Physical Therapy
Regain Your Function
Our Approach
Powers Health’s physical therapists understand that pain-free movement is vital to your quality of daily living, your ability to earn a living and pursue your favorite recreational activities and more. Our physical therapy programs can help you return to your highest level of activity, improve your strength, decrease your pain and prevent secondary complications.
We offer aquatic physical therapy services, for example, in the warm-water lap pools at Community Hospital Fitness Pointe and the Valparaiso YMCA. Water relieves pressure on the spine and lower extremities, which helps with weakness or arthritis in the spine or legs. Water therapy also can improve range of motion in the arms of those having difficulty lifting due to shoulder or neck issues. At the same time, water provides resistance that strengthens weak or painful muscles.
Your therapist will assess your range of motion-how far and what direction you can move your foot and ankle-and perform tests to assess the strength, sensation and blood circulation in your foot and ankle. Special tests may be conducted to assess individual joints and ligaments, including a biomechanical assessment that can determine how the foot and ankle align.
Treatment options include exercises for flexibility, stability, balance, strength, coordination and restoration of range of motion. We also offer therapeutic massages, electrical stimulation, ultrasound, traction and mobilization. These tools allow our team to create a rehabilitative program that is custom designed for your particular needs.
Whether you suffer from a stroke or require treatment for Parkinson’s disease or a brain injury, our network of highly trained therapists and skilled healthcare professionals can help develop an individualized plan for your follow-up care.
We understand that each patient, each situation is unique. Whatever the condition may be, you don’t have to live with loss of function. If physical therapy is necessary, our physical therapists are trained in human movement and can assist you in regaining some to most of the function that has been lost in injury or disease. Most patients can learn to live independent lives again or improve their overall quality of life.
In addition, our specially trained physical therapists reach out with compassion and understanding to patients with incontinence and pelvic floor muscle issues.
Urinary incontinence is a loss of bladder or bowel control that can result in minor, occasional leaking to uncontrollable issues. The most common types are stress incontinence and urge incontinence.
Pelvic floor physical therapy helps to correct pelvic floor muscle dysfunction that contributes to bladder and bowel symptoms and pelvic pain. By strengthening the pelvic floor muscles through exercises, we can help you improve the ability to manage bladder and bowels, decrease pelvic pain, and regain control and improve the quality of your life
