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Physical Therapy

At the beginning of 2002, Central Texas Pediatric Orthopedics began a pediatric and adolescent orthopedic and sports physical therapy program. The program is currently implemented by Kevin McHorse, PT and Lauren Whitehouse, PT. Our program is designed to help young people return to daily activities and sports quickly and safely, with emphasis on correcting poor mechanics and preventing future injury. Our goal is to teach the young athlete the importance of taking an active role in their recovery and developing long term habits of taking care of their body. We try to minimize office visits and passive modalities while emphasizing home exercise programs that can be easily worked into the patient’s daily schedule. For active athletes, we also try to communicate with coaches and trainers to help the transition back to sports go smoothly and quickly. It is important that coaches understand that a gradual return after injury will be more effective long term, than allowing the athlete to go full speed on the first day back at practice. For this reason we develop athlete specific return to sports programs.

At CTPO we also take special interest in the treatment of adolescent back pain using the McKenzie Method of Diagnosis and Treatment. Like the general sports programs, the McKenzie Method emphasizes self treatment of back pain and prevention of future problems. The McKenzie Method is recognized world wide as one of the most effective treatments for back pain. We have had overwhelming success applying this method of diagnosis and treatment to young people and at last count the average number of office visits for back pain was about four per patient.

The CTPO physical therapy program is available to all patients with a referral from your primary care physician, orthopedist or one of our physicians. Should you have any questions regarding physical therapy or the treatment of sports injuries please contact our office.

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