Services

Physical Therapy & Sports Performance

Our goal at SWELL is to get you out of pain and back to doing the activities that you love. Whether it's getting back to dominating in your sport, enjoying an active lifestyle, or picking up and chasing after your kids, we're here to help you overcome whatever is getting in your way.

Real Physical Therapy

Key Pieces of Your Physical Therapy Plan

Initial Evaluation:     A detailed, comprehensive assessment to understand your symptoms, find the root cause(s) and any associated problems, and determine exactly what needs to be done to fix all of it. 

Manual Therapy:     Hands-on treatment aimed at reducing pain and/or improving joint or soft tissue mobility. This may consist of joint mobilization/ manipulation, massage techniques, scraping, cupping, etc. Helps you feel better.

Dry Needling:     The use of thin acupuncture needles to penetrate muscles and trigger points to relieve pain, improve movement impairments, and treat a variety of neuromusculoskeletal problems. Often performed in conjunction with electrical stimulation.

Corrective Exercises:     Specific targeted exercises designed to effectively address the relevant problems identified during your initial evaluation. Aimed at improving joint range of motion, muscle flexibility, strength, balance, stability, etc. Helps you move better.

Home Exercise Plan:     To maximize the effectiveness of physical therapy and get better faster, it's important that you consistently do a few of the most important exercises at home between visits. We'll teach you exactly what to do and ensure you have the resources you need to do them.

Education/Empowerment:     No confusing medical mumbo-jumbo here. We'll explain what's going on and how we can fix it together, in language that actually makes sense. Our goal is to empower you with the knowledge, tools, and confidence to reach your goals in the most time-efficient and cost-efficient manner possible.

Skilled Activity Progression:     Going from 0 to 100 real quick is usually real bad. We'll coach you and guide you on how to return to the activities you love in a safe and effective way, starting day 1.

Dry Needling

We use thin acupuncture needles to penetrate muscles and trigger points for the purposes of relieving pain, improving movement impairments, and treating a variety of neuromusculoskeletal problems. Many of our patients have experienced amazing levels of pain relief from this powerful treatment tool. Often performed in conjunction with electrical stimulation to enhance treatment effects.


Running Gait Analysis

A detailed analysis of your running form using slow motion recording software from multiple viewing angles. We then use the software and our highly trained eyes and brains to break down the findings that could be contributing to pain or inefficiency. Finally, we'll educate you on those findings and teach you solutions that are easy to implement so that you can become a more efficient, pain-free runner.


Strength & Conditioning/ Performance Training

"If you think lifting weights is dangerous, try being weak. Being weak is dangerous." ~ Bret Contreras


We all need to prepare and train our bodies to be able to safely and effectively withstand the physical demands that will be placed on them. A football player, a golfer, a surfer, and a runner all have vastly different physical demands that they need to prepare and train their bodies for. However, physical preparation is key for all of them.


We analyze the physical demands of your particular sport/position/activity and build a customized, full-body strength and conditioning program to prepare your body for success.


On-site and virtual services available so that you can train in our gym or yours.


WARNING: Side effects of exercise may include: Increased energy, improved mood, weight loss, reduced stress, increased strength, confidence, decreased fatigue, boost in immune function, higher productivity, improved quality of life.

Injury Prevention

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." ~ Benjamin Franklin


We all know that injuries are a possible risk of playing sports, but did you know that you can take steps to actually reduce that likelihood?

By ensuring optimal movement patterns, working on correct jumping/landing techniques, hip strengthening, balance/proprioception drills, etc, we can significantly reduce the risk of suffering an ACL tear or other injuries.

Not only that- but by doing these programs, we also improve athletic performance simultaneously. 


In 2018, Kate Webster and Timothy Hewett published the largest study ever analyzing the effectiveness of ACL injury reduction training programs. They analyzed 8 different meta-analysis studies, which in total contained over 84,000 athletes (that's a very large sample size). They concluded that athletes who participated in an ACL injury prevention training program showed an overall 50% reduction (OR = 0.5 [0.41–0.59]; I2 = 15%) in the risk of all ACL injuries and a 67% reduction (OR = 0.33 [0.27–0.41]; I2 = 15%) for non-contact ACL injuries in females. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jor.24043


The potential pain, time, and cost savings from these results are massive and immeasurable.

Decreased injury risk + improved sport performance = Winning.

"SWELL"ness Coaching

We want to help you become the healthiest and happiest version of you by optimizing the 4 Pillars of Health: Physical Fitness, Nutrition/Hydration, Sleep/Recovery, and Stress Management. Our team is uniquely qualified to provide guidance and coaching in each of these areas with individualized, 1-on-1 support. Football fans, think of us as the QB of your health and wellness team.