Services

Sports Medicine

Our sports medicine programs offer the tools you need to recover from a sports injury—such as ligament and tendon strains and sprains—as well as the tools to prevent future injury.

With our highly-skilled therapists attending sports seminars on a regular basis, we utilize the latest evidenced-based approaches to sports rehabilitation. Our individual treatment time allows us to constantly monitor and assess milestones we look for in the recovery phase. Our ample space allows for advanced work on return-to-play skills in the office before discharging you to your sport or to the care of a specialist at school. We maintain constant communication with your referring physician, allowing for excellent coordination of care.

Joint Replacement Rehabilitation

Joint replacement can be rough on the body. Our professionals have the techniques to ensure your rehabilitation is stress-free and that there is minimum discomfort following joint procedures. We also perform cold laser therapy to reduce swelling in the joint.

We readily engage you during your recovery and offer in-home therapy for your comfort and convenience. This approach is particularly important in the treatment of total shoulder replacements (TSA) and reverse total shoulder replacements (rTSA).

Shoulder Rehabilitation

Our practice has a strong focus on restoring functional performance following all shoulder conditions. In fact, we are one of the first north Jersey centers to provide comprehensive rehabilitation following total shoulder and reverse total shoulder replacements.

Our therapists are adept at treating shoulder issues, including both non-operative and post-operative care. In fact, our reputation is built on the individual attention we pay to you and the long-standing relationship we have with local orthopedists, including shoulder and elbow specialists at Columbia University Medical Center and Hospital for Special Surgery. A majority of each session is spent on manual therapy techniques to address pain, swelling soft tissue restriction and motion. Then, strengthening is accomplished with both manual techniques and equipment.

Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction (TMD)

Pain that comes from TMD can be debilitating. We help relieve your pain and stiffness with techniques ranging from proper posture to dental appliance training.

TMD is a specialty that most practices do not offer. We have a board certified TMD specialist with 40 years of treatment experience that has been instrumental in the development of physical therapy treatment for this debilitating syndrome. It is often a problem brought on and worsened by stress. As such, our treatments focus on manual techniques performed in a stress-reduced, calm environment.

Spinal Care

Utilizing advanced methods of treatment—including the McKenzie Method® of Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy®—our experts provide the highest quality of care for all aspects of your spine. This includes rehabilitation following:

Disc herniation
Discectomy and fusion
Laminectomy
Cervicogenic (neck pain) headaches

Concussion

Most concussions or mild Traumatic Brain Injuries (mTBI) resolve in a day or 2. The symptoms of a concussion may include headache, confusion, lack of coordination, memory loss, nausea, vomiting, and dizziness, ringing in the ears, sleepiness, and excessive fatigue. If it doesn’t resolve in a week or 2 then perhaps physical therapy may be the answer to help you recover faster. Concussions can affect your balance (vestibular system), sight (ocular) and/or your muscles (musculoskeletal). A physical therapist that has been trained in how a concussion effects these systems and how to work with them can help you return to your pre-concussion lifestyle and activities.

Chronic Pain Management

Research tells us that pain occurs in your brain.  As signals are sent to the brain, they are interpreted by the brain as being dangerous and noxious or not dangerous.  If the brain feels you are in danger then you will feel pain where there is a problem in your body.  When the problem clears up, sometimes the brain keeps interpreting that signal as dangerous through a process called central sensitization.  Chronic pain management using the BioPsychoSocial framework will allow you to “turn the volume down” on the pain through desensitization and get you back to full, pain free movement and activities.  We will give you the tools you need to take control of your own pain and teach you how to manage and eliminate that pain.

Massage Therapy

Massage or unconditional touch is the oldest forms of therapy.  From a therapeutic perspective it works on the nervous system flooding the brain with non-nociceptic or non-threatening stimulus to bring about a feeling of calm and relaxation.  This has an effect on the entire person and all systems of the body and can reduce pain and allow you to move more freely.  In the hands of a skilled practitioner, massage therapy can be a great adjunct to your physical therapy program working towards a more pain free lifestyle.

Women’s Health/Pelvic Floor

The pelvic floor is a group of muscles in the bottom of the pelvis that provides support for the internal organs and allows for urinary, bowel and sexual function. With dysfunction of the pelvic floor, a number of conditions can arise that can be painful and restrictive.

Our specially trained women’s pelvic floor therapist provides individualized treatments including manual therapy, exercises and education for:

-diastasis recti
-SIJ and SPD
-urinary incontinence and urgency
-pregnancy/post partum
-c-section, episiotomy and other scar restrictions
-painful penetration