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Here at The Manual Method Physical Therapy we employ the Manual Method, hands on 1:1 with a skilled PT assessing all manner of compensation and truly getting down to the root that led to the injury in the first place.

Manual Method

The Manual Method is a unique treatment technique to address multiple different body systems. Most physical therapy is simply massage and exercise. The Manual Method encompasses much more. It is working with your body’s natural resources, including your nervous system, digestive, diaphragmatic breathing, hormones and joint mechanics. Injuries do not happen in a vacuum. The more chronic an injury is, the more involved/ stressed our body systems become. The Manual Method uses multiple different modalities to include Cranial Sacral, Myofascial Release, Strain Counterstrain, Muscle Energy, nervous system modulation via the Vagus nerve and sympathetic trunk, and traditional orthopedic treatments to make sure we are addressing the whole picture. Every patient that walks through our doors, is more than just their injury. Let us at RDB Physical therapy show you what the Manual Method can do for you!

The Importance of the Pelvis

The pelvis is the foundation. The role of the pelvis is to be stable but mobile and absorb shock with our daily activities. Once we lose this ability, we begin to see compensations. This transfers our shock absorbing capacity of the pelvis to ankles/knees/hip joints and lower lumbar spine increasing the demand and leading to abnormal wear and tear. Hypomobility can be linked with a number of different factors, and your pain may be completely elsewhere but the original dysfunction started at the pelvis. Just treating your ankle, knee or even shoulder pain may be putting a band-aide on the end result. So if you have been dealing with the same chronic injury, or had an injury treated then another injury elsewhere emerged, then that means we are still looking for the original cause. Other therapies only treat the symptoms, not the root.  Here at RDB we employ the Manual Method, hands on 1:1 with a skilled PT assessing all manner of compensations and truly getting down to the root that led to the injury in the first place. Issues treated to include Back pain, neck pain, ankle, knee, hip, shoulder, post surgical and women’s health to include pregnancy, postpartum and endometriosis We not only look at the physical presentation but how the nervous system controls these presentations.  If you have questions, reach out and let us help you.

Rachael Brown

Rachael is the founder of The Manual Method Physical Therapy and the Manual Method. 

Rachael is a Reno native. She grew up playing sports and had her fair share of injuries and naturally fell into the world of physical therapy. Rachael always wanted to pursue physical therapy as a profession but it wasn’t until a head injury showed her what the art of physical therapy can do. When the numerous specialists couldn’t find the neat box that her symptoms fit into, she found a local physical therapist named Peter Barbieri. Peter truly treated the whole picture with an open mind.

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