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      • How Effective is your Stretching Technique?
      • Dizziness, Balance and the Vestibular System
      • Neck Pain: What are “Knots” and Trigger Points and what is a facet?
      • Cervical Muscle Imbalances, Neck Pain and Text Neck
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    Physical Therapy

    Reid Clinic therapists develop an individualized treatment plan for each patient after a comprehensive and thorough analysis of a patient's source of pain. Since our therapists are skilled in a variety of advanced treatment methods, you can be assured that your treatment plan will incorporate a highly specific treatment approach rather than a one-size-fits-all approach.

    At Reid Clinic, your physical therapy treatment plan may involve one or more of the following treatments depending on your need. Click on any item below to learn more:

    Manual Therapy

    Manual Therapy
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    Screenshot 2016-05-19 12.52.25Manual Therapy, also known as Orthopedic Manual Therapy, is a specialized area of physical therapy for the management of neuro-musculoskeletal conditions based on clinical reasoning, using highly specific treatment approaches including manual techniques and therapeutic exercises.

    Orthopedic Manual Therapy encompasses and is driven by scientific evidence, clinical support, and the bio-psychosocial framework of each individual patient.

    Physical Therapy

    Physical Therapy
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    Screenshot 2016-05-19 12.52.31Physical therapy provides services to individuals and populations to develop, maintain and restore maximum movement and functional ability throughout the lifespan. This includes providing services in circumstances where movement and function are threatened by aging, injury, disease or environmental factors. Functional movement is central to what it means to be healthy.

    Manual, Self & Active Muscle Stretching

    Manual, Self & Active Muscle Stretching
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    Screenshot 2016-05-19 12.52.49Too often in fitness routines, exercise classes and sports programs, proper stretching is misapplied. Properly stretching a muscle group around a pathological joint or soft tissue injury can be challenging.

    At Reid Clinic, stretching routines are developed via knowing, understanding and applying sound biomechanics. Good stretching routines not only assist in healing a pathological structure, but also prevent it from worsening. Reid Clinic offers and develops both manual passive and self-stretching routines depending on the needs of the client.

    Sport Physical Therapy

    Sport Physical Therapy
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    Screenshot 2016-05-19 12.52.36Sports Physical Therapy is a specialized practice that focuses on prevention, evaluation, treatment, rehabilitation, and performance enhancement of the physically-active individual.

    Movement Dysfunction

    Movement Dysfunction
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    Screenshot 2016-05-19 12.52.43All individuals develop specific patterns of movement that are reinforced through continued neuro-musculoskeletal movement habits. Resultantly, there is a higher incidence of “wear and tear” in these areas; which can lead to muscular and joint dysfunction, which could lead to degenerative changes later in life.

    With proper evaluation and treatment, clients with joint dysfunction and/or degenerative changes can be taught to correct their faulty movement habits via therapeutic exercise, stretching and ergonomics.

    Joint Mobilization & Spinal Mobilization

    Joint Mobilization & Spinal Mobilization
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    Screenshot 2016-05-19 12.52.55Using a biomechanical assessment based on Maitland concepts, Norwegian philosophies, osteopathic principles and evidence-based research, Reid Clinic offers the latest and freshest ideas for treating extremity and spinal joints to correct spinal postural changes, spinal positional faults, joints restriction and joint function.

    Manual, Self & Active Muscle Stretching

    Manual, Self & Active Muscle Stretching
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    Screenshot 2016-05-19 12.52.49Too often in fitness routines, exercise classes and sports programs, proper stretching is misapplied. Properly stretching a muscle group around a pathological joint or soft tissue injury can be challenging.

    At Reid Clinic, stretching routines are developed via knowing, understanding and applying sound biomechanics. Good stretching routines not only assist in healing a pathological structure, but also prevent it from worsening. Reid Clinic offers and develops both manual passive and self-stretching routines depending on the needs of the client.

    (Core) Spinal Stabilization

    (Core) Spinal Stabilization
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    Screenshot 2016-05-19 12.53.47Creating a “strong core” is essential to a pain-free healthy and active lifestyle. What does having a “strong core” mean? The muscles that support the trunk, or core, of our body are primarily the abdominal muscle groups, but there are others too. Knowing how to do proper strengthening of the abdominal muscle groups as well as the deep back and spinal muscles can lead to problems if you are not using spinal stabilization principles. Unfortunately, many fitness specialists including many physical therapists teach core strengthening without using spinal stabilization principles. At Reid Clinic, if core strengthening is part of your rehabilitation program, you will be taught how to develop a strong core using spinal stabilization.

    Patient Education

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    Screenshot 2016-05-19 12.53.13Good body mechanics and sound ergonomics exemplify topics of discussion at Reid Clinic, where patient education and proper technique application are held to the highest standards.

    We believe that a more informed client is more likely to continue to perform his/her Home Program and take better care of his/her body.

    Therapeutic Exercise

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    Screenshot 2016-05-19 12.53.09Reid Clinic is well versed in therapeutic exercise, which is a vast array of clinical exercises specifically designed to target key muscles or joints. Traditionally, therapeutic exercise is commonly used for post-surgical rehabilitation. Each therapeutic exercise program is designed for a specific purpose such as increasing range of motion, strengthening weakened muscles, increasing joint flexibility, or improving cardiovascular and respiratory function.

    Strength Training
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    Screenshot 2016-05-19 12.53.29Strength Training or Progressive Resistance Exercise (PRE) is a method of increasing the ability of muscles to generate force and power. Typically, the use of free weights and machine weights are some of the best ways to accomplish the improvements in muscle strength for extremity muscle groups.

