Our 7 Year Anniversary!
Peak Performance Physical Therapy first opened its doors on January 17, 2005 and since that time we have helped over 3200 local patients with their Physical Therapy needs!
We would like to thank each and every one of you for placing your trust in us with not only your own rehabilitation but for having the faith and confidence in our work to refer your friends and family to Peak Performance as well.
It has been a blessing to help so many people in the Rochester area recover from simple overuse injuries to post-operative care and everything in between.
We look forward to many more years of helping you, your friends, your family and our community members get back to their Peak Performance!
Thank You For Your Donations!
We just concluded our second annual coat drive for kids in honor of National Physical Therapy Month.
We set our goal this year at 70 Coats, Hats, Gloves and Scarves…here is what you helped donate:
- 57 Coats
- 14 Scarves
- 12 Hats
- 11 Pairs of Gloves
That’s a total of 94 items to be donated to local area children this winter!
The Peak Performance Team would like to extend our thanks to everyone who helped spread the word and dropped off donations to make this year’s coat drive a great success and allowed us to help children in our community that are in need of winter items.
We would like to also give a special thank you to our neighbors at Peerplace for their staff’s efforts in collecting coats and monetary donations to assist in our coat drive.
The items will be distributed to both the Salvation Army Genesis House Youth Shelter and The East Rochester Community Resource Center to help out with their ever-growing need for warm winter coats, hats, gloves and scarves for local children from toddlers to teens.
If you still have coats or other gently used winter gear that you would like to donate it’s not too late!
We are going to keep our collection bin in our lobby throughout the entire winter and distribute your donations to those in need as we receive them.
Once again thank you for your help!
The Peak Performance Team
2nd Annual “Coats for Kids” Coat Drive
Rochester's 2nd Annual Physical Therapy Coatdrive For Kids
In honor of National Physical Therapy Month, this October we will be holding our Second Annual Coat Drive for Kids.
Last year you helped us collect and donate 65 coats in addition to numerous hats and gloves to the Salvation Army Genesis House Youth Shelter and the East Rochester Community Resource Center.
This year we are hoping you will help us reach our goal of 70 Coats!
As the Fall weather approaches and temperatures begin to drop in the Rochester area we are reminded that there are many children in our own local area that are in desperate need of warm winter coats, hats and gloves.
You can bring your gently used and new winter clothing into Peak Performance throughout the month of October. We will have donation bins set up in our entranceway during our normal business hours.
Take a look through your home for coats, hats and gloves of all sizes that you could donate to a local child in need this winter in Rochester.
The Salvation Army Genesis House Youth Shelter is in need of winter coats for teenagers through young adults with larger sizes being the most needed this year.
The East Rochester Community Resource Center can use winter clothing for children of all ages and sizes from toddlers to teens!
Please stop in and say a quick hello to your favorite Physical Therapist or Office Team Member when you come by to make your donations, we always love to hear from our current and former patients!
We look forward to your help and the local children do too!
Customer Service: A View from the Other Side
My wife and I have recently been going through the process of obtaining a mortgage to purchase our first home.
The experience has been less than pleasant and we are really starting to feel like just another transaction to everyone that is supposed to be helping us achieve our dream.
I get the feeling that our lenders have forgotten what it might be like to be on the other side of the transaction, all of the emotions and things at stake if the deal does not go through as planned.
I want to make sure that we never lose sight of how our patients feel here at Peak Performance when they come in for Physical Therapy treatment.
Like my wife and I being unfamiliar with the process of buying our first home, many patients have never been through the process of needing Physical Therapy treatment.
At Peak Performance PT we want to make sure that we are always there for our patients to provide that extra level of care and service, to know how it feels to not know how something works and to make sure you never feel like just another number or transaction.
It is our goal to provide excellent customer service to each patient that walks through our door, remembering that just because we do this every day doesn’t mean that patients should be treated like a routine or a number.
