osteopractic physical therapy

Our fellowship trained physical therapists are certified osteopractic providers. This training is evidence-based and incorporates the use of spinal manipulation/ mobilization, dry needling, instrument-assisted myofascial release, and differential diagnostics for the management of neuromusculoskeletal conditions.

Osteopractic physical therapy is an approach to care, a sub-specialty within physical therapy. When you break a bone, you look for an orthopedist, not just a general medical doctor.

When you have musculoskeletal pain, it makes sense to look for a specialist within physical therapy. Osteopractic physical therapists are just that.

The term osteopractor has nothing to do with the chiropractic or osteopathic professions; the osteopractic concept is firmly focused on the management of neuromusculoskeletal disorders in an evidence-based fashion, not the treatment of other organ systems as the profession of chiropractic has traditionally engaged.

Osteopractors do not subscribe to the chiropractic theory of the “Vertebral Subluxation Complex” as the primary cause of “disease”. Osteopractic Physical Therapists do not utilize medicine or surgery as osteopathic physicians are trained and licensed to do. Lastly, spinal manipulation and dry needling are shared procedures between many healthcare professions (i.e. no one profession owns these procedures, e.g. 2012 Supreme Court Ruling: Alabama State Board of Chiropractic vs. James Dunning); however, the philosophy, the clinical reasoning, and the conditions treated with these procedures dramatically differs between the above professions.