Pain and injuries associated with muscles, joints, and nerves have been successfully treated at Perspective Physical Therapy.

Our patients have recovered from everything including headaches and jaw dysfunction, to ankle sprains and knee pain. We see a lot of patients with hip and low back pain and often treat elbow tendonitis and rotator cuff tears. We have a lot of experience treating wrist, hand, and finger pain, and also have a special interest in treating the spine.

If your pain comes from muscles, joints, and/or nerves, we can help if surgery isn’t required. Note: Some of our patients have been told they needed surgery, but their pain resolved with our treatments and were able to cancel their scheduled surgery.

We are honored to work with our patients who are typically active and highly motivated to move, take the initiative towards injury prevention, and want to be able to perform at their best. Exercise and sports performance are extremely important for them and they highly value their time.

If pain or injuries are keeping them from being active and staying fit, they seek out the highest quality, 1-on-1 care, with professionals that take the time to listen and understand them. Often, they are unable to miss work 2-3 times per week for months at a time because of their busy schedules.

Our treatments only work with the cooperation from our amazing patients. If we find that we are a good fit for each other, we become a team. We then work together to help you accomplish the goals you set for yourself; whether it be to become pain free or to improve your athletic performance. Teamwork makes the dream work.

After experiencing an injury, most people will see a physician. If the injury doesn’t require surgery, they will commonly be prescribed medication(s) to reduce pain, inflammation, and/or muscle spasms followed by a referral to Physical Therapy.

While there is a time and place for these medications, it is important to understand that these medications only address the symptoms associated with your injury (i.e. what you feel regarding pain, swelling, muscle tightness). These medications will NOT treat the cause of your symptoms.

Imagine being on a sinking boat where water is quickly flooding the inside of the boat. Medication(s) would be equivalent to scooping out the water, but what really needs to be addressed is the hole in the boat that’s allowing the water to get in!

Physical Therapy can be used to plug the hole in the boat. However, with traditional Physical Therapy there is a heavy emphasis on using modalities such as heat packs, ice packs, electrical stimulation, and ultrasound. Unfortunately, research shows that these modalities won’t provide long-term relief. Using these outdated modalities, often seen in traditional settings, is just another way of scooping water out of the sinking boat.

So how do you plug the hole in the boat? The answer lies in what’s newly considered the largest organ in the human body – Fascia. Fascia is a connective tissue that runs from head to toe, connects to all organs, and very commonly causes a person’s dysfunction. With skilled application of hands-on myofascial release techniques, these soft tissue injuries can be guided back to an optimal position. When an optimal arrangement of the soft tissue structures is restored, pain, weakness, and movement limitations associated with an injury can improve immediately.

Many factors including time span from the original injury, age, and other underlying causes of pain can affect how quickly a patient responds to treatment. However, using our treatment methods to directly influence the fascial system usually resolves pain and injuries much faster than other clinics that don’t understand and treat fascia.

With our fascia-focused manual therapy techniques and functional exercises, combined with full 45 minute 1-on-1 treatment sessions, our patients normally recover in far fewer visits than they would at many other physical therapy clinics.

As soon as possible! Generally the longer you delay getting treated, the longer it will take to rehab the injury. And the longer an injury stays in a distorted and injured state, the harder it is to move the fascial tissues back to its pre-injury condition. 

Also, you will likely lose strength after sustaining an injury which can induce harmful “movement compensations.” These compensations can cause injuries to other areas of your body further hampering your ability to return to doing the activities you enjoy.

It is in your best interest to get treated early if you want to get back to 100% in as few sessions as possible. That being said, we have successfully treated many patients who had been coping with pain for years. These patients were still able to make significant improvements with their conditions after being treated at Perspective Physical Therapy.

Sometimes rest is warranted but usually it is possible to still exercise and participate in your sport(s) at a lower intensity while we treat your injury. There are a lot of factors to consider but with our guidance you can make an informed decision on what activities you should and should not do.

Furthermore, we take great pride in getting our patients back to doing the activities they love as quickly and safely as possible. In order to do this, it is absolutely necessary to incorporate movements and stress demands required by the activity or sport you’re trying to get back to. In doing so, we can evaluate and modify your treatment to ensure you make a full recovery.