PHYSICAL THERAPY

Physical therapy employs specialized interventions to improve people’s abilities to perform daily movement tasks from walking, cleaning and getting out of bed to participating in athletic endeavors.  Typically, physical therapy is utilized to reduce pain, improve function and focuses on the rehabilitation and treatment of specific medical diagnoses.  However maintenance of a patient’s current condition or to prevent slow decline that specifically requires physical therapy assessment expertise and treatment skills is included as well. 
 

Postural Restoration® (PRI) is a whole-body approach to developing & re-training on inherent asymmetrical posture tendencies from the inside out rather than attempting to force it through strain.  PRI appreciates the natural inherent asymmetries of the human body and works to rebalance these tendencies, so our natural biases remain in a more balanced zone for better functional movement, breath and posture.  This includes defining posture as more than a single visual position but rather a dynamic zone in which one can rest comfortably with support and involves multiple systems not just a musculoskeletal system. 

Postural Restoration® is not your typical physical therapy.  While addressing the primary injury is always important (back pain, joint pain, muscle or ligament injuries etc.), the entire body must be evaluated and addressed to fully rehabilitate, eliminate pain and enhance performance.  Too often injured patients se​ek physical therapy and only get site specific symptomatic treatment.  They may or may not get better from this approach, but often end up chasing one injury after another because of failure to address the asymmetries and faulty neuromuscular patterning (our nervous system & brain's influence over habitual faulty & unbalanced movements) that originally caused the injury.  Sarah's whole body approach restores proper alignment, mobility, and balances faulty neuromuscular movement patterns through use of manual techniques, Postural Restoration® techniques and Pilates. 

Dance Medicine

Dancers and other performing artists have a unique set of diagnoses and challenges when they are injured.  Many injuries and faulty movement patterns are often missed or misdiagnosed by health professionals that are not acquainted with the movements and the physical demands of the dancer.  A dance medicine specialist understands these unique demands and is able to evaluate, assess and instruct on correcting dance technique and biomechanics that are contributing to injury.

Sarah was a founding member of the Minnesota Dance Medicine Foundation and is familiar with a variety of dance styles and their associated common injuries.  She occasionally works as a emergency physical therapist for dancers/dance companies on tour in Minnesota and has spoken on a variety of dance medicine subjects locally at different dance schools, workshops and conferences.

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