Services
Injury Prevention
Physical Therapy Services
Women’s Health Services
Mothers
Pregnancy and childbirth put unique demands on your body- injury prevention physical therapy can help you plan and prepare for the common stresses seen in these times. Low back/Sciatic nerve pain, pelvic girdle pain, diastasis recti, pelvic floor dysfunction, urinary incontinence among others may limit your ability to move and participate in childcare. Learn how to move, stretch and strengthen the right muscles and make the necessary lifestyle changes to minimize the discomfort to your body. Take home a plan of care that works for you and your family!
Peri and post-menopausal women
Hormonal shifts during perimenopause and menopause can bring changes far more than hot flashes-joint pain, muscle loss, pelvic floor dysfunction, bladder changes and shifts in bone density are all common. Injury prevention physical therapy is about knowing and preparing for these changes. Learn targeted exercises to address strength, flexibility and decreased endurance. If you’re on a GLP-1 medication injury prevention physical therapy can help you learn the correct resistance training and low impact exercises to combat muscle and bone density loss that often accompanies the use of these medications.
Ergonomic Intervention Services
Ergonomics is the science of designing your environment and your own body mechanics to enable optimal performance while preventing cumulative trauma. Good ergonomics and correct body mechanics can help prevent common issues like back and neck pain, repetitive strain injuries, headaches and fatigue. Learn about adjusting your work station, your sleeping and driving postures and how to modify your home environment which often contributes to the persistent ache in your neck or pain in your low back. Take home a plan that works beyond the office hours!
Sports Injury Prevention Services
Whether you’re a weekend warrior, a competitive athlete or wanting to start a new health habit, injuries can sideline you from the activities you love. Injury prevention in athletes includes identifying risk factors, movement screens, strength and flexibility assessment and a personalized training program to correct imbalances, improve mechanics and build resilience in muscles and joints most at risk for your specific sport.
This is even more important in young athletes because their bodies are still developing and their growth plates are not yet fused. They need training and recovery approaches tailored specifically to them. So, if you’re looking for yourself or for your team, sports injury prevention physical therapy sessions can help you get past the finish line!
Geriatric Services
Falls are one of the most common and most preventable causes of injury especially as we age. Good balance depends on your sensory inputs, central processing and motor output. Through fall injury prevention sessions, you will learn the exercises required to improve strength and flexibility in your muscles, challenge the brain’s balance center and make simple lifestyle modifications to enable decrease your risk of falls.
Osteoporosis occurs when bone density decreases to concerning levels causing bones to become weaker and thus increasing risk of fractures. For many women osteoporosis can begin in the post-menopausal period. Use of GLP-1 medications has also been associated with decrease in bone density. Injury prevention physical therapy helps you learn a program including resistance training and low impact weight bearing exercises to prevent common pains and minimize the risk of fractures.