
In-Home Physical Therapy Services
The Evidenced-Based, Innovative Treatment That You Deserve
You deserve the best physical therapy care possible in Luzerne County and Lackawanna County. That’s why every clinician at Prime Physical Therapy and Wellness is a Doctor of Physical Therapy who designs plans of care based on evidence-based treatments that help you reduce pain, restore function and rediscover life.
How We Treat
Our NEPA physical therapy services include comprehensive outpatient services inclusive of physical therapy and specialize in kinesthetics and mobility, ranging from the skeletal to the muscular systems and can vary in purpose from therapeutic or preventive. Our in-home physical therapy services assist patients as diverse as the elderly, the weekend warriors, and the future stars just getting started in their sport.
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Manual Therapy
This service utilizes soft tissue and joint mobilization to target problematic areas of the body and work the tension out of sore and strained muscles and joints—one of the most popular in-home physical therapy solutions available.
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Therapeutic Exercises
Therapeutic exercises condition and restore the body and are tailored to your specific needs and goals. This applies to any patient, from athletes in need of personal training to someone recovering from surgery.
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Balance Training
This training service helps patients recover their balance and mobility or even improve it. We can tailor the service to your specific case, depending on your needs, whether they are for a sport or recovery.
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MobilityLab
Our exclusive MobilityLab is perfect for helping patients prepare for long training sessions. These one-on-one, 25-minute sessions will stretch you out, perform mobility drills and offer hyperice products.
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Postural Correction
Your physical therapist will evaluate your bone structure and address what muscles are tight or weak to restore balance and improve posture throughout your body.
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Neuromuscular Re-education
This program helps train or retrain your muscles, brain and nerves and improve communication between these interconnected systems. Specific exercises, guided by your physical therapist, help to establish an efficient connection between these systems.
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Gait and Movement Analysis
Our physical therapists can inspect and evaluate all gait, running and movement lifts such as deadlifts, bench, or squat mechanics to reach a more efficient you.
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Dry Needling
The use of a non-medicated solid filament needle into trigger points of the muscle to reduce pain, increase range of motion and reduce muscle tension. At times, patients will see immediate improvement in range of motion.
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BFR Training
Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) training uses exercises with reduced blood flow to the limbs with tight cuffs or straps. This is useful for in-home physical therapy, where less intense but practical training is desired.
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Hyperice Products
Our physical therapists can offer Hyperice products as mobile physical therapy solutions. Hyperice percussion massage guns can create high-intensity massage with highly-focused accuracy that is perfect for targeting problematic spots.
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Functional Cupping
Functional cupping is a therapeutic method that dates back to ancient times. Suction cups are placed and manipulated on the body to stimulate tissue and increase fluid flow below the skin. Cupping has been known to increase circulation and improve muscle flexibility.
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Nutrition Consulting
Nutritional consulting considers how our eating habits and the way our body processes food can significantly influence our overall health. Examining your dietary input with a credentialed expert helps you achieve the ideal nutritional practices to aid your physical therapy.
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Strain-Counterstrain Therapy
This gentle therapy involves positioning the body’s muscle into a shortened position to help create a release when a gentle pressure is applied to the area of discomfort. It’s used with patients recovering from an injury or surgery or elderly patients with flexibility issues.
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Muscle Energy Techniques
Developed in the late 1940s, this manual therapy is another gentler option, using isometric contractions to help muscles relax. This form of manual therapy can be very beneficial to our patients.
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Myofascial Trigger Point Release Therapy
Associated with manual therapy, this option is often known as “trigger point therapy.” This form of release involves finding painful, tense areas around the muscles and mobilizing them to release the tension.
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Spinal and Joint Mobilizations
This gentle technique is particularly popular with some of our patients. Spinal and Joint Mobilization therapy can use multiple methods, including outside resistance tools, gentle adjustments and patient-positioning to restore joint function.
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Sports Rehab and Orthopedics
These rehabilitation services are geared towards patients suffering from a sports injury or ailment involving torn or strained muscles, ligaments and tendons. Prime Physical Therapy offers proven and tested therapeutic services that can aid in recovery and improve functionality quickly.
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Auto Injury Rehab
Recovering from an automobile accident injury is made simpler with a dedicated plan of care from our staff. Whether it is whiplash, sprained muscles or worse, our therapists have an extensive array of therapy techniques that can be tailored to your specific needs and goals.
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Post-Operative Rehab
We offer post-op therapy that will keep you on the mend and off the meds as you recover from surgery. Our rehabilitation staff have the training and experience in promoting the recovery of various conditions and injuries.
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Concussion Management
Concussion management doesn’t need to keep you out of the game. Let our certified therapists deliver the treatments and techniques that aid you on the road to recovery from concussive trauma.