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Physical Therapy

Are you suffering from a painful lower back or a stiff neck? Perhaps there is some other part of your body that has been abused over the years and has decided to tell you, “stop what you're doing.”

Traditionally, physical therapy has been utilized primarily to rehabilitate an injury and restore function. However, increasingly, people are turning to physical therapy as a means to optimize function. We've seen many golfers who have improved their flexibility through manual therapy as well as runners who have become more efficient through better alignment.

Our Approach

Many therapists tend to focus on one thing (i.e., nerves, joints or muscles) and utilize a single approach to resolve every individual's dysfunction. However, we believe that each body responds differently to each type of treatment available.

Based on this belief, we have adopted the philosophy that a variety of techniques must be used in order to simultaneously facilitate effective rehabilitation of joints, muscles and nerves. If any one of these anatomical structures is traumatized, it will affect the function of the entire musculoskeletal system.

Therefore, we treat the whole body through manual therapy—hands-on care. We also advocate therapeutic exercise and give proper instruction in performing exercise. Of course, you'll get the best results when you do the follow-up work.

For sports injuries we will work closely with your physician, your current fitness training schedule, and your competition goals to get you back to your athletic endeavors as quickly as possible.

Some specialty treatments include:

* Temporomandibular treatments
* Scar/capsular mobilization after breast augmentation/reconstruction
* Aquatic physical therapy (off-site)
* Knee and shoulder post-surgical rehabilitation
* Computer related over-use injuries

The Benefits

• Spend a full 60 minutes, one-on-one, with a Doctor of Physical Therapy or Board Certified Orthopedic Specialist. (To be Board certified, your therapist must have at least 10 years in the field and demonstrate exceptional knowledge of orthopedic rehabilitation.) No aides and no modalities.
• Avoid the limits imposed by insurance companies. Most insurance policies will not continue to pay for physical therapy after you’ve met your basic range of motion and strength goals. We are committed to restoring your prior level of function. In many cases, we continue working with you to optimize function.
• Easy access to the facilities and personal trainers at Pacific Heights Health Club

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