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What is Physical Therapy?
"Physical therapists are licensed doctors who examine, diagnose, and treat movement dysfunction. Physical therapy is treatment by a physical therapist that helps people improve their movement, physical function, pain, and other chronic conditions, and recover from and prevent injury and chronic disease." - APTA
What do PTs do?
Physical therapists are movement experts with the goal of helping you move as safely and efficiently as possible to improve your ability to meet the demands of your daily life and sports across your lifespan. We assess strength, flexibility, joint mobility, nerve mobility, nerve sensitivity, muscle tone, and more, to figure out what limitations are holding you back, and decide what type of treatment will be most effective.
How do we approach rehab at GOAT House Physiotherapy?
Regardless of the location of injury, we perform full body assessments to ensure we are addressing the entire kinetic chain due to regional interdependence.
Our integrative approach to rehab takes into consideration the interdependence of biomechanical, neurological, and metabolic systems to improve pain, sleep, and physical function.
We develop hypotheses to explain the root causes of your pain, decide on the best tests to measure change, and re-test after each treatment to see if we are making progress or if we need to re-evaluate.
This allows us to help reduce your pain, restore your function, and minimize the risk of future injury as efficiently as possible, making sure we are not wasting your time with ineffective treatments.
This process will involve specific exercises tailored to your unique movement dysfunctions, weaknesses, and goals.
What conditions do we treat?
At GOAT House Physiotherapy, we are experienced in treating injuries and conditions in all body regions, with expertise in athletic injuries and return to sport training.
We treat the spine, hips, knees, ankles, feet, shoulders, elbows, and wrists, as well as concussions and nerve injuries.
Some common injuries and conditions we treat are ACL ruptures, muscle strains, ankle sprains and fractures, rotator cuff tears, SI joint pain, hip and shoulder labral injuries, lateral and medial epicondylalgia, patellar and Achilles tendinopathy, disc herniations, spondylolysthesis, apophysitis, and much more.
What treatments do we offer?
Movement based interventions: corrective exercises, strength and flexibility exercises, neurodynamics, barbell rehab, mobilization with movement, and more.
Manual therapy: joint mobilization / manipulation, soft tissue mobilization / massage, cupping, IASTM, dry needling, taping, and more.
We also offer sports performance training and medical coverage for events.
Telehealth Physical Therapy is also available - contact us to see if telehealth or in person is right for you
What To Expect At Your First Session
The initial evaluation for each case will vary, but typically you can expect:
A conversation with your therapist about your injury history, prior treatments, and your goals with physical therapy
A combination of assessments including isolated strength and flexibility testing, orthopedic diagnostic tests, and full body movement screens
Sport specific movement screens may be included in the assessment (kicking a ball, running analysis, hitting or throwing a ball, etc.)
A discussion of findings from the assessment, and a treatment plan to reach the goals you set with us
Some form of treatment on day 1, which may include hands-on treatment (manual therapy, dry needling, etc.), exercise-based treatment, or both
Instructions for what you should do before your next appointment - home exercises, activity modifications, etc.
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