Therapy Services
We believe in treating the whole body rather than treating an injury or medical issue in isolation. That’s why we offer an extensive range of services to help improve movement and function. Read on to find out more.
Kinesiotaping
How Does Kinesio Tape Work?
Kinesio Tape is a latex-free, elastic porous cotton strip with an acrylic adhesive used for treating athletic injuries and a variety of other physical disorders.
Kinesio Tape stretches up to 140% of its original length, which allows much greater range of motion, compared to traditional white athletic tape. It can also be left on for longer periods of time (up to 4 days) before reapplication is needed.
Kinesio Tape is applied to facilitate the body’s natural healing process while providing support and stability to muscles and joints without restricting the body’s range of motion. It also provides extended soft tissue manipulation to prolong the benefits of manual therapy.
Kinesiotape is very versatile and can be used with pediatric physical therapy, geriatric physical therapy, sports physical therapy, and even equine physical therapy! It is generally well-tolerated on most skin types due to its latex-free properties and natural dyes.
Kinesio Tape Can Be Useful For The Following Conditions:
• Shoulder Impingement
• Rotator Cuff Injuries
• Carpal Tunnel
• Tennis Elbow
• Golf Elbow
• IT Band Treatment
• Groin Strain
• Whiplash Injuries
• Hip Bursitis Treatment
• Knee Bursitis
• Knee injuries
• Chronic Knee Pain
• Patellar Tracking Disorders
• Herniated Discs
• Ankle Sprains
• Postural Corrections
• Low Back Pain
• Achilles Tendinitis
• Hamstring Strains
• Plantar Fasciitis
• Sports Injuries
• …and many more!
Are you curious to learn if Kinesiotaping may work for you? Schedule your free consultation or initial evaluation with one of our Doctors today! No prescription is necessary.
Cupping
Therapeutic cupping is an ancient alternative medicine technique, which has recently made a comeback in the sports medicine world, especially during the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Cupping helps flush old, stagnant blood from old injuries, which may be preventing complete recovery. When the therapy is finished, the cups are taken off and the muscle is irrigated with new, healthy blood full of nutrients needed for the injured area to recover. This process helps heal deep scar tissue from old injuries or surgeries, muscle spasms and overuse injuries.
What To Expect:
During your treatment session, the athletic trainer will begin by placing the cup on your skin and attaching a suction pump to the cup, thereby creating a vacuum. It may be moved around in a massaging motion or left in place for a few minutes before being removed. You may feel mild pressure during the session and have visible red marks for a few days following the treatment. Most people, however, report little to no discomfort during the session and experience results immediately after.
Benefits: This “vacuum” effect will cause nutrient-rich blood to pool into the area under the cup. The nutrient-rich blood promotes healing and increases range of motion.
Flossing
• Significantly Reduce Muscle Soreness:
Muscle Floss helps break up intramuscular "junk" to allow for greater mobility and blood supply to an area. By squeezing the muscle in a tight wrap, then forcing it through a full range-of-motion, friction between muscle fibers helps break up fuzz, scar tissue, lactic acid and other junk in those tiny places that foam rolling and lacrosse ball techniques can't address.
• Healing and Cleansing Power:
When you release the band, a rush of blood washes through the muscle; this not only brings nutrients for growth and healing, but also clearing out all that junk you just broke up. This is also true for injury recovery and can be used to aid the healing of strained tissue. For swollen areas, you want to promote lymphatic drainage.
• Stretch Those Hard to Stretch Places:
To work shoulders, wrists, ankles, elbows and the little pieces within, wrap a floss band tightly around the joint (sometimes it might take two bands to cover the area) and put it through a full range-of-motion like push-ups, PVC pass-throughs, squatting, lunging, etc. For knees, wrap one band above and one band below the joint, then do some squats. This stretches all the small muscles and ligaments which can greatly decrease joint pain and stiffness.
Dry Needling
What is Dry Needling?
Dry needling is a safe, effective, and efficient treatment used to:
• Relax myofascial trigger points
• Restore normal muscle tones, muscle length, coordination, function, and strength.

