Ignite Physical Therapy

Whether it be your neck, upper back, or lower back, evaluation of back pain is difficult, and we can only Identify definite pathology in about 15% of low back pain cases. As a result, the amount of treatment choices used by providers is staggering- ultrasound, dry needling, joint manipulation, soft tissue mobilization, electrical stimulation.

Sports related injuries often keep athletes on the sidelines for an extended amount of time. Our therapists have experience treating high school, collegiate and professional athletes in football, baseball, basketball, volleyball, softball, track and field, and soccer. Our therapists will evaluate you and design a treatment program that is ideal for your specific impairments and the demands of your sport.

Manual therapy is a specialized area of physical therapy for the management of musculoskeletal conditions. It is based on clinical reasoning and uses highly specific treatment approaches. Manual therapy includes joint mobilization, joint manipulation, soft tissue mobilization and muscle energy techniques.

All tissues depend on exercise for vitality. Factors such as resistance, intensity, and frequency must be optimal for each specific tissue. Different types of tissues have different demands and thus need to be trained in different ways. For all tissues, rest is vital. At Ignite Physical Therapy, we use the latest evidence to optimally load injured tissues based upon the makeup of that tissue in order to increase the tissue capacity.

At Ignite Physical Therapy, we believe that there is a significant difference between neuromuscular re-education and strengthening. True tissue hypertrophy, or strengthening, takes about 6 weeks to see significant changes. Most of our patients attend physical therapy for 4-6 weeks, so the majority of benefits we see are due to improved neuromotor control of tissues and, thus, improved overall movement strategies.