Welcome to SpineWorks, thank you for choosing our services.

SpineWorks consists of a team of professionals dedicated to rehabilitating patients to an optimal level of functioning. We offer a full range of treatment options, from interventions by a single provider to an integrated team approach involving multiple specialties. We take a comprehensive view of the rehabilitation process, identifying barriers to recovery and using the skills of members of our interdisciplinary team, individually or in concert, to address these barriers as rapidly and effectively as possible.

Our physicians and physical therapists treat patients to remove physical barriers to function while progressing patients through an active exercise regimen designed to maximize functional levels. Our psychological staff identify and address psychological factors that are interfering with physical recovery (e.g., fear of harm, anger, & disgust, etc.). Our case management staff works with the patient, outside case managers, employers, physicians and insurers to assist in a smooth transition back to productivity. As noted, clinical staff are available to provide individual as well as team services.

Patients at SpineWorks are taught self-regulatory skills to address whatever functional problems may remain after treatment and to prevent future difficulties. The patient's reliance on the medical system is diminished, functional levels remain higher and ultimately costs are reduced for all concerned.

Our name reflects our origins in specialized treatment of back injuries. With our staff expansion, we now offer treatment for a broader spectrum of physical disorders. Our continuum of services allows us to address a range of needs, from the acute patient who requires a simple course of short-term physical therapy to the chronic patient who requires a highly structured, interdisciplinary program to progress.

Programmatic treatment occurs under the guidance of our Physiatric staff, Dr. Lisa Barr, Medical Director, board-certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Dr. Spear, a board-certified Osteopath, who directs the Headache program.

Traditionally, physical therapy is based on exercise and modalities such as heat, electrical muscle stimulation, ultrasound and the like. In many cases you will also find that a Physical Therapy Aide or Assistant treats you. At SpineWorks, you will be treated by a Physical Therapist. Our therapist are manually trained, allowing them to treat a broad spectrum of ailments, weather individually or in consultation. We work to establish individualized conditioning and strengthening exercises, stretches and home exercise programs to maximize improvement.

Why is SpineWorks Different?

Diagnosis and treatment of underlying dysfunctions

When underlying dysfunctions are not identified and corrected, muscle imbalance syndromes can develop. As a result of guarding, compensatory patterns and over-use syndromes may develop. Standard physical therapy may fail because it addresses symptoms and not their underlying causes.

At SpineWorks, treatment is provided by physical therapists extensively trained in manual medicine. The therapists use structural diagnosis to identify underlying problems and provide hands on treatment to restore proper functioning.

Customized Treatment

Our physical therapists are trained in a wide variety of manual techniques. After identifying underlying pathology, they select the most appropriate combination of these techniques to address the patient's problems. Customizing treatment in this fashion allows our therapists to restore functioning and reduce pain as rapidly and and effectively as possible.

The manual techniques our therapists employ can address problems involving multiple body systems.