Physical Therapy Services

A Vital Part of Getting You Back to 100% 

Physical Therapists are pioneers of assessing and treating the complex human movement system and therapeutic exercise is an integral piece of our practice and the results you will get with our treatment. While our manual therapy techniques provide a window of opportunity with improved pain and range of motion, it’s therapeutic exercise that utilizes that opportunity to regain strength, speed healing, and resolve harmful compensations that you’ve developed. Ultimately, movement is the best medicine for most of the ailments we see.

With that said, most therapeutic exercises and components of your “home exercise program” can be performed outside of the clinical setting using bodyweight and very simple, cheap forms of resistance.

For this reason, I teach my patients the exercises they need to do, and it is then their responsibility to complete their home program on their own time. At each visit, KSR will assess response to the patient’s current home exercise program and alter/progress accordingly. When my patients are at the clinic, they are not spending time on things that they can reproduce or perform themselves. 

How does KSR Performance PT determine how much exercise to prescribe?

I hold the belief that tissue needs to be loaded and that it will adapt to stresses placed on it. When conditions are acute and inflamed I typically have my patients revise their exercise routine in order to allow appropriate physiological healing to occur.

As your condition becomes less acute I will begin to load the tissues and joints with more exercises to allow the tissue to adapt. I offer and choose from an extensive library of exercises that will keep you on track and get you back to your full activities without pain. 

What if my condition worsens with exercise?

Contact KSR so I can help guide you to make appropriate changes. There is a distinct difference between injury-pain and exercise-soreness, and learning to distinguish these things will be critical to make appropriate modifications to your exercise routine. I am here to help you with this and guide you through your exercise progressions appropriately. 

Are there other components to the ‘home exercise programs’ you prescribe? 

Yes! Aside from therapeutic exercises, the home programs I teach my patients often include stretches and other forms of ‘self-treatment’ including myofascial release using tools like foam rolls, trigger point balls. I also make sure that home programs are individualized to your specific needs based on the activities you are limited to and want to return to. If you’re a runner, when appropriate, your home program is not just going to be a bunch of exercises … it needs to involve running! I apply this logic no matter what the goal activity or sport … from Yoga to CrossFit and everything in between, you’re not “fixed” until you can perform your beloved activity/exercise without pain and limitations, so these things are included in what we have you do outside the clinic.