Our goal is to help you move with less pain, improve strength and mobility, and return to daily life with greater confidence. Your physical therapy plan may include several treatment approaches, but two of the most common are manual therapy and therapeutic exercise.
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.
Your therapist will select exercises based on your specific limitations and goals. What you practice in the clinic, along with the exercises you complete at home, helps reinforce progress and create lasting changes.
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
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!