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| - I broke my arm snowboarding, which sucks, but in a way I was actually pretty lucky. I did not have to wear a cast, but I did have to keep my arm in a sling for about 8 weeks. In that time, I developed what is referred to as an encapsulated shoulder, which I had to go have physical therapy for. Desert Valley Therapy was where my doctor sent me.
Right off the bat I wasn't thrilled with the office, it was hard to find a parking place and the people that worked at the front desk really could have been more helpful and friendly. The therapist I was assigned to was great though, he was so helpful to me with regard to exercises I could do at home and in the pool to increase my mobility. And the assistants were very kind as well.
Within about a month time, I realized that I was getting more out of the exercises I was doing on my own than I was out of my sessions at Desert Valley. I still continued to go multiple times a week, and asked the therapist and his assistants to give me more to do so I could heal quicker. I feel like if I had not asked for more advanced exercises, they would have been a-ok with me healing slowly.
Ultimately I stopped going to Desert Valley even though I was not officially done with treatment due to a staffing issue. I arrived to a scheduled appointment only to learn that the therapist I had been seeing was moved to another location. It would have been nice to be warned about this before arriving, it also would have been nice to have been given the opportunity to continue to see the same therapist at the location he had moved to.
Desert Valley Therapy did what needed to be done to ensure I'd regain full mobility after my arm injury. I'm not sure I'd recommend them to anyone that has a choice of which physical therapists to see though.
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