MENDOCINO PHYSICAL THERAPY

Over the last forty years, we have treated thousands of patients with spinal problems. Our clinical experience has shown that movement abnormalities occur within a definite pattern that changes the normal postural interactions. Each of our bodies manifests unique adaptations to this pattern due to individual habits and injury. Understanding your unique pattern and your adaptations to it are profoundly empowering and educational.

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Our goal is to maximize, restore and maintain your function and range of movement. You will receive a thorough evaluation so that we can treat musculoskeletal pain which arises from mechanical forces and is related to positions and movement. As we evaluate your specific patterns of movement and circumstances through the language of referred pain, we will show you how your habits relate to these patterns. We treat acute pain and educate to prevent future episodes of pain and debilitation. This will restore balance to joints, discs and muscles to enable you to exercise safely without incurring inflammation. We strive not only to relieve pain and restore function but to create an efficient, mobile, balanced and dynamically-stable skeletal structure.

Physical therapy is a joint venture between you, your physical therapist and your physical therapy assistant. Education and communication are the keys that will allow you to practice these therapeutic measures independently. It’s vital that you participate in your treatment. Ask questions. It is important to each of us that we hear you.

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Working in partnership with you, we will create your individualized treatment plan to restore movement that, in many instances, you may have lost decades earlier. Pain relief is a natural consequence as you recover more normal movement and, specifically, balanced function.

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