Dislocations of of a joint occurs when a bone is forced out of its socket. This can be as a result of sudden injury or repetitive motion. After the joint dislocates for the first time, it’ll be vulnerable and prone to other episodes without proper biomechanics and postural education. Our team of skilled therapists will screen for range of motion and strength to create a safe plan of care to ensure a prompt and healthy recovery. Alongside with our team of trainers, JFPT works to ensure your understanding of the recovery process is enhanced with personalized exercise programs focused on the individual’s biomechanics and a wholistic postural re-education.

Shoulder muscles tears can be treated a variety of ways and depend on a lot of factors, for example, if it’s a full tear or a partial tear or if it requires surgery or conservative treatment. Our main goal with muscle tears in the shoulder is reducing pain and once the injury is healed, re-building strength and range of motion.

The JFPT team works in close collaboration with your surgical team/orthopedists to follow each individual’s post operative protocol. No one surgery is the same thus no one post surgical protocol should be either. Tracking close progress and following post-surgical protocols helps ensure proper progress avoiding complications down the road. Our team of experienced therapist will create a sound environment to encourage healing, maintain proper range of motion and stability to get you back to full potential.

In the early stages of the treatment of tendinitis in the shoulder, we focus on controlling inflammation and relieving pain through modalities and manual therapy. This is to eventually work to regain full range of motion. After the patient has regained range of motion we work with the patient to gain better control and function of the shoulder followed by higher intensity training and agility rehabilitation.

Bone fractures occur as a result of physical force or trauma to a bone greater than the bone strength itself. While the severity and location of the fracture can vary, certain precautions are taken while the bone heals. Treatment at JFPT revolves around a holistic approach to healing. Our team of therapists will assess the injury and work with you alongside our trainers to ensure supporting musculature surrounding the injury remain strong and pliable. Muscular reeducation through a combination of open and closed kinetic chain exercises tailored to the individual’s injury will be used to create a safe environment for bone density and muscular stability.

When treating myofascial pain syndrome in the shoulder there are multiple treatments and techniques that we employ such as: various stretching techniques, active release manual therapy, trigger point pressure release, and progressive resistance exercises (PREs) therapy. While not every injury requires it, additional modalities may be utilized as a form of symptom control. Things like ultrasound, electric stimulation therapy, iontophoresis treatment and or phototherapy in conjunction with manual therapy are utilized to help you recover quickly.

Repetitive strain injuries occur as a result of prolonged repetitive motion and or ergonomically incorrect posture. When treating repetitive strain injuries in the shoulder we not only trace the source of the injury, but provide manual therapy and corrective ergonomic adjustments to your environment. Adequate training and cueing are they key to correcting movement patterns to prevent future episodes.

When we treat patients with ligament tears in the shoulder we think it’s important to not only treat the injured shoulder but to educate the patient on the mechanics of the the entire shoulder rotator cuff. Proper understanding of postural placement and shoulder mechanics are key to avoid re-injuring ligaments in the future. A mixture of closed chain and open chain exercises when working with shoulder ligament tear patients are key in maintaining shoulder stability.

Staying away from nerve entrapment of the arm and upper body requires proper spinal and scapular placement and posture. At JFPT, our team of experienced therapists will focus on conducting a holistic approach to your injury. A full cervical spine assessment will be conducted to ensure a proper diagnosis is in place. While nerve entrapment in the arm might seem like an arm problem, our team focuses in a holistic view to ensure there are no mechanical issues up the chain that could be causing referring symptoms to the arm and hand. Alongside with our trainers, JFPT therapists will created a full rehabilitative program to address postural re-education and Soft Tissue Release (STR) to create a stable and mechanically sound structure to keep you pain free.

With sports related injuries it is always important to remember that there is no “one size fits all” treatment. Every sport has a different athletic approach, technique and human biomechanics that are used to maximise performance. Getting to the root of the injury and how it affects sports technique comes in conjunction of a full assessment for the specific sport. While there is always a correlation to poor alignment and technique, it is best to access both in order to get the athlete back to full capacity.