Services
Post-Partum & Return to High Level Activity
Pregnancy and childbirth bring major changes to your body—and sometimes it needs expert guidance to recover and adapt. Physical therapy helps you rebuild, realign, and feel strong enough to meet the demands of mom life and return to the high level activities you love.
TMJ and Migraines
TMJ dysfunction and migraines can disrupt everything from eating and talking to working and sleeping. Physical therapy uses targeted techniques to relieve pain, improve jaw and neck function, and address the root causes—helping you regain control and get back to living comfortably.
Performance Training
Physical therapy bridges the gap between rehab and performance by identifying biomechanical inefficiencies, improving stability, and optimizing movement patterns. The result: better performance, reduced injury risk, and a stronger, more resilient body.
Hypermobility Spectrum
Not all bodies are built the same. For some individuals, underlying joint instability can lead to chronic pain, tightness, or tension—even in the presence of high flexibility. Physical therapy, combined with a targeted stability program, helps strengthen the muscles that support and protect your joints, improving control, reducing pain, and better preparing your body to meet daily and/or athletic demands.
Wellness & Stress Relief
Sometimes life simply catches up with us, burn out sets in, and need for self-care becomes a priority. Not everything needs to feel like hard work and while PT is often hard work as we work to address your symptoms, sometimes it's okay to take a step back and focus simply on what feels good. Multiple approaches and hands-on techniques can be utilized to help you feel recovered and reenergized. This can be done on an as needed basis when you're feeling the demands of daily life a little extra.
Blood Flow Restriction Training - BFR
Blood Flow Restriction training allows you to build strength and muscle with lower loads by safely restricting blood flow during exercise. This technique is ideal for reducing joint stress while still achieving powerful results—helping you recover faster, improve strength, and return to activity with confidence.
I am certified in dry needling through Myopain Seminars, one of the leading industries in trigger point dry needling.
Dry needling is a skilled treatment technique used to relieve both acute and chronic pain by targeting areas of muscle tightness and dysfunction. It involves the use of a thin, sterile needle inserted into specific points within the muscle, often referred to as trigger points.
These trigger points are areas of increased tension that can contribute to pain, limited range of motion, decreased strength, and impaired muscle activation. By releasing these tight bands within the muscle, dry needling helps restore normal muscle function, improve mobility, and reduce pain.
This technique also promotes improved blood flow and can help reset the way a muscle contracts and relaxes, allowing it to work more efficiently. When combined with movement, strengthening, and other hands-on treatments, dry needling can accelerate recovery and help you return to your normal activities with greater ease and confidence.
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**If you wish to have DN services in your treatment plan, you must have a referral from your provider stating "Dry Needling" on it**
Dry Needling
Dry needling can also be an effective treatment for scar tissue that contributes to limited range of motion, impaired muscle activation, and persistent pain. Unlike healthy tissue, scar tissue often forms in a disorganized pattern, which can restrict normal movement and function.
By targeting these areas, dry needling helps stimulate reorganization of scar tissue fibers and reduce scar tissue adhesion from your healthy tissue. This can lead to meaningful improvements in mobility, muscle function, and overall comfort.
This treatment is beneficial for a variety of scars, including those from post-surgical procedures such as ACL reconstruction, total joint replacement, and c-sections, and even that rough scar from an injury 5 years ago that never stopped bothering you.
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Other hands-on techniques can be utilized to address scar tissue if needles simply aren't your thing including cupping, instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization and manual mobilization.
Scar Tissue Mobilization
Post-Partum Return to Activity and Pelvic Floor in Athletes
As a mom, you know quite well the changes your body underwent to create and give birth to your child, but would you believe it underwent far more changes than you even realized? Pregnancy can often lead to changes in rib positioning/expansion, pelvic floor and core engagement, and overall joint stability. These changes can lead to ongoing joint pain post-partum which can make adjustment to having a new baby at home even harder.
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Even without ongoing pain post-partum, sometimes the mere tasks of returning to the activities you enjoy is daunting or simply doesn't feel the way it used to.
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Women who have had children aren't the only individuals who can be impacted by a dysfunctional pelvic floor! Many female athletes may struggle with issues of incontinence, pelvic pain, or instability due to a poorly functioning core system.
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In your session, a full subjective and objective assessment will be completed to assess your breathing patterns, core activation/stability from multiple points, strength, and movement patterns to determine the best approach to address your concerns.
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**No internal assessments of the pelvic floor are performed**
Blood Flow Restriction Training (BFR)
BFR is a powerful training tool to allow you to achieve greater strength and power gains under lower loads. A specialized tourniquet is utilized with a BFR system that will assist in determining the appropriate level of occlusion for you and your body and then we put you to work!
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BFR can be utilized to prevent muscle loss or atrophy during times of disuse such as operatively when you are in a protective stage of recovery. It can also maximize muscle strength and hypertrophy under 20-30% load, improve muscle endurance, improve protein synthesis, improve production of human growth hormone, and improve muscle activation.