Physical Therapy at
ProWellness Chiropractic and Rehab

A Word From Jessica

“Our bodies are meant to move. Each of us completes a task by means of a specific movement. These ways of moving become habitual to us. Most of us develop these movements properly, starting with infancy. Various movement patterns are repeated throughout our day such as squatting (getting out of a chair), lunging (picking an object up off the floor), pushing, pulling, lifting, walking, rotating and carrying. Throughout our lives these movements can get altered and become unbalanced, restricted, weak, and/or unstable. This may be caused by injury, stress, posture, job demands, sports, pregnancy, improper shoe wear, surgery, etc.

If we do not fix these alterations, they become our so called “normal” movements. The problem is that these altered movement patterns are not the way our body is created to move and therefore pain, which is the signal, develops.

Pain is a signal that something in your movement is altered. We cannot just merely take away the pain with medication or an ice pack. This does not fix the problem which I describe as the alteration. Identifying the alteration becomes crucial so that it can be corrected. Once the altered movement pattern is corrected through physical therapy, your body can heal and the signal, which is the pain, will stop. And, in a nutshell, this is what I do. I find the alteration, correct the alteration, the body heals, and the pain stops.”
-Jessica Johnson, PT