Service
Corrective Exercise + Rehab
The part that makes the results hold.
- Visit length
- 20 minutes in clinic, 8–10 minutes at home
- Typical course
- Runs alongside care, continues after discharge
- Discomfort
- Working discomfort, yes. Pain, no.
- Insurance
- Often billable as therapeutic exercise
Progressive loading built for your findings, in three or four movements you will actually do — not a printout of twenty stretches.
Manual care changes how a joint moves today. Loading changes what it can tolerate next month. Skip the second and you are signing up for the same conversation twice a year for the rest of your life.
Mobility is not the same as control
Most people arrive with a folder of stretches. Stretching increases available range. It does very little to improve your ability to control that range under load — and uncontrolled range is not an asset. It is a joint with more places to go wrong.
This is why the hypermobile patient who stretches constantly stays sore. They do not need more range. They need the strength to own the range they already have.
What we are actually testing
- Can you produce force? Straight strength testing at the relevant joint.
- Can you control it? Slow eccentric loading, single-limb work, positions where you cannot cheat.
- Can you repeat it? Endurance, because most back pain shows up at hour six of a day, not rep one.
- Does it hold under fatigue? Where the pattern breaks down is usually where the symptom lives.
The honest part
The exercise portion of care is where results come from, and it is the part patients skip. We know that. So we prescribe less than we could, we make it specific, and we ask about it every visit — not to nag, but because a program nobody does is a plan that does not exist.
How it runs
Find the failure, not the weakness
A weak muscle and a muscle that is not being recruited look identical on a strength test and need completely different work. We test which one you have.
Prescribe three things
Three or four movements, not twenty. Compliance with a short program beats a comprehensive one nobody opens. We would rather you do a little every day than everything once.
Load it progressively
The dose changes every two weeks. Tissue adapts to what you ask of it, and asking the same thing for six weeks stops producing change after the second.
Hand it over
By discharge you should know what to do when it flares, what to do to keep it away, and how to progress on your own. That is the deliverable.
Corrective exercise
What people ask about this.
Is this just physical therapy?
There is real overlap, and that is fine. The difference in practice is integration — the exercise is chosen to support what the adjustment and soft tissue work are doing that week, and it changes as those findings change. For complex post-surgical or neurological rehab, we refer to a physical therapist, because that is their depth.
I have tried exercises before and they did not help.
The most common reasons are that the exercise addressed a weakness you did not have, or the dose never progressed. A stretch that felt good in week one and identical in week eight was not doing anything by week three.
How long until I notice something?
Neurological changes — control, coordination, how a movement feels — show up in two to three weeks. Genuine tissue capacity takes six to twelve. Most people notice the first well before the second.
What if I have no time?
Then we prescribe for the time you actually have. Eight minutes done daily outperforms forty minutes done twice. Tell us the real number.
New patient special — $59 New Patient Visit
Not sure corrective exercise is what you need?
That is exactly what the first visit determines. If the exam points somewhere else, we will tell you — and if it points outside this clinic, we will refer you.
Columbus, OH · Same-week appointments · Most insurance accepted