What to Expect on Your First PT Appointment

We start by taking a detailed history of your current and past symptoms and medical history. This allows us to rule out red flags, hone in on what we need to evaluate, and make sure we know how painful/irritable your symptoms might be so we can make you feel comfortable throughout the process.

Next, we do our baseline assessment of how you move, range of motion, strength, mobility, and functional activities. Using this information, we start to form a hypothesis of what might be causing your symptoms and what we need to address.

We will often follow this up by testing your symptom response to different types of movement to help us confirm or deny what we think is going on. Once we have a better idea of what is contributing to your symptoms, we explain what is going on, start treatment, and give you things to work on until our follow-up appointment.

We decide when it is appropriate to follow up to re-assess and progress. Usually, this is within 2-7 days of the initial appointment.