Philosophy

We believe that recovering from an injury is a team sport and that YOU are the team captain. Medical professionals and health specialists are coaches, we give you suggestions on what play or strategy might work best for your situation, but only you can execute that plan.

Your body is an amazing and complex arrangement of biology and chemistry that we continue to learn about. Many times, just when we think we have something figured out, evidence is presented against it, or worse, the supporting evidence seems to conflict with “common sense.”

We begin learning how your body is moving and how you want it to move from our first visit and constantly going forward as your body adapts to those enhancements. As we learn, our responsibility is to pass that on to you, to help your understanding of your body.

In general, the practice of physical therapy is not always relieving for a client. Most of the time, physical therapy increases pain during treatments.
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Having an injury, adapting to it, and recovering from it is not easy. Add an injury to an already challenging and hectic life and things can get crazy. ​
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The “Art of Medicine,” if you will, is a practice that is sometimes as simple or imperfect as trial-and-error experiments, but more often is a collection of information and analysis from a variety of physiological perspectives.
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You do the work, no one else can. That work will require a time commitment that is negotiable based on your body’s needs and your life’s commitments. Your body adapts best with activity, sometimes boring or overly challenging activities, especially your musculoskeletal and neurologic systems.
Your sessions and homework will change based on what we learn about your body and how it is adapting. Sometimes those suggestions will increase discomforts, sometime they will be relieved.
We rely on input received from you both through what we observe and what you report. Your participation in the homework and giving us feedback about your responses are paramount to reaching our goals.