Physical Therapy
A Life in Balance Wellness Center does not take a typical approach to Physical Therapy.
We are unique in several ways:
Our Approach: Traditional physical therapy focuses on treating the area in pain. Routed in science and biomechanics, we take a full-body approach to Physical Therapy. Everything in the body is connected—your breathing, your movements, and your pain. To fully heal, after completing a comprehensive evaluation, we create customized strategies that get to the root of the problem—and not just target the immediate pain.
Our Technique: We utilize an innovative manual muscle testing technique called Neurokinetic Therapy. It enables us to create a blueprint of your body’s movement patterns so that we are better able to target ALL of the problem areas—and help you correct them!
Our Service: Our clients receive highly individualized attention. Not only through our physical therapy sessions, but through our other services to support your healing—wellness, fitness, and occupational therapy.
We truly have an award-winning formula! We recently received the 2024 Best Physical Therapy Award from Hunterdon Happenings (the fourth year we’ve received this honor!). So contact us to experience our holistic approach for yourself!
What Can it Help?
Pain Management
Avoid surgery
Fall prevention
Pelvic Floor / Incontinence
Lymphadema
Improve mobility and movement
Improve balance
Management of age-related medical conditions
Pediatric conditions such as developmental delays and Cerebral Palsy
Musculoskeletal dysfunctions
Rehabilitation post-surgery or injury
Sports injury
Neurological Conditions - stroke/ MS/ Parkinson’s
Cardiopulmonary disease management
What to Expect at Your Visits
Step 1—Your First Appointment: You will meet with the physical therapist in our office in Flemington, NJ for an initial evaluation. Here you will complete a self-assessment and receive a physical evaluation. Together with the physical therapist, you will establish and discuss goals for your treatment as well as receive a plan of care.
Step 2—Follow-Ups: After your initial appointment, you will be given a home exercise program to complete on your own before your next appointment. You will continue to receive regular evaluations from the physical therapist as you progress towards your goals based on your feedback and measured improvements.
Note: These sessions are a great time to bring up concerns and new developments with the physical therapist so that your plan of care can be adjusted as needed.
Things To Know: In addition to sessions with the physical therapist, you will also be seen by the physical therapist’s assistants. During these 1 hour sessions, you will receive additional manual therapies as well as reviews of your most recent home exercises. Based on your plan of care, you might also work on functional tasks like walking or balance as well as body mechanics and posture. These sessions will also include additional strength and cardiovascular training that will help you work towards your established goals.
Feel free during these sessions to mention any changes or developments that you have noticed physically. You are also encouraged to bring questions about your home exercises to these sessions as the physical therapist’s assistants can adjust them as needed.
Sports Specific Approaches
Soccer.
A multi-dimensional approach that integrates core engagement with the more functional movements of the sport. Focus on running form and proper engagement of the lower extremities is key to injury prevention. The last step is to integrate core engagement with an elevated heart rate to ensure proper breathing and stability from the core outward.
Gymnastics.
For our gymnasts, we start with teaching them to engage their primary and secondary core stabilizing muscles in order to perform their tumbling from a place of strength. Once we have taught them how to engage their core, we focus on complimenting strength training in other areas of the body.
Baseball.
Focus for baseball players is placed on the stabilization of the shoulder blade and joint itself. In addition to improving overall mechanics of throwing with integration of primary and secondary core stabilizer muscles. Once we establish proper mechanics, we then focus on cross patterning to address the other side of the body to create balance.
Dance.
Maintaining flexibility for dancers is key but so is endurance and being able to breathe properly. We start by reeducating them on how to breathe properly in order to stabilize the core and then work on strengthening and proper muscle engagement. Eventually, we work towards integrating all of these elements together in order to prevent injury.
Running.
Running comes with all kinds of challenges and all different types of injuries. We start by teaching you to engage your primary and secondary core muscles before examining your gait and running form. Once you are pain-free, we will introduce you to our Runner’s Protocol to get you back to your sport safely!
Weekend Warriors.
We get it. You work hard all week and the only time you have to do anything is the weekend. So you try to cram it all in—your workouts, sports, home improvement projects, etc. Rather than treat your specific concern, we treat you as a whole person from your core out. Focus is placed on using your core with your activities to prevent injuries from reoccurring as well as utilizing proper body mechanics to help you do it all.