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What is Physical Therapy?

Physical therapy uses a combination of highly skilled manual therapy techniques and specially designed exercises, rather than surgery or medication, to help patients regain or improve their physical abilities and movement. Our clinicians are experts in motion and have advanced doctorate degrees, which gives them the experience and education to provide you with the highest standard of care, backed by the latest research and treatment options.

Choosing physical therapy first lowers the cost of your care, and research has proven that physical therapy and supervised exercise can help you stay healthy and active. It’s a natural, safe, long-lasting course of treatment that helps you get back to normal activity. Physical therapy can help you avoid opioids and other medications that carry adverse risks and side effects, and it’s a great way to avoid extensive procedures like surgery or imaging tests — including X-rays, MRIs and CT scans.

What is Physical Therapist?

Physical therapists are movement experts, committed to helping you get back to your life and doing what you love. They are trusted healthcare professionals with extensive clinical experience who can help prevent and treat conditions that both limit your daily activities and ability to move and function. Physical therapists have advanced understanding of the musculoskeletal system, how the body moves, what prevents it from moving correctly, as well as how to restore full mobility.

All our physical therapists have their clinical doctorate graduate degree from an accredited physical therapy program, and have passed both the national and appropriate state licensure examinations.

When you see a physical therapist you receive expert care — backed by decades of research, complete with current treatments and proven techniques that will get you back to doing the things you love.

 

Make an appointment today and take your first step toward better health.

Cost-effective Treatment

Improves Mobility & Relieves Pain

Reduces Need for Surgery & Prescription Drugs

Recovery Plans Tailored to Your Specific Needs

Pain-free movement is crucial…

…to your quality of daily life, your ability to earn a living, your ability to pursue your favorite leisure activities and so much more.

  • Movement is essential to physical activity, which is necessary to prevent obesity, which is responsible for at least 18% of US adult deaths.
  • Mobility is crucial for physical independence, and studies suggest that walking alone can reduce risk of heart attack and stroke, hip fracture and knee arthritis, among other benefits.
  • Consistent movement is vital to maintaining a healthy balance system, which can help prevent costly falls.

Avoid Surgery & Prescription Drugs

  • While drugs, surgery and prescription drugs can be the best course of treatment for certain diagnoses, there is increasing evidence demonstrating that conservative treatment like physical therapy can be equally effective (and cheaper) for many conditions.
  • Low back pain is routinely over-treated despite abundant evidence that physical therapy is a cost effective treatment that often avoids advanced imaging scans like MRIs that increase the cost of care and the likelihood for surgery and injections.
  • PT has proven as effective as surgery for meniscal tears and knee osteoarthritis, rotator cuff tears, spinal stenosis and degenerative disc disease, among other conditions.

Participate in Your Recovery

  • Physical therapists routinely work collaboratively with their patients.
  • Treatment plans can be designed for the patient’s individual goals, challenges and needs.
  • Receiving treatment by a physical therapist is rarely a passive activity, and participating in your own recovery can be empowering.
  • In many cases, patients develop an ongoing relationship with their physical therapist to maintain optimum health and movement abilities across the lifespan.

Reference: Benefits of PT