At Reliant Physical Therapy our goal is to provide you with compassionate personalized care to restore, maintain, or improve your physical abilities, mobility, and quality of life. We want to help you function, move and live better.
Our physical therapists (PTs) are trained professionals who assess your physical condition and create customized treatment plans. These plans often include exercises, stretches, manual therapy, and modalities such as heat, cold, or electrical stimulation. We may also involve teaching you about proper body mechanics and posture to prevent future injuries.
We can help restore your function and improve your ability to perform daily tasks with less pain and greater independence. Call us today to schedule your appointment.
Services:
- Therapeutic Exercises/Activities
- Neuromuscular Re-education
- Modalities Available
- Gait Training
- Manual Therapy
- Dry Needling
Therapeutic exercises and activities are targeted movements and tasks designed to improve strength, flexibility, endurance, balance, and overall physical function. These exercises are tailored to address specific impairments or functional limitations caused by injury, surgery, chronic conditions, or other health challenges. Therapeutic activities take these exercises a step further by incorporating movements that mimic everyday tasks or activities, helping patients regain the ability to perform their daily routines.
At our clinic, therapeutic exercises and activities are a cornerstone of our personalized treatment plans. We use them to help patients recover, rebuild, and regain independence. Here’s how:
• Strength and Flexibility Training: Customized exercises target specific muscle groups to restore strength, improve flexibility, and enhance joint stability.
• Functional Movements: We focus on replicating real-life tasks, such as reaching, bending, lifting, or walking, to ensure you regain the skills needed for daily living.
• Injury Prevention: By improving balance, posture, and muscle coordination, therapeutic activities reduce the risk of re-injury.
• Chronic Pain Management: Exercises are designed to reduce pain and stiffness, particularly for conditions like arthritis, back pain, or fibromyalgia.
• Sports-Specific Rehabilitation: For athletes, we incorporate activities that simulate the movements and demands of their sport to aid in a safe return to play.
Our physical therapists will work closely with you to create a tailored program, monitor your progress, and adjust your plan as needed. Whether you’re recovering from surgery, managing a chronic condition, or aiming to prevent injury, our goal is to empower you to move confidently and live a more active, pain-free life.
Neuromuscular reeducation is a specialized therapeutic technique designed to improve the communication between your nervous system and muscles. It focuses on restoring normal movement patterns, balance, coordination, and muscle function that may have been impaired due to injury, surgery, illness, or neurological conditions. By retraining the brain and body to work together more effectively, this method helps reduce pain, enhance mobility, and prevent future injuries.
At Reliant Physical Therapy, we incorporate neuromuscular reeducation into personalized treatment plans to address your specific needs. This approach may include:
• Postural Training: Helping you achieve proper alignment to reduce strain and improve movement efficiency.
• Balance and Coordination Exercises: Rebuilding your ability to stabilize and control movements, crucial for daily activities and sports.
• Proprioceptive Training: Enhancing your awareness of body position and movement to reduce the risk of falls and injuries.
• Movement Pattern Correction: Identifying and correcting faulty movement habits that contribute to pain or dysfunction.
• Manual Therapy: Hands-on techniques to release muscle tension and improve joint mobility, facilitating proper neuromuscular function.
Whether you’re recovering from surgery, managing a neurological condition, or aiming to overcome a sports injury, our therapists use evidence-based neuromuscular reeducation techniques to help you regain strength, confidence, and control in your movements. Together, we’ll work toward restoring optimal function so you can return to the activities you love with ease.
Modalities are specialized tools and techniques used in physical therapy to enhance the healing process, reduce pain, improve circulation, and promote overall recovery. These therapies complement exercise and manual techniques by targeting specific symptoms or conditions. At Reliant Physical Therapy, we use a variety of modalities to support your rehabilitation journey.
Common Modalities We Use at Reliant Physical Therapy
1. Heat Therapy: The application of heat to relax muscles, increase blood flow, and alleviate stiffness. Hot packs are often used prepare/relax muscles and joints, especially for conditions like arthritis, muscle tension, or chronic pain.
2. Cold Therapy (Cryotherapy): The use of cold packs or ice to reduce swelling, inflammation, and acute pain. Following an injury or intense physical activity, cryotherapy helps control inflammation and speeds up recovery. It’s also beneficial for acute sprains or post-surgical swelling.
3. Electrical Stimulation (E-stim): A modality that uses electrical currents to stimulate muscles and nerves. E-stim can reduce pain, improve circulation, and activate weak or injured muscles. It’s commonly used for conditions like muscle atrophy, post-surgical recovery, or chronic pain management.
4. Ultrasound Therapy: A deep-heating treatment that uses sound waves to promote tissue healing and reduce pain. We use ultrasound therapy to treat soft tissue injuries, reduce scar tissue, and promote healing in areas like tendons, ligaments, or muscles.
