Advantage PT & Wellness
PHYSICAL THERAPY SERVICES
Physical Therapy Techniques offered at Advantage
At Advantage Physical Therapy, we offer a wide range of both cutting-edge and traditional therapy techniques to accelerate your healing and relieve your pain.
Treatment Techniques include:
Muscle Energy Technique
Soft Tissue Mobilization & Massage
Electrical Stimulation
Joint Mobilization
Transverse Friction Massage
Selective Functional Movement Assessment
Myofascial Release
Mobilization with Movement
Functional Dry Needling
IASTM
Functional Joint Mobilization
Blood Flow Restriction Training
Trigger Point Release
Mechanical traction
Class 3B Laser treatment
Strain Counterstrain
Passive Range of Motion & Stretching
Cupping
DON’T SETTLE FOR TREATMENT BY A TECH OR AIDE. AT ADVANTAGE PHYSICAL THERAPY & WELLNESS ALL PATIENT CARE IS PERFORMED BY A LICENSED PHYSICAL THERAPIST!
What is Physical Therapy?
Physical therapy is the art and science of evaluating, diagnosing, and treating individuals of all ages who have medical problems or conditions that cause pain and/or limit function. Physical therapists look at the person as a whole, using the individual’s history along with a physical examination to determine a diagnosis. Keeping your individual goals in mind, they develop a treatment plan that will maximize your function.
We believe that functional movement is a vital part of health and wellness. Physical therapy also strives for prevention; to prevent certain conditions, surgeries, falls and disabilities.
Another important component is education.Your physical therapist will help you understand your body, therefore empowering you to achieve lasting health benefits long after you are finished with your physical therapy program.
While PTs are most well-known for treating musculoskeletal dysfunction, they also provide treatment for many neurological and cardiovascular conditions. In addition, APT provides specialty treatments in sports medicine, golf specific rehab, concussion management, vestibular rehab (vertigo treatments), and pediatrics.
Main Goals of Physical Therapy
When you walk through our doors our goal is to help you recover from an injury, relieve pain, prevent future injury, or deal with a chronic source of pain. We want to improve your health and overall quality of life.
We can help you with many of the following problems/conditions:
Relieve or eliminate pain
Restore and maximize function
Avoid Surgery
Prevent re-injury & disability
Restore and/or improve strength and mobility
Return to sports or recreational activities
Decrease need for pain medications
Manual Therapy vs. Traditional Physical Therapy
While ultrasound, electrical stimulation, and hot or cold packs can be valuable aspects of treatment, manual therapy is a highly skilled treatment option specific to your condition. Manual therapists are interested in why a joint or muscle is not functioning properly and view exercise not as the main mode of recovery but as an important complement to manual therapy treatment.
We use manual therapy to decrease pain, increase range of motion, reduce inflammation, promote relaxation, improve soft tissue repair, flexibility, and/or stability, and improve function. Manual therapy involves hands on mobilization of joints or soft tissues with the purpose of regaining pain-free natural movement of the body.
Manual therapists assess the quality and quantity of movement at a specific joint or area of soft tissue. Once a deficit is found, the therapist will choose one or more specific hands-on techniques to correct the problem and restore proper function to the affected area.
Manual physical therapy provides effective pain relief for patients with acute or chronic pain. It is very effective in treating the cause of the problem and correcting your condition long-term, not just providing temporary relief of your symptoms.
Durango’s One-On-One Physical Therapy Provider
APT North
3600 Main Avenue, Suite A, Durango, CO 81301
Ph: 970.259.7829
Fax: 970.259.9411
APT South
1305 Escalante Dr #203 Durango, CO 81303
Ph: 970.403.8067
Fax: : 970.212.7321