strengthened. The physical therapist is able to change the settings of the electrical ... More

Ultrasound

Ultrasound is often used as a treatment modality by physical therapists as the high and low frequency sound waves provide deep tissue and muscle warming. Sound waves are transmitted to specific affected areas of surrounding tissue and vasculature, where they are able to penetrate into the muscles and promote tissue relaxation. Tissue relaxation is useful when treating muscle spasms and tightness, while the warming affect of the sound waves ... More

Phonophoresis

Phonophoresis is a treatment modality often used during physical therapy treatments. This method of treatment uses sound waves from an ultrasound machine along with medicated gels. The medications are applied directly to the skin, while the ultrasound works to help pass the medicine through the skin into the affected areas of the body. Phonophoresis is considered an anti-inflammatory treatment and is used most often to treat muscle, ... More

Iontophoresis

Physical therapists are now more than ever using Iontophoresis as a therapeutic modality. Iontophoresis is a method of electrical stimulation that is used to help administer medications through the skin and into the body. This technique uses negatively charged medicinal solutions that are applied to the body. Then a negative electrical charge is applied to the body. These two negatively charged ions will repel one another causing the ... More

Traction

Traction is a treatment modality used in the treatment of lower back and neck pain to help alleviate the symptoms of pain and to increase the mobility of the spine. Theoretically, traction is applied to help separate the joints and discs in the lower back and neck, which helps to decrease the pressure on the nerves in the spine. For lumbar traction, the patient must be strapped into a mechanical machine. One device wraps around the ... More

Manual Therapy

Manual therapy is defined within the physical therapy profession as a clinical approach using hands on techniques, including to but not limited to joint manipulations and mobilizations, performed by the physical therapist to help diagnose and treat soft tissues and joint structures. Manual therapy treatments are used for the purpose of modulating pain, reducing or eliminating soft tissue inflammation, increasing the range of motion, ... More

Joint Mobilization

Joint mobilization is a treatment method that physical therapists use to passively move the joints of the body in specific directions. This type of treatment modality can help to decrease pain and increase mobility. The amount or degree to which your therapist moves each joint will depend upon the direction of the force applied and the amount of pressure being placed upon the joint. Joint mobilizations can also help to increase the gliding ... More

Massage

Massage is a physical treatment technique that uses the hands, arms and elbows to manipulate the muscles and connective tissues of the body. This treatment technique is used frequently to help decrease pain, decrease muscle tension, and to improve blood circulation to the affected areas. There are many types of therapeutic massage, including trigger point, effleurage, and pettrisage massage. More

Cognitive Rehabilitation for Multiple Sclerosis

Many individuals with MS suffer from cognitive symptoms. These symptoms affect all aspects of daily life and are often described as "brain fog", but can also manifest as headaches, fatigue, and being easily overwhelmed. Individuals will report difficulty with learning and memory, inability to focus (especially in busy environments), slower processing speed of information and difficulty making decisions. Studies have ... More

Concussion and Post Concussion Syndrome

A concussion is a traumatic brain injury that can cause long lasting effects on brain tissue and chemical changes in the brain. A concussion may cause physical, cognitive and behavioral problems in an individual, both short term and long term. Symptoms of a concussion can include: Physical symptoms Headache, Dizziness, Difficulty with balance and coordination, nausea/vomiting, Fatigue, Difficulty ... More

Pelvic Health

Pelvic health physical therapy involves treating pelvic floor dysfunction and related conditions. Pelvic floor disorders are very common, but are often left untreated. Many individuals suffer needlessly for years or even decades. Symptoms vary greatly but can include: urinary leakage, pelvic pain, frequent or painful urination or defecation, constipation, pain with sex. During pelvic floor therapy, we teach ... More

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