OPTIMA

1. Communication. You need to communicate with your therapist on how you are feeling and tolerating the procedures, so we can modify your program and get you to a stable level of independence as soon as possible.
   
   
2. Effort. Our staff will work with you within your injury and anatomical tolerances, but you must put forth an effort to improve the function in your tissues.
   
   
3. Compliance. The model of exercise-based rehabilitation is based on the same theory as medication. There is a dosing effect that is required to make this program work effectively. This will require that we modify your program to stimulate improvement in your areas of complaint. However, the most important factor is consistency. If we are billing an insurance carrier or attorney for your care, we can only validate your participation and maximize results if you are consistent.
   

We have two programs in this clinic:

1. A rehabilitation and educational program.
   This program is for patients that will require some isolated spine conditioning. This can last between four and twelve weeks.
   
   
2. An educational program.
   This program takes you through the machines 2-6 times to educate you to proper exercise techniques. We can have your therapist either set you up on a program at a local health club or give you an independent program that you can do at your home.

As a candidate for our care, it will take at least 8-12 visits to properly stabilize your condition. We would like to give you the best care possible. This will require that you work with your therapist consistently to obtain the goals we have established. A therapist will be assigned to your case, so we ask that you schedule with that therapist each visit, if possible.

As we only have a limited number of therapy appointments available, we need you to pick the days and times that you would like for your appointments. We will then prospectively schedule you for your first set of appointments, which will be up to twelve, based on your condition.

If you miss a scheduled appointment, please reschedule that appointment to another day of the same week, so that you maintain your prescribed number of visits per week. If you stabilize earlier, we will cancel any unnecessary appointments that we have made, but you will at least have the best times locked in so that you can be consistent.