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WHAT TO EXPECT IN YOUR THERAPY VISIT
Initial Visit
Your initial therapy visit with Dr. Shaeffer will be one hour, where we will follow a specific series of steps to identify your issue, articulate your goals, and create a physical therapy solution plan. Here is what you can expect:
Follow Up Visits
- Review progress, including the physical range of motion.
- Review physical therapy goals and your solutions timeline, adjusting, and progressing as necessary.
- Treatment as needed.
Engaging in treatment requires commitment on the patient’s behalf to implement the corrective movement patterns, training protocol, and pain management strategies prescribed by Dr. Shaeffer to support your goals. You are always encouraged to communicate any concerns or questions between sessions via email or phone to ensure appropriate performance of your activities you are assigned, and to ensure that your follow up visits meet your current needs.
Physical Therapy Sessions Include
One on one or group sessions are available with Dr. Brenda Shaeffer, licensed physical therapist, and doctor of physical therapy and with her Licensed Physical Therapist Assistant, Brandy Bartley. They recognize the body functions as three interconnected systems and help you reach your optimal potential.
Getting you back to what you want to do instead of being defined by what you cannot do is the goal. Rethinking the issues, then recognizing the why and finally resetting the body in a measurable, realistic, goal-oriented implemented plan will result in success.
Brenda Shaeffer, DPT, has over 40 years of clinical experience, Brandy Bartley, BS, PTA over ten years in orthopedics, sports, post-surgical rehab, work performance, manual therapies. Biomechanical evaluations and neuromuscular movement training.
Your goals are their priority, and a team approach with your other solutions team members is an important element to your success. Making your goals and plan of care relevant to your activities is essential to reach your optimal potential.
Pain issues, new or recurring, frustration with a performance plateau in sports or work and or needing pre or post-surgical exercises are all therapy programs that Dr. Shaeffer and Brandy Bartley have extensive experience. In addition, they have worked with all types of injury rehabilitation and injury prevention for feet, and all arms, legs, and spine.
Every session starts with a reassessment, review of any questions, concerns, then goal update and where we are toward the finish line, then the treatment which varies each time depending upon assessment findings. The sessions vary in length from 15-45 minutes generally. They always include a review of what you will be responsible to do to maintain or improve the gains made during that session. Other solution team member you might have (trainers, coaches, family members, massage therapist, etc.) are always welcome to come to the sessions without asking me first, (however, your session time will be the same as scheduled unless you contact the office prior to the session) and they are welcome to record the session as you permit them to do so.