Physical Therapy

Physical therapy is a healthcare profession specialized in treating musculoskeletal and neuromuscular dysfunctions in people of all ages. Physical impairments can cause pain and affect function as well as the ability to work, play sports, and perform on a daily basis. Physical therapists can facilitate the healing process and help you restore movement, regain function, and improve your overall quality of life. Physical therapy helps people heal and get back to a normal and pain-free life.

Integrative Medicine

Integrative medicine is healing-oriented and focuses on the person as a whole. At Gateway Rehab and Wellness Center, we strive to include the many aspects of your life and goals in order to find the best approach to improving your overall health.

Trigger Point Injections

Here at Gateway Rehab and Wellness Center, we are proud to offer trigger point injections for patients struggling with fibromyalgia, tension headaches, myofascial pain, and muscle pain in the arms, legs, lower back and neck.

During your appointment, we will locate the area where you are experiencing pain and inject small amounts of anesthetic and steroid to help alleviate your symptoms.

This procedure is safe and the risk of possible complications is very low. You may experience soreness or numbness at the injection site for a temporary period of time. While you should avoid strenuous activity for a few days, you should be able to actively use your muscles immediately following treatment.

Supartz

Knee pain is a debilitating condition that can deteriorate the protective fluid surrounding the knee joints. This can lead to more serious conditions including osteoarthritis. Increased activity levels can continue to reduce the joints’ protective cartilage and fluid, and osteoarthritis only speeds up the degeneration that occurs naturally over time.

Increase Energy Levels

Vitamin B12 is needed to convert carbohydrates (carbs) into useable glucose in the body. Glucose from high carb foods is used as a form of energy, which is why individuals with vitamin B12 deficiencies often experience fatigue.

Aids in Digestion & Weight Loss

Vitamin B12 helps to foster healthy bacteria within the gut environment. It aids in eliminating harmful bacteria thus preventing digestive disorders such as inflammatory bowel disease and Candida.

Prevents Memory Loss

Because of its role in nerve health neurotransmitter signaling, vitamin B12 benefits cognitive function and is used to lower the risk of neurodegenerative disease including Alzheimer’s disease and Dementia

Improves Sleep

Vitamin B12 is linked to the production of melatonin which controls our circadian rhythms (the bodily function that regulate sleep patterns). With an increase in Melatonin, we are able to improve our sleep.

Reduce Severity of Headaches/Migraines

Vitamin B12 plays an important role in boosting energy production inside nerve cells helping reduce the amount and severity of headaches/migraines.

Reduce Stress and Depression

Vitamin B12, is needed as a major determinate of one-carbon metabolism, which produces a compound called SAM. SAM is crucial for Dealing with stress, and mood regulation.

Needed for Healthy Skin & Hair

Vitamin B12 plays a major role in cell reproduction making it essential for healthy skin, hair and nails. Vitamin B12 benefits skin by reducing redness, dryness, inflammation, and acne blemishes. It helps nails to become strong and reduces hair breakage.

Plays a Role in Maintaining Heart Health

Vitamin B12 helps to reduce elevated homocysteine levels, which is considered a major risk factor for heart disease. Homocysteine is an amino acid and its levels in the blood are influenced by blood levels of B-complex vitamins, including B12.

Physical Medicine

Physical medicine deals with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of injuries by physical means such as manipulation, massage, and exercise often with mechanical devices, and the application of heat, cold, electricity, radiation, and water. The main goal of physical medicine is to give a patient the ability to function optimally. The focus is not on one part of the body, but instead on the development of a comprehensive program for putting the pieces of a person’s life back together – medically, socially, emotionally, and vocationally – after injury or disease. PM&R physicians manage issues that span the entire spectrum, from complicated multiple trauma to injury prevention for athletes.

Class IV Cold Laser

Cold laser therapy is a treatment that utilizes specific wavelengths of light to interact with tissue and help accelerate your healing process. Cold laser treatment can be used on people suffering from acute and chronic conditions in order to eliminate pain and swelling, increase functionality, and reduce spasms.

Our friendly and educated providers will hold the cold laser and place it directly on the injured area for a few minutes. At this time, the non-thermal photons of lights will be emitted from the laser and pass through the skin layers. The light has the ability to penetrate two to five centimeters below the skin at 90 mw and 830 nm.