Physical Therapy Services

Physical Therapy at Well Effect^®

Thank you for considering us for your health care needs. All of our staff are Doctorate Physical Therapists with added training in Lifestyle Health and Fitness^TM. At each visit you work one-to-one with a physical therapist. We do not have physical therapy assistants or aides working with you. This one-to-one approach with a skilled physical therapist is very helpful for your progress to be continually monitored and adjusted and to make the biggest difference for you.

Look below for information about your first visit.

Your First Visit

When you are here during your first visit a Physical Therapist will evaluate your injury and will likely spend an hour doing so. Based upon this evaluation and using clinical experience and reasoning we will diagnose and confirm your injury. This will become the foundation from which we will develop an individualized plan for your care for your follow-up visits each of which will be for about 30-38 minutes. A Physical Therapist will be working for and providing your care based on this plan and following the rules and guidelines of your insurance company. Financially, you would be responsible for your deductible (if any), your co-pay and to do daily homework of about 15 minutes per day.

Your injury, overuse or acute and its effect on your body

We want you to understand that injuries occur and may reoccur for a variety of reasons. Our experience in working with our clients has clearly demonstrated that any primary injury whether acute or by overuse, has likely been influenced by other parts of your interconnected musculoskelatal system which has likely been affected by your lifestyle. It is also just as likely to have created alterations and compensatory changes in other areas of your muscles and joints, in effect other injuries may develop the longer the primary injury has been present. For most people the most uncomfortable or painful injury, what we call your “chief complaint” is the one that gets attention. As the chief complaint is addressed and starts to heal the other areas often start to be noticed. If these other injuries are not addressed, the primary injury often comes back. Many of our clients, before coming to us, have spent a lot of time with a reoccurring injury until they made the commitment to address the other issues at the same time.

Insurance Rules and Medical Necessity

Under the rules and guidelines of insurance companies and to meet a reasonable standard of care it is not easy to use health insurance for multiple injuries at the same time. We have found that many of our clients sought us out specifically for the fact that we can address multiple injuries at the same time, in effect their whole body. Our entire Lifestyle Health and Fitness^TM approach grew out of this need with our 100% self-pay model. Today, we can attend to your primary injury with your insurance and work in a self pay manner on the rest of your body and/or lifestyle to achieve the biggest impact on your overall health and physicality. If you choose to add this self-pay time for our Soma Science^® services, this would add about 20-30 minutes to your visit to complete the hour that you are here. You would continue working with our specially trained physical therapist but they would now be in a role as your Soma Science^® Instructor to improve overall health and fitness.

Add Lifestyle services while you are here

If you select to add this option with our self-pay Soma Science^® Session add on, during this time we would address all of the other needs of your health and fitness including weight loss, nutrition, body composition and strength, stress management and flexibility. This Soma Science^® Session add on would also give you the ability to come in and use our Center on your own while you were in our care. Let us know if you would like this add-on service to let us work with you to restore balance and strength to all area of your body.