Expert Physical Therapy

Dr. Jennifer Lavin evaluates each patient and design a custom treatment plan. She offers a wide array of treatment options and will works with patients to determine the treatment plan that best suits their physical needs and schedule. Once the plan has been implemented, she monitor their progress and changes the plan as needed.

Pelvic and Women's Health Specialty

Orthopedic Rehabilitation

Orthopedic physical therapy focuses on the treatment or rehabilitation of movement problems due to an orthopedic illness, injury or surgery. Physical Therapy is often helpful in the treatment of orthopedic conditions that can cause that can cause pain, decreased strength, decreased range of motion, or swelling. Some of these conditions include:

Vestibular Therapy

Vestibular Rehabilitation therapy focuses on helping improve symptoms related to many vestibular (inner ear/balance) disorders. People with vestibular disorders often experience problems with vertigo, dizziness, visual disturbance, and/or imbalance. Other problems can also arise that are secondary to vestibular disorders, such as nausea and/or vomiting, reduced ability to focus or concentrate, and fatigue.

Neurological Rehab

Neurological physical therapy focuses on the treatment or rehabilitation of movement problems due to disease or injury of the nervous system. Physical Therapy is often helpful in the treatment of neurological conditions because it can alleviate pain, improve the person's balance and coordination, and help to restore their range of movement and motion. Some of these conditions include:

• Stroke

• Sciatica

• Neuropathy

• Impingement

• Fibromyalgia

• Radiculopathy

• Cerebral Palsy

• Herniated Discs

• Spinal Cord Injury

• Multiple Sclerosis

• Parkinson's Disease

• Traumatic Brain Injury

Treatment Options

Dr. Lavin’s treatment philosophy is based on quality, one-on-one, patient to practitioner care in order to expedite recovery time and return patients’ attention to what matters most to them. Treatment Sessions can include but are not limited to the following:

Myofascial Release

Myofascial Release is a safe and very effective hands-on physical therapy technique that involves applying gentle sustained pressure into the Myofascial connective tissue restrictions to eliminate pain and restore motion.

Dry Needling

Dry needling involves a thin filiform needle that penetrates the skin and stimulates underlying myofascial trigger points and muscular and connective tissues. The needle allows a physical therapist to target tissues that are not manually palpable. 

Physical therapists use dry needling with the goal of releasing or inactivating trigger points to relieve pain or improve range of motion. Dry needling improves pain control, reduces muscle tension, and normalizes dysfunctions of the motor end plates, the sites at which nerve impulses are transmitted to muscles. This can help speed up the patient's return to active rehabilitation. 

Soft Tissue Mobilization

Soft tissue mobilization is when your physical therapist uses his or her hands to push, pull and knead your muscles, ligaments, tendons and nerves in precise ways to help bring you pain relief and return you to functionality. 

Joint Mobilization

Joint mobilization is the careful use of skilled graded forces to move a joint in a desired direction. Unlike stretching of a muscle joint mobilization is specific to the capsule of the joint itself. Gliding of the joint is usually used to improve motion and normalize joint function. Joint mobilization also has the added benefit of controlling pain. 

Cupping

Dating back to ancient Egyptian, Chinese, and Middle Eastern cultures, one of the oldest medical textbooks in the world, the Ebers Papyrus, describes how the ancient Egyptians used cupping therapy in 1,550 B.C. Cupping therapy is a form of alternative medicine in which a local suction is created on the skin.

At Mindful Matters Wellness we use a more modern version of cupping utilizing a rubber pump instead of fire to create the vacuum inside the cup. Used in conjunction with posture and movement re-education, cupping can help patients learn correct body mechanics as well as help with pain, inflammation, blood flow, relaxation and well-being, and as a type of deep tissue massage and myofascial release.

Theraputic Exercise

Therapeutic exercises refers to a wide range of physical activities that focuses on restoring and maintaining strength, endurance, flexiblity, stability and balance. The goal of therapeutic exercises is to return an injured patient to a fully functioning, pain-free state. 

Pilates for Rehabilitation

Pilates is an important component of injury rehabilitation. Pilates exercises are used in rehabilitation to enhance and normalize muscle recruitment, identify faulty movement patterns and work towards efficient movement patterns, enhance segmental spinal stabilization, improve mobility and stability, improve postural alignment and awareness and to restore shoulder and hip movements. 

Visceral Manipulation

Assisting in functional and structural imbalances throughout the body visceral manipulation evaluates and treats the dynamics of motion and suspension in relation to organs, membranes, fascia and ligaments. Treatments increase proprioceptive communication within the body, thereby revitalizing a person and relieving symptoms of pain, dysfunction, and poor posture.

Custom Home Exercise Programs

The home exercise program will be geared toward your goals and the treatment that made you feel and/or move better. Your custom home exercise program will give you the tools to maintain a state of wellness for prevention and management of your condition.