

- Reduce or eliminate pain: Therapeutic exercises and manual therapy techniques such as joint and soft tissue mobilization or treatments such as ultrasound, taping, or electrical stimulation can help relieve pain and restore muscle and joint function. Therapies such as these can also prevent pain from returning.
- Avoid surgery: Physical therapy gets used to eliminate pain or help heal from an injury. If you can eliminate these issues, you may be able to avoid surgery. If surgery is required, individuals can still benefit from pre-surgery physical therapy. In many cases, you can expect to recover faster by going into surgery stronger and in better shape.
- Improve mobility: Regardless of age, many people experience trouble standing, walking or moving. Physical therapy can help by using stretching and strengthening exercises to help restore your ability to move. In some situations, assistive devices such as canes, crutches, braces, orthotics or other devices may be necessary. Our physical therapists can assess and properly fit individuals as needed.
- Recover from or prevent a sports injury: Physical therapists understand how specific injuries are at a higher risk with different sports (such as stress fractures for distance runners). We can design an appropriate recovery or prevention exercise program for our patients to ensure a safe return to their sport.
- Improve your balance and prevent falls: In the initial stages of physical therapy, we assess our patients for fall risk. If they’re at high risk for falls, our therapists will provide exercises that safely challenge their balance to mimic real-life situations. Therapists will also help with exercises to improve coordination and, if necessary, assistive devices to help with safer walking. When the balance issue gets caused by a problem in an individual’s vestibular system, our physical therapists can perform specific maneuvers that can quickly restore proper vestibular function and reduce and eliminate symptoms of dizziness or vertigo.