Physical Therapy

Physical Therapy is where you and I work together to get you out of pain and back on the road to an active and capable lifestyle. Everybody's treatment specifics will look different, but the process looks like this:

Step 1: Book and do a consultation over the phone or video chat. Here we chat about your specific issue to see if I'm the right person to help you.

Step 2: Get a thorough assessment and treatment game plan on your first day.

Step 3: Get treatment that improves your quality of life, helps you avoid surgery, reduces or eliminates your pain, and gets you back to the things you love to do.

Patients tell me all the time that I practice differently than any other PT they've ever worked with. So what's different?

• Validation: I believe your individual experience with your pain or limitation not only has merit, but it also informs your treatment. All too often, I get patients who have been dismissed like a crazy person or made to feel like a lost cause because their pain didn't make sense to the other clinicians they saw. It's important to know that, sometimes, you don't need to know the "root cause" of the pain in order to treat the person in front of you effectively.

• Specificity: I think nearly every treatment has a place in the rehab continuum. Most of my patients get a mixture of manual therapy and targeted exercise. Sometimes it's an even split, sometimes not. And that split often changes as you progress. Just because you come in with a specific diagnosis, does NOT mean you get the same exercises and treatment as another person with the same diagnosis.

• Intentionality: I don't do anything without a reason to believe it will work. Plain and simple. No cookie cutter treatments. No treatments done out of habit.

• Coaching: Wouldn't it be cool if every healthcare pro worked like a dentist? Think about it. Most of a dentist's day revolves around preventive care and education (Do you floss?). I want to coach you up during treatment so that, over time, I get to be kind of like your dentist. I'm there to keep you on the right track.

• Collaboration: I want you to get better, even if it's not 100% with me (or at all with me). End of story. I give care that is confident and secure; not arrogant and jealous. Arrogant, jealous clinicians don't refer out, and they often end up not helping (or hurting) their patients in the process. My job is to provide you with the best treatment possible. If I don't think I will provide the best treatment for you, I'll try to refer you out to somebody that will. 

• Attention: I simply have time to care and think about the person in front of me. When you work 1 on 1 with me, you get much more effective treatment than you do with another therapist trying to juggle 3-5 people at the same time.