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Your health insurance provider may change, but the RESULTS you have come to count on at Nick Rinard Physical Therapy never will!

Why sacrifice your quality of care, or put off care at the beginning of the year, when you don’t have to?

If you have question or concerns we are here to help by always checking your health insurance benefits and getting you the financial questions answered before your first visit.

Nick Rinard Physical Therapy is up-to-date on methods that make a difference!

We are so pleased that our MDT method is receiving more and more medical validation!

However, with more validation in the rehab community, Nick Rinard Physical Therapy has since noticed a trend of clinics advertising use of the method but none of their physical therapists were actually certified in MDT.

Nick Rinard Physical Therapist is certified in the methodology for the last 21 years.

1. The MDT history reveals the “nature of the pathology” better than taking a traditional history.  For example:  runners often attribute “running” as the cause of LBP.  MDT questioning, however, usually reveals that the LBP is better during the run, with pain commencing sometime after.  Further questioning reveals that it is typically the lumbar flexion involved in stretching the hamstrings afterwards that causes LBP!        

• The current understanding of tendonitis has caused a shift in medial thinking so much that a new term is now used for the chronic version:  “tendonosis” or “tendonopathy”.  These terms indicate that the condition is non-inflammatory – in other words, mechanical.  Only dosed, targeted mechanical loading causes tissue adaptation and functional recovery.  That is exactly how we have been treating chronic “tendonitis”!

Thank you for requesting the leading evidence-based physical therapy.

Call 503-244-6232/fax 503-244-7410 your referrals to Nick Rinard Physical Therapy today!

Nick Rinard Physical Therapy searched “McKenzie physical therapy Portland” to see which clinics advertised using this credentialed method.

We noticed a trend of clinics advertising use of the method but none of their physical therapists were actually certified in MDT. Nick Rinard Physical Therapist is certified in the methodology, has been for the last 20 years, and will always be prominent in the MDT community!

Strengthen your MVA case by visiting Nick Rinard Physical Therapy first!

Here is what patients said about how Nick Rinard helped them after a car accident:

“This was the third PT program I had been referred to since my MVA. This was the only one of three that is providing relief on a continuing, improving basis for my mid to high back pain.”   ~Paul

Some are more effective than others.

If you have had Physical Therapy, did it work?

 If you are going to Physical Therapy now, is it helping? If yes, you should continue until you are better.

However, if you are not getting better, or if they need Physical Therapy in the future, then you should read on.

Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy (MDT) has been shown in numerous scientific studies to be the most effective type of Physical Therapy available today. However, you and patients should know just what MDT is so you can be sure you are actually receiving it.

The MDT method does not rely on technological gadgets such as ultrasound or electrical stimulation commonly used in traditional Physical Therapy. There is little evidence to show that these machines actually help in recovery. Instead, Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy, as its name suggests, uses mechanical forces to centralize referred pain, and to correct the physical problem. Exercises designed specifically for each patient, affect pain immediately, and can be performed by the patient whenever pain arises.

Over a short time, these exercises heal the injury and allow full recovery. In our clinic, Nick Rinard Physical Therapy, the average number of visits is only six and a half!

-Specialized MDT training allows our physical therapists to target the cause of a patient’s pain, not just treat the symptoms.

-Patients see a physical therapist at each visit-never a PT Assistant. 

-Exercises are simple and can be done anywhere.  No gym, no binder full of exercises.  Most of our patients can control their symptoms with just one targeted exercise!