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Physical Therapy Columbus Ohio

Restore function, mobility, and reduce pain with effective physical therapy

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Take Your Health Into Your Own Hands with Physical Therapy

During a physical therapy, our physicians evaluate your muscular strength, balance, and firing activity in conjunction with movement patterns, form, and flexibility to retrain. These physical therapy exercises target individual muscle groups and promote function. 

We empower our patients to take their recovery and health into their own hands through education and at home physical therapy programs to continue our in-office training. 

While physical therapy on its own is effective, we often integrate physiotherapy techniques (link to therapeutic boosts page) like massage, stretching, heat therapy, and soft tissue work as an added benefit. 

Using our holistic physical therapy approach, we give our patients the edge they need to heal efficiently and prevent further injury.

Sports Physical Therapy

Athletes push their bodies to the limits in effort to gain every advantage possible on their competitors. This can be in the gym lifting heavy weights or maximizing speed on a treadmill. When pushing your body to the max, injury is almost inevitable. Our team of physicians and exercise therapists help athletes recover from injury and increase performance using physical therapy.

Physical Therapy Exercises

During an exercise therapy or physical therapy or session, we will use a variety of exercises to target the muscle group required while also ensuring we focus on your system as a whole to achieve balance and not overcompensate one area or another. Here are a few exercises we use in the physical therapy rehabilitation of various body parts and muscles:

Elbow

Arm Fascial Stretch on Wall
Foam Roller Extensions
Scapula Setting
Prone T-spine Extensions

Wrist

Wrist Extensor Stretch
Prayer Stretch
Palm Turning Exercise
Scapular Pushup

Shoulder

Pec LAX Release
Suboccipital LAX Release
QL/Lat LAX Release
Spinal & Rib Openers

Rotator Cuff

Lat LAX Release
Teres/Lat LAX Release
Nerve & Fascial Flossing
External Rotation
Internal Rotation

Neck

SCM Release
Suboccipital LAX Release
Sphinx or Cobra Pose
Neck Glide
Elbow Drop

Lower Back

Spinal Twist
Posterior Chain Stretch
Adductor Stretch/Triangle
Quad Stretch
DNS Bridge
BP-cuff Leg Slides

Hip

Quad + Hip Stretch
TFL Release w/ LAX ball
Bridge with DNS Band Wrap
Single Leg Balance + RDL

Knee

Quad + Hip Stretch
Straddle Stretch
TFL Release w/ LAX ball
Proprioception Training
DNS Bridge
Forward Fold

Foot

Tib anterior stretch
Forward fold
Toes spread
Short foot

Ankle

Medial Ankle LAX Release
Tib Anterior Stretch
Forward Fold
Posterior Chain Stretch
Single Leg Balance

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Our Doctors' Credentials and Education

As Doctors of Chiropractic, we have some of the most in depth training regarding movement efficiency and retraining. Many of our physicians and support staff were athletes and had experience with exercise, training, and rehabilitation prior to joining our team.

Our rehab teams incorporate a hard to find combo of philosophies and techniques including Anatomy Trains, Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization, Active Release Therapy, Rock Tape/Kinesiotape, Functional Restoration and more. Furthermore, we customize each physical therapy program to improve fascial communication, scar tissue remodeling, neurological re-education, and more to address the source of your pain and dysfunction & catalyze your results. 

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Frequently Asked Questions

The duration of physical therapy typically depends on your injury or what you want to accomplish. For example, if you sprain/strained your ankle over the weekend, that will generally take only a couple weeks to get the pain calmed down. If you’re looking to make sure you fully restore muscle function and strength, that will take longer. Rehab will also take longer when pealing back layers of compensation and reprograming movement patterns.

You can also speed up recovery by coupling your visits with supplementation, and following at home recommendations and exercises.

It’s best if you wear clothes you can move in. Exercise-appropriate clothes like comfortable t-shirts, shorts or pants are ideal. If the weather outside is colder, we have bathrooms and designated areas where you can’t change if needed. Also, don’t stress if you forgot/forget to change, we can generally work with whatever you’re wearing, we just may be limited in what we can do on that particular day.

 

Physical therapy is typically covered by insurance but that is office and insurance dependent. Our Life Activated Partnerships (link to page) include physical therapy among many other benefits and our pricing is based on a monthly charge rather than a per appointment basis. Visiting us can be a lot more cost-effective when you have recurring appointments you need to attend rather than a traditional doctor or physical therapy clinic. Care in our office is also HSA eligible and we are happy to provide you with a superbill to submit for reimbursement.

Our appointments range between 30 -90minutes, depending on the individual, condition, types of services being completed, if this is your first appointment and we are going over health history, and more. 

 

We take the time to get to know you, your ailments, and how we can best help you improve your health.

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Stage 3: Nourish & Refresh

At this point, you are feeling better than you ever thought you could as you are feeling energized and thriving. You have learned a lot about your body, you are moving more efficiently, you understand your body’s cues, and you have a good idea of what to do with these cues. This means you get to try new things, achieve new goals, and conquer new challenges!  As you do, we will be here as your resource, as needed, to help you nourish, boost, and refresh your health.

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Stage 2: Activate Healing

Pain is generally the last symptom to show up and the first to go away. This means that by the time you realize there is a problem, there has been a problem for a long time. Especially for chronic or recurring issues, understanding how you got to where you are is so important for getting to where you want to go. In this stage of your journey, you will resolve underlying dysfunction, remove cheats, and retrain habits. As we aid you in activating your body’s natural healing potential, we will help you regain movement, energy, and body function both inside and outside. Throughout this process, you will start to feel greater ease and inspiration as you restore communication and efficiency in your body. Together, we will constantly assess, observe, and reassess your body’s responses to boost your results.

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Stage 1: Discover Root Cause

You are your own person, with your own collection of life events which brought you to where you are today. You deserve to be heard, seen, and treated as the individual you are. Your journey begins with your Discovery Evaluation. This first visit includes your exam which works to uncover the root of your issue(s), new patient diagnostics, and, of course, your first treatment. This is how we will help you begin connecting the dots and feeling better. After your first treatment, we will ask you to observe your body’s responses– good, bad, or indifferent. There is no wrong answer as this is just starting point information and direction for moving forward. In your second visit, we will review this feedback and your diagnostics to further identify potential underlying causes and compensations. We will combine everything we have learned about you, consider your goals, and together create a plan to resolve your concerns from the roots up