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When arrive for Your Appointment our Front Staff will prepare your file. They are very knowledgeable. Feel free to ask them if there is any information in our resource library on your condition.
Assessing the Injury
When you meet with your Nose Creek physical therapist, they will begin by looking for reduced mobility or stiffness in the joint. These joints once identified are mobilized and/or manipulated.
Correcting Muscle Imbalance
Your Nose Creek Physiotherapist corrects muscle imbalances in one of two ways. For weak muscles, appropriate exercise are prescribed to strengthen them to optimum levels.
For tight muscles, your sport physical therapist will prescribe stretches to lengthen muscles to original length.
Nerve Treatment
Your Nose Creek Physical Therapist will measure the mobility of key nerves that connect from your spinal cord to your muscles. Once they have identified where the nerve is being impinged; specific techniques are then applied to mobilize the nerve and restore normal mobility and function.
Muscle stimulation current - is used to reduce muscle atrophy after an injury has made it through the inflammatory phase of the healing process. It is often applied to the muscles parallel to the spine, quadriceps, knee muscle, and rotator cuff muscles. The current reboots the nerve if has been pinched or inhibited which then signals the muscle to contract.
Acupuncture
Acupuncture can have profound effects at reducing pain and inflammation as well as treating muscle tension. Physiotherapists at Nose Creek Sport Physical Therapy practice anatomical acupuncture which involves the insertion of acupuncture needles in traditional acupuncture points to effect mechanical or physiological effects at the injured area. Acupuncture can also involve intramuscular stimulation or dry-needling which is specific treatment to tight muscles not following traditional acupuncture points.
Up-to-Date Equipment
Nose Creek Sport Physical Therapy has various advanced equipment on hand to facilitate healing, and to decrease pain and swelling.
Interferential Current - will increase circulation to the injured tissue to assist in speeding up the healing process. It reduces your pain by stimulating the sensory nerves in the area it is applied to, and is most commonly used in initial first stages of a new or recent injury. Usually applied to the back, arms and legs.
Ultrasound is an oscillating current that causes a vibration of the soft tissue. This vibration results in friction within the tissue that produces heat that facilitates blood flow to the tissue to healing. Because ultrasound softens the tissue to make it more pliable, it is great to use on scar tissue after moderate muscle strain (tear). It is commonly used on superficial ligaments, tendons and muscles.
Dry Needling - Is used to treat Chronic Neuropathic pain. The therapist will insert an acupuncture needle using a plunger into the tightened muscle. It will often result in a muscle twitch and the relaxation and lengthening of the chronically tight/shortened muscle.
Rehabilitation
Our sport physical therapists, are committed to getting you back to your optimum health. We offer a full suite of exercise equipment and expertise to fast track your recovery.
See the Pain and Injuries page for specific treatments and exercises.
