Physical therapy here isn’t an add-on to chiropractic care: something the chiropractor recommends and someone else carries out. Our physical therapists have full clinical autonomy. They evaluate your case independently, build their own treatment plan, and coordinate directly with a chiropractor only when your case actually calls for it.
How Your Treatment Plan Gets Built
Your first visit is a full evaluation: movement patterns, strength, mobility limits, and an honest look at what’s actually driving your symptoms rather than just where they show up. From there, your PT builds a plan around your specific goals, whether that’s returning to a sport, rebuilding strength after surgery, or simply getting through your day without pain.
If your case would benefit from chiropractic care alongside PT, that conversation happens directly between your providers here, not through a note passed between departments.
Who We Treat at This Location
Our Lakewood physical therapy patients include:
- People recovering from sports and overuse injuries
- Post-surgical patients rebuilding strength
- Auto accident patients working through soft tissue injuries
- People dealing with chronic tightness from long hours at a desk
We also see patients from Wheat Ridge and the surrounding area who find this location the more convenient option. A patient recovering from a sports injury and a patient recovering from a car accident might both describe shoulder pain at intake, but the underlying mechanics, and the right treatment, usually look nothing alike.
Why the Plan Changes as You Go
A patient who comes in three days after a fall needs something very different in week one than a patient six weeks into recovering from surgery. Rather than starting everyone on the same generic protocol, we build backward from where you actually are: what hurts right now, what’s already improved, and what’s realistically next. That starting point shifts your whole plan, not just the first exercise.
More Than Stretches and Bands
Depending on what your evaluation shows, your plan here might include:
- Hands-on manual therapy
- Functional dry needling
- Blood flow restriction therapy to help build strength with lighter loads during early-stage recovery
- A home exercise program built around your specific strength imbalances and mobility deficits
- Education on safe movement patterns and injury prevention
- Pain management strategies specific to your condition
- Shockwave
- Laser
None of these get added by default. If your case responds well to a simpler approach, that’s what we’ll stick with.
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The Part of the Evaluation People Don't Expect
Most patients expect us to test strength. Fewer expect us to watch how they walk, squat, or reach overhead before we’ve talked about exercises at all. That’s deliberate. A shoulder that’s technically strong but moving through a compensated pattern will keep reinjuring itself no matter how much stronger it gets, so we address the pattern first.
Our Process
Everything starts with evaluation: assessing strength, range of motion, and movement patterns to understand what’s actually limiting you, then setting a plan around specific, measurable goals.
As you progress, the plan changes with you. What’s difficult in week one should be manageable by week four. If chiropractic care would speed up recovery, that conversation happens with you directly, in plain terms.
Why Accelerate Health for Physical Therapy
The clinical autonomy our physical therapists have here isn’t incidental. It’s the reason treatment adapts quickly to what’s actually happening with your body instead of waiting on direction from another provider. That responsiveness matters most in the middle of a recovery, when your needs are changing week to week.
We treat PT as a full discipline in its own right, not a secondary service tacked onto chiropractic care. If physical therapy is the right starting point for your case, that’s exactly where treatment begins.
Why Home Exercises Matter Between Visits
What happens between appointments often matters as much as what happens during them. We build home exercise programs that are realistic for your actual schedule. A simpler plan you’ll actually follow beats an ambitious one that gets skipped.
How We Tell You're Actually Improving
We’re specific with patients about what “better” means for their case: a specific range-of-motion number, a specific weight they can lift pain-free, a specific activity they can do again without modification. Vague check-ins like “how are you feeling” don’t tell us much. Concrete markers do, and they’re what we use to decide when to progress your plan or hold steady.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. You can schedule directly with a physical therapist. If your case would benefit from chiropractic care too, we’ll have that conversation as your treatment progresses.
Our physical therapists build and adjust your plan based on their own clinical judgment, not a chiropractor’s direction.
Sports injuries, post-surgical recovery, auto accident injuries, chronic pain from posture or repetitive strain, and general strength or mobility goals.
That depends on your specific goals and how your body responds. We build plans around outcomes, not a fixed number of pre-sold visits.
Not for standard physical therapy care. If your case calls for our regenerative medicine program, that’s based at this Lakewood office as well.
Tell us that directly during your evaluation. Often the issue isn’t whether PT is right for the condition. It’s the specific approach, diagnosis, or pace of progression used previously.
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That kind of tracking is what individualized care actually looks like in practice, not just a phrase we use to describe ourselves. Whether you’re recovering from a recent injury, working through a longstanding chronic issue, or just trying to move better day to day, a physical therapy evaluation is the right place to start.