What to Expect

At Red Canyon Physical Therapy, we work with our patients to make the entire therapy experience stress-free. We’re here to help with everything from insurance questions to payment plans.


Your physical therapist will perform a detailed examination. Depending on your symptoms and condition, the physical therapist might evaluate your strength, flexibility, balance, coordination, posture, blood pressure, and heart and respiration rates. Your physical therapist might use his or her hands to examine or “palpate” the affected area or to perform a detailed examination of the mobility of your joints, muscles, and other tissues.

Your physical therapist also might evaluate:

    • How you walk (your “gait”)
    • How you get up from a lying position or get in and out of a chair (“functional activities”)
    • How you use your body for certain activities, such as bending and lifting (“body mechanics”)

Your physical therapist might ask you specific questions about your home or work environment, your health habits and activity level, and your leisure and recreational interests so that the therapist can help you become as active and independent as possible.



In most cases, an important aspect of your physical therapy treatment will be education. Your physical therapist might teach you special exercises to do at home. You might learn new and different ways to perform your activities at work and home. These new techniques can help minimize pain, lessen strain, avoid re-injury, and speed your recovery.

