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Physical Therapy in Bergen County, NJ
Pain, weakness, stiffness, or limited mobility affecting how you move through daily life?
Physical therapy can help you rebuild function in a structured, practical way.
At Bergen Chiropractic, physical therapy is designed to reduce pain, improve strength and mobility, and help patients return to normal activity with more confidence.
The clinic’s in-house physical therapy services are led by Dr. Daniela Simancas, PT, DPT, and are integrated with the broader rehabilitative care offered at Bergen Chiropractic.
Bergen Chiropractic offers both chiropractic and physical therapy under one roof, allowing for more coordinated care and a more streamlined recovery process.
What Is Physical Therapy?
Physical therapy is a form of rehabilitative care that focuses on restoring movement, improving strength and flexibility, reducing pain, and helping the body function more efficiently.
Treatment is based on how your muscles, joints, connective tissues, and movement patterns are working together.
A physical therapy plan may include guided exercise, mobility work, strengthening, movement retraining, balance training, and manual therapy techniques, depending on the condition being treated.
The goal is not only to help you feel better, but to help you move better and reduce the risk of the problem continuing or returning.
How Physical Therapy Helps
Physical therapy is often recommended when pain or injury begins to affect daily movement, activity tolerance, stability, or recovery. It can help patients:
- Improve strength and flexibility
- Restore joint and muscle function
- Rebuild coordination and balance
- Recover after injury or surgery
- Correct movement patterns that contribute to strain
- Reduce the likelihood of reinjury
- Return more safely to work, sport, exercise, or everyday tasks
At Bergen Chiropractic, physical therapy is used as part of a broader recovery strategy that may also include chiropractic care, depending on the patient’s needs.
The clinic describes chiropractic care as helping restore alignment, reduce joint stress, and improve nervous system function, while physical therapy focuses on rehabilitating movement, retraining muscles, and restoring mobility.
Conditions Physical Therapy Can Treat
Physical therapy can help with a wide range of movement-related and orthopedic conditions, including pain, injury recovery, post-surgical rehabilitation, and mobility challenges.
Common Conditions We Treat
Back, Neck, and Shoulder Pain
Ongoing pain is often linked to weakness, poor movement patterns, or limited mobility. Treatment focuses on improving strength, flexibility, and how your body moves day to day.
Sprains, Strains, and Joint Injuries
Soft tissue and joint injuries require more than rest. Rehabilitation helps restore range of motion, stability, and control so the area can heal properly.
Tendonitis and Repetitive Strain Injuries
Overuse and repetitive motion can lead to persistent irritation. Physical therapy helps reduce stress on affected tissues and retrain movement to prevent recurrence.
Sports Injuries
Includes conditions like runner’s knee, tennis elbow, and other activity-related injuries. Treatment is focused on restoring function and safely returning to sport or exercise.
Post-Surgical Rehabilitation
Recovery after procedures such as joint replacements, fractures, or orthopedic surgeries. Therapy helps rebuild strength, improve mobility, and guide a safe return to normal activity.
Balance Problems and Mobility Limitations
Focused on improving stability, coordination, and confidence in movement. May include gait training, strengthening, and fall prevention strategies.
Physical Therapy and Chiropractic Care
Bergen Chiropractic offers a layered treatment approach. Chiropractic care helps improve joint mechanics and alignment.
Physical therapy helps patients build strength, restore movement, and improve muscular support so those improvements are easier to maintain.
This combined approach may be especially helpful for patients dealing with:
- Recurring pain
- Movement restrictions
- Injury recovery
- Sports rehabilitation
- Postural strain
- Weakness or instability after acute pain improves
Bergen Chiropractic also highlights core support, strengthening, flexibility work, motor control, proprioception, and functional return-to-activity training as key parts of its rehabilitation model.
What to Expect From Treatment
Physical therapy should be specific to the patient, not generic. At Bergen Chiropractic, treatment plans are described as personalized based on the patient’s goals, history, lifestyle, and clinical needs.
Depending on your condition, your care plan may include:
- Guided therapeutic exercise
- Stretching and mobility work
- Functional strengthening
- Core and hip stabilization
- Balance and coordination training
- Gait retraining
- Manual therapy
- Return-to-activity progressions
The focus is on improving the way your body moves and functions over time, not simply giving you temporary relief.
Meet Dr. Daniela Simancas, PT, DPT
Bergen Chiropractic’s physical therapy services are led by Dr. Daniela Simancas, PT, DPT. According to the practice, she earned her Bachelor of Science in Biology from Fairleigh Dickinson University and her Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from Rutgers University, Newark. Her clinical training included rotations in multiple rehabilitation settings, including The Valley Hospital and Care One Rehab Centers.
Why Choose Bergen Chiropractic for Physical Therapy?
Bergen Chiropractic offers patients the benefit of in-house physical therapy as part of a broader rehabilitation setting, which can make care more coordinated and convenient.
Our practice emphasizes whole-person care, with treatment designed to support mobility, strength, function, and long-term recovery.
Schedule Physical Therapy in Bergen County
If you are dealing with pain, recovering from an injury, rebuilding after surgery, or looking to improve balance and movement, physical therapy may be an important next step.