Step Up Program

Are you looking to 'Step-up' into a fit and healthy lifestyle? We invite you to experience the difference a medically oriented, evidence based approach to health and fitness can make!

To ensure the best possible clinical and functional outcomes, we offer a step-up program to our graduating patients, so that they can ‘step-up’ into their lives. This program allows for our clients to continue working towards their fitness goals in a safe, comfortable environment that they are already familiar with.

To foster the health and wellness goals of our general community, Bader Physical Therapy offers fitness memberships, classes and other wellness related programs at our three locations.

Our team employs the latest scientific findings blended with a friendly, personalized approach to create an incredible experience that exceeds your health and fitness expectations. You will have the personal attention you deserve, while exercising in one of our comfortable, professional clinical settings.


What you can expect

ON-SITE HEALTH CARE AND FITNESS PROS:
Our professional staff creates programs, answer questions and guide you through your fitness programs. Fitness meetings (3) are complimentary with enrollment so that every member can have a personalized exercise program. This is especially helpful for first-timers who may not feel comfortable around exercise equipment. The trainers are also available for ongoing program updates and detailed fitness assessments.

COMFORTABLE FRIENDLY ATMOSPHERE:
Our facility is small enough to give you personalized attention, yet large enough to house the most modern equipment available today. The unique design and layout of our center provides a comfortable atmosphere with all the amenities of an elite Health and Fitness facility.


Available Services:

Specialized Evaluation:
Performed by a licensed physical therapist. Time will be spent assessing postural and movement abnormalities, as well as musculoskeletal imbalances and weaknesses that may be present in your body. Once these are identified, a fitness program can be developed to address them.

Nutrition Seminar:
A one-hour class that provides the participants with information about proper nutrition.

Specialized Classes:
We offer fitness programs for Golf, Skiing, Seniors and Pre-Natal wellness. These classes are developed to strengthen and condition these specific populations. Classes will be eight weeks in length and will meet two times each week. Golf programs are offered every April/May, and Skiing programs are offered every November/December. Other programs are ongoing. Please call for more information.

Sports Medicine

Sports Medicine is specifically geared to regaining and maintaining excellence in the health of our bodies. We utilize a holistic approach which may incorporate movement therapy to help speed recovery from injury or surgery, decrease back problems, and to allow the athletic population to realize their maximum potential.

We may include techniques found in Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF), to enhance muscular stretching by biasing the mechanoreceptors found in the muscle tendons. Finally, we will use plyometrics and proprioceptive training, aimed at improving speed and balance, and can be accomplished with very low load bearing on your muscles and joints.

Vertigo

People with vertigo (a form of dizziness) often state that they feel as though they are spinning, or that their head is spinning inside, or that the environment is moving or spinning even when they are completely still. In addition, people with vertigo report that moving the head, changing position, leaning forward, or turning over in bed causes symptoms to occur. They may also feel as though their balance is decreased.

Vertigo may occur as a result of dysfunction in the vestibular system (structures in the inner ear). This system is responsible for providing the brain about changes in head position and is very important for balance and equilibrium. Within the vestibular system, there are tiny calcium crystals that are normally attached to hair cells on the membranes of a structure called the utricle. When the head changes position, the crystals cause the hair cells to tilt and this tells the brain about the position of the head. In the inner ear, there are also three semicircular canals that contain fluid and hair cells that also inform the brain that there has been a change in the head position of a person.

If the crystals from the utricle become dislodged they can enter one of the three semicircular canals and can bounce around in the hair cells and cause confusing information that a person’s head is still moving even after movement has stopped. This is thought to be the cause of Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV).

After seeing a Doctor to rule out other causes for the dizziness, physicians often send people to a physical therapist who has special training in the treatment of vertigo. The physical therapist may perform a maneuver that causes the crystals to move out of the canals, as well as instruct exercises to decrease the vertigo.

Fibromyalgia

Since 1997 Fibromyalgia has been reported to be the second most commonly diagnosed musculoskeletal disorder with the first being osteoarthritis.

The most common symptoms reported by people with fibromyalgia include widespread pain (on both sides of the body and in the upper and lower halves of the body), sleep disturbances, extraordinary fatigue, and morning stiffness. It is important to note that fibromyalgia is not a life-threatening syndrome.

Research has shown that participation in a regular program of guided exercise can result in a reduction in the number and intensity of tender points as well as improving sleep, physical functioning, and overall quality of life.

Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis is a disease that is referred to as the “silent disease” because of the fact that people cannot feel their bones become weaker. If you have had a bone scan and have been told that you have osteopenia (decreased bone density but not yet osteoporosis) or osteoporosis, you may be referred to a physical therapist who has special training in the treatment of osteoporosis.

Many people think that bone is an unchanging and permanent structure. However, bone is living tissue that is constantly going through a breakdown/buildup process – a process called remodeling. Since bones are stressed when muscles pull on them, it follows that people must use their muscles to maintain bone strength.

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