Body Gears Physical Therapy
We Listen. We Care. We Get Results. Body Gears physical therapists are highly trained experts that u
Body Gears physical therapists address each patient individually, working one-on-one and in collaboration with fellow therapists to identify the source of pain, physical limitations, and structural issues. We see each challenge as an opportunity to provide patients with answers they can’t find elsewhere, giving them specific skills to address injuries and limitations, and returning them to a highl
14/08/2024
Our Body Gears team is ready to start you on the road to recovery! Call today to begin your therapy journey!
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23/05/2024
Join us on June 8th for your free injury screening at ReNew Fitness! See you there!
09/05/2024
Mark your calendars! We can't wait to see you at YOGA SIX!
23/11/2022
Great news! All Body Gear’s patients can get 10% off of their first month at . We had a great time at the screening event, and trust them 100% with our patients. Rehab is just the beginning of the wellness journey. Pilates is an excellent option.
18/11/2022
Join Andrea this weekend at and experience fitness in flight!
07/11/2022
Interested in Pilates? Feel you need an injury screen or functional assessment to examine imbalances? Join us at Club Pilates, Oak Park this Saturday the 12th for both!
03/11/2022
Our West Loop clinic officially closed its doors this week. We hope we’ve made a difference in several lives during our time in the community. We encourage you to visit our Lincoln Park clinic for the nearest Body Gears location. Dr. Kyle Blair is now treating at our Oak Park clinic at 1049 Clark st!
04/10/2022
Join Body Gears for FREE Injury Screenings!
Body Gears is happy to provide complimentary injury
screens for members of Yoga Six.
Our goal is to promote health and wellness awareness,
while working with members to keep them healthy and
pain free!
For questions, contact Chris Schmalz at
708-607-6040 or email [email protected].
We look forward to seeing you there!
21/09/2022
What’s more fun than an Adult Jump Night at !? Well, for us it is providing free injury screens for jump night participants 🙌
Shout out to Elizabeth Swanson, PT, DPT (clinic manager at Lincoln Park) and Demiries Mendez (marketing) for supporting a fun night out in the community!
07/09/2022
Visit Andrea Marti, PT, DPT at the Community House of Winnetka for a complimentary injury screen and understanding of how to live an active, pain-free lifestyle!
06/09/2022
Pickleball’s popularity is growing at a rapid pace. This weekend we joined the best of the best to ensure that everyone competing at the Chicago Open was feeling their best!
12/08/2022
Hope to see you on the 27th at Dick Pond Athletics! We'll be onsite providing injury screens and answering your questions about prevention and rehab for pain and injuries.
Foam rollers have become increasingly popular over the years, but what do they do?
Many believe that it “moves” fascia, but research says this is not the case. This does not mean the tool is without benefits.
Here are some uses for a foam roller that you can implement in your daily routine!
Neuromuscular “release”- Most muscle “tightness” is a result of an excited nervous system causing tension in the muscle due to various reasons. Sustained pressure into the muscle can inhibit this and “release” this tension. Place the roller at a tender point and hold for 60-90 seconds or until you feel a point of release/relaxation.
Postural feedback- Whether standing or on back, placing the roller along the spine can create touch feedback to ensure postural alignment during various mobility and strength exercises.
Platform for dynamic exercises- The roller can be used as a fulcrum, wheel, or base of support to assist with exercises.
It “just feels good”- Rolling the roller may not necessarily mobilize fascia but does feel good which can improve tolerance to motion and assist in restoring function.
Check out a Body Gears near you for more foam roller exercises!
20/05/2022
Body Gears Physical Therapists, Kyle Blair and Andrea Marti, joined Dr. Janaki Natarajan on a recent episode of the In Your Corner Podcast to discuss solutions for identifying and treating pelvic pain. We hope you'll give it a listen! Link below 🎙️
https://apple.co/3NmCKsb
10/03/2022
BG West Loop manager, Dr. Kyle Blair connected w/ the team at this week for a workout!
If you are unfamiliar, AIM is a trainer and physician owned gym in the West Loop. Their vision is to create a friendly atmosphere where resistance or conditioning workouts are given privately or in semi-private groups of 6-8. This allows the benefits of economy and companionship without sacrificing the individual guidance of a skilled trainer.
Their selected movements are function, dynamic, challenging, and self-paced; Body Gears approved!
All Body Gears clients get an exclusive offer at AIM!
🤜Free 30min consultation!
🤜10 semi-private sessions for only $250
🤜4 private (1v1) sessions for $350
If you’ve been out of the gym or away from working out and are interested in returning, AIM gym is the choice. Their guidance, structure and relationship with Body Gears will have you stronger and injury free in no time.
08/03/2022
Happy International Women's Day from Body Gears!
Today we're celebrating the very special women who are a part of our team at all of our locations.
We continue to be amazed by your strength, achievements, kindness, and generosity, and are fortunate to have you working by our side.