Dry needling involves insertion and manipulation of a dry, solid filament needle in a trigger point in order to produce an involuntary spinal cord reflex, also known as a local twitch response. This results in lasting muscle relaxation due to the release of shortened bands of muscle fibers for overactive (tight) muscles or the activation of under-active (weak) muscles. Deactivation of the trigger points can bring immediate relief of symptoms, so the therapist can immediately train the muscles to work with the newly gained pain free range of motion.
Conditions Treated By Dry Needling:
• Head and Neck Pain – including whiplash, degenerative joint disease, degenerative disk disease or osteoarthritis
• Headaches & Migraines
• Otological (Ear) and Opthamological (Eye) Pain – including tinnitus and eye strain
• Dental (Teeth) and Orthodontic (Jaw and Occlusal) Pain – including cavities, temporomandibular joint (TMJ) dysfunction, tooth impaction and root problems
• Shoulder Pain – including rotator cuff muscle tears, bursitis, adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder), tendonitis and impingement syndrome
• Elbow Pain – including lateral epicondylitis (tennis elbow) and medial epicondylitis (golfer’s elbow)
• Hand and Wrist Pain – including gamekeeper’s thumb, DeQuervain’s syndrome, carpal tunnel syndrome, degenerative joint disease and osteoarthritis
• Back and Hip Pain – including lumbar degenerative disc disease, arthritic changes and herniated discs
• Knee Pain – including degenerative joint disease or osteoarthritis
• Shin/Ankle/Foot Pain – including shin splints, gout, metatarsalgia and Morton’s neuroma
• Plantar Fasciitis (Heel Pain)
• Acute and Chronic Tendinitis
• Athletic and Sports-related Overuse Injuries
• Post-surgical Pain
• Post-traumatic Injuries, Motor Vehicle Accidents (MVA), sports injuries and Work-related Injuries
• Other Chronic Pain Conditions – including myofascial pain and myofascial pain syndrome (MPS)
Dry Needling vs. Acupuncture:
- Dry needling is similar to acupuncture in the sense that a dry, solid filament needle is inserted and manipulated under the skin to release endorphins and serum cortisol for pain relief.
- Dry needling is based on western neuroanatomy and modern scientific study of the musculoskeletal and nervous systems, while acupuncture is based on traditional Chinese medicine. It creates balance in the body by influencing the flow of Qi (energy) in pathways called meridians to achieve pain relief and alleviate inflammation.
Are you curious to learn if Dry Needling therapy may work for you? Schedule your free consultation or initial evaluation with one of our Doctors today! No prescription is necessary.
Theragun
Vibration massage therapy device that provides rapid percussions to help treat tight and sore musculature.
Benefits:
• improves Range of Motion, decreases pain, and improves health of soft tissue.
Four proposed physiological changes occurring to the body:
1. Fascia - relieves knots through myofascial release.
2. Fluid - increased blood flow by compressing and creating friction therefore, increasing oxygen and nutrition to tissues.
3. Muscles - increased blood flow produces heat which produces more elastic and relaxed muscles.
4. Neuromuscular - relieves tension and stress while flushing out toxins.
Graston Technique
This technique utilizes stainless steel instruments designed specifically to detect and effectively treat areas with soft tissue fibrosis or chronic inflammation.
Graston Technique provides controlled microtrauma to the affected soft tissue structures. The technique stimulates a local inflammatory response, which leads to remodeling and repair of affected soft tissues.
The instruments allow your physical therapist to identify and treat specific areas. Treatment with Graston Technique is conducted as part of a rehabilitation program designed to restore patients to their pre-injury level of activity.
This is accomplished by implementing a functional progression program, which focuses on imbalances throughout the kinetic chain. Flexibility, strengthening, and muscle re-education are employed to provide optimal results within a minimal number of treatment sessions.
Graston Technique Aids In:
•Faster rehabilitation recovery
•Resolving chronic conditions thought to be permanent
•Reducing the need for anti-inflammatory medication
•Reducing overall treatment time
•Continuing to engage in every day activities
Graston Technique Can Be Used In The Treatment Of:
•IT Band Syndrome
•Knee Bursitis
•Running Injuries
•Shoulder Impingement
•Hip Bursitis
•Plantar Fasciitis
•Neck Pain
•Low Back Pain
•Whiplash Cases
•Tennis Elbow
•Frozen Shoulder
•Rotator Cuff Injuries
•Car Accident Related Injuries
•Sports Injuries