Physical Therapy services are considered an essential business by the State of Pennsylvania as well as a component of critical infrastructure by the Department of Homeland Security of the United States. It is important that persons receive the healthcare including physical therapy that they require even during these unprecedented days.
Please be assured that Optimal Physical Therapy and Sports Performance is following all recommended guidelines and implementing cleaning and disinfecting practices with hospital grade cleaners. We are a small company and are able to keep our clinic at the recommended 10 or less persons at a time. You are required to wear a mask when you attend so please bring one with you. Our staff has been trained on the best practices to keep you moving but maintain social distancing. We are here to help if you need us!
When you have an acute injury or are recovering from surgery, it is often recommended that you apply ice to help control swelling, inflammation and pain to the affected area. Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation can all help control what occurs at the injured site. ...
ARE YOU IN PAIN? YOU NEED A MOVEMENT DETECTIVE Physical Therapists: The Movement Detectives It may feel like a great mystery to you on why you are hurting or how your body is not moving like it used to be able to do. Perhaps a simple task seemed to launch you into...
Students will always have things to carry back and forth between home and school. A backpack is a great way to do that, but if they're too heavy, backpacks can lead to back pain. Carrying a heavy backpack changes children's posture, walking speed, step length and...
Are you frustrated going to different specialists to try to determine where your pain originates? These days in healthcare, sometimes patients get referred from one doctor to another where each one just focuses on their specialty area but you are frustrated getting...
Sleep is vital to all our body systems. Making sure that you are getting a good night's sleep is very helpful in assisting your body to heal from injury or surgery. Sleep is an important part of our physiology and is often an overlooked piece of the puzzle while you...
Your spine is an amazing engineering marvel. Multiple bones are stacked together linked by connecting joints and cushioned by small spongy disc tissue between the bones. Multiple muscles connect to the spine. Together, all of this design provides strength, control...
Who would have ever thought isolating workers out of their offices would have lasted as long as it has? While many workers have returned to their offices, some will be asked to continue to work from home indefinitely or at least part-time. While workers were sent...
Evaluate what you want to do and plan before you do it. Look at the environment. Make sure your path is clear and you can easily move what you want to move from point A to point B Size up the load! Get a sense of how heavy something is before you try to lift or...
Physical Therapists stand at the ready to help with the Opioid Crisis Did you know that Physical Therapy is a profession that was actually birthed out of national crisis situations? In 1917, the US War department’s surgeon general saw the great need for a special...
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