How We Treat

Finish Line Physical Therapy doesn’t look, act or feel like your typical physical therapy clinic. You’ll notice the difference as soon as you walk in the door. We’ve created a down-to-earth environment that supports people throughout the journey from injury back to full functional movement.

We’re a community of like-minded, goal-oriented athletes ourselves, and we believe recovery works best when patients feel comfortable and cared for. We provide extensive one-on-one patient to therapist interaction in both assessing your unique condition and building a customized functional rehabilitation program.

Techniques

Gray Institute of Applied Functional Science (FAFS):

Applied Functional Science (AFS) seeks to better understand human body movement: how was the body made to function, and how does it actually function? When it comes to injuries, the goal is to evaluate the source of the injury as opposed to the symptom—and in contrast, to break down a person’s natural movements and assess limitations to help prevent an injury before it happens.

Postural Restoration Institute (PRI):

The human body is not symmetrical. The neurological, respiratory, circulatory, muscular and vision system are not the same on the left side of the body as they are on the right, and vice versa. Postural Restoration Institute® (PRI) credentialed professionals recognize these imbalances and typical patterns associated with system disuse or weakness that develops because of dominant overuse.

EPAT

Extracorporeal Pulse Activation Technology, or EPAT, is a form of extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT). It is an evidence-based technology platform that utilizes a unique set of acoustic waves to stimulate metabolism, enhance circulation, and accelerate the healing process. Shockwaves can generate interstitial and extracellular responses, producing many beneficial effects such as pain relief, vascularization, protein biosynthesis, cell proliferation, neuro and chondroprotection, and destruction of calcium deposits in musculoskeletal structures. These effects facilitate tissue regeneration and significant alleviation of pain.

BFR

Blood Flow Restriction therapy (BFR) uses a pneumatic cuff to simulate strenuous exercise in an effort to stimulate muscle recruitment, mitigate atrophy, and promote hypertrophy in patients with load-bearing limitations. BFR training works by restricting blood flow from leaving muscles through veins while still allowing blood to flow in through arteries. This restriction, creating an anaerobic environment within the targeted muscles, causes those muscles to swell, fatigue, and deplete oxygen more quickly. This mechanism creates a similar muscle environment to regular strength training but at a lower intensity. The oxygen depletion also causes slow-twitch muscle fibers to tire faster, forcing muscles to use fast-twitch fibers sooner. More muscle fibers are engaged with lighter loads, which can improve hypertrophy.

Manual Therapy

Manual therapy is a specialized area of physical therapy to treat musculoskeletal pain and disability, primarily including kneading and manipulation of muscles, joint mobilization, and joint manipulation. Orthopedic manual therapy encompasses, and is driven by, the available scientific and clinical evidence and the biopsychosocial framework of each individual patient. It promotes positive physiological, biomechanical, and psychological effects.

Therapeutic Exercise

Therapeutic exercise involves movement prescribed to correct impairments and restore musculoskeletal function, and is a type of physical activity used to treat or prevent injuries and improve long and short term functional outcomes.

We focus on function vs. injury.

That’s to say, the source of a knee injury might not be the knee itself; there’s a greater chance it is the result of how other areas of the body—such as the foot, hip and thoracic spine—interact with the knee during movement.

We consider all planes of functional movement vs. taking a one-dimensional approach.

Humans are multi-dimensional beings, and our natural movements obviously reflect that. Our joints and muscles move in three planes of motion: sagittal (forward and back), frontal (side to side), and transverse (rotation). For example, when we run, as the right leg hits the ground, the joint and muscles move through all three planes of motion, accelerating and decelerating as needed.

We create the appropriate exercise for the individual vs. letting the exercise choose you.

Traditional strengthening exercises can be ineffective for specific people, based on various factors, such as age, activity level, previous medical history, and more. The functional approach evaluates the total athlete and incorporates flexibility, strength, balance and the cardiovascular system in developing targeted exercises.