Orthopedic physical therapy at the Sevierville Clinic focuses on the evaluation and treatment of muscles, bones, tendons, ligaments and joints. Our clinic treats conditions like:

• Plantar fasciitis
• Hip bursitis
• Knee instability
• Stenosis
• Disc herniations

Therapy generally includes strengthening, flexibility, modalities, and manual/hands on treatment.

The success of surgery greatly depends on the post-operative care. Some of the benefits of therapy following surgery include:

• Improved mobility
• Improved circulation
• Pain reduction
• Better muscle strength
• Improved balance
• Strengthened core

Even though surgery is a stressful time for everyone, having a personalized therapy plan with the team at the Sevierville Clinic will greatly help the healing and recovery process.

Sports medicine can help you overcome injuries such as:

• Ankle sprains
• Runner’s knee
• Golfer’s elbow
• Shin splints
• Shoulder tendonitis

It also includes post-operative therapy for ACL reconstruction, rotator cuff repairs and meniscus surgeries. Our therapists work with all levels of athletes, from the casual golfer to the high-level competitive athlete. The therapy evaluates and treats the root cause of dysfunction, helping return you to whatever activity you enjoy without re-injury.

Utilizing acupuncture style needles, your therapist can utilize dry needling to treat:

• Headaches
• Tennis elbow
• Muscular spasms
• Achilles tendonitis
• Shoulder and Neck pain

These treatments can help you avoid the need for steroid injections or any other medication. Give us a call to see if this intervention could aide in the treatment of your diagnosis.

Neurologic rehabilitation is designed to deal with injuries to the nervous system, which includes the brain, spinal cord and related nerves. These injuries or diseases may include stroke, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis or a traumatic spinal cord injury. Our team helps patients improve their overall level of function through:

• Strengthening programs
• Muscular re-education
• Specific gait training
• Flexibility
• Functional training

Vestibular rehabilitation helps the patient improve symptoms of dizziness, unsteadiness, or poor balance. Other symptoms may include:

• Lightheadedness
• Spinning
• Floating
• Fullness of the ear
• Whirling

Our skilled therapy team will evaluate your balance, gait, vision, neck and positional tolerance to determine the cause of the symptoms and apply the correct treatment to restore your normal function.

Our team will evaluate causes of TMJ related pain ranging from postural, strength deficits, or muscular spasm. Your therapist will develop a treatment regimen involving dry needling, manual therapy, cervical traction and postural strengthening to gain relief from jaw pain.

We work with your case manager, adjustor and doctor to help coordinate the best possible care to return you back to work. Physical therapy will initially focus on acute injury while progressing you back to work related and functional tasks. This may include a Functional Capacity Evaluation, work conditioning program, specific work ergonomic training and a job-site analysis.