Physical Therapy
Ease pain while improving movement and strength with physical therapy at UNC Health Rockingham. Access first-rate service close to home in Eden, North Carolina.
How Physical Therapy Can Help You
When you’re in pain or cannot move around easily, you want to feel better and get back to the activities you enjoy. Try physical therapy services at UNC Health Rockingham to help:
- Build strength and flexibility
- Ease pain
- Improve balance
- Increase range of motion and mobility
- Reduce inflammation and swelling
Conditions Benefiting from Physical Therapy
Count on your physical therapists (PT) to thoroughly evaluate and treat a wide range of health conditions, injuries, and discomfort. Get care to improve chronic pain, endurance, mobility, and stiffness problems, such as:
- Hip and knee pain
- Low back and neck pain
- Sports sprains and strains
- Arthritis
- Cancer-related pain
- Dizziness, vertigo, and balance problems
- Heart attack
- Myofascial pain
- Neurological conditions, including multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, spinal cord injury, stroke, and traumatic brain injury
- Scoliosis
Tailored Assessment & Treatment
After your complete evaluation, you’ll get a customized care plan to guide your therapy. PTs at UNC Health Rockingham have high-level training in manual therapy and advanced treatment techniques. You may have one or more of the following physical therapy treatments:
- Electrical stimulation
- Heat and cold
- Manipulations and mobilization
- Massage
- Taping techniques to support and heal muscles and joints
Specialty Physical Therapy Care
You’ll find focused treatments at UNC Health Rockingham to match your specialized physical therapy needs and get you back to the activities you love.
Certified Spine Specialists
Get effective management of your low back and neck pain using the McKenzie method of mechanical diagnosis and therapy (MDT). It focuses on movements and posture to strengthen your body’s own ability to repair and heal itself. Your trained, certified therapist will:
- Complete an assessment of your symptoms and movements
- Classify your condition
- Prescribe specific exercises and postures
- Teach you injury prevention and self-treatment
Treat scoliosis without surgery using customized scoliosis exercises from the Schroth Technique. It’s a treatment to stop curve progression, improving posture, and decreasing pain.
Dry Needling
During dry needling, your physical therapist inserts a very thin needle through your skin to a trigger point (sensitive area of your muscle) to:
- Decrease pain
- Improve muscle flexibility
- Reduce inflammation and aid healing
- Release tension
Ask your physical therapist if dry needling could benefit for your pain or muscle-related conditions.
Complete Sports Rehabilitation
Turn to our experienced physical therapists with advanced certifications in exercise and orthopedics for sports care and rehabilitation. Athletes of all ages and levels—recreational, elite, collegiate, and professional—rely on UNC Health Rockingham for treatment and services, including:
- Injury prevention
- Rehabilitation and return to activities after surgery
- Running and sports biomechanics
- Youth sports rehabilitation
Postsurgical Therapy
Choose UNC Health Rockingham for the best available treatment and recovery services after your surgery. If you have a total joint replacement, you may receive care from a PT at the hospital, in skilled rehabilitation, and at our outpatient rehabilitation center.
Vestibular Rehabilitation
Reduce dizziness and vertigo while enhancing your balance with vestibular (balance) rehabilitation. Your personalized exercise therapy plan will help you restore your health and improve stability.
Community Outreach & Education
You’ll find our dedicated PTs providing care at sporting events and community education to schools, sports teams, student athletes, and coaches.
