Pre and Post-Operative Rehabilitation

Optimized Outcome and Return to Function

You don’t have to wait until after surgery to get on the road to recovery. Research shows that working with a physical therapist before surgery can significantly reduce the amount of post-operative rehabilitation you’ll need. In addition to post-operative rehabilitation, we offer comprehensive pre-operative care aimed at helping you achieve faster recovery and better outcomes.

Our pre-operative and post-operative rehabilitation services are designed to help aid in the preparation for and recovery of a surgical procedure to ensure you achieve an optimal outcome and return to function. Your physical therapist will work in conjunction with you and your healthcare provider to design a plan of care tailored specifically to your needs and abilities.

Pre-Operative Physical Therapy

Working with a physical therapist before your surgical procedure has many benefits that lead to a faster and more optimal recovery.

Post-Operative Rehabilitation

Following your surgery, our therapists will evaluate and assess your unique situation and work with you to create a program catered specifically to your needs. Post-operative care is designed to promote healing, reduce pain and swelling, and increase your range of motion, strength, and overall functional ability to get moving sooner and recover faster.

Goals for PT After Surgery

Physical therapy is a safe treatment for people with acute or chronic pain. Physical therapists treat pain through movement, hands-on care, and patient education. Our chronic pain treatment can help with a range of conditions. You can expect to work with a therapist for 3-6 months total as you recover.

Pain control, swelling control, and general movement to help you achieve normal daily tasks more easily.

Improve movement, begin strengthening if allowed, and progress independence with daily tasks.

Further strength training to get back to a normal level of function and back to your goals for movement and activity.

What can I expect during my first visit?

Your recovery plan is driven by your story, so your physical therapist will listen, evaluate your condition, assess your baseline mobility and will work collaboratively with you to set personalized goals focused on improving your daily function and getting you back to the things you love.

Together you and your PT will design a plan of care that includes exercises that align with getting you on the road to recovery, as well as taking time to review precautions outlined by your surgeon to ensure proper healing.

What can I expect during follow-up appointments?

Wear stretchy or loose clothes so that as your PT begins guiding you on your pre-op and/or post-op journey you are comfortable moving around and your mobility is not restricted.

Your physical therapist will work with you to begin your treatment, which may include hands-on manual therapy, progressive exercises to strengthen and improve muscle control, stretches to increase mobility, education, or other methods to help expedite your recovery and return to full function.

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PT Cohort

The PT Cohort is a year-long program that includes four sessions (one per quarter). Each session includes a day of learning and professional development along with social events in the evening after each session.

The desired outcome of the PT Cohort is build connections with other PT and teammates, grow knowledge of the company, understand foundational clinical frameworks, learn about clinical growth opportunities, and feeling excited about the opportunity to align your role with your personal values.

Clinical Mentorship

We support therapists in building clinical practice skills such as differential diagnosis, assessment, and treatment. Mentorship also supports therapists in building a general professional skillset, including leading a team, schedule management, optimizing workflows, interprofessional relationship building and personal education plan development.

Our program offers a 1:1 mentorship with a fellowship trained certified mentor, scheduled study groups, and monthly office hours.

Orthopedic Residency Program

The most comprehensive and intensive clinical education program that Therapeutic Associates (TAI) offers is our Orthopedic Residency Program. Our mission is to deliver a high quality and sustainable Orthopedic Residency Program that facilitates the development of advanced learner providers with superior orthopedic clinical management skills.

Our goal is to create practitioners who become Board Certified in Orthopedics and who obtain specialty certification in Manual Therapy (NAIOMT CMPT) to better serve our patients. Residents broadly gain orthopedic and manual therapy skills and may specifically focus on an area of clinical interest that directs projects and other work.

DE&I Bridging the Gap Scholarship

The TAI Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Scholarship is an annual award offered to a minority who is currently attending or applying to a PT or PTA school and has been a TAI employee for at least 1 year, within the past 5 years.

The DE&I Bridging the Gap Scholarship will be awarded annually to 3 recipients in the amount of $1,500 per person.

Examples of a minority are but not limited to: Race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity/expression, religion, sexual preference, physical ability, age socioeconomic status, citizenship, weight, education, family or marital status.

Employee Service Scholarship

This Employee Service Scholarship Program is intended to support TAI teammates who engage in charitable service. TAI wants to support our teammates’ involvement in this work through financial investment, and to learn from and share these experiences as living practice of our core values.

James B. McKillip Scholarship

The James B. McKillip scholarship was established to support individuals pursuing a career in physical therapy and continue the growth of the profession. This scholarship seeks to honor Jim McKillip’s legacy and entrepreneurial heart by helping those looking to make a difference in the profession.

The McKillip family wishes to continue his legacy through the Jim McKillip scholarship. This scholarship seeks to support students who aspire to dedicate their careers to helping others as a physical therapy professional. This scholarship is held annually, with up to 6 scholarships awarded in the amount of $2,500 per person.

Student Dept Benefit Program

For employees that are eligible for the Student Debt Program and complete the requirements necessary to participate, Therapeutic Associates, Inc. will make payments directly to the employee’s selected eligible loan service provider.

This monthly payment made by Therapeutic Associates, Inc., is an additional payment designed to help employees pay their loans off faster and save on interest; employees are expected to continue making the minimum required monthly payments to their loan service provider even if their monthly payments are less than the program monthly payment.

Tuition Advancement Student Loan Reimbursement

TAI offers tuition advancement intended to supplement an employee’s existing financial support for professional development. The Pre-Professional Tuition Advancement Program is intended for existing employees pursuing a professional clinician pathway (DPT or PTA degree, most commonly).

Post-Professional Tuition Advancement

TAI is committed to helping our team members achieve personal mastery through educational endeavors (and otherwise). Specifically, we offer financial support for committed learning programs and examinations that align with our core culture and competencies.

The post-professional program is for existing employees embarking upon a learning endeavor that goes well beyond an annual con-ed stipend such as fellowship programs, MBA, and specialty certifications.