About Health and Wellness Physical Therapy

Health and Wellness Physical Therapy is a small Holistic physical therapy office where we pride ourselves on are one on one service. We are a boutique establishment that helps you find the root cause of your physical discomfort. Using a mixture of high tech and high touch to get you the best results. We are located in West Orange, NJ. Check us out on our web page, www.HWBoutiquePT.com We offer: Menu of Services

1. Lymphatic Manual Drainage –light skin-stretched therapy that helps promote the movement of lymphatic fluid out of the swollen limb. Manual lymphatic drainage is specifically focused on the lymph vessels to help the flow of lymphatic fluid. The key benefits of Manual Lymphatic Drainage: deep relaxation, decongestive (removes lymphoedema), pain relieving, improves wound healing and scarring, detoxifying. It’s a very gentle technique that helps to promote relaxation, immune function and reduce edema (buildup fluid) in the body. It has a calming effect to the nervous system due to the repetitive rhythmic sequence.
2. Cold Laser Therapy is low-intensity laser therapy that stimulates healing while using low levels of light. Light reaches the mitochondria of each cell, stimulating production of ATP, the body’s only usable energy source. Injured cells and tissues have a decreased ability to produce ATP. ATP is used by cells, tissues, and organs to detoxify, regenerate and rebuild themselves, which is why cold laser has a proven ability to magnify the body’s natural healing power. Significant Advantages of Cold Laser Therapy: reduces pain, increases cell growth, decreases inflammation, stimulates nerve function, reduces scar tissue, accelerates would healing, increases metabolic activity, increases collagen and elasticity, increases cell detoxification
3. Pulsed Electromagnetic Frequency Therapy – PEMF therapy pulses a magnetic field into the body, creating an extraordinary healing effect by re-energizing damaged cells. PEMF therapy is FDA approved for bone loss, pain and swelling relief after surgery, and depression relief. It has been used for 20 years in Europe helping individuals who experience migraines, sports injures, in addition to other pain syndromes. It does amazing things for the body: from regenerating damaged and diseased tissue to repairing from tendons and fractured bones. It does this by: improving circulation by opening arteries and capillaries, increasing oxygen levels in your cells, reducing pain, swelling and inflammation, stimulating endorphins and serotonin for cellular repair, working as a catalyst in increasing bone density and muscle mass
4. Cupping Therapy Session –is an ancient form of complementary medicine. Cupping is a safe, traditional treatment that helps resolve chronic muscle tightness and pain faster than massage therapy alone. Cupping therapy is a great modality to relive pain, inflammation, increase blood flow, promote relaxation and well-being, release fascial restrictions. From Olympic athletes to pregnant pop-stars, people are rediscovering the benefits of cupping. There are many other benefits of cupping such as: clear congestion and help treat asthma, can improve varicose veins and spider veins, reduces stretch marks and scars, reduces anxiety, improve digestion
5. Reflexology– is a type of therapy that involves applying different amounts of pressure to the feet and hands which affects the peripheral nervous system that gives signals to the central nervous system and boosts immunity. The benefits of Reflexology are vast and amazing such as: improving blood circulation, reducing stress and anxiety, reducing pain, lifting mood, improving general well-being, clearing up sinus issues, getting over colds and bacterial infections faster, boosting fertility, improving digestion, easing arthritis pain, helps with peripheral neuropathy
6. Rock Taping– is an elastic tape applied to your problem areas and provides sensory input, but still allows for full range of motion
7. Breath Normalization with Halotherapy Salt Booth Treatment–dry salt therapy is a holistic, drug free natural therapy using micro particles of salt to promote better breathing and alleviate symptoms of many respiratory conditions, promotes healthier skin, more sound sleep, improved physical fitness, endurance and overall wellness. It is combined with breath training to increase the efficiency of your breathing and give you more energy for your life.
8. The Kade Method Therapy – is a combination of art and science to benefit the patient. Utilizing variety of techniques such as: myofascial release, craniosacral therapy, visceral manipulation, neuro-manipulation therapy, muscle energy technique, total body balancing therapy, breath normalization therapy, manual articular approach. Such integrative approach allows each patient to achieve their individual health goals. The benefits of this hands on one on one therapy session are resulting in your body releasing tension and dysfunction, improving whole-body health and performance, restoring fluid motion to the affected joint or soft tissue with the focus on better overall movement, improving flexibility and mobility of muscle and fascia, provides muscle extensibility and oxygenation of internal organs, reducing pain via inhibition of muscle spasm which reduces tension on the periarticular structures, lowering intraarticular pressure and reducing nociceptor activity
9. Stretching Session- The participant will be assisted in performing a 30 minute Active Isolated style stretch session one on one with our therapist. The routine will be performed on our state of the art treatment tables with the participant sitting, lying face up and lying face down. They can make the stretches as intense or as relaxing as they want by varying their amount of participation. The session may be combined with one of the services below for a more complete treatment for an additional charge.
10. Get Back in Action! The participant will receive a 20 minute Physical Therapy Assessment withComputerized Postural Analysis and 20 minute Cupping Massage of the Back finishing with an application of Kinesio Tape to one area.
11. Myofascial Massage Choose from 30 minute single or packaged sessions where skilled therapists perform Myofascial in order to relieve tension in muscles and loosen tight fascial tissue. A myofascial massage uses a series of long slow strokes and extended stretches to release tight fascia that can contribute to tightness throughout the body. Our therapist are highly talented and one has achieved the Master level from the John Barnes Myofascial Institute
12. Visceral Manipulation VM The purpose of VM is to recreate, harmonize, and increase proprioceptive communication in the body to enhance its internal mechanism for better health, thereby revitalizing a person, and relieving symptoms of pain, dysfunction, and poor posture. Visceral Manipulation treats a person's functional and structural imbalances with an aim to affect their musculoskeletal, vascular, nervous, respiratory, digestive, and lymphatic dysfunction.
13. Craniosacral therapy (CST) is a gentle hands-on technique that uses a light touch to examine membranes and movement of the fluids in and around the central nervous system. Relieving tension in the central nervous system promotes a feeling of well-being by eliminating pain and boosting health and immunity