About this clinic
Why Choose this clinic
Why Choose this clinic
Why Choose this clinic
Heather believes that to be the best you can be, it is necessary to take control of your own health! There are many pillars to your health and Heather plays a role in helping you to address your needs. She helps you to understand how restrictions in your body can contribute to your pain and dysfunction.
How Heather Can Help
Why Choose this clinic
Why Choose this clinic
She will help facilitate healing in your body with her advanced hands on techniques using specific fascial mobilization, visceral manipulation, neuromuscular and neurocentric re-education, and therapeutic exercises.
Who benefits
Why Choose this clinic
Team approach
Heather sees all ages and all diagnoses for treatment. Medicare insurance is accepted with a doctor’s prescription/ referral for physical therapy. No other insurances are accepted, but Heather can offer you a receipt of treatment for reimbursement to your company if you would like.
Team approach
Why Choose this clinic
Team approach
If you are lacking support in another needed area, she will help to guide you to a practitioner that can address specific needs outside her scope. She believes in the team approach to a client’s wellness and often works in conjunction with other local practitioners to offer people a comprehensive analysis of their health and wellness.
Services
Manual Therapy
- All clients receive hands on evaluation and treatment to assess where the primary dysfunction may be in the body. She assesses you head to toe, front to back to determine where the body is struggling and treatment focuses on gaining mobility in this area.
- She may use visceral manipulation which is a form of organ specific fascial mobilization, neural mobilization to get those nerves moving more efficiently, fascial mobilization, joint mobilization, muscle and soft tissue mobilization, and vascular mobilization to promote blood flow.
- She uses her hands to make a change in the body and create an environment for healing.
Neuromuscular Re-education
- Heather uses specific movement patterns to create balance in the musculoskeletal system after manual therapy.
Therapeutic Exercise
- Movement training and exercise prescription is part of your rehab process.
- You can expect to do exercises to maintain improved tissue mobility and gain strength.
Health and Wellness
Your Body Health is the focus at Stokes PT and Wellness. Your treatment will include assessment and treatment of the following:
- Flexibility and Movement
- Organ Specific Fascial Mobilization
- Soft Tissue Management
- Gait
- Strength
- Current Exercises
Treatment will include hands on healing techniques, neuromuscular re-education, and therapeutic exercises. You will gain knowledge on proper movement patterns. You will be issued a home exercise program. Your nutrition is important in your healing. We may discuss healing foods, supplements, and water intake. We may also discuss your sleep habits. You need good sleep to heal efficiently. You also need to manage stress in order to not overwhelm the body!
Heather will assess and treat you holistically. She will be interested in your history and where may there be a restriction in your body – head to toe, front to back! Healing has to do with getting to the root cause of your symptoms. Together, we will figure it out!
I look forward to working with each and every one of you to maximize your health and teach your body to move freely.
Heather Hartwig Stokes, MSPT, CSCS
Experience
Heather has been a physical therapist since 1999 in a variety of settings, including owning Stokes PT and Wellness since 2006 (formerly known as Waunakee Physical Therapy.) She graduated from the University of Colorado in Boulder with a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering and from the University of Miami with a Masters of Science degree in Physical Therapy and brings an eclectic approach to treatment. Her post-graduate continuing education has focused on advanced manual therapy techniques and functional rehabilitation, including a neuro-biomechanical approach, with an added interest in nutrition and wellness. She is a certified strength and conditioning coach.