Get Your Health Back On Track With Physical Therapy

Have you struggled with pain? Are you dealing with an injury affecting your ability to do your usual routine? Our highly skilled physical therapists can guide you back to health and back to doing what you love!

Whether you have recently had surgery or are recovering from a new injury, physical therapy at IMG Physical Therapy can help.

October is National Physical Therapy Month. IMG Physical Therapy wants to make sure that you have a reliable source to help you resolve whatever physical condition you face. Our physical therapists are highly trained and experienced in treating musculoskeletal disorders. We understand how important it is to get to the root of the problem and provide solutions that work.

Our team of physical therapists is devoted to helping our patients recover from injuries and pain that are interfering with everyday activities and making life way harder than it should be.

Request an appointment with IMG Physical Therapy today, so we can help you get back to the life you deserve!

Why Should I Choose Physical Therapy?

There are several reasons to choose physical therapy over costly surgeries and medications. Physical therapy has been shown to not only help resolve pain and improve function, but it is also effective at enhancing your overall health and well-being.

One of the most significant benefits of physical therapy is that it can uncover the underlying reasons for your injuries and/or pain. Some of the impairments your physical therapist can help you correct include:

• Loss of motion
• Weakness
• Poor posture and faulty movement patterns
• Gait abnormalities
• Loss of balance
• Coordination deficits
• Neurological impairment
• Unhealthy lifestyle behaviors (i.e., poor sleep habits, improper nutrition, lack of exercise, etc.)

4 Benefits of Physical Therapy

A physical therapist can educate you about ways to move more safely, use your energy more efficiently, reduce the risk of re-injury, and enhance the overall effects of your care. The benefits of physical therapy treatments include easing pain, reducing spasms, increasing circulation, and promoting healing.

1. Physical therapy can help improve your joint range of motion and overall mobility: Our ability to move depends on how individual joints move and how the body’s joints move in concert with one another. Increasing joint range of motion and mobility of the connective tissues around your joints (including the tendons, muscles, fascia, and joint capsules) will help your joints feel better and move better. This will also help you improve overall functional mobility and activity tolerance, essential for work, leisure, and simple daily functions.
2. Physical therapy can help strengthen weaknesses and compensation patterns: Through injury or surgery, muscles become weak and impact your ability to move and function normally. For some, an old injury or abnormal movement pattern has led to weakness due to compensations. Physical therapists are skilled at assessing the whole body, identifying weaknesses, and teaching how to restore strength and function.
3. Physical therapy can improve your overall health and well-being: When you see a physical therapist for pain and injuries, you will receive rehabilitation benefits to resolve the condition and a total body approach to health. Physical therapists can recommend nutrition to improve pain, reduce inflammation, and improve overall health. In addition, physical therapists are movement experts and trained to help you move/exercise more, no matter your limitations or restrictions. More activity equals improved health!
4. Physical therapy can help you reduce the risk of injury: By implementing a holistic approach, we can improve and restore your function and prevent injuries. This may include all components of typical physical therapy and including gait modifications and coordination exercises to stimulate the nervous system and help ensure your mechanics are ideal to avoid an injury.

A Note from Eric

Hello All,

I hope you are getting to enjoy some of this great fall weather. I am sure you are busy with many great fall activities. I know my daughters are both busy with their soccer seasons right now.

As many of you may or may not know, October is Physical Therapy month, an appropriate month for physical therapy, as it can be scary for a lot of people. Many times, people say PT stands not for physical therapy, but “pain and torture” or even “physical terrorism.” In fact, a quick internet search showed a lot of funny/scary sayings about physical therapy. One of them was, “It is not torture, it is just physical therapy.” Another saying I saw was, “Physical therapy, today it hurts, tomorrow it works.” One slogan even went as far as to say,” I get paid to hurt people.”

While there is a little truth to these slogans, especially if you have had a knee replacement, that should not be the goal of a physical therapist: to put people in pain. In fact, here at IMG PT, we do not go by the slogan “No pain, no gain.” Pain is your body’s way of telling you something is not right, and as a PT and patient, it is important to listen to those cues and not cause further damage on the road to recovery.

Muscle soreness, achiness, and fatigue can be expected, but not the reproduction of pain. At IMG PT, we work closely with you to meet your rehab goals. We are listening to your concerns and working together to establish a plan that gets you on the road to recovery and back to doing all of your regular activities. Speaking of the road to recovery and finding the best path of recovery, a funny physical therapy joke that I heard is, Why don’t PTs ever get lost? Answer: Because they always find the right alignment.

Finally, we here at IMG PT just want to say a big thank you to the patients who have trusted us with your care. It means so much that so many of you have trusted us with your care for the past 16 years. We look forward to continuing to help out our great past, present, and future patients in the surrounding community to meet their rehab goals and help restore their function in a fun (not scary) family atmosphere!