Get Your Health Back On Track With Physical Therapy
Get Your Health Back On Track With Physical Therapy

Get Your Health Back On Track With Physical Therapy

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 Kinetix Physical Therapy can help.

October is National Physical Therapy Month. Kinetix 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.

Stronger Skills, Better Care

We love investing in our team and helping to keep our therapists’ skills top notch. This September, we brought in Dr. Dan Neff, PT, DPT, to teach an Advanced Spine and Pelvis manual therapy course. This course focused on evaluating and treating the spine, pelvis, and hips through a systematic, restriction-based approach. Manual therapy techniques can play a key role in reducing pain, improving mobility, and restoring proper movement patterns. By addressing joint restrictions and soft tissue tightness, manual therapy often helps patients move more freely, recover faster, and return to the activities they love with greater confidence.

This advanced course was the final in a series of courses through which the following therapists earned their Certified Orthopedic Manual Therapist credentials: Dr. Tony Cere PT, DPT, MTC, MSE, Dr. Melissa Cere PT, DPT, Dr. Scott Eddins PT, DPT, ECS, Dr. Jake Reidy, PT, DPT, ECS, Carter Meyers, PTA, and Leanne Quinn, PT, MPT. Ask your therapist how manual therapy could help you at your next visit!

We’re Hiring Physical Therapists!

Dr. Jake Reidy, PT, DPT talks about how we use cutting edge diagnostic testing in our clinic. Interested?

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 safer, 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 include gait modifications and coordination exercises to stimulate the nervous system and help ensure your mechanics are ideal to avoid an injury.

Diagnostic Testing in Physical Therapy

This National Physical Therapy Month, we’re proud to spotlight one of the most powerful tools in our toolkit: diagnostic testing. It’s not just about treating pain, it’s about finding why the pain is there, so therapy can be targeted, effective, and long-lasting.

At Kinetix Physical Therapy, we combine traditional clinical examination with advanced diagnostic tests like musculoskeletal ultrasound and electrodiagnostic studies (EMG/Nerve Conduction Studies) to understand what’s going on beneath the surface. 

Musculoskeletal ultrasound uses high-frequency sound waves to let us see muscles, ligaments, joints, and nerves in motion or at rest. With this real-time imaging, we can spot tendon tears, bursitis, joint effusions, or chronic tendonitis without exposing you to radiation. It’s safer, dynamic, and gives us insight into how movement is affecting structure. 

Electrodiagnostic studies, including EMG and nerve conduction testing, help us assess how well nerves and muscles are communicating. Symptoms like numbness, tingling, weakness, or radiating pain are often rooted in neurological issues. With these tests, we can map out where nerves may be compromised, sometimes in places you wouldn’t expect. 

Patient Success Story

“I found the need for physical therapy because of lower back issues and neck issues. I met with Dr. Scott Eddins for my initial evaluation and I was very impressed with his evaluation procedures and how well he listened. He then created a treatment plan to resolve my issues. I came in a couple of times a week and met with Dr. Scott and Sara, who treated me as an individual and seemed to really care about my progress. They were always upbeat and very positive no matter how I might have felt that day. I started feeling better in a short period of time and was able to graduate within a few months. They also gave me all the info and guidance I needed to do exercises at home to help maintain my improvements. This is a first class facility that takes what they do to the highest levels and I would highly recommend Kinetix to anyone who finds themselves in need of physical therapy. There are no magic bullets but they will give you the resources you need to succeed!!” – Mitchell M.

Recipe of the Month: Pumpkin Bread

Ingredients:

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour, spooned into measuring cup and leveled-off
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon ground cloves
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 1½ sticks (¾ cup) unsalted butter, softened
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 (15-oz) can 100% pure pumpkin

Instructions:

  1. Preheat oven to 325°F and place rack in middle. Grease and flour two 8×4-inch loaf pans or use baking spray. In a bowl, whisk flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg. In a mixer, beat butter and sugar until blended.
  2. Add eggs one at a time, beating well, then beat until light and fluffy. Mix in pumpkin (mixture may look curdled). Add dry ingredients and mix on low until combined.
  3. Divide batter between pans and bake 65–75 mins, until tester comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 mins, then transfer to wire rack.