Our Services
Functional Dry Needing
Dry needling eases both muscle tightness and helps increase your range of motion. After locating your muscle's trigger point, our physical therapist can relieve your soreness by inserting a tiny, empty needle directly into it. This causes blood to flush out the area and release tension. Dry needling often is coupled with other treatments, such as ultrasound, exercises, and neuromuscular electoral stimulation.
Manual Therapy
Manual therapy serves to aid acute injuries, such as strains, and it also beneficial for managing chronic pain issues. It is also used for rehabilitation. Treatments includes massaging, passive stretching, and joint manipulation. It is more hands on than any other treatment you would receive while at Esslinger Physical Therapy.
Therapeutic Cupping
Esslinger Physical Therapy uses therapeutic cupping to help ease back, knee, and neck pain as well as discomfort caused by arthritis. The cup creates a suction that pulls skin upward which draws healing fluids to the area. By flushing the area with new blood, the cupping makes an environment perfect for the healing of your injury.
Aquatic Therapy
Countless benefits are available to you through the treatment of aquatic therapy. Because eighty percent of your body weight is lifted while standing in chest deep water, tremendous pressure is taken off of your joints, allowing you to exercise without additional pain. It reduces the risk of falling and reinjury. The pool's heat also helps relax tight muscles. With these benefits and more, aquatic therapy is used to treat a wide array of conditions. Esslinger Physical Therapy is the only clinic that has access to this treatment in our area.
ASTYM
ASTYM is a treatment designed to help speed up your recovery process by encouraging your body to heal itself. By using techniques such as scraping, and stretching and utilizing specialized tools, your physical therapist is able to remove unhealthy tissues from the place of your injury and increase circulation. This treatment is beneficial for those with tennis elbow, chronic neck pain, rotator cuff tear, and more.
Vestiblar Rehab
Vestibular Therapy is meant to help you manage dizziness and better your balance. This therapy reduces your risk of falling, increases your body strength, and enables you to stabilize your vision.
Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation
Otherwise known as heat and buzzing or more officially E-Stim, neuromuscular electrical stimulation uses electrical currents to target muscles or nerves. It can be used for chronic pain and acute pain. By sending signals through nerve fibers, E-Stim is able to stop or reduce pain. It is most commonly used at the end of your treatment so that you leave feeling better than when you came.
Geriatric Physical Therapy
The focus of geriatric physical therapy is to build strength and endurance. By various exercises that can be done in the clinic as well as at home, geriatric physical therapy can keep muscles from deconditioning, decrease the risk of falls and injuries, and help maintain independence in daily life.
Sports Injuries rehab
We treat sprains, strains, and tears, but more importantly, we also help you recognize risk factors and help you prevent them in the future. Treatments may include heat and ice, ASTYM, electric stimulation, exercises, manual therapy and more. As an athlete, you have goals to reach and personal records to break. You plan to excel, and you need rehab that helps you return to performing at your best.
Blood Flow Restriction (BFR Training)
BFR training is used to help increase muscle gain without having to increase the intensity of your workout. Using an elastic band strapped around your arm or leg, we can trick your body into thinking it is working harder than it actually is. It limits the blood and oxygen going to your muscles causing them to be stressed as if you were lifting heavy weights. This method helps prevent muscle loss in those who are less mobile or cannot lift heavy weights, typically a need for those going into or recovering from surgery.
Running Form Analysis
By using video analysis, we can break down your running form and formulate an exercise program to correct and optimize your form. The goal is to help you reach maximum efficiency while you run and to prevent injury by correcting your gait. (Coming soon)
Women's Health
While Esslinger Physical Therapy does not have a physical therapist who specializes in women health, we can refer you to Carlee Hawkins, DPT, CLT-LANA who rents a room at Esslinger Physical Therapy to see her patients. Hawkin's Physical Therapy and Lymphedema treats pelvic disorders, orthopedic, and lymphedema.
To see a complete list of services, visit her website at
HAWKINS PHYSICAL THERAPY - Hawkins Physical Therapy and Lymphedema
If you wish to set up an appointment, contact her at (402) 204-0882.
Custom Orthotics
Esslinger Physical Therapy cares about helping you improve the quality of your life. That is why we sell custom orthotics. Your feet are extremely important to your body motion and function. If your joints, muscles and tendons in your feet are not operating correctly then you are at risk of pain elsewhere in your ankles, knees, and lower back. Custom orthotics help you combat this by correcting your foot imbalances and giving you the support you need. They enable you to stand, walk, and run for longer periods and help prevent and protect you from injuries. At Esslinger Physical Therapy, we can take an imprint of your feet and send it to a ProLab Orthotics to create your very own custom orthos. The cost of this service is $325.00 with no hidden fees.
Call us at 402-694-6305 to set up an appointment!