Getting out of pain is not the same as being fixed.
Corrective exercise is the part of the plan that changes what your body can tolerate. Pain settles when irritated tissue calms down. It comes back when the pattern that irritated it is still there. So the work has two specific jobs: strengthen what is weak, and stabilize what is less controlled.
This is not a printed sheet of generic exercises. Every movement is chosen from what your examination actually found, loaded at a level you can control, and progressed when you have earned it. In the 4-Phase Recovery Program this is Prevent and Prime, phases 02 and 03, and it is where most of the durable change happens.
Find the weak link, load it, then take it home.
Find the Weak Link
The exam sorts your problem into three buckets: what is stiff, what is weak, and what your body is no longer controlling. You are told which one is driving your case, in plain language, before a single exercise is written down.
Strengthen and Stabilize
Two jobs, in order. Load the tissue that gave out until it can carry more than it did before the injury. Then train the positions your body was not controlling, slowly enough that the control is real and not just momentum.
Take It With You
Your program goes into a home exercise app customized to your case, using the same movements you did in the clinic. Progress gets checked at the next visit rather than assumed, and the load moves up from there.
What our patients say.
"Carroll PT is a clean, friendly and professional facility. They are very responsive to my questions and concerns. I enjoy the home exercise program/app customized to my needs."Darlene G. · Home Exercise Program
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