Physical Therapy for Complex, Challenging Cases
Welcome to the physical therapy practice of Dr. Jake Caldwell, DPT, CFMT. At Primitive Therapy we specialize in working with complex and challenging cases through the practice of manual therapy - the art of using one’s hands to heal the body. The human body and its pains are complicated and highly individualized. When it comes to your body and your pain, you need treatment that is tailored to your exact needs. At Primitive Therapy you get one-on-one care directly from your physiotherapist for the entirety of your care.
One of the first questions people ask is, "Why Primitive Therapy?" The quick answer is that so-called 'primitive' things are actually highly sophisticated. The answers aren't in advanced technology or the latest and greatest fads, but in the time honored skills that have been developed since prehistoric times. Most of our patients have already been treated by numerous healthcare professionals but have not received the relief that they desired. The standard, cookie-cutter approach to treatment hasn't worked, so we look outside the box to the skilled, careful technique of manual therapy.
If you have a complicated problem, then Primitive Therapy is the place for you.
If you have a complicated problem, then Primitive Therapy is the place for you.
A Different Way to Do Therapy
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At Primitive Therapy, we practice the art of manual therapy, which is the use of the hands to heal the body. Most healthcare providers offer little, if any, hands-on therapy yet it is often the only thing that can get to the root causes of many problems. A therapist’s hands can do so many things to help muscles, tendons, ligaments, joints, and even nerves and blood vessels. At Primitive Therapy, we spend almost the entirety of every session performing manual therapy for our patients.
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Even more important, and overlooked, than manual therapy, is neuromuscular reeducation -- the art of helping the body remember how to move after improvements in movement have been made -- and it’s the most important thing we do for our patients. It's one thing to help the body move and feel better, but another thing to help it stay that way. Very often the gains made during standard therapy disappear because the body is not taught to remember how to move. If you have pain that keeps coming back, then this is probably the missing component to how you've been managing your pain.
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Home exercises are also vitally important for long-term results and success, but no one has time for dozens of exercises everyday. At Primitive Therapy we put a great deal of effort into selecting one or two exercises that will make a real difference for you. We don't have pre-determined exercises that are given to all people with low back pain. Each person’s situation is unique, so what is good for one person can be disastrous for another. We create a unique home exercise program for the person right in front of us to meet their specific needs.
A TESTAMENT TO OUR METHOD
Multiple patients have gone on to win high school cross-country events after receiving manual therapy combined with neuromuscular reeducation and an individualized home exercise program from Primitive Therapy.
One of the leading orthopedic specialists in the region refers his challenging cases that don’t respond to the standard methods of care to Primitive Therapy. These difficult cases give us the chance to do what we do best!
Multiple patients have gone on to win high school cross-country events after receiving manual therapy combined with neuromuscular reeducation and an individualized home exercise program from Primitive Therapy.
One of the leading orthopedic specialists in the region refers his challenging cases that don’t respond to the standard methods of care to Primitive Therapy. These difficult cases give us the chance to do what we do best!
