Physical Therapy
DNS (Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization) for Sports Injuries
At Northcenter Healthcare we utilize an innovative approach to physical therapy in the form of DNS or Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization. Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization (DNS) focuses on retraining the body’s movement patterns by restoring the natural coordination of muscles based on developmental kinesiology. Unlike traditional physical therapy, which often targets isolated muscles or joints, DNS emphasizes core stability, proper joint alignment, and integrated movement control. This approach can be more advantageous in rehabilitation because it addresses the root cause of dysfunction, improves motor control, and helps prevent re-injury by promoting more efficient, functional movement patterns throughout the body.
When patients get injured during athletic activities or even just your day to day movements, there are often underlying compensations and less-than-perfect motor patterns involved. The DNS approach is particularly situated to address those types of concerns. Once injuries have resolved, we continue to focus on maximizing performance and improving on movement dysfunctions that may be preventing you from performing at your peak in a given activity or sport.
The goal is always the same — rehab to train, train to move well, move well to excel in the things you love!
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Prenatal and Postpartum Rehabilitation and Exercise
Pregnancy and giving birth are beautiful, and physically preparing for these times in one’s life can be extremely beneficial to reduce complications during and post-pregnancy.
Postpartum rehabilitation is particularly important since giving birth can be extremely taxing on the body. During the process of pregnancy and childbirth, we occasionally encounter complications like diastasis recti or uterine prolapse, and at Northcenter Healthcare, we can help to retrain your body to recover from those conditions and more.
In addition, we can help to ensure that you don’t develop any functional compensations after giving birth, including while you transition back to finding your home in your body.
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MDT for Bulging Discs and Sciatica
The McKenzie method of Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy is a system that addresses the complete assessment, classification, treatment, and prevention of spinal and extremity pain syndromes.
The way that your symptoms and range of movement changes with prescribed multi-range repeated movements provides the clinician with information that they can use to categorize your problem, and subsequently treat with appropriate end-range loading exercises.
These exercises are utilized with the goal of restoring full range of motion and joint mobility, reducing pain due to joint decentralization, and decreasing radiating symptoms (often seen in conditions such as sciatica, disc herniation, disc bulging, and nerve entrapment).
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