Physical therapy is a medical, hands-on approach to relieving pain and restoring function. Physical therapists are medical experts in musculoskeletal and neurological conditions and work closely with physicians. Our physical therapists evaluate your movement patterns, identify the cause of your pain, and work to eliminate it.
While every patient’s condition and pain is unique, your physical therapist will use a variety of gentle hands-on techniques, exercises, and equipment to relieve pain quickly and restore your function to optimum levels. The overall goal is to restore pain-free mobility and function and to prevent the injury or pain from recurring.
Yes. For private pay patients an initial visit is $100 and a follow up is $75.
In general, the longer you wait to get treatment, the longer time will take to fix the injury. Moving the tissues back into their pre-injury arrangement becomes harder the longer they have been in a distorted/injured state. Of course, newly injured tissues will be more sensitive to touch, but immediate treatment will help ensure a faster return to normal pain free activity.
This is always a tricky question, because it varies with every patient, and is dependent on a large number of factors. What I can say is that, in general, you will usually need less than half as many treatments as you would expect to need when going to a more traditional PT clinic. Pain and dysfunction that has been present for a long time will usually, but not always, take longer to fix than more recent & acute problems. Certain conditions like herniated disc will obviously take longer to resolve than something like a hamstring strain. In general, muscle pain gets better within 5-7 treatments for the average patient, and quite often 2-4 treatments are all that is needed.
Not at all! Just like any other things you get a “check up” for, PT can help find imbalances in strength and mobility to help create programs to keep your body healthy. We can also design strength and conditioning programs for all levels, from young athletes to fall prevention and muscle preservation for the aging population.
During your session a PT will go through a range of assessments to check for imbalances, perform manual therapy (hands on help to improve joint mobility and muscle tension), and go through specific exercises to help stabilize and strengthen. As an integral part of the recovery process, we make sure to provide each of our patients homework exercises to work on in between their visits.
Yes, in addition to multiple other forms of insurances.
