Patient Education
The key concept of my manual therapy interventions is to provide the optimal environment for your body to heal by normalizing joint mechanics, joint stability, organ function and soft tissue length, strength, and balance. This provides the optimal environment for your body to heal naturally and return to pain free living.
Many men and women are unaware that there is help outside of medication and surgery. After years (for some 15 years or more) of suffering, their lives are changed in a matter of weeks with this highly specialized treatment.
An estimated 50 million Americans live with chronic pain caused by disease, disorder or accident. An additional 25 million people suffer acute pain resulting from surgery or accident. Untreated pain has a significant impact on the pain sufferer and their family. Pain has a negative impact on the individual's quality of life. Pain diminishes the ability to concentrate, do their job, exercise, socialize, and perform daily tasks and sleep. These feelings may be exacerbated by the failure of medication and/or surgery to offer permanent pain and symptom resolution.
Start Healing, Start Living
The Methodology
The focus of our practice is the advanced biomechanical assessment of the musculoskeletal and visceral system for orthopedic, lumbopelvic, obstetric, gynecologic, urologic, and colorectal conditions.
During your initial assessment, we will obtain a thorough medical history, perform a thorough physical examination and begin treatment as well as instruct you on your personalized life-changing program. Your physical examination will involve the following:
- Joint testing
- How do your joints move?
- Neurological testing
- How if your nervous system functioning?
- Muscle testing for strength and mobility
- Visceral examination
- Postural examination
- Ergonomic examination
- Assessing work and home environment, bed, pillows, chairs, etc.
- Impact of current lifestyle, diet and exercise
Once all of this information is gathered, a customized program is created and implemented for your specific needs to allow your body the optimal environment to heal.
We exam and treat every structure that has an impact on your pain, or infertility and symptoms. We examine how each joint moves and if it doesn't move properly, why not? What is hindering it? We examine every joint, soft tissue and visceral (muscle, ligaments, tendons, nerves, organs, and connective tissue or fascia) structure that has an impact on your pain or dysfunction. We examine the motility and mobility of each organ and why it isn't functioning properly based on the surrounding joints, blood supply, nerve conduction and soft tissue.
Individualized Care
An individualized treatment plan is customized for your specific needs. Every joint, muscle, ligament, tendon, nerve and organ that has an impact on your infertility, pain or dysfunction is addressed simultaneously. This results in whole body healing with fewer sessions and decreased healing time.
Your progress is monitored each visit to ensure that you are receiving the appropriate care. You will also be educated in an appropriate exercise program that fits your lifestyle.
For example, in infertility - if there are adhesions or scar tissue around the ovary, then a patient may experience irregular or painful periods - but these symptoms can also come from dysfunctions in the lower back and sacroilliac joint because they provide the blood supply and nerve innervations for the reproductive organs. We assess look at all of the all of the potential structural causes of infertility. If the cause is scar tissue or adhesions - we use our hands to gently and safely break up the adhesions to free the ovary and surrounding structures. This will allow the ovary to return to its normal function naturally. Many times, it is not just the scar tissue or adhesions alone. It is combined with the restrictions in the lumbar spine and pelvis.
Whenever there is a joint restriction, the body will develop compensatory patterns to continue to function. Unfortunately, the body does not seek ways to function with quality but efficiency. We address the primary causes of the infertility, pain, or other symptoms and all of the accompanied compensatory patterns.
Because we spend the time necessary and address the joints, soft tissue and viscera simultaneously, your body is given the healthiest environment to heal naturally. As we address each of the structures involved simultaneously, your body requires fewer adjustments and decreased healing time. This results in whole body healing and health, which allows a person to start healing, and start living.
Essential Recovery Techniques
- Spinal and extremity joint mobilization and manipulation to improve joint mechanics to regain range of motion.
- Visceral manipulation
- Soft tissue mobilization to decrease trigger points, break up scar tissue and adhesions, and stretch tight tissues.
- Therapeutic techniques designed to improve movement patterns through neuromuscular re-education, motor control training, and core stabilization training.
- Electrotherapeutic and mechanical agents for pain modulation and muscle spasm reduction.
- Postural Re-education
- Identify Perpetuating Factors
- Patient education
For more information:
American Physical Therapy Association
International Pelvic Pain Society
North American Institute of Manual Physical Therapist