Your initial visit to a physical therapist involves a thorough evaluation of your back. This includes assessment of your pain symptoms and activities that increase or decrease your pain. In addition, you'll receive an in-depth evaluation of your posture, movements, muscle strength and length, and asymmetries. From your evaluation your physical therapist will choose from a wide range of treatment interventions to best facilitate your full recovery. This may involve soft tissue massage to stretch and relax the tightened muscles, specific exercises and stretches to bring balance to your posture and movement, and noninvasive techniques to support full spine alignment.

Physical Therapists also emphasize educating you so that you can understand how the "normal" use of yourself in everyday activities has interfered with having a healthy back. Your physical therapy program will be tailored to your specific complaint, as your specific information about your injury, activities, and posture, even prior to the event causing the injury, will determine the success of your recovery.

We'd be delighted to answer your questions, so feel free to email us or come on in! We're currently offering a free screening and we'd love for you to take us up on it!