Entering the reception area for the first time was a clue to the treatment and service I would receive at FPT. The greeting was warm and accommodating, and after the first visit, those at the front desk knew who I was and greeted me warmly. And then I was introduced to Kristen, my therapist, who first got to know a little about me and my injury, and then went to work on exercises to help increase my range of motion and strengthen the repaired tissues following surgery. With each visit, Kristen’s first concern was to see how I was doing and then to begin working on the area where I needed therapy. I am grateful to say that after only three months, my shoulder is almost completely healed and back to normal. I want to thank Kristen and the entire office staff for their efficiency and care during this time of healing.

At my first appointment I was understandably nervous, not knowing what was going to happen.  The Pelvic Floor Therapy Rooms are in the back, so it’s nice and quiet and you have your privacy.  At that first appointment there was lots of talking, so that the therapist could get to know me, my history, my symptoms, etc., and I could get to know the therapist, and what to expect from my first treatment session.  The women who do the Pelvic Floor Therapy at FPT are awesome, I have had the experience to be able to work with three of them.  I started my treatments with Rachael, who has since moved on, Kristen took over my therapy when Rachael left, and I saw another woman when someone was on vacation.  They have all been very gentle and kind, and I feel like they know my body better than I do.  Just by asking me how I feel, they know exactly were the tense muscles are, and they can tell when they start relaxing.  They also know when I’m tense, even if I don’t, and they taught me breathing exercises to help during my therapy sessions.  These breathing exercises have crossed over into my everyday life.  My pain is worse when I’m stressed, so I use the breathing exercises to relax, and that helps the pain go away.  Before FPT, being intimate with my husband was extremely painful, to the point of being impossible, but with the therapy, my home care, and the breathing exercises, being intimate has become much less painful. I still have Pelvic Floor Dysfunction, I don’t know when I’ll be able to say I no longer have it, but FPT has taught me how to live with it, without being on pain killers and living in that pain killer fog.  I can honestly say that Folsom Physical Therapy has given me my life back.

I have had my share of Physical Therapy clinics, being one with a lombar 3 level fusion many yrs ago and a cervical fusion, not to mention a total knee replacement! Folsom Physical Therapy has been the ONLY PT clinic where I’ve seen a HUGE improvement in my pain level. They do a complete assessment of your issue and address it with their expertise. Other places will do ‘ultra sound’ heat pads, ice packs etc.. Not Folsom! They get you on their equipment, instruct you on how to use it effectively so you can ‘build up’ around the injured area while protecting it. It’s a place like no other in this entire area. Most of the medical community is familiar with them and have a great amount of respect for their success. It’s a place I have recommended to so many of my friends. But it’s also a place, you just have to go there as a patient and see it for yourself!