Therapy Services

Mountain Valley Therapy is the home of the ONLY on-site therapy pool in all of Union County. Boasting temperature controlled water, no invasive chemicals, varying pool depths, aquatic therapy equipment, and a current generator, our pool is an effective means to improve your therapy experience. Aquatic therapy has many benefits that are quite difficult to attain during land therapy, but the most important values are:

• Decreased loading to affected body region, allowing for more optimized movement. (Especially post-surgical!)
• Warm temperature and water medium allows muscles to relax, decreasing muscle tension and pain.
• Effects of buoyancy facilitate mobility and decrease restrictions in affected joints.

The fields of Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy are often confused. While both roles provide essential hands-on rehabilitative work to help clients perform everyday tasks as independently as possible, each field takes a diverse approach in helping people get back to their usual way of life. The main difference between Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy is that OT focuses on improving a client’s ability to perform activities of daily living (ADL) and PT focuses on improving a client’s ability to perform movement of the human body. 

Occupational Therapy treats the whole person using a holistic approach to find out why patient participation in activities has been impacted and patient’s role and environment. Whether recovering from injuries or have developmental or cognitive disabilities affecting motor skills, emotions, or behavior. 

ASTYM is a tool-assisted technique that breaks up adhesions and scar tissue to allow for more functional movement, catalyzing the healing process. Post-surgical patients, individuals with arthritis, and those who have suffered specific muscle or soft tissue injury are those who would benefit the most from this technique. As more treatments are performed on the designated area, more function will return and pain should decrease noticeably. ASTYM is a very rapidly growing treatment technique due to its results, and its success rate speaks for itself. Clinicians are ASTYM certified through a particular training course in order to properly use this method.

A technique that treats muscle immobility and pain by relaxing spasmed or contracted muscles, improving blood circulation and stimulating the stretch reflex in muscles. This is a manual approach, involving direct contact on the treatment area by the clinician. Commonly taught in schooling for physical therapists and physical therapist assistants, our clinicians take continued education classes to enhance their skills in this technique. As tension, circulation, and pain in the desired tissues lessen, strengthening becomes easier and movement becomes normalized.

A manual technique that treats muscle and joint pain by putting the body into positions that comfort muscles or decrease pain for a set length of time. This allows for the release of a muscle that is tight or has been strained. Clinicians are trained in this technique in their schooling, or have attended advanced courses to further their expertise in using it. After a muscle has been released, it allows for improved function and movement while decreasing pain. Nearly any individual can benefit from this technique if his or her body shows a response to it.