Physical Therapy

Physical therapy not only plays a significant role in helping you heal after an injury, but it can also help you prevent future health problems. At Touch Stone Rehabilitation & Health Center in the Prince's Bay neighborhood of Staten Island, New York, their multidisciplinary team uses physical therapy to help their patients overcome musculoskeletal damage and other acute and chronic issues. With their help, you can enjoy a healthy, active life again. To learn more, call the office or request an appointment online today.

What is physical therapy?

Physical therapy is a treatment option that focuses on easing your pain and improving your functionality and mobility with exercise, education, and hands-on care. 

This approach to both rehabilitation and preventive care promotes balance and symmetry to enhance movement without the need for surgery or medication. 

The Touch Stone Rehabilitation & Health Center team uses the latest technology and advances in rehabilitation to customize mentally and physically challenging programs.

What issues can physical therapy address?

Physical therapy promotes wellness in many ways as a result of an injury or other debilitating issue, including:

• Improving your movement
• Assisting with your body’s natural healing process
• Preventing disability issues
• Preventing the need for surgery
• Managing chronic illnesses, including arthritis, diabetes, and heart disease
• Supporting bowel and bladder control
• Strengthening muscles and preventing falls
• Assisting recovery after childbirth
• Aiding you as you learn to use a cane or a walker
• Teaching you how to adapt to an artificial limb
• Providing rehabilitation after an injury

The skilled physical therapists at Touch Stone Rehabilitation & Health Center provide many methods of treatment to help you recover and get you back to your normal routine.

What does physical therapy involve?

Physical therapy treatments may include:

• Weight machines
• Free weights
• Stretching bands and balls
• Static resistance
• Targeted exercises
• Heat and ice therapies
• Ultrasound
• Electrical stimulation
• Massage therapy

Your first physical therapy appointment includes educating you about the exercises in your treatment plan as well as information that allows you to do some exercises at home as well.

You also discuss your medical history and factors that might impact your lifestyle. Your provider might recommend specific tests that assess your movements, gait, posture, and heartbeat while you’re engaged in active movement.

What are the benefits of physical therapy?

Physical therapy offers you a well-rounded recovery plan, involving a group effort to give you the highest level of medical support. This nonsurgical, non-pharmaceutical approach to your healing has little risk of side effects.

Your physical therapy treatment, personalized to your specific needs, can help your muscles relax while it strengthens them.

To explore your physical therapy options that include drug-free benefits, call Touch Stone Rehabilitation & Health Center or book your appointment online today.