Business Spotlight: Focus Physical Therapy
Business Spotlight: Focus Physical Therapy
You’ll be hard pressed to find someone who hasn’t taken at least one personality inventory. Maybe you took one as part of a class in high school or college. Maybe you found one on the internet and took it for fun. These inventories can help us better understand ourselves and how we relate to other personalities. Some of these inventories even include lists of professions best suited for each personality type. While in high school, Brad from Focus Physical Therapy took one such inventory to help him figure out the right career path for him.
With the results in hand, Brad did some volunteer work to figure out which of the hypothetical professions suited him best. He found his calling when volunteering with a physical therapy clinic. While in college and physical therapy school, Brad believed he would go into pediatric physical therapy, as most of his volunteer experience was at clinics treating children and special needs cases. When it came time to do his clinical rotations, Brad did so at a pediatric clinic. However, when he graduated from physical therapy school in 2006, there were no jobs in pediatric physical therapy available. There are few clinics which treat children specifically and most are non-profits, making such jobs hard to find. He instead went into out-patient orthopedics, which would work out for the best in the long run. For the next ten years, Brad worked for various corporate physical therapy practices before striking out on his own to start Focus Physical Therapy in 2016.
Focus PT can be divided into two components: its out-patient program and its on-site injury prevention program. With the out-patient program, Focus PT specializes in chronic pain treatment. Brad has seen many chronic pain patients either slip through the cracks or simply prescribed medications, which fails to address the pain’s root cause. Focus PT’s on-site injury prevention program looks to prevent workplace injuries before they happen. This includes developing proper methods and procedures for workers when performing certain tasks, implementing ergonomic changes, testing workers to ensure they can do the job without injury, and intervening to treat minor problems before they get bigger.
At Focus PT, Brad wanted to provide a level of care that many healthcare providers, inside or outside of physical therapy, are unable to give. The key to this is time. At a minimum, patients at Focus PT spend thirty minutes to an hour with therapists. All too often, healthcare providers rush to see as many patients in a day as possible, meaning patients spend more time waiting to see someone than they do with their doctor, nurse practitioner, etc. This leaves patients and their healthcare providers little time to determine and understand the root cause of any given problem. Brad wanted to avoid this and truly treat the underlying cause. The therapists of Focus PT spend a lot of time speaking one-on-one with their patients to understand their patients’ problems and develop a treatment plan based on that information to meet each individual patient’s needs.
For more information about Focus Physical Therapy, visit their website at physicaltherapylouisville.com. They also have a helpful YouTube channel with educational videos, which you can find at youtube.com/c/PTFocus/. Lastly, you can find them on Facebook at @Focusphysicaltherapy or Instagram at @pt_focus.
You’ll be hard pressed to find someone who hasn’t taken at least one personality inventory. Maybe you took one as part of a class in high school or college. Maybe you found one on the internet and took it for fun. These inventories can help us better understand ourselves and how we relate to other personalities. Some of these inventories even include lists of professions best suited for each personality type. While in high school, Brad from Focus Physical Therapy took one such inventory to help him figure out the right career path for him.
With the results in hand, Brad did some volunteer work to figure out which of the hypothetical professions suited him best. He found his calling when volunteering with a physical therapy clinic. While in college and physical therapy school, Brad believed he would go into pediatric physical therapy, as most of his volunteer experience was at clinics treating children and special needs cases. When it came time to do his clinical rotations, Brad did so at a pediatric clinic. However, when he graduated from physical therapy school in 2006, there were no jobs in pediatric physical therapy available. There are few clinics which treat children specifically and most are non-profits, making such jobs hard to find. He instead went into out-patient orthopedics, which would work out for the best in the long run. For the next ten years, Brad worked for various corporate physical therapy practices before striking out on his own to start Focus Physical Therapy in 2016.
Focus PT can be divided into two components: its out-patient program and its on-site injury prevention program. With the out-patient program, Focus PT specializes in chronic pain treatment. Brad has seen many chronic pain patients either slip through the cracks or simply prescribed medications, which fails to address the pain’s root cause. Focus PT’s on-site injury prevention program looks to prevent workplace injuries before they happen. This includes developing proper methods and procedures for workers when performing certain tasks, implementing ergonomic changes, testing workers to ensure they can do the job without injury, and intervening to treat minor problems before they get bigger.
At Focus PT, Brad wanted to provide a level of care that many healthcare providers, inside or outside of physical therapy, are unable to give. The key to this is time. At a minimum, patients at Focus PT spend thirty minutes to an hour with therapists. All too often, healthcare providers rush to see as many patients in a day as possible, meaning patients spend more time waiting to see someone than they do with their doctor, nurse practitioner, etc. This leaves patients and their healthcare providers little time to determine and understand the root cause of any given problem. Brad wanted to avoid this and truly treat the underlying cause. The therapists of Focus PT spend a lot of time speaking one-on-one with their patients to understand their patients’ problems and develop a treatment plan based on that information to meet each individual patient’s needs.
For more information about Focus Physical Therapy, visit their website at physicaltherapylouisville.com. They also have a helpful YouTube channel with educational videos, which you can find at youtube.com/c/PTFocus/. Lastly, you can find them on Facebook at @Focusphysicaltherapy or Instagram at @pt_focus.