Our Treatment Model

3 Phases Of Treatment

Feel Better

How will you fix my pain?

Move Better

I'm feeling better, what's next?

Once your pain has calmed down, it’s time to get moving a little better. This is the second phase of treatment and what I like to call "active rehab."  This is where we build a recovery and maintenance  plan for you to follow to keep your pain at bay. This will not only help with pain relief but also help prevent flare-ups!

Aside from an accident or trauma, your pain was most likely the result of a faulty movement pattern which was "brewing" for a while. Meaning, your body lost its ability to move properly and developed a compensation. This causes muscles to get weak in some places and tight in others, creating an imbalance. Muscle imbalances that cross over a joint causes instability, weakness, and a decreases ability to absorb force and impact. Once your joints lose the ability to absorb force properly, you become vulnerable to injury, which starts degeneration process!

While that was an oversimplified description of the degeneration process, it plots an simple roadmap to follow in reverse:

1. Increasing strength will help restore joint and spine stability
2. Once a joint is stable, you will see an increase in mobility
3. Having mobile joints will help you move better
4. Moving better will prevent or stop the degeneration process

Simple, But Not Always Easy...

We all could be a little stronger and more flexible, right? Well, it’s a little more than that… A faulty movement pattern is something your body has learned in effort to find a way around a problem. Injuries big and small will cause an avoidance behavior because of pain. This can negatively effect everything from you general posture to he way you walk and run.

Injury recovery and rehab therapy is like learning a new sport or instrument. It will take some time and practice to master. Together, we will identify your body’s weakness and compensation strategy to create a personalized action plan to follow.

"We all don't need to be elite athletes... We could however, all be a little more athletic"

The rehab phase is a hands-on process in the office but will require some at-home effort. You will be given specific instructions about your rehab and plan. I don’t want you to spend hours in my office with me counting reps... I want to show and teach you the movement strategies your body needs to regain strength, mobility, and durability. 

perform better

Isn't Just For Athletes...

And it isn’t just being able to run faster or lift heavier either... It’s training your body to function at a higher level. What does a higher performing body look and feel like? It’s having more durability and increased endurance. It’s being able to take on physical stress and recover faster. 

"Increased capacity means more durability"

Enhancing performance means increasing capacity. It’s about mastering movement, increasing strenght, and optimizing physiology. This will help avoid injury, slow degeneration, and prevent illness. Increasing capacity means more durability.

A Few Examples:

All our treatment plans are centered around your needs and goals. Everyone has different target, but here are just a few examples:

• Low back pain with squatting or bending over – Improve hip mobility and strength
• Hook or slice on the golf course – Improve upper back mobility and hip internal rotation
• Neck pain and headaches after a long week of computer work – Posture restoration, proper breathing pattern, increase endurance capacity of postural muscles
• Poor sleep – Evaluate sleep habits, correct glycemic dysregulation, stress management
• Can’t overhead squat in CrossFit – Improve shoulder flexion, improve upper back mobility, optimize squat pattern