Conditions

Conditions We Treat

From acute injuries to chronic pain, our Doctors of Physical Therapy work with patients across DC, Maryland, and Virginia. Same-week evaluations at Capitol Hill, Bethesda, and in-home throughout the DMV — no referral needed.

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Back & Spine

Back Pain

Most back pain isn't a structural emergency — it's a recoverable problem. Physical therapy is the first-line, evidence-based treatment recommended by the American College of Physicians for both acute and chronic low back pain. No referral needed in DC, Maryland, or Virginia, and we offer same-week evaluations at all three locations.

Sciatica

Sciatica is leg pain — often with numbness or tingling — caused by nerve irritation in the lower back. The term gets used loosely, but the mechanism matters. Most cases respond to conservative care within 6–12 weeks. No injection or surgery needed for the vast majority of patients.

Herniated Disc

Most herniated discs — lumbar and cervical — resolve without surgery when treated with structured physical therapy. We use directional preference assessment, graded loading, and realistic education to get patients back to full function in weeks, not months.

Lumbar Spinal Stenosis

Lumbar spinal stenosis — narrowing of the spinal canal that compresses nerves and limits walking tolerance — is one of the most common reasons older adults consider spine surgery. Structured physical therapy delays or avoids surgery for many patients and dramatically improves walking distance and standing tolerance.

Pregnancy & Postpartum Back Pain Physical Therapy

Back, hip, and pelvic pain are common during pregnancy and after delivery — but "common" doesn't mean you have to live with it. PT during and after pregnancy reduces pain and rebuilds the strength and movement patterns that change with childbirth. We coordinate with your OB and stay within pregnancy-appropriate exercise parameters.

Neck, Head & Jaw

Neck Pain

"Tech neck" is mechanical, postural, and recoverable. Office workers, clinicians, and parents make up most of our neck-pain caseload — PT-first is the evidence-based path, and we offer same-week evaluations at all three locations.

Headache

A meaningful fraction of headaches are driven by the neck, jaw, or shoulders — not by the brain. Cervicogenic and tension-type headaches respond very well to manual therapy and dry needling. We're not chasing migraines as a primary diagnosis, but if a structural component is feeding them, PT can reduce frequency and intensity.

TMJ Disorder

TMJ disorders — jaw pain, clicking, locking, and the headaches that come with them — respond well to focused physical therapy. We treat the joint, the chewing muscles, and the neck and posture patterns that drive most of the symptoms.

Post-Concussion

Most concussions resolve in 7–14 days. When symptoms persist beyond that — dizziness, headaches, brain fog, sensitivity to screens, neck pain — physical therapy is one of the highest-yield treatments available. We address the vestibular, cervical, and visual systems that drive most prolonged symptoms.

Shoulder & Arm

Shoulder Pain

Most shoulder pain doesn't need surgery. Rotator cuff issues, impingement, and AC joint pain almost always respond to PT first — and the patients who do eventually need surgery typically recover faster when their shoulder has been rehab'd before the OR. Same-week evaluations at Capitol Hill, Bethesda, and in-home throughout the DMV.

Frozen Shoulder

Frozen shoulder (adhesive capsulitis) is its own thing — different from rotator cuff problems and impingement. The capsule of the shoulder thickens and tightens, severely restricting motion. It has a predictable course (freezing → frozen → thawing) over 12–24 months. PT shortens the course and dramatically reduces pain along the way.

Tennis Elbow

Tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis) is rarely from tennis. It's a tendinopathy of the wrist extensors at the outer elbow, usually from repetitive gripping, typing, lifting, or sport. The treatment story shifted in the last decade: progressive loading is the highest-evidence intervention. Rest and bracing alone don't work.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Carpal tunnel syndrome — numbness, tingling, and weakness in the thumb, index, middle, and half of the ring finger — is a compression neuropathy of the median nerve at the wrist. Mild to moderate cases often resolve with structured conservative care, no surgery required.

Hip & Knee

Hip Pain

Most hip pain doesn't need surgery. Femoroacetabular impingement (FAI), labral irritation, and greater trochanteric pain syndrome (bursitis) typically respond well to structured PT. We treat a lot of runners, lifters, and active adults from Capitol Hill and Bethesda whose hips have started speaking up — and a lot of older adults managing hip osteoarthritis without rushing to replacement.

Knee Arthritis

Knee arthritis doesn't have to be a fast track to replacement. Most patients can meaningfully reduce pain, maintain function, and delay or avoid surgery with structured PT. The evidence on this is strong: progressive strengthening is at least as effective as arthroscopic surgery for most knee osteoarthritis, and far safer.

Runner's Knee

"Runner's knee" is a catch-all — usually patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS), sometimes IT band syndrome, occasionally something more specific. The mechanism is almost always load and capacity mismatch, not damage. Most runners don't need to stop running entirely — they need a smarter return-to-load plan.

IT Band Syndrome

IT band syndrome — lateral knee pain that flares with running, cycling, or downhill walking — is one of the most common overuse injuries in endurance athletes. It's almost always a hip-and-loading problem, not a tight IT band problem. PT-first is the evidence-based path back to training.

Foot & Ankle

Plantar Fasciitis

Plantar fasciitis is the most common cause of heel pain: the plantar fascia gets overloaded faster than it can recover. Most people try inserts and internet stretches for months before seeing a PT. Working with a PT shortens recovery and keeps it from coming back.

Achilles Tendinopathy

Achilles tendinopathy is the runner's tax for ramping mileage too fast. The pain pattern is classic: stiff and painful in the morning, eases as you warm up, comes back with running or after sitting. The treatment story is well-established now — heavy slow loading. Stretching alone doesn't fix it; rest alone doesn't fix it.

Ankle Sprain

Ankle sprains heal — but they leave behind chronic instability and reinjury risk if you don't rebuild proprioception and strength. We see a lot of patients who sprained an ankle months or years ago, never did rehab, and now keep rolling it. Early PT shortens the recovery and prevents the reinjury pattern.

Balance, Vestibular & Pelvic Health

Vertigo & BPPV

Vertigo is treatable — often in a single visit when it's classic BPPV. We see patients spinning for weeks before they realize a 15-minute repositioning maneuver fixes them. For non-positional vertigo and post-concussion vestibular dysfunction, structured vestibular rehab gets the brain re-trained over a few weeks.

Diastasis Recti

Diastasis recti — separation of the abdominal wall at the midline — affects most postpartum women to some degree. Structured rehab restores abdominal wall function, supports return to running and lifting, and addresses the lingering postpartum symptoms that often accompany the diastasis.

Not sure what you have?

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