We focus on the needs of each individual patient; we address their concerns and try to find ways to proactively make the process easier and less stressful.
We try to explain the process and what to expect from the very first visit to help alleviate the stress and uncertainty in your scheduling, treatments and billing.
I believe that every business should treat their customers, clients or patients with the same courtesy, attention to detail and thoughtfulness that we strive to achieve here at Peak Performance.
We hope that you will feel like our number one priority from start to finish in addition to receiving the highest quality Physical Therapy care that you require.
I definitely think our lenders could learn a thing or two about customer service from the way we do things here, but for now I will just settle for getting the loan.
Have a great day!
Robert Morrison
Peak Performance Physical Therapy Gets a Facelift!
We have been updating and upgrading our clinic area and things are really starting to come together nicely!
We have stripped, repaired and repainted many of our walls, adding some great new colors to the treatment areas.
We have also completely reupholstered our treatment tables and have started replacing our old carpeting too.
We even had our logo printed on a high-quality vinyl wall decal and mounted it on the high part of the wall.
Below are some recent pictures of our renovations and there are more to come!
We would love to hear what you think so far, so please leave us a comment below!
Direct Access to Physical Therapy
Great news for patients who wish to begin Physical Therapy treatments faster, depending on your insurance type, you can now choose to be treated by Mike Golisano, Mike Napierala or Karen Napierala without having to see your primary care or orthopedic doctor first!
It’s called, Consumer Choice to Directly Access Physical Therapy or “Direct Access” and it is a great Law in New York State that allows you to seek treatment from a Physical Therapist for either 10 visits or 30 days whichever comes first without requiring a prescription from your doctor.
There are some exceptions to the Law of course, Worker’s Compensation and No Fault patients are still required to have a valid prescription from their Primary Care or Orthopedic Doctor to begin and continue Physical Therapy treatments.
Most of the local Rochester Insurance Carriers do participate with Direct Access. However, certain insurance carriers, such as Medicare, choose to still require a prescription in order to pay claims submitted for Physical Therapy.
Also, in order to be eligible, the rendering Physical Therapist must have at least 3 years of full-time practice experience.
If you are unsure whether your insurance carrier will cover Physical Therapy services rendered under the New York State Direct Access Law you can always give us a call at 585-218-0240 and we will be more than happy to check for you!
Direct Access is a proven way to save employers, insurance carriers and patients money and time.
Some key facts:
- Self-referral/direct access puts patients/clients in control of their care
Old Approach VS New Approach - Virginia Mason Study
- Patients/clients who refer themselves to physical therapy:
- are more proactive
- are more autonomous in making health decisions
- take less time off work
- return to work sooner
- are more likely to complete a course of treatment
- are more interested in self management
- are more satisfied with their care
- Self-referral/direct access saves money through:
- reducing costs of seeing other health professionals eg general practitioners/family physicians
- less prescribing
- less investigations
- less secondary care
- reducing costs to society eg through time off work
- less administration costs
As you can see, Direct Access not only saves you time and money but can also help get you back to work or even just enjoying the things you love with less hassle.
If you have any questions about Direct Access and how it can help you, please don’t hesitate to give us a call!
Click Here to read the article from The Wall Street Journal about the Virginia Mason Study
Trampoline Safety Critical
I found a recent article I thought would be relevent to share with you this month on trampoline safety.
Trampolines are growing in popularity in the United States. When used properly they can provide good fun and exercise for children and adults.
However, the risk of injury when using a trampoline is significant.
It is estimated that more than 100,000 people each year are treated in emergency rooms for trampoline-related injuries.
In fact, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends against using trampolines.
Most injuries are bruises, sprains, or fractures. Catastrophic injuries, including paralysis or death, have occurred but are not common.
In light of this potential for injury, several recommendations can potentially help limit trampoline injuries:
- Children should be at least 6 years old to participate.
- Only one person at a time should be on the trampoline to minimize risk of injury from contact with other people.
