Physical Therapy (PT)

is a licensed allied health profession that focuses on the body’s ability to have functional motion.  This involves establishing balance, strength, range of motion, soft tissue mobility, coordination, sensory integration, cognitive planning, motor learning and independent execution of a specific motion or complex skill. Assessing the body as a whole functioning unit verses compartmentalizing it is our standard care.  WellnessMax understands that successful long term relief of symptoms aims to addresses the cause of the symptom not masking complaints.  We place you at an advantage by prioritizing specificity into your treatment program to treat the person rather than just to a medically prescribed diagnosis. With our onsite inclusion of complimentary therapies, the speed at which you can attain your goals is accelerated. This reduces overall medical costs, enables independent maintenance of attained function and facilitates compliance. This unique approach is why physical therapy at WellnessMax can often act as an alternative or collaborative treatment towards wellness without the traditional post injury goals.

PT Evaluation: 
Our practitioner will perform a physical analysis, objective testing to the involved area and general systems of the body, palpate over the involved structures, perform a biomechanical analysis of the region and adjacent areas during activities such as walking, running, bending, lifting, pushing, pulling, playing, as well as during rest postures such as standing, sitting and lying down.  Next comfort levels are assessed and prior treatments are analyzed for their effectiveness. Third, initial goals and possible methods of treatment are established and a customized path is established.

Myotherapy:
Specific muscles or groups of muscles are analyzed by position, contractile ability, tenderness, length and strength . Our PT then can use various forms of manual therapy such as massage, myofascial release, trigger point therapy, muscle energy, proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) and taping to promote self healing and effective function.  Sessions produce an immediate change in muscular health and serve to compliment other treatments such as exercise training, electrical modalities, biofeedback, and post injury recovery.

Therapeutic exercise prescription:
PTs are the experts in diagnosis of a movement dysfunction by way of movement and performance analysis.  Our provider can then modify or enhance components to produce power, strength, timing, positioning and pain relief.  Exercise prescription then becomes a therapeutic modality verses a repetitive movement without purpose. Contraindications due to present health status are applied. We routinely provide an even more effective program by having mind and body exercises such as Pilates and yoga routinely employed as therapy.

Therapeutic Ultrasound: 
A series of high frequency sound waves enter into an area of edema, muscular spasm, inflammation, pain or healing soft tissue in order to improve the immediate environment and promote healing.  Ultrasound can also be combined with topical medications and natural agents to spot treat the involved tissues reducing common concerns of gastrointestinal upset or larger systemic response. This treatment is only utilized at WellnessMax to facilitate the effectiveness of other prescribed treatments.

Electrical Stimulation:
 often times, injury or disease can alter that communication either by eliminating or amplifying the feedback by incorrectly modulating the messages to and from the brain and spinal cord.  Specific electrical stimulation treatments can work to partially re-connect the CNS, function as the CNS to promote regional tissue health or work to block information such as pain to and from the CNS. 

Manual Therapy:
Manual therapy treatments serve to provide nutrition to the joints and muscles, regain proper joint space or soft tissue lengths,  realign bones, stimulate the sensory system , eliminate soft tissue restrictions, promote normal circulation , normalize neurological communication and restore natural mobility through the use of joint mobilization, muscle energy techniques, soft tissue releases and PNF biofeedback.

Post rehabilitative and Medically Supervised Fitness Training:
Fitness is NOT just what you see.  It is how you feel and how efficiently the body can use your heart, your lungs, your body and your mind.  Those desiring improved fitness but are concurrently suffering from disease or are at high risk of a disease are often left ill supervised in a traditional gym setting or unchallenged in a medically prescribed program.  Others have met insurance mandated goals for release from rehabilitative services but remain at a sub maximal function for return to challenged action. WellnessMax is the solution through a customized fitness path in a one on one training or private class structure. 

Women’s Health PT:
A woman’s body has a similar structure to the male but functions at key structures such as the pelvis in a very different capacity. As a result the pelvic floor, surrounding musculature and postural needs are quite different. Understanding the differences and promotion of preventative practices through out a female lifespan is the mission of our Women’s health services.