Physical Therapy
Restoring Your Strength and Well-Being
If you have a health condition that makes it difficult to move around and perform everyday tasks, physical therapy may help. Physical therapists specialize in helping restore and maintain your physical function.
At University of Vermont Health, our physical therapists help you achieve your goals and return to your desired quality of life. We harness the latest treatments and state-of-the-art equipment to help you get back to the activities you love.
Why Choose UVM Health?
As the leading physical therapy program in the region, we offer:
- Specialized expertise: Our physical therapists have years of experience and specialized training in multiple therapy techniques, including The McKenzie Method of Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy® — an assessment, classification and treatment process for musculoskeletal problems. We stay on top of the latest research, giving you access to the most up-to-date treatments.
- Personalized treatment: We work with you to create a treatment plan tailored to your needs and goals. Our therapists listen to your concerns, answer your questions and ensure you’re prepared to participate in your care plan.
- Care close to home: We offer inpatient, outpatient and post-surgical physical therapy services in several locations throughout Vermont and northern New York. No matter where you live, you’ll find convenient, expert care.
Physical Therapy Offerings
Treatments and Diagnostics
During your first appointment with a physical therapist, you will discuss your needs and goals. Your therapist will evaluate you using tests that assess your physical function, strength, mobility and endurance.
Your physical therapist will then create a personalized care plan designed to:
- Decrease pain
- Improve your mobility, strength and endurance
- Prevent the progression of physical imbalances or injuries
- Reduce your risk of injury
Physical Therapy Techniques
Your physical therapy plan typically includes prescribed exercises to improve your function. Often, you attend sessions with a physical therapist to perform these exercises and receive other treatments. You will also need to practice your therapy exercises at home between sessions.
Our therapists also use a range of special modalities and techniques tailored to your unique needs, including:
The AlterG’s unique unweighting technology allows you to rehab from surgery or train through injury.
- Helpful for runners who are injured but would like to keep up their mileage for training.
- Allows you to continue running with injuries like plantar fasciitis or shin splints.
- Beneficial for post-surgery recovery by allowing walking with a normal gait sooner than otherwise possible. It helps prevent development of bad habits and altered gait resulting from pain and injuries.
Our physical therapists work closely with physicians, prosthetists, occupational therapists and other experts to help people who have had a limb amputation. We understand that a limb amputation is a lifechanging event and offer personalized, compassionate care. Ultimately, our goal is to empower you to achieve your highest level of function possible.
We apply brief, intermittent pressure with a tourniquet that restricts blood flow to one of your limbs. This technique allows you to exercise at lower intensities while still creating the growth response your body needs to get stronger.
After injury, rehabilitation therapy can be a critical step toward healing. We offer comprehensive rehabilitation services to help you achieve your highest quality of life.
We insert very fine needles through your skin and into deeper tissues to target trigger points. This approach helps enhance your body’s healing abilities and reduces pain.
Our therapists may use hands-on techniques, special instruments or taping techniques — such as kinesiotaping and McConnell taping — to manipulate your tissues or joints. These approaches can help decrease pain caused by joint problems, muscle spasms or muscle tension.
We offer LSVT BIG™, a specific type of therapy that helps improve motor symptoms in people with Parkinson’s disease to help balance, walking and trunk rotation.
A Pilates reformer is a piece of exercise equipment that allows for a wide range of controlled, low-impact exercises that can improve strength, flexibility, balance and coordination.
Postural imbalances can often lead to pain and dysfunction. With postural training, we work on repositioning your body into proper bone and muscle alignment. We offer exercises to help retrain your body to maintain proper positioning and avoid returning to faulty patterns.
If you have experienced a stroke, our therapists assess your overall strength, mobility and balance. They offer specialized treatments to help improve your movement abilities and restore function.
TBI rehabilitation is a comprehensive program designed to help individuals recover from brain injuries. Rehabilitation can help you improve mobility, strength, coordination and help with daily activities to regain independence.
Home-Based Health Care
We provide care in the comfort of your home to support you in your recovery, help you maintain your independence and improve your quality of life. Services are available in Chittenden and Grand Isle counties.
Locations near you
75 Park Street
Elizabethtown, NY 12932
1110 Prim Road
Colchester, VT 05446
133 Park Street
Malone, NY 12953
108 Catamount Park
Middlebury, VT 05753
61 Court Drive
Brandon, VT 05733
39 Farrell Road
Willsboro, NY 12996
66 Park Street
Elizabethtown, NY 12932
130 Fisher Road
Berlin, VT 05602
790 College Parkway
Colchester, VT 05446-3007
790 College Parkway
Rehab 2
Colchester, VT 05446-3007
