In order to maximize your outcomes, a detailed postural assessment will be performed on your initial visit and re-assessed throughout your treatment. We will take your picture from several angles, upload your picture into our Posture Screen Mobile App, and send you a detailed report via email about your specific measurements. Postural imbalances are often the underlying culprit that inhibits you from feeling your best. Identifying and correcting imbalances will not only improve your posture but will allow you to maximize your potential.

The ability to perform functional movements well such as squatting, reaching, and bending are essential to allow you to enjoy day to day and recreational activities pain-free. A functional movement assessment will identify limitations and imbalances that contribute to faulty movement patterns.

Joint and muscle pain is a very common complaint that can be treated with manual therapy. Joint mobilization is utilized to relieve joint pain, improve mobility, and improve physical function. Soft tissue mobilization addresses restrictions in the muscle and myofascial tissue to improve tissue mobility.

Therapeutic massage can be a useful tool in managing chronic conditions, headaches, and conditions such as fibromyalgia. Therapeutic massage focuses on improving tissues that are contributing to faulty posture and mechanics to help decrease strain on the body and improve your overall well being.

Balanced Body Rehab is excited to offer massage therapy. Katy Miller-Cronin is a licensed massage therapist. Katy studied at the Healing Arts Center here in St. Louis MO. She focuses on myofascial release.

From Swedish to deep tissue our massage therapist can customize your session to focus on your specific concerns. Focusing on the deeper layers of the muscles without going past the point of resistance by using stronger pressure to release chronic patterns of tension and break patterns of tension and break cycles of pain and muscle spasm.

Our goal at Balanced Body Rehab is to make you an expert on your body. We strive to provide you with the education needed to assess your mechanics to allow you to identify the limiting factor(s) and treat appropriately.

We can determine if an orthotic is needed to provide you the necessary support and improve your alignment. If necessary, we can create a custom orthotic in our office.

Balanced Body Rehab has strong relationships with many of the best St. Louis personal trainers. If you choose to work with a personal trainer to take your fitness to the next level, we are happy to communicate with your personal trainer to ensure you have the best possible program. Good communication between personal trainers and our team helps trainers to know weak areas and imbalances to work on with you. Having that extra pair of eyes and hands working with you, in turn, can let us know when issues or problems occur during workouts that we wouldn't see in the clinic.

Good symmetrical walking or running with a properly aligned body is essential to avoid excessive or inappropriate wear on the body's muscles and joints. We offer video analysis to help you to see imbalances or weakness that may be impairing your ability to walk or run without pain or problems.

Taping is a great tool with a variety of ways to assist, enhance, support, or relieve pain. We are versed in a wide assortment of taping techniques and can teach them for self-management at home as well.

Good ergonomic posture and habits are absolutely essential in our modern workplace environment if you wish to avoid neck and back pain and long-term complications. We can come to your workplace to do individual postural analysis, check seating and desk setups, as well as teach good principles and habits so you can better manage the stresses of a workday.

We strive to give you all the educational tools you need to keep your body in the best possible shape. However, sometimes life gets in the way, and your focus can naturally drift away from yourself and your pain/condition returns. To prevent this from happening, many of our patients choose to see our therapists every so often for “tune-up” sessions.

A tune-up session typically includes:

• Review of your prior postural imbalances, movement problems, or weak areas
• Brief assessment of your current state
• Review or advancement of your current home exercise program
• Manual therapy to correct areas that you find difficult to correct yourself

Ergonomics is "fitting the job to the worker." No matter what work you do, ergonomics plays an important role in preventing occupational injury and illness. We provide ergonomic evaluations, assessments, and modification plans.

The evaluation involves observing you performing typical tasks, and then adjusting the workstation as needed (such as modifying a seating system, computer workstation, lifting tasks, adding biomechanical breaks, etc. ).

Ever feel like you just want someone to stretch you? Our over-qualified staff of licensed therapists will be more than happy to help you get limbered up and moving better with a full body stretch session. We use a variety of techniques including active-release technique, PNF (proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation), and breathing techniques to ensure we are getting the max possible stretch of your tissues without injury. Call us today to get stretched!

Are you wanting to get back into the gym but afraid of getting hurt? Our movement experts can teach you the basics of correct technique, preparation, and dosage for all types of exercise. We will give you knowledge to feel confident with your exercise plan. If you would like to have more one-on-one coaching in the specific setting you desire, we have great relationships with many St. Louis personal trainers that we can connect you with.

Why wait to get hurt? Our physical therapists offer what we call the “Prevent Defense”. We perform a detailed interview of your daily activities, work requirements, and fitness/sport pursuits. We help you determine key things you need to be aware of, given your specific imbalances, to prevent injury and enjoy your desired activities. Our therapists will provide you a “Ten-Minute Tune-up” exercise list that is less than ten minutes to perform prior to vigorous activity that will minimize your risk of strains/sprains and maximize your fun.

Dry Needling is a treatment performed by our skilled, trained physical therapists, certified in the procedure. A thin monofilament needle penetrates the skin and treats underlying muscular trigger points for the management of neuromusculoskeletal pain and movement impairments. This is a great augment to our other manual therapy procedures. It helps modulate (calm down) the nervous system to allow us to advance to the next level of manual therapy or exercise to get you better faster.

Instrument assisted soft tissue mobilization (IASTM) is a popular treatment for myofascial restriction. IASTM uses specially designed instruments to provide a mobilizing effect to scar tissue and myofascial adhesions. Our physical therapists are trained in IASTM techniques like the Graston® technique and we use a variety of IASTM tools in the office to get you feeling and moving better.