    Developing muscle strength is an important part of the rehabilitation process, not only for restorative and corrective means, but also to compensate for poor joint function such as osteoarthritis or other musculoskeletal dysfunction.
    Vestibular Rehabilitation, Balance, Coordination & Proprioceptive Exercise
    Vestibular Rehabilitation
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    Screenshot 2016-05-19 12.53.23Dizziness, loss of balance and gait difficulty can occur from a variety of conditions and dysfunctions. Many of these problems can be due to a vestibular disorder, but it must first be thoroughly evaluated to rule out more serious problems. Prior to treatment of vestibular disorders, all clients at Reid Clinic undergo proper evaluation. If it is determined that the vestibular system is the cause, then vestibular treatments are given.
    Conditioning
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    Screenshot 2016-05-19 12.53.40Conditioning exercises are body movements that increase athletic skill and physical fitness while decreasing the likelihood of sports injuries. Programs may include weight training, aerobic exercise, plyometrics calisthenics, and exercises based on real-life motions. The types of conditioning exercises may vary greatly depending on fitness goals and are adaptable to any level of fitness, from beginners to experienced athletes.
    Decompression & Traction
    Decompression & Traction
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    Screenshot 2016-05-19 12.53.34Reid Clinic is one of only a few clinics in the United States that can provide low or high intensity exercise while in Spinal Decompression or Traction. Most clinics can only unload the spine in passive positions.

    At Reid Clinic, spinal decompression training can be provided for low-level acute injury needing a gentle anti-inflammatory local mechanical pumping effect or with higher intensity training for the athlete, weekend athlete, or even the middle-aged non-athlete with chronic or intermittent low-back pain.
    Spinal Flexibility
    Spinal Flexibility
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    Screenshot 2016-05-19 12.53.47Developing and maintaining good spinal flexibility and mobility is essential to a healthy and active lifestyle. The soft-tissue in and around the spine has a tendency to develop areas of hyper and hypo flexibility. A trained therapist can properly distinguish which soft-tissues are lacking flexibility and need to be stretched and which areas are too flexible and need to be protected.
    Neuromuscular Deep Tissue, Soft Tissue Mobilization, Myofascial Release, & Trigger Point Release Therapy
    Neuromuscular Deep Tissue
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    Screenshot 2016-05-19 12.54.01Soft-tissue is a term giving to the musculoskeletal tissues in the body that are not bone – meaning the skin, fascia, ligaments, muscle, tendons, nerves, blood vessels, lymphatic tissue, etc. All these tissues interact together for a properly functioning and healthy body. Certain manual and massage techniques have been developed to evaluate and treat those tissues if they become dysfunctional. With exceptional experience and masterful knowledge of biomechanics and anatomy, our therapist is able to apply the proper technique to the proper tissue with the appropriate direction, depth, amplitude, rhythm, rate, repetition, time and force.
    Neurodynamics
    Neurodynamics
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    Screenshot 2016-05-19 12.53.56Evaluation of the nervous system is imperative during a thorough and proper physical exam. The nervous system can become hypersensitive to lengthening and compression after certain pathologies and/or mechanical dysfunctions have persisted. It has been shown that changes in the nervous system can be detected distally in the soft-tissue, such as trigger points or areas of hypersensitivity as early as two weeks after an injury. These changes can be detected with lengthening tests and treated with sliding, gliding and tensioning positions, as well as other means.
    Home Programs
    Home Programs
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    Screenshot 2016-05-19 12.55.11The use of a home program in conjunction with a clinical treatment program is essential to properly treating all musculoskeletal conditions.

    Our therapist will carefully construct and develop the proper home exercise program for you that will compliment your clinical treatment plan.
    Dry Needling
    Dry Needling
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    Reid Clinic is certified in dry needling which is a technique used in physical therapy to treat trigger point pain. A physical therapist will insert a small needle into a trigger point, which will cause a local twitch response. This response will result in decreased muscle tension and pain relief.
    Cupping
    Cupping
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    Cupping is a physical therapy technique that uses negative pressure to create suction on tight muscles and deep fascia. The cups are left on the affected area for 5-10 minutes and the skin will appear red under the cups. This is because of the increased blood flow to the area, which can decrease muscle tightness and pain as well as create stretching of the fascia between the cups.
    Scraping
    Scraping
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    Reid Clinic utilizes scraping, an instrument assisted physical therapy technique where a tool is used to massage the muscle tissue gently. The goal of scraping is to break down scar tissue, decrease swelling and loosen tight muscles and fascia. When tight structures get stretched and loosened, the area will begin to feel better. Scrapping is also the foundational technique of the better-known Graston approach and Gua Sha.
    Anodyne
    Anodyne
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    Reid Clinic is one of only a few clinics offering Anodyne or Infrared therapy. Anodyne is a device used in physical therapy to send infrared waves into the body to increase blood flow to an area and reduce pain and stiffness. Such pathologies such as poor circulation in the lower extremity, diabetic neuropathy and other distal circulation abnormalities may receive great benefit from this therapy.

    Do you have a question for a physical therapist?

    If so, you can ask a physical therapy expert at Reid Clinic.

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    Reid Clinic

    1250 Upper Hembree Rd Suite A
    Roswell, Georgia 30076

    phone: (678) 667-3435
    Fax: 404-201-2080

    Business Hours: 7am-6pm
    Monday-Friday

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