DISCOVER A NEW PATH TO HEALTH
APPROACHES
A wholistic approach to movement, pain, and health. Every session begins with a thorough assessment of your medical history and your hopes for therapy. Our goal is for you to leave your sessions with a greater understanding of your body, and an effective treatment plan for your lifestyle.
Physical Therapy
Therapeutic Fitness is what fitness is meant to be about, your health. Although exercise is considered one of the pillars of our health, it often comes with the least instruction. Your health doesn’t have to be about the newest and hottest trends or about lifting the most weight. Therapeutic fitness is about taking your medical history and your personal goals and creating a program that is individualized and functional. Say goodbye to the days of hurting yourself at the gym and into a healthier lifestyle
Therapeutic Fitness
Where every inch and every millisecond is important, it is important to know what your limitations are. Sports performance should be individualized to optimize your skill set and perfect your body for your sport. However, it’s not only about optimization, the greatest talent is availability and being able to stay on the field in order to continue to perform. Our approach is where sports performance and injury prevention come together in order for you to compete your best.
Sports Performance
Services
FASCIAL MANIPULATION
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When you hear someone say that everything is connected in the body, it’s because of fascia. Fascia is the connective tissue that synergizes muscles to one another, surrounds our tissues, and is highly responsible for our nerve interactions. Restrictions found in this tissue or build up from previous surgeries, injuries, or compensations can cause significant alterations to how our body perceives itself and thereby limits its ability to perform pain-free and optimally. Fascia Manipulation is focused on identifying the chains of tissues and restoring them to their natural state, muscular and internally.
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This has been proven to be an effective treatment for:
chronic pain
fibromyalgia
CRPS
Dysmenorrhea (painful menstrual cycles)
Headaches, migraines
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
Tendinopathy
Constipation
Ovarian cysts
And much more!
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While we are big supporters of massage therapy and often recommend massage therapists for maintenance work, physical therapists are uniquely equipped and trained on the assessment of not only the musculoskeletal system but how the anatomy works in conjunction with the neurological to create movement. Hands-on techniques are often not long-lasting or as effective when performed in a vacuum and often require a skilled evaluation, diagnosis, and corrective exercise prescription that massage therapists are not trained to complete, and in fact, legally unable to perform or prescribe.
Our manual therapy assessments are not just to correct your tissue abnormalities but also to identify the true source of pain and injury which may be many body segments away from your perceived pain. Combined with our top-notch movement assessment and retraining, our patients often find longer lasting results and complete resolution.
Dry Needling
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Like acupuncture but better.
Dry needling is a technique designed to treat and resolve musculoskeletal and fascial pain. It involves the insertion of acupuncture needles into the soft tissues of the musculoskeletal system as a means to promote healing within the body using the body’s natural healing and pain management mechanisms. The results can be and often are immediate with noticeable decreases in pain and increases in range of motion.
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It has been shown to effective in treating simple muscle tightness, strains and sprains, stimulating recovery, muscle activation, swelling reduction and pain management.
Research is still looking at the best way to apply dry needling in acute and chronic situations.
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Traditional acupuncture is rooted in eastern philosophy while dry needling is rooted in western medicine. Rather than treating based on meridians, dry needling is focused on treating intramuscular and fascial anatomy based on fascial chains.
Cupping
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Remember Michael Phelps’s at the 2016 Olympics with the big red circles on his body? That could be you.
Cupping is a ancient technique derived from Chinese Medicine where a glass or plastic cup is used to create a suction force on the skin. This practice has been widely noticed due to its popularity during the 2008 Olympics. The treatment promotes greater circulation by stressing the capillaries and stimulating the body’s natural healing process. It is occasionally painful and leaves no lasting damage, although you may have its iconic bruised circles on your skin that may last 2-10 days.
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It is often used to treat:
Sore muscles
Neck, shoulder, back, and knee pain
Migraines, headaches
Fibromyalgia
Muscle spasms