Rehab that happens on a reformer.
Pilates-based physical therapy is physical therapy. The difference is the equipment and the principles: your plan of care runs on the reformer and the tower instead of a mat and a set of bands, and it is billed through your insurance like any other visit.
Dr. Cynthia Mendez, PT, DPT, OCS certified as a Pilates instructor in 2008 through Body Arts and Science International, after two years of watching what happened when Pilates and physical therapy were used together. Spring resistance lets us load a joint without asking it to carry your bodyweight, so control can start being built long before a squat would be tolerable.
The equipment does not change the process.
Movement Evaluation
Your licensed physical therapist evaluates how you move before you go near a piece of equipment. What we find decides whether the reformer, the tower or the floor is the right place to start.
Scaled Equipment Work
Springs are set for you and changed as you change. Nobody is asked to keep up with a room. If you have never touched a reformer before, that is the normal starting point here.
Carryover Into Real Life
Control built on the equipment gets tested standing, walking and lifting, then written into a home program so it survives past your last visit.
Request Your Visit
This is physical therapy, so it runs through your insurance. We are in-network with Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Humana, Medicare Part B, Tricare and United Healthcare, and Texas direct access means you can start without a referral.
Tell us what is going on. We will call back to confirm a time and check your benefits before you arrive, and we get most people in within 48 business hours.
You’re all set.
We’ll call you back to confirm a time and check your insurance before you arrive. If you would rather talk now, call us directly.