5. Traction Therapy: A technique that gently stretches the spine to relieve pressure on the vertebrae and nerves. For patients with herniated discs, sciatica, or neck pain, spinal traction can help alleviate discomfort and improve mobility.
6. Taping Techniques (Kinesio Taping): The application of elastic tape to support muscles and joints without restricting movement. Taping is used to reduce pain, improve circulation, and provide support during rehabilitation for sports injuries, muscle strain, or postural corrections.
7. Soft Tissue Oscillation: Soft Tissue Oscillation is provided by an intermittent electrostatic field, which is built up between the therapist’s hand or applicator and the tissue of the patient by means of the Hivamat or the Dynatron X5. The patient’s tissue is electrostatically attracted and released in the selected frequency. This kneading effect triggers a unique, deeply penetrating and lasting resonance vibration of the treated tissue area which has been shown to decrease inflammation, speed the healing process and circulation, decrease pain, promote relaxation, decrease spasms, tension and pain.
8. Vasocompression: Vasocompression is used to reduce swelling and inflammation in the upper or lower extremities following surgery or other injury. Typically, a boot or sleeve is used to cover the injured limb, and then the boot or sleeve is filled with air or cold fluid by a compressor thus causing compression of the limb. Compression is maintained a set period of time and then released.
At Reliant Physical Therapy, modalities are never a one-size-fits-all solution. We carefully assess your condition and integrate the appropriate modalities into a comprehensive treatment plan. By combining these techniques with therapeutic exercises and hands-on care, we help you recover faster, manage pain effectively, and regain your quality of life.
The word ‘gait’ simply refers to your ability to walk and gait training refers to a specific physical therapy intervention that is focused on improving your ability to walk with less gait deviations (limping) or assistance. By focusing on balance, posture, and endurance, this type of physical therapy can help prepare your legs for repetitive, active motion again and return you to a normal walking pattern on both level and unlevel surfaces.
Manual therapy is a hands-on approach used in physical therapy to assess and treat musculoskeletal pain and dysfunction. This specialized technique involves the skilled application of pressure, movement, and manipulation to improve mobility, reduce pain, and restore proper function. Manual therapy is often combined with therapeutic exercises to achieve optimal results.
At Reliant Physical Therapy, we incorporate manual therapy as a core part of our personalized treatment plans. Our skilled therapists use a variety of manual techniques to address specific needs and promote healing. Below are the key manual therapy methods we use and their benefits:
1. Myofascial Release: A gentle technique that focuses on releasing tension in the fascia, the connective tissue surrounding muscles and organs. Restrictions in the fascia can cause pain, stiffness, and limited motion. We apply sustained pressure to targeted areas to release restrictions, improve flexibility, and reduce pain. This technique is effective for conditions like chronic pain, postural imbalances, and scar tissue.
2. Joint Mobilizations: A technique involving the controlled movement of a joint to restore its normal range of motion and reduce pain. We use joint mobilizations to address stiffness, pain, or dysfunction in areas such as the spine, shoulders, hips, or knees. This is particularly helpful for patients with arthritis, post-surgical limitations, or injuries involving joint restrictions.
3. Soft Tissue Massage: A hands-on approach that targets muscles, tendons, and ligaments to improve circulation, reduce muscle tension, and promote relaxation. Our therapists use soft tissue massage to relieve tightness, break up adhesions, and enhance blood flow. This technique is beneficial for patients with muscle strain, stress-related tension, or chronic pain conditions.
4. Instrument-Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization (IASTM): A technique that uses specialized tools to identify and treat areas of soft tissue dysfunction, such as adhesions and scar tissue. Using IASTM instruments, we gently glide over the skin to improve tissue mobility and reduce pain. This method is particularly effective for tendinitis, plantar fasciitis, and post-surgical scar tissue.
Why We Use Manual Therapy
At Reliant Physical Therapy, manual therapy plays a critical role in:
• Reducing pain and inflammation.
• Restoring mobility in joints and soft tissues.
• Improving posture and movement patterns.
• Enhancing recovery after surgery or injury.
• Preparing tissues for more active forms of rehabilitation.
By combining manual therapy with other treatments like therapeutic exercises and modalities, we create a comprehensive plan that addresses your unique needs. Our goal is to help you recover faster, move better, and live pain-free.
Dry needling is a modern, science-based intervention for the treatment of pain and dysfunction in musculoskeletal conditions such as neck pain, shoulder impingement, tennis elbow, carpal tunnel syndrome, headaches, knee pain, shin splints, plantar fasciitis or low back pain. This treatment technique used by physical therapists uses a dry needle, one without medication or injection, inserted through the skin into areas of muscle known as trigger points. Dry needling is not acupuncture or Oriental Medicine; that is, it does not have the purpose of altering the flow of energy (“Qi”) along traditional Chinese meridians for the treatment of diseases. Dry needling is a part of modern Western medicine principles, and supported by research.