Services

If physical therapy has failed you or if you feel like you've tried everything, our restoration services potentially hold the missing pieces to the improvement you are looking for. 

SustainAbility PT provides the orthopedic second opinion you didn't know you needed. Instead of contradicting your physician, we provide the "yes, and" second opinion that provides new insight and hope for what you can do about the problem.

The body adapts to the demands put upon it...

This fundamental law of nature means to us at SustainAbility that there is always hope because better is always an option. Restoring your lost capacities implies that your brain will have more options for how you can effectively use your body. This means that you can avoid overuse conditions, prepare yourself for fitness training after periods of underuse, and even develop a revitalized body after abusing it with heavy labor, sports, or poor posture and body mechanics. 

SustainAbility's restorative program emphasizes two types of renewal strategies: 

1. Help you regain lost essential capacities of the movement system

2. Guide you in learning a balanced way of using your body in everyday life

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If you have arthritis, our restorative services can help to slow, stop, or even reverse the degenerative process. This is premier arthritis care. 

Beyond arthritis, if you have ever experienced any of the following, restorative services may help:

• Been told by a specialist, "There's nothing we can do for you."

• The need to look for a second opinion

• Failed physical therapy

• Motion at one of your joints is blocked with a pinch, jam, or sharp pain ("It hurts when I do this...")

• You don't feel exercises where you are supposed to (ie.- can't feel your glutes when you squat)

• Pain increases when you try to do exercise

• Pain increases when you try to do the activities that you need or want to do

• Pain onset was "out of the blue"

• Discomfort due to feeling tight all the time

• An old injury that "just hasn't been the same" since it occurred

• Feeling "trapped" inside your own body 

• Chronic pain in your muscles or joints

...and more

Examples of individuals with meaningful improvements from SustainAbility's restorative techniques:

• Retiree wanting to maintain an exercise routine that doesn't create pain or tightness

• 14-year-old athlete able to improve hip impingement and avoid surgery

• Late-20's fitness athlete who had reconstructive surgery after major knee trauma in high school

• 40-year-old who can't remember a time when not in pain or seeing medical specialists for back pain

• 50-year-old Iron Man athlete who thought his hip pain couldn't improve (it did! and he still was able to compete)

• 70-year-old told they needed a knee replacement, but able to achieve a pain-free state

The human-built, modern environment comes with many benefits but also has many unintended consequences. Much like artificial food is quick, easy, and delicious but can create chronic disease, the artificial, modern world also contributes to degenerative conditions of your movement system. 

The Mission: To achieve and maintain the body's capacity for movement that is sufficient for you to participate in all the activity that matters to you through the course of your life.

• Much like we must invest in our health to improve our healthspan (and not just lifespan), we must invest in the functionality of our movement system to prevent disability as we age.

The Strategy: 

• Relearn the most fundamental ways to use your body, establishing movement practices and habits to build the mobility and stability of your body. If your body has barriers to accomplishing this, we will help you restore these capacities along the way.  

• Assess the movement of all the joints individually, how well they integrate together, and help you regain any lost functions. Then you can build upon these foundations to build strength or flexibility to perform at your best whatever your sport, fitness, or activity goals are. 

If you do not have any current limitations from pain or disability requiring restoration or rehabilitation, it is still worth investing in a resilient movement system that can sustain yourself for the long run. Whenever possible, prevention is the best cure. Proactive care for your movement health is training for your future to foster your sustainABILITY.