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Back & Neck Pain
Back and neck pain are common issues, with over 80% of Americans experiencing back pain at some point. Lower back pain is the leading cause of disability globally. Effective treatment through manual therapy and prescribed exercises can reduce pain and restore movement, preventing chronic pain and medication dependency.
- Over 80% of Americans experience back pain.
- Lower back pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide.
- Manual therapy and exercises reduce pain and restore movement.
Hip & Knee Pain
Hip and knee pain often arises in aging and active individuals, leading them to consult physical therapists. Assessment and customized therapy combining hands-on techniques and exercises address pain sources and restore strength and motion.
- Common in aging and active individuals.
- Physical therapy includes hands-on techniques and exercises.
- Therapy aims to reduce pain and restore strength and motion.
Headaches
Chronic headaches can be alleviated through physical therapy, which involves a thorough musculoskeletal evaluation. Treatments include manual therapy, dry needling, and exercises to reduce pain and improve head and neck movement.
- Physical therapy helps with chronic headaches.
- Thorough evaluation to identify contributing factors.
- Treatments include manual therapy, dry needling, and exercises.
Integrative Dry Needling
Dry needling is a procedure that reduces acute or chronic pain by decreasing muscle tension and promoting healing. It benefits patients with various conditions through targeted needling techniques, which normalize chemical levels in trigger points.
- Reduces acute or chronic pain.
- Decreases muscle tension and promotes healing.
- Benefits patients with various conditions through targeted needling.
Manual Therapy
Manual therapy involves hands-on techniques to reduce pain and improve mobility. This approach includes joint mobilization, often pain-free, to alleviate movement-related pain and inflammation.
- Hands-on techniques reduce pain and improve mobility.
- Includes joint mobilization to alleviate pain.
- Effective for reducing soft tissue inflammation.
McKenzie Method MDT
Dr. Aaron Ford specializes in the McKenzie Method to treat spinal and extremity pain. This method promotes self-healing without medication or surgery and empowers patients with self-treatment skills.
- Dr. Ford specializes in the McKenzie Method.
- Treats spinal and extremity pain.
- Promotes self-healing and patient empowerment.
Mulligan Concept
As a Certified Mulligan Practitioner, Dr. Ford uses pain-free techniques to treat musculoskeletal pain. This method is effective for conditions like jaw pain, tennis elbow, headaches, and post-surgical movement restrictions.
- Dr. Ford is a Certified Mulligan Practitioner.
- Uses pain-free techniques for musculoskeletal pain.
- Effective for jaw pain, tennis elbow, headaches, and post-surgical conditions.
Temporomandibular Joint Disorder
TMJ disorders are effectively treated with customized therapy programs. Causes include whiplash, stress, teeth grinding, and disc issues, and physical therapy can prevent future TMJ problems.
- Expert treatment for TMJ disorders.
- Customized therapy programs address various causes.
- Physical therapy prevents future TMJ issues.
Prescribed Exercises
Patients are encouraged to participate in their recovery with customized exercises. These exercises enhance resistance, flexibility, and endurance, speeding up the return to an active lifestyle.
- Encourages patient participation in recovery.
- Customized exercises enhance resistance, flexibility, and endurance.
- Speeds up recovery and return to an active lifestyle.
Post-Operative Rehabilitation
Post-surgical physical therapy accelerates and improves recovery. Collaboration with surgeons and physicians ensures effective and safe treatment plans, helping patients regain mobility and activity levels quickly.
- Accelerates and improves post-surgical recovery.
- Collaborates with surgeons and physicians for effective treatment.
- Helps patients regain mobility and activity levels quickly.
Shoulder Pain
Physical therapy effectively treats various causes of shoulder pain. Evaluation, manual therapy, and exercises work together to relieve pain and restore normal activity levels.
- Physical therapy treats various shoulder pain causes.
- Evaluation and treatment combine manual therapy and exercises.
- Aims to relieve pain and restore normal activity levels.
Workplace Injuries
Collaboration with physicians and Worker’s Compensation ensures effective recovery plans for workplace injuries. Work conditioning programs provide a safe return to work and prevent recurring injuries.
- Effective recovery plans for workplace injuries.
- Collaboration with physicians and Worker’s Compensation.
- Work conditioning programs ensure safe return to work.
Sports Injuries
Physical therapy treats sprains, strains, fractures, and repetitive strain issues, ensuring a safe return to sports. Expertise in triathlons informs comprehensive treatments for sports injuries.
- Treats sprains, strains, fractures, and repetitive strain issues.
- Ensures safe return to sports.
- Expertise in triathlons informs comprehensive treatments.
Fibromyalgia
Custom physical therapy programs for fibromyalgia provide chronic pain relief. The goal is to reduce medication dependency and improve quality of life, incorporating manual therapy and dry needling.
- Custom therapy programs for chronic pain relief.
- Reduces medication dependency.
- Improves quality of life with manual therapy and dry needling.
Individualized Run Coaching
Aaron Ford, an RRCA certified coach, offers personalized training plans using Final Surge. Plans are adjusted based on goals and schedules, with physical therapy expertise addressing injuries for optimal performance.
- Personalized training plans with Final Surge.
- Adjusted based on goals and schedules.
- Physical therapy expertise addresses injuries for optimal performance.
