Orthopedic and Sports Injuries

Whether you are a “weekend warrior”, high school athlete, professional athlete, marathon runner, or just someone who would like to make it through their day without pain, our dedicated staff will help work to reduce your pain, improve your function, and most of all, empower you with the tools you need to maintain your results for the long term. Our highly trained physical therapists will develop an individualized treatment plan using a combination of manual therapy, progressive therapeutic exercise, sport-specific exercise, and a comprehensive home exercise program. According to Osteopathic Manual Medicine, manual therapy is a distinct art supported by scientific knowledge with a philosophy that structure influences function.

At Body in Balance, we pride ourselves in the use of a variety of treatment techniques and modalities based on the individual evaluation and assessment of each patient. These modalities are used to increase mobility in restricted areas of function, to reduce pain, and to create an efficient functional state, enhancing the body’s capacity to heal properly. These techniques are complemented by muscle balancing through stretching and strengthening, neuromuscular reeducation, spinal stabilization training, and sport-specific training. Treatment techniques and modalities may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Manual Therapy: Soft tissue massage, joint mobilizations, myofascial release, muscle energy techniques, range of motion techniques, and proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation.
• Patient Education: One of the strongest therapeutic tools; we are dedicated to educating our patients about their condition, treatment plan and goals, and how they can play an active role in maximizing and maintaining their treatment results.
• Electrical stimulation: Strengthens muscles in disuse atrophy, assists healing, reduces muscle spasm, improves mobility, and provides chronic or acute pain relief.
• Cryotherapy: Includes cold packs and ice massage. Alleviates early acute injury or inflammation (contusions, strains, sprains, postoperative conditions) and chronic pain due to muscle spasm. Improves range of motion secondary to pain or edema.
• Hot packs: Provide superficial moist heat to reduce pain and muscle spasm and to improve tissue extensibility.
• Paraffin bath: A superficial heating agent used in areas that are difficult to isolate such as distal extremities (hands, feet). Same effects as hot packs; also helps soften skin.
• Spinal traction: Employed in spinal nerve impingement due to bulging or herniated disk, degenerative disk disease, generalized hypomobility of cervical or lumbar spine region, or muscle spasm from nerve-root impingement. Reduces signs and symptoms of cervical or lumbar spinal compression.
• Ultrasound: A form of deep heating with high-energy sound waves used for subacute and chronic inflammation. Soothes painful joints, reduces swelling, relaxes tissues and promotes healing, lessens muscle spasm, and aids in scar-tissue breakdown.

Some common conditions we treat are listed below:

Shoulder: Rotator Cuff Injury, Shoulder Impingement, Shoulder Dislocations, Shoulder Instability, Acromioclavicular (AC) Separation, Arthroscopic Surgery

Elbow: Lateral Epicondylitis (Tennis Elbow), Medial Epicondylitis (Golfer’s Elbow)

Hand: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Skier’s Thumb, DeQuervain’s

Spine & Neck: Lumbar Disc Herniation, Lumbo-Sacral Strains and Sprains, Spinal Stenosis, Degenerative Disc Disease, Cervical/Strain, Spondyloisthesis, Ankylosing Spondylitis, Radiculopathy, S-I Joint Dysfunction, Laminectomy, Discectomy, Fusion, Scoliotic fixations

Hip: Total Hip Arthoplasty (Hip Replacement), Labral Tears, Hip Bursitis

Knee: Anterior Cruciate Ligament Tear/ACL Reconstruction, Chondromalacia Patella, Cartilage Defects, Bursitis, Medial Collateral Ligament Injury, Total Knee Replacement, Patella Malalignment/Dislocation, Lateral Collateral Ligament Injury, Posterior Cruciate Ligament Tear, Patellar Tendonitis/Patellofemoral Pain, Meniscal Tear

Foot & Ankle: Achilles Tendon, Bunions, Ankle Sprains

Pediatrics: Torticollis, Spina Bifida, Scoliosis, Osgood-Schlatter’s Disease, Sever’s Disease, Development Milestones, Cerebral Palsy

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