- Pelvic Pain
- Sports MedicineProvide Sports Medicine care from a Physical Therapist who is also a Certified Athletic Trainer who has worked with Athletes at the
- Physical TherapySMART Physical Therapy is an independent Physical Therapy clinic founded in 2011 with goal of bringing an outpatient practice to the New London area that would be renown for outstanding patient care, advanced clinical practices, and exceptional results.
- Tennis ElbowT reat the person not the diagnosis: I have been asked many times by friends, "I've got tennis elbow what can I do to fix it?" I tell them, "I don't know until I examine you." Each person may have the same symptoms with entirely different causes. Treating the symptoms will decrease pain but if the cause has not been identified it will come back. The cause for unrelenting low back pain may be a maladaptive movement or postural pattern that is driven by fear or apprehension with movement. Teaching the patient how to relax and breathe with these movements may be the answer, not direct treatment of tissues.
- Back Pain
- Manual TherapyWhat is Manual Therapy? Manual Therapy is a "Hands On" approach to assessing and treating a client. It is just one piece of the puzzle that allows a Physical Therapist to have success in treating patients, but a very important piece that not many Physical Therapists have acquired. Why is that? Successfully acquiring advanced Manual Therapy skills comes only after repeated failure in the attempt. My Mentor, "the late' Peter Boyle, explained to me that it can take years of daily practice with every patient before one might feel they have become proficient at the skills. He was correct, it took 4-5 years for me, even with the daily mentoring from this master of the craft. Even now I have difficulty with the more subtle cases, but that is when the other pieces of the assessment provide the clues to help achieve a successful outcome with a client.