We successfully treat the vast majority of pain/injuries of the muscles, joints, and nerves throughout the body.

Our physical therapy success stories include patients dealing with everything from headaches and neck pain to broken toes and ankle sprains; from knee, hip, and low back pain to rotator cuff tears and tennis elbow. We’re also get and helping wrist and hand pain as well. 

Chances are that if you pain/limitation is dues to a muscle joint, or nerve, and doesn’t requires surgery, we can help (and we’ve had plenty of patients who were told they needed surgery but their pain was resolved with our treatments). 

So that’s a little about what we can treat at Orlando Physiotherapy. Here’s a little about our patients…

The majority of our patients are highly active and highly motivated.

After injury, most people visit an orthopedic specialist or a general practitioner. If the injury is not in need of surgery, the common plan of care involves medications a needed for pain, inflammation, and/or muscle spasm; and a referral to Physical Therapy.

Though there is certainly a place for these medications, it is important that they are treating the symptoms and secondary results of the injury; NOT the cause of the symptoms and inflammation.

In traditional Physical Therapy, there is a large emphasis on modalities (ultrasound, electrical stimulation, heat/cold packs, etc) and exercise to help ‘set the stage’ for the body to heal the injured tissues, resolve excessive inflammation, and regain strength and range of motion. The focus is now more on the cause of pain and dysfunction, but still relies heavily on the body’s lengthy process of healing itself.

Something many do know know is that a very common cause of pain/dysfunction is actually the changes/distortions of the body’s soft tissues (such as joint capsules, ligament, tendons, and fascia that surround our body parts). With very specific hands-on manual therapy techniques, these soft tissue changes/injuries can be immediately moved back into a more normal position/arrangement. When this happens, the pain, weakness, and limited movement associate with the injury can also be immediately improved.

The speed of recovery and response to any treatment is influenced by a large number of factors including age, length of time since the original injury, and any underlying causes of the pain. However, incorporating a hands-on manual component of treatment can usually resolve pain and injury much faster than most/all other treatment options available.

So with our unique hands-on treatment approach, and the fact that every session is a full hour of one-on-one care, our patient tend to need far fewer total visits than they would at most other clinics.

In general, the longer you wait to get treatment, the longer it will take to fix the injury and get you back to 100%. Moving the tissues back into their pre-injury arrangement becomes harder the longer they have been in a distorted/injured state.

Additionally, the longer an injury has been present, the more loss of strength that occurs and the more likely that detrimental movement “compensations” will develop that can lead to injury in other areas.

So it’s important to get treatment as soon as possible after an injury if you want to get better with the fewest possible sessions. With all that said, we have plenty of patients at Orlando Physiotherapy who have been dealing with their pain for decades and we are still able to significantly improve their condition.

This is always a tricky question, because it varies and is dependent on a large number of factors. What we can say is that, for reasons described above, you will usually need far fewer treatments at Orlando Physiotherapy than you would if you were going to a more traditional PT clinic or Chiropractor.

Pain and dysfunction that has been present for a long time will usually, but not always, take longer to fix than more recent/acute problems. Certain conditions like herniated spinal disks and frozen shoulders will take longer to resolve than something like an ankle sprain. And though notoriously ‘stubborn’ conditions like tennis elbow and plantar fasciitis can sometime be fixed in just a few treatments, condition like these also have a tendency to need multiple treatments.

In general, it is rare that we need more than 6-10 treatments for the average patient. In an industry where 2-3 treatments a week for 1-2 months is the norm, that’s quite good. But again, factors like age, severity of injury, other health issues, and how long you’ve been in pain can occasionally make the path to 100% somewhat lengthy.

Before we’ve had a chance to meet you and evaluate your condition, there’s no way to say how long it will take to fix your specific injury, but we should be able to give a pretty close estimate at our first visit; and that first visit can be in the form of a Free Consultation called a “Discovery Session.”

New regulations allow Physical Therapist to evaluate your injury without a referral and provide treatment for a limited number of days if the PT meets the following criteria:

In order to provide treatment without a script/referral to a patient for thirty consecutive days, the PT must posses a doctoral degree in physical therapy or completed thirty (30) continuing competence units in differential diagnosis.

All patients without a referral must sign a disclosure form prior to treatment. At Orlando Physiotherapy your PT can start treatment without a referral. A referral can come from an MD, Physician’s Assistant, Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Dentist, Podiatrist, or a Chiropractor and it can come from any of these professional licensed anywhere in the United States

This has nothing to do with insurance regulations or reimbursement, and it still applies to our clinic even though were are not in-network with insurances.

If obtaining a PT referral is difficult, please let us know as soon as possible and we can suggest a variety of options for getting one quickly and easily.