- Children on trampolines should always be supervised by an adult.
- Somersaults, flips and maneuvers other than simple jumping are not recommended.
- Trampolines should be located on level ground and should not have a ladder so little children can climb on unsupervised.
- Netting and pads around the trampoline are highly recommended and can help limit trampoline injuries from falling off but need to be inspected regularly.
If you are going to jump for fun this summer, do it safely and wisely!
Written by Brian R. Wolf, MD – Posted in The American Orthopaedic Society For Sports Medicine.
Congratulations Matt K and Brandi G!
Congratulations to Matt K. for winning our March Madness Challenge! Since the combined score of the game was only 94 points and everyone guessed much higher scores we decided to put everyone who picked UCONN in a hat and draw the winner. Matt won a $25 Gift Card to Dick’s Sporting Goods.
And congratulations to Brandi G. for winning our March Madness Redemption Round Challenge! Since so many people were knocked out in the first round this year we offered a second prize pool for those who wanted a shot at redemption. Brandi won a $10 Gift Card to Dick’s Sporting Goods.
Happy President’s Day – Who Injured What?
There have been at least eight of our former US Presidents who have suffered from injuries similar to many of our patients here at Peak Performance Physical Therapy.
To celebrate this President’s Day we wanted to share with you information that we found about the Injuries sustained by eight of our former US Presidents.
Thomas Jefferson:
In late June 1781, Jefferson (apparently) broke his arm after being thrown from his horse.
Jefferson later broke his wrist in Paris in summer 1785. This seemingly minor event was to cause him grief the remainder of his life. There are three versions of the incident: (1) He was trying to jump a fence while touring Paris with a married woman, (2) He was trying to jump over a kettle, and (3) He fell while walking with an (unidentified) friend.
One account described the fracture as compound and poorly treated by the Parisian doctors. The wrist remained swollen, painful, and useless for weeks. Despite taking the waters at Aix-en-Provence, it remained deformed and bothered him the rest of his life.
After perfoming extensive manual labor at Monticello (his estate) in late summer 1794, Jefferson became almost totally disabled by a back condition for two and a half months. The nature of the problem is not fully known. Repeated bouts of back pain assailed Jefferson after this initial episode, e.g. in 1797.
Jefferson fell from a broken step at his home in 1821 (age 75), fracturing his left arm and wrist. Now both wrists were significantly impaired. Because of this he wrote less, even into 1822.
President Jefferson could definitely have benefited from modern Physical Therapy!
Theodore Roosevelt:
Roosevelt took his defeat by Woodrow Wilson in good grace and looked for other outlets for the overflowing energy that could not be contained in a life of leisure.
This in spite of a chronic rheumatoid arthritis from which he had been suffering for years. At the age of fifty-four, it crippled him a good deal, and often prevented him from doing his daily stint of exercises.
As a consequence, he became too fat around his waistline but was not Spartan enough to control his gargantuan appetite.
William Taft:
Taft had gout attacks in both feet. His first attack may have been after shaking hands with thousands of people in Pocatello, Idaho in September 1909 (age 53).
Taft wrote that he “developed a pain in the joint of the [right] big toe due I suppose to standing so long when shaking hands in one position. Doctor suspects a little gout, but this [is] too aristocratic for me.”
At Peak Performance Physical Therapy we have helped numerous patients overcome their pains and discomforts associated with gout.
Dwight D. Eisenhower:
One day a White House visitor noticed the President was wearing leather bandages on his left wrist. When Ike explained that he had a mild arthritic condition there, the visitor said he was glad it wasn’t serious. “I should say it is serious!” exclaimed Ike indignantly. “It means that I can’t play golf!”
Sounds like many of our patients who didn’t seek treatment until it affected their golf game!
You don’t have to wait until you can’t swing your club to get evaluated and treated for that pesky wrist or shoulder pain you may have, just call Peak Performance!
