During your physical therapy treatment, there are two main parts to your care you will experience. Manual Therapy and Therapeutic Exercise work together to create a complete treatment plan to lead you to a full recovery.
What is Manual Therapy?
Manual Therapy is made up of many different hands-on techniques that we use in the clinic. Each offer their own benefits and are implemented for many reasons during your physical therapy treatment plan. We use manual therapy to help restore mobility, restore joint movement, decrease nerve tension, and improve nerve mobility and help reduce pain.
There are many different techniques that fall into the category of manual therapy. Some of these categories include but are not limited to:
- Soft Tissue Mobilization
- Joint Mobilizations
- Muscle Energy Techniques
- Passive Range of Motion
- Neural Mobilizations
Depending on your needs, you will most likely receive some form of manual therapy during your plan of care.
What are Therapeutic Exercises?
Going to physical therapy 2-3 times a week is awesome, but there needs to be consistency at home to see lasting change in your physical therapy treatment. The strength that you’re gaining will only be maintained by keeping up with regular strengthening. In some sense, coming to PT can be the beginning of a lifestyle change. You’re incorporating regular corrective therapeutic exercises to your daily life to help you be able to keep up the activities you want with the strength and endurance needed.
Each plan of care at LSTC is specific to each individual patient. The plan is implemented to target what symptoms or limitations you may have. We identify what your limitations are and utilize manual therapy techniques and therapeutic exercise to get you back to your daily activities without limitations!