Lifestyle Medicine
Preventive Physical Therapy
Do you want to live a healthier, longer, and more active life? You deserve excellent preventative health care. With our evidence-based practice and the very latest research-based treatments, we’ll help you reach and even exceed your health goals.
Preventative physical therapy is especially important for anyone who is:
- Unsure how to safely exercise
- Out of shape or overweight
- Already dealing with aches and pains
- Struggling with a chronic disease
- Unable to do the activities they love
The Lifestyle Medicine program at Life’s Work Physical Therapy is designed to prevent age-related orthopedic pain and other health issues, so that you can live a healthy, active life at any age.
Ready to get on track to better health?
Call 503-295-2585 or contact us today to make an appointment.
Why Is Lifestyle Medicine Important?
It can help prevent more serious injuries.
It’s easy and cost effective.
It can break the cycle of chronic pain.
Are you dealing with long-term pain that’s holding you back from living the life you want? We’re experts at treating chronic and complex pain so you can get back to living.
It puts you in control of your health.
What to Expect
Our Approach to Preventative Physical Therapy
At Life’s Work, we look deeper than surface level symptoms to understand how your entire body is working as a system. This allows us to identify the underlying causes of complex pain and injuries. We can even address early-stage problems that aren’t causing pain yet.
Our “Do What Works” approach allows us to use the latest, evidenced-based practices to develop a personalized treatment plan just for you. Our commitment to kind, compassionate customer service helps our clients leave each appointment feeling motivated and excited to improve their health.
Comprehensive Physical Assessments
Our goal is to detect problems and treat them before they affect your quality of life. That’s why we developed a comprehensive, annual orthopedic physical called the AGING STRONG Assessment. It’s a full body, head to toe assessment of your health, including factors like:
- Strength
- Flexibility
- Power
- Balance
- Coordination
- Injury risk
- Lifestyle needs around hydration, nutrition, and exercise
- Mortality risk
- Cardiovascular fitness
At the end of your 80 minute session, you’ll have a full understanding of how your body is functioning and the specific steps you can take to improve your health.
Preventative Physical Therapy Treatment
You and your physical therapist will talk about the results of your assessment together. We’ll give you individualized recommendations for exercise, nutrition, disease prevention, and actions you can take to meet your health goals.
If you’re dealing with pain, or your health assessment reveals a potential problem, we will work with you to build a personalized treatment plan to help you recover. Our emphasis on orthopedic manual therapy allows us to begin physically treating injuries at your first appointment. In fact, most clients report less pain after only one session.
Let’s work together to prevent age-related orthopedic pain, so you can age greatly, not just gracefully!
Three Convenient Locations
Phone: 503-295-2585
Fax: 503-295-2587
SW Portland
9450 SW Barnes Road
Suite 100
Portland, OR 97225
NE Portland
700 NE Multnomah Street
Suite 400
Portland, OR 97232