PHYSICAL THERAPY

Care & Services Offered:

A thorough evaluation and customized treatment plan by a physical therapist includes:

Obtaining each patient’s complete medical history
Understanding the patient’s goals
Observing how each patient moves, and identifying areas of weakness in their body and compensation strategies they may be using
Performing specific tests to further analyze each patient’s problems
- Examples of tests include strength, range of motion (flexibility), balance, joint mobility, sensation and reflexes
Treating the patient based upon the findings in the evaluation combined with the patient’s goals

One-On-One, hands-on care and supervised rehabilitation treatments.

Comprehensive Manual Therapy to address restrictions in patients’ joint or muscles:

Joint mobilization of the spine and/or extremities
Soft tissue mobilization
Cross Friction Massage
Muscle Energy Techniques
Neuromuscular re-education techniques

Pilates & Gyrotonic Expansion System^® rehabilitation exercises are utilized to compliment the following goals in therapy:

Improve flexibility, strength and coordination in joints and muscles
Increase strength in core muscles, which include abdominal, hip and spine musculature
Reinforce the mind-body connection
Simulate sports and everyday activities such as getting in/out of a car

Patient Education and Home Exercise Program for all patients in order to retain and improve upon the gains made during their treatments.

Benefits:

Physical Therapy can benefit injuries and disorders such as, (but not limited to):

Chronic neck and back injuries/pain
Sciatica
Shoulder impingement/tendonitis
Hip bursitis
Foot and Ankle injuries/pain
Post-surgical rehabilitation
Performance & sports injuries
Balance & postural problems

Total knee/hip replacements
Multiple Sclerosis
Parkinson's Disease
Fibromyalgia
Scoliosis
ALS
Muscle strains
Repetitive stress injuries

Bodyscape's Physical Therapists are Movement Specialists:

Each patient’s overall movement and specific abilities (such as strength and flexibility) are analyzed to determine what needs to be addressed.
For example, if an individual is having difficulty rising from a low chair, the physical therapist helps to resolve this problem by:

Watching how the patient gets up from a low chair
Comparing the patient’s movement to the “ideal” movement pattern to rise with ease from a low chair
Depending upon what the physical therapist sees, he/she then tests various aspects of the patient’s abilities, such as flexibility, strength and balance
Then treatment focuses on the strength, flexibility, balance, and/or movement pattern difficulties that the physical therapist finds in the evaluation
This process allows the patient by the end of treatment to rise from a low chair with ease

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