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The Kinetic Touch
When choosing a name for my practice, I spent a long time reflecting on what I wanted patients to understand about me and my treatment approach from the very beginning. Kinetic means movement—and movement is the foundation of physical therapy. My work focuses on restoring and refining human movement through optimal muscle mobility, joint alignment, and the complex relationship between the two. In simple terms, physical therapy uses your own movement to help your body heal. We
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What is Physical Therapy?
Physical therapy is a practice of medicine geared toward patients' achievement of their highest level of function and quality of life. I see it as empowering patients' healing through movement. It is the role of the physical therapist to help coach, guide, and educate the patient in how to use their body to heal their body. The therapist is only a small portion of the overall puzzle that is physical therapy. When you first meet with a physical therapist, that therapist will a
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