John F. Kennedy:
JFK had allergies, poor hearing, a sensitive stomach, and an old knee injury that occasionally caused him to limp
Back problems started in 1938. From 1941 they were “a constant source of difficulty”. Doctors have suggested that steroid treatments, “which apparently began in 1937,” may have been causative.
He wore a back brace. For example, on the day he was shot, he wore a brace that consisted of a canvas brace with metal stays, together with an Ace bandage with extra padding.
Ronald Reagan:
Former President Reagan fell while at home on 1/12/2001. He was brought to the emergency department at nearby St. Johns Hospital in Santa Monica, CA. Mr. Reagan was diagnosed with a hip fracture that would require surgical treatment. Mr. Reagan was suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease, a condition that affects memory, and can contribute to injuries such as falls.
The Surgery:
On 1/14/2001, two days after sustaining the hip fracture, Mr. Reagan underwent surgery for treatment of the injury. The surgery involved the placement of a metal plate and screws into the thigh bone (femur). Not all hip fractures are treated the same–some types require repair, and others require a partial hip replacement. Determining the best treatment of a hip fracture depends on the location of the injury.
Bill Clinton:
President Clinton had suffered from a left knee ligament strain in 1984.
At the home of golfer Greg Norman in March 1997, Clinton caught his heel on a step and tore 50% of his right quadriceps tendon. (The tendon connects the kneecap to the quadriceps muscle of the thigh.) Clinton heard the tear as a “very loud pop.” He underwent a two-hour operation under regional anesthesia to repair the tendon, followed by weeks with a knee brace and crutches.
Had the operation required general anesthesia, Clinton had planned to transfer Presidential authority to Vice President Gore under terms of the 25th Amendment. Clinton was awake during the entire operation and “was alert most of the time.”
George W. Bush:
At some point, Bush has had surgery for sports-related back injuries.
Time Magazine reported Bush had to curtail his workout routine in November 2003 “thanks to a torn meniscus in his knee,” but did not say which knee or how it happened. X-rays and magnetic resonance imaging in December 2004 found damage in both knees; cross-training was recommended.
Because of his knee problems, Bush took up bicycling for fitness. On May 22, 2004, he fell from his mountain bike during the 16th mile of a 17-mile course. (One report says he “sailed over the handlebars”) Aids said Bush was going fast over topsoil that had been loosened by rain. He was wearing a helmet and mouthguard. Bush suffered “scrapes and scratches on his chin, upper lip, nose, right hand and both knees”.
On July 7, 2005 Bush was bicycling fast in Scotland, about 45 minutes into his usual one-hour ride, when his mountain bike skidded out from under him on slick pavement. Bush (and/or the bicycle) hit a member of the local security detail. Bush was wearing a helmet. He suffered minor scrapes and bruises of the left hand and arm. Dr. Richard Tubb, the President’s physician, bandaged the hand, and was sent to look after the Scottish officer.
Your Injuries:
Many of the lifelong pains and discomforts that were associated with the injuries of our early US Presidents can now be reduced or even prevented from modern Physical Therapy treatments that you are lucky enough to now have access to.
Your injuries can be properly evaluated and treated in a timely manner by our highly skilled staff here at Peak Performance Physical Therapy. You may not be a former President of The United States but you can receive the same great care that our current President would and even better care than our Presidents of yester-year had access to!
Give us a call if you are hurt or having difficulty enjoying your daily routines!
Happy President’s Day!
The Peak Performance Team
If you would like to read more about the injuries and ailments of our US Presidents you can find all of the information we show here and more HERE
Our 2011 Superbowl Challenge Winner
Congratulations to Joseph M. of Fairport, NY for correctly picking the Green Bay Packers to win with a total combined game score of 56 points! For his excellent pick he has won a gift certificate to the Cheesecake Factory! Great job Joe and thanks to all of our patients for playing in our 2011 Super Bowl Challenge!
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