Physical & Occupational Therapy

Focus on Function

Regardless of pathology, each patient struggles with multiple areas of dysfunction and imbalances. At BPT, we assess and treat the WHOLE patient to restore function and eliminate symptoms.

Aside from specific joint and soft tissue assessments, BPT clinicians will include the following in their evaluation:

  • Posture Analysis

  • Gait Analysis

  • Breathing Mechanics

  • Vertical Compression Testing

  • Push/Forward Functional Movements (single leg stance, sit to stand, stairs, lunge, push up, reaching).

  • Pull/Backward Functional Movements (stand to sit/hip hinge, step down, row, pull down).

  • Fascia Mobility & Scar Tissue Mobility.

  • Joint ROM, Joint Mobility, Muscular Flexibility, and Muscular Strength Testing.

All functional assessments are analyzed bilaterally and unilaterally from a proximal to distal perspective to truly determine origin of compensation and optimal rehabilitation.

Functional assessments combined with subjective analysis determine PT/OT treatments and communication with medical care team.

What a Therapy Assessment at BPT Looks Like

Proprioception & Kinesthesia

How we use these senses to improve your movements and address your pains and symptoms.

Proprioception describes the body’s own awareness of posture, movement, and changes in equilibrium and the knowledge of position, weight, and resistance of objects in relation to the body. Kinesthesia refers to the ability of the body to perceive the extent, direction, or weight of movement.

Your body’s senses are negatively impacted by illness, injury, stress/anxiety, and learned compensations. This results in a weakening of your brain’s ability to connect with sensory receptors throughout your body and effectively coordinate your movements. Luckily, these sensory pathways can be re-developed and strengthened.

Proprioceptive and kinesthetic exercises and facilitation challenge and stimulate your brain’s connection to the rest of your body via these sensory receptors. BPT clinicians use proprioceptive facilitation techniques to strengthen neuromuscular awareness and control throughout the body, improving postures and coordination patterns that have in one way, or another, become compensated and dysfunctional leading to your symptoms and pain.

Pelvic Floor Therapy

The pelvic floor is a group of muscles that make up the bottom of the pelvic region. These muscles function together like a hammock across the pelvis and attach from the pubic bone in the front to the tailbone in the back.

Pelvic Floor Primary Functions:

  • Support pelvic organs (including the bladder, uterus, prostate and rectum).

  • Stabilize the pelvis and spine.

  • Assist with sexual function.

  • Support bowel and bladder control.

  • Assist in regulating internal pressure and breathing.

Pelvic floor muscles are similar to other muscles in the body. They can be weak, strained/over-stretched, strong, stiff, or tight. Pelvic floor weakness, stiffness, or tension leads to pelvic muscle dysfunction.

Why Choose BPT for Pelvic Health Therapy?

The complexity and sensitivity of pelvic health conditions requires focused treatment emphasizing the following:

  • Privacy

  • Thorough communication

  • Full system/whole patient evaluation

  • Continuous assessment and adjustment to treatment plan

  • Empathy & compassion for how burdensome these conditions can be.

Diagnoses That Pelvic Floor

Therapy Can Help With

Bladder Diagnoses:

  • Urinary Leakage (Incontinence)

  • Urinary frequency and urgency

Bowel Diagnoses:

  • Stool Leakage (incontinence)

  • Stool urgency and frequency

  • Constipation        

Pain Diagnoses:

  • Abdominal pain

  • Pain with intercourse (Dyspareunia)

  • Pain associated with pregnancy/postpartum

  • Pelvic pain (including back, hip, buttock, sacroiliac joint, or tailbone pain)

  • Vulvodynia

  • Testicular or penis pain  

Other Diagnosis:

  • Nerve Entrapment causing pain, sensation issues, or weakness in the pelvis, hips, or legs.

  • Prostatectomy (Removal of the prostate)

  • Pelvic organ prolapse

  • Endometriosis

  • Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS)

  • Abdominal and pelvic cancers

  • Pregnant/postpartum

  • Hypermobility Disorders

  • Diastasis Recti

Neural, Vascular, & Visceral Manipulation

An Osteopathic Approach

Osteopathic fascial techniques aim to alter the mechanical properties of fascia, such as density, stiffness, and viscosity, so that the fascia can efficiently adapt to physical stresses.

Fascia is the very large sheet of connective tissue found below the skin. This tissue attaches, stabilizes, imparts strength, maintains vessel patency, separates muscles, and encloses different organs.

Osteopathic fascial manipulations treat functional and structural imbalances within the musculoskeletal, vascular, nervous, urogenital, respiratory, digestive, and lymphatic systems.

A nerve only functions optimally when it is able to move freely in its surrounding tissues. Neural Manipulation facilitates free movement of the nerves in their surroundings; that is, in relation to adjacent muscles, fascia, narrow passages in the aponeurosis, organs and bones.

neural Manipulation

Manipulation

Vascular

Compression along vascular structures creates restriction patterns and pain. Vascular Manipulation locates and releases restrictions along the vascular structures to increase blood circulation to an organ improving its function.

A form of manual therapy that focuses on the internal organs, their environment, and the potential influence on many structural and physiological dysfunctions. Visceral Manipulation treats a person's functional and structural imbalances with an aim to affect their musculoskeletal, vascular, nervous, urogenital, respiratory, digestive, and lymphatic dysfunction.

Visceral Manipulation

Craniosacral Therapy

An Osteopathic Approach

CST is the gentle, non-invasive, and hands-on treatment of the connective tissues and fluid that protect your brain and spinal cord. The human body is interconnected, both structurally and functionally. This means that one area of your body can affect another. The goal of CST is tension relief through fascial clearance. This clearance allows the nervous system to better self-regulate and heal.

Dry Needling

Dry needling is an effective way of treating myofascial trigger points (shortened and sensitized neuromuscular units that cannot release back to their normal state). Stimulating a trigger point with a needle helps draw normal blood supply back to flush out the area and release tension. It can decrease muscle tightness, increase blood flow, and reduce pain in the affected soft tissues.

Microcurrent Point Stimulation (MPS)

Microcurrent point stimulation (MPS) is a non-invasive treatment that uses concentrated direct current (DC) to treat tissue restriction. MPS is similar to acupuncture, but without needles. The MPS device locates and applies microcurrent to acupuncture points, trigger points, and scar tissue to relax muscles, decrease scar restrictions, calm the nervous system, and release endorphins.

Cupping

Suction from cupping draws fluid into the treated area. Your body replenishes the cupped areas with healthier blood flow and stimulates proper and normal healing at a cellular level.