At Mangiarelli Rehabilitation, we provide personalized physical therapy to each patient. We ensure each patient receives an individualized treatment plan based on their needs, ability, and condition so that our patients reach their max potential in the safest and most successful way. We customize each patient’s treatment plan for safe and effective rehabilitation to full recovery. Learn what personalized physical therapy looks like at our clinic & check out our infographic for 8 questions to ask to ensure you receive personalized physical therapy care.

In the United States each year, there are over six million car accidents with two million people injured. It is essential to receive proper medical attention soon after a car accident, even if your injuries and pain appear to be mild. By undergoing medical evaluation by your physician and starting physical therapy treatment shortly after the accident, you can address pain, injury, and function issues. Car accident injuries are serious incidents that can have a long-lasting effect on your health. Start rehabilitative treatment shortly after a car accident to help you reduce pain and manage injury safely and effectively.

Vertigo and vestibular dysfunction affect a person’s quality of life and ability to perform daily activities. Vestibular dysfunction results in symptoms of lightheadedness, dizziness, vertigo, impaired postural control, and imbalance. Vertigo intensifies the feeling of dizziness into a spinning, tilting sensation. Using vestibular rehabilitation therapy, physical therapists treat a patient with vertigo or vestibular dysfunction, alleviate symptoms, improve balance, and reduce fall risk.

Migraines and headaches can be severe and debilitating, limiting a person’s quality of life, daily activities, and work ability. Migraine and headache sufferers often experience neck pain, tension, stiffness, and discomfort along with the headache and migraine pain. Physical therapists can help relieve migraine and headache pain without medication and address the underlying musculoskeletal impairments that contribute to the migraine and headache.

Pre-surgical rehabilitation helps you prepare for surgery and leads to better surgical outcomes and a faster recovery. Post-surgical rehabilitation is essential to ensure proper healing, regain movement and strength, and return to pre-surgery and pre-injury activity levels. Our physical therapists can provide you with exceptional pre-and post-surgical rehabilitative care and help you return to your daily life and activity stronger and healthier!

Mangiarelli Rehabilitation is debunking seven myths about physical therapy today on the blog. Myth #1: You need a referral from a doctor to receive physical therapy care. Fact #1: A physical therapist can treat a patient without a referral script from a doctor. Learn more about physical therapy insurance coverage, why you do not need an MRI prior to physical therapy in most cases, how physical therapy can be just as effective as surgery for certain conditions, and much more!

A concussion is a mild brain injury that requires a thorough and skilled treatment plan for optimal recovery. Concussions can occur during sports and other recreational activities or from car accidents, falls, or work accidents. Physical therapists can effectively manage concussion injuries through evidence-based treatment and a careful, personalized rehabilitation plan.

Nearly 800,000 people experience a stroke in the United States each year. Physical therapy plays a pivotal role in stroke rehabilitation. It helps a survivor regain movement, decrease disability, improve range of motion and function of affected limbs, relearn basic daily activities, and walk with coordination and balance. At Mangiarelli Rehabilitation, it is our aim to provide you with high quality and personalized stroke rehabilitative care throughout the recovery process.

Parkinson’s disease is a lifelong condition from the onset of the disease, often around age 60. A customized physical therapy treatment plan can help manage the condition and maintain physical and cognitive function that can be affected by the disease. Physical therapy helps combat movement issues, difficulty walking, and impaired balance and coordination. Physical therapy can also improve posture, strength, and flexibility and decrease pain and stiffness.

Your body is built for movement. The more that you move, the better your body will function. Movement improves the overall function of the body, energy, mental health, brain health, and disease prevention. Adults should engage in physical activity 150 minutes a week, or thirty minutes a day, five days a week. At Mangiarelli Rehabilitation, we know how important it is for your health that you stay active during this time of staying at home. We offer 7 Tips to Stay Active At Home in our blog today!

Lymphedema is an abnormal build-up of protein-rich fluid under the skin. It is a common, progressive, and serious condition. Symptoms include aching or feeling of heaviness in the arm or leg, swelling in the extremities, mobility limitations, and repeated infections. A certified lymphedema physical therapist is an important component of the medical team managing the condition. At Mangiarelli Rehabilitation, our certified lymphedema physical therapist performs Complete Decongestive Therapy (CDT) to treat lymphedema; this includes manual lymphatic drainage, skincare, decongestive exercises, and compression therapy.

Dry needling, or intramuscular manual therapy, is a physical therapy treatment that treats acute and chronic pain. It is a valid manual therapy technique that can speed up the recovery process, improve a patient’s ability to move with decreased pain, and enhance healing after an injury. It is used to increase range of motion that is limited due to muscle tightness. It involves the physical therapist pushing thin filiform sterile needles through the skin of the patient into trigger points to stimulate the tissue.

Nearly 80% of working Americans experience symptoms of back pain at some point in their lives. Early intervention for musculoskeletal pain like back pain has been shown to decrease health costs and improve recovery outcomes for the patient. Physical therapy not only will decrease medical costs for a patient with back pain, but also help restore movement and teach the patient how to minimize and manage pain in the future.

Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that can impair movement, balance, and coordination. At Mangiarelli Rehabilitation, we offer boxing exercise as a physical therapy treatment for Parkinson’s disease, which improves coordination, agility, and hand-eye coordination. Boxing treatment addresses the symptoms of tremors, balance issues, gait mobility, and postural rigidity and instability by encouraging agility of movement in multiple directions, flexibility of the spine, and coordination of movement at faster speeds.

Tennis elbow is an inflammation of the muscles of the forearm involving swollen tendons that create pain in the outer elbow, forearm, and wrist. It is an overuse injury caused by repetitive activities, such as tennis, golf, and professions that include painters, plumbers, autoworkers, and musicians. Physical therapy can help treat tennis elbow by strengthening an individual’s grip, wrist muscles, and forearm muscles. Manual therapy and dry needling are other effective physical therapy treatments that can be used to treat tennis elbow.

A woman’s body undergoes tremendous changes throughout the course of her lifetime, particularly during childbearing and childbirth. These changes can lead to pain and muscle dysfunction of the pelvic floor. Too often, women are dismissed when they raise concerns over incontinence, chronic pelvic pain, or painful intercourse and continue to suffer these symptoms untreated for months and even years. Women no longer have to suffer in silence. Physical therapy is an effective treatment to address pelvic floor dysfunction and other women’s health conditions.

Aquatic therapy has unique benefits for many musculoskeletal and neurological conditions due to the specific properties of water. The top three benefits of water therapy include accelerated healing time, decreased swelling and reduced inflammation, and improved circulation and mobility. At Mangiarelli Rehabilitation, aquatic rehabilitation takes place in the clinic pool under the supervision of aquatic therapists.

Mangiarelli Rehabilitation offers a variety of physical therapy programs to address your needs and support your recovery.