Patient Treatments

Expertise you can trust for your most complex health concerns

We will address your personal health concerns with sensitivity and compassion and create a treatment plan that meets your unique needs. We can help you overcome the conditions that cause you pain and keep you from living your life to the fullest.

Start Healing, Start Living

Initial Assessment

Your initial assessment and all follow-up treatments are performed in a private and comfortable room. You will work one-on-one with your personal therapist for the entire duration of your program.

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.

Individualized Care

An individualized treatment plan is customized for your specific needs. Your progress is be 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. 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.

Quality, Life-changing Treatment for Infertility

Experience full body healing from day one! As each of your problem areas are addressed; pain and dysfunction are eliminated. These improvements increase your chances of becoming pregnant naturally, while improving your health.

Our program is healthy, natural, safe, non-surgical and addresses the root causes of reproductive problems through innovative manual orthopedic and visceral techniques and provides a healthy framework to become pregnant naturally or help Assisted Reproductive Techniques (ART), such as in vitro fertilization (IVF, GIFT,etc).

Adhesions and poor reproductive mechanics cause nearly half of all female infertility. My approach uses non-surgical advanced orthopedic and soft tissue techniques to improve blood flow and joint mobility; improve mobility of the ovaries, fallopian tubes and uterus, decrease muscle spasms and decrease adhesions in or around the reproductive organs. This distinctive treatment results in improved reproductive function which provides your body with multiple opportunities of becoming pregnant naturally, while improving your health

Women's Health

Gynecologic pain and dysfunction can come from a wide variety of sources, including: joint dysfunctions, visceral dysfunctions, ligamentous lesions or adhesions. All of these can cause muscle imbalances and a debilitating cycle of compensatory patterns.

The most common findings in patients with pelvic pain, tailbone pain, painful or irregular periods, urinary, bowel and/or sexual symptoms and other pelvic dysfunction include, but are not limited to:

• Sacroiliac, tailbone and lower back pain or dysfunction
• Pelvic and/or hip joint pain or dysfunction
• Chronic headaches
• Constipation
• Abdominal pain
• Scar tissue and/or adhesions in and around the reproductive organs
• Pelvic floor muscle spasms or weakness, specifically, a group of muscles called the Levator Ani and Obturator Internus. These muscles lie between the pubic bone and tailbone. They are responsible for bladder and bowel control as well as sexual functioning. Therefore, when the muscles are tight they can cause pain and/or dysfunction of the bladder, bowel, and genitals (sexual organs).
• Foot and/or knee pain
• Neck and/or upper back pain

Manual physical therapy is indicated as part of a multi-disciplinary medical intervention. Proper treatment can minimize and eradicate these perplexing symptoms.

We Offer Quality, Life-changing Treatment for:

• Infertility
• Pelvic Floor Pain and Dysfunctions
• Post-surgical pain (e.g. abdominoplasty, hysterectomy, laparoscopy, laparotomy, etc)
• Dyspareunia (Pain with intercourse)
• Coccygodynia (Tailbone pain)
• Lower back pain
• Pelvic and abdominal pain
• Chronic Constipation
• Vulvodynia/Vulvar Vestibulitis Syndrome/Vaginismus
• Endometriosis
• Dysmenorrhea
• Pregnancy and post partum pain
• Insterstitial Cystitis

Pain

Our facility caters to a variety of orthopedic conditions, including:

• Musculoskeletal Pain and Dysfunctions
• Chronic Headaches
• Neck Pain
• Shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hand pain
• Mid and Low Back Pain
• Abdominal and Pelvic Pain
• Sacroiliac Pain
• Pubic Dysfunctions
• Sciatica
• Tailbone Pain
• Hip pain
• Knee Pain

Our patient population includes pre and post-surgical conditions as well as non-surgical injuries for the shoulders, elbows, hips, knees, ankles, and feet. We combine therapeutic exercise, modalities, and manual therapy techniques into our physical therapy program, giving the patient an opportunity to improve their strength, stability, and flexibility; as well as promote healing in the injured areas.

We have had great success with hundreds of people who suffer from chronic musculoskeletal pain and dysfunction. All parts of the body that may have some causative association with the dysfunction should be examined and treated. I address each of the factors which results in rapid pain and symptom reduction. Most patients are unaware that there is help outside of medication and surgery. After years (for some 10 years or more) of suffering their lives are changed in a matter of weeks with this highly specialized treatment. Patients are able to radically decrease or completely eliminate their need for medication and avoid surgery.

The human body is a complex system that is dependent on the well being of the joints, muscles, nerves, tendons, ligaments, arterial supply, and the viscera. This highly complex system demands more than stretching and strengthening exercises for optimal healing. With this philosophy of care, my patients experience excellent results and rapid return to full recovery.

We Treat

Many patients with urinary, bowel and/or sexual symptoms and/or pelvic pain often have dysfunctional pelvic floor muscles, specifically, a group of muscles called the Levator Ani and Obturator Internus. These muscles lie between the pubic bone and tailbone. They are responsible for bladder and bowel control as well as sexual functioning. Therefore, when the muscles are tight they can cause pain and/or dysfunction of the bladder, bowel, and genitals (sexual organs). Physical Therapy is indicated as part of a multi-disciplinary medical intervention. Proper treatment can minimize and eradicate these perplexing symptoms.

There are many reasons for painful intercourse. Physical therapy can decrease pain through relaxation techniques, exercise and scar tissue massage if you've had an episiotomy or hysterectomy.

This is tailbone pain and it is caused by problems with the muscles of the pelvic floor attached to the tailbone. Muscle tightness or myofascial trigger points can cause tailbone pain. Your physical therapist will normalize the tight muscles and tissue with manual therapy techniques.

Symptoms of vulvar pain can be caused by tight pelvic floor muscles, connective tissue restrictions, and nerve irritability. Connective tissue restrictions in the vulvar tissue lead to decreased blood flow resulting in tissue hypersensitivity. Tight pelvic floor muscles or pelvic floor myofascial trigger points can refer pain to the vulvar tissue or vagina.

Endometriosis is when endometrial tissue grows outside the uterus. Because of the viscero-somatic reflex, endometriosis can cause musculoskeletal impairments. These impairments include abdominal and pelvic floor muscle tightness and myofascial trigger points, connective tissue restrictions, and nerve hypersensitivity.

Once menstruation begins, and over the next several decades, many women suffer from some degree of dysmenorrhea, or pain, during their monthly menstrual cycle. Symptoms can range from slight irritability to intestinal upset, severe cramping, and even fainting.

The incision from a Cesarean Section can cause connective tissue restrictions and myofascial trigger points in the abdominal muscles which both commonly contribute to urinary dysfunction, suprapubic and/or abdominal pain and dyspareunia.

The bladder and urethra lie very close to the pelvic floor muscles. When these muscles become tight they can create cystitis. Concurrently, because of the viscero-somatic reflex, bladder disease can cause musculoskeletal impairments.

Definitions taken from The American Physical Therapist Association