INJURY "PREVENTION"

"Injury Prevention" is really a misleading term. "Injury risk reduction training" is much more accurate and becoming more widely used - but it's a mouthful.  The point is, it's impossible to prevent an injury.  If anyone had a magic formula to prevent ACL injuries, there wouldn't be 250,000 ACL tears per year in the US, and 50+ per year in the NFL alone, where players have state of the art treatment of every kind.

However, a breadth of research on dozens of different injuries and sports has shown that with accurate assessment, and targeted training, you can substantially reduce your risk of most injuries, as well as the effects of many chronic or degenerative conditions.  To most effectively accomplish this, you have to first identify altered or inefficient movement patterns, areas of weaknesses and stiffness, and compare them against the demands required for your sport, job, or life.  We offer full body, joint specific, and sport specific screenings to assess injury risk, and develop comprehensive plans to build resilience and durability for a lifetime.

Don't wait until you're injured to see a physical therapist!  Come see one now.  This may sound like a weird pitch, because we're used to getting orthopedic medical intervention only in the presence of injury, but that's not how healthcare should work. You don't brush your teeth only after you have a cavity; you do it to reduce the risk of cavities. You also probably have annual check-ups with your primary care physician - physicals, blood panels, colonoscopies, eye exams, etc, to screen for early onset changes in your health that you didn't pick up on.  While I would consider regular exercise in most forms to be orthopedic "preventative" healthcare, if you really want to be proactive about your physical health, come see a movement and injury expert to help figure out how to most effectively reduce your injury risk, and live a long, healthy life.