Personalized Physical Therapy Programs

This service includes a comprehensive review of the runner’s biomechanics, footwear, gait in running and walking, goals, training history, and knowledge of current running techniques and trends. Our therapists then work with the client to treat any presenting injury or to devise progressive programs designed to prevent occurrence of injury.

Athletes of all levels from beginners in a given sport to Olympians and other elite world class competitor are treated by our staff. As with all clients, athletes bring their injury or concern and their goals to the treatment setting and we develop a treatment program to promote proper healing and safe return to competition.

Our staff has been producing custom-made, corrective shoe insert orthotics for 12 years. The orthotics are produced here in the clinic, allowing full control of how these devices affect the individual client’s needs. Orthotics use often requires minor adjustments to be made to the devices, so producing them on site allows us to make these adjustments at minimal cost and in a very short period of time compared to orthotics manufactured by a third party.

Pinnacle Physical Therapy is a certified provider of the Physical Work Performance Evaluation, a Functional Capacity Evaluation developed by ErgoScience that is one of the most rigorously tested assessment tools of this type. Clients are carried through a battery of tests that help to determine readiness to return to work or, alternatively, validating their inability to return to a prior work role. This can be a very important and instrumental part of the rehabilitation process, allowing a client to get back on track after an extended absence from the workplace due to injury. Hundreds of these evaluations have been performed here since 1998.

These evaluations can help both prospective employees and employers determine that an individual is safe to perform a prospective work role in a safe manner. An evaluation of basic physical health is performed within the scope of physical therapy. This includes assessment of basic strength, ROM, physical limitations and body mechanics for safe lifting and handling practices.

These evaluations are often performed in the workplace at the request of the client, the employer, or a workers’ compensation insurance carrier. For this evaluation to take place, a work-related injury does not have to be present. Ergonomic analysis is frequently a consideration in any physical therapy intervention. How we sit, stand, ride or move our bodies in any occupation or hobby can contribute to injury, especially chronic injury.

Our staff has a comprehensive understanding of the complexities that work injuries can present. We have time-tested success working with area employees and employers to safely return injured workers to the workplace. Injuries, whether sustained in the workplace or at home, are always disruptive to people’s lives, and we have the same mission regardless of where you happened to get hurt. Your goals are our primary focus in getting you back into work safely and strongly.

Manual therapy treatments include many different techniques and skills. Joint mobilizations are low-grade gentle techniques designed to restore movement, reduce pain, and improve overall function. Joint manipulations are also described as low-amplitude high-velocity thrusts in which a client may experience a more dramatic joint movement, often associated with an audible pop or click coming from the joint. Our therapist are skilled and licensed in the performance of these techniques and use them as appropriate following a comprehensive screening for various risk factors that are sometimes present.

Physical therapy modalities include such things as ultrasound, electrical stimulations, low-level laser, hot or cold packs, or any other physical device that is used in treatment other than a hands-on manual therapy.

Kinesiotape is a taping product and strategy to assist the body’s own natural inflammation-reducing capability. Originally used in the management of lymphedema, physical therapists have recognized that these taping techniques also work extremely well for orthopedic injuries and post-surgical conditions.

If surgery is in your future, guidance on strength and conditioning programs to best prepare you for the procedure can be very beneficial. Our staff works very closely with area surgeons to seamlessly enter you into physical therapy after any surgery. The timing to start physical therapy after surgery can be very critical, so we work hard to accommodate a client’s need to access treatment in an immediate way. Routine orthopedic procedures, such as ACL reconstruction, total joint replacement, rotator cuff repair or spine surgeries, all have known protocols for entering physical therapy proactively, and our therapists maintain the most current knowledge in rehabilitation techniques.

Neurological rehab may include treating you in the long-term recovery process following stroke, head injury, aneurysm, and multiple sclerosis diagnosis, among other life-altering problems. Gait training, gross mobility skill, balance, seating assessment if a wheelchair is required, and other services are some of the services we offer.