24/02/2022
"If someone were to ask me, “What makes Body Gears different than other physical therapy clinics?”, the answer would easily be one-on-one care model. Our patients do not come in to see the therapist for 5 minutes and then transitioning to the exercises with little to no supervision for the other 90% of the session. This not only leads to a poor experience, but longer times in therapy, more money, and lower results.
With Body Gears you should expect:
✔️ Ample time for meaningful hands-on treatment
✔️ Thorough discussions on your condition and the specifics of our plan to improve it
✔️ Input to your goals and what matters to YOU
✔️ Expert critiquing of your movements during exercise to ensure optimal performance
You should NOT expect:
✖️ A multiple patient “juggling act”
✖️ “Factory” like clinics where you’re elbow to elbow with someone else
✖️ Unsupervised exercises where you may or may not being doing it correctly
✖️ Being passed from therapist to therapist where continuity is lost
Don’t waste your time with a clinic that sees you as a number and could care less whether you come back, because they have someone to take your spot. I’ve worked for those clinics, we are not those clinics, I would NOT work for those clinics. We treat individually and our reviews/outcomes reflect that.
The truth is, finding true one-on-one physical therapy care is a unicorn, and well we’re the unicorn. "
- Kyle Blair, PT, DPT
Clinic Manager- Body Gears, West Loop
22/02/2022
As little as 10 years ago, physical therapy treatments usually comprised of heat with electrical stimulation, some soft tissue mobilization, and maybe a few (dare I say boring?) isolated exercises. People improved, but by how much? How long did it take? How much did they spend? I am confident it took a long time and a lot of money. Fortunately, research exists, and things evolved. In this case, FOR THE BETTER. While the previously mentioned treatments are still used sparingly to address symptoms such as pain, their main purpose is to create an environment that allows functional activities and exercises to be performed; the stuff that makes you better, faster. Some clinics still follow the old model, Body Gears does not.
The average person is very busy and likely does not want to fork over a mortgage on healthcare. This is where Body Gears excels. Our treatment approach is based on efficiency. Our highly skilled therapists use their various therapeutic “tools” and a true one-on-one treatment model to maximize each visit. If you’re someone who has avoided getting treatment because you’re tight on time and/or money, Body Gears is your answer. Good health is always worth the investment, let us show you the value.
11/02/2022
Physical and occupational therapists serve communities all across America, but estimates show that by 2025, an additional 27,000 physical therapists will be needed to meet growing demand. Clinics in rural areas are already experiencing staffing shortages because physical therapists tend to be concentrated in major metropolitan areas.
To address this shortage, Senator Jon Tester (D-MT), Senator Roger Wicker (R-MI), Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), and Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND) recently introduced the Physical Therapist Workforce and Patient Access Act (S. 2676/H.R. 3759), which would create important incentives for more medical professionals to enter the specialty by allowing physical therapists to participate in the National Health Service Corps student loan repayment program. Participating therapists would be eligible to receive up to $50,000 for loan repayment if they commit to practicing in a medically underserved or designated health care professional shortage area for two years.
By ensuring the availability to physical therapy professionals in these markets, Congress can expand access to care in rural and high-need areas.
Ask your lawmakers to support the Physical Therapist Workforce and Patient Access Act today! Click below to make your voice heard - https://www.aptqi.com/take-action/
is just one of the advanced techniques that we use at Body Gears Physical Therapy.
Our paired cupping with movement for a patient wanting to improve her routine. Cupping works by using a pump to create pressure that lifts the skin, fascia, and muscular tissue away from the underlying structures, creating better motion and reducing .
Occasionally this will leave a non-painful bruise, which is caused by an increase in blood flow and is thought to stimulate .
Contact us today to learn if cupping may be helpful for you, too.
02/02/2022
We're partnered up with for a workshop you will not want to miss .. details 👇
Learn how physical therapy and restorative yoga can resolve pelvic floor dysfunction.
Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation can be for anyone:
✅ People with female parts
✅ People with male parts
✅ People who have carried/had children
✅ People who have not carried/had children
✅ Those that are currently pregnant
Pelvic floor dysfunction can be involved with:
↪️ Bowel dysfunction
↪️ Bladder dysfunction
↪️ Prolapse
↪️ Pain with in*******se
↪️ Low back pain
↪️ Hip pain
↪️ and more
Presented by:
Kira Maar Manager and Yoga Instructor, YogaSix, & Andrea Marti Clinic Manager & Physical Therapist, Body Gears Winnetka.
Discussion & offerings will include:
✅ Pelvic floor dysfunction education
✅ Benefits of Restorative yoga and physical therapy
✅ Utilizing diaphragmatic breathing techniques
✅ Free pelvic health screens
To register call Body Gears Winnetka at 847.447 6040
or
YogaSix Carillon Square at 847.503.9595
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is valuable tool in the process.
An experienced uses variety of different styles to mobilize tissues, bones, and nerves to both restore motion and modulate pain for improved patient experiences and outcomes. With skilled hands, this method of therapy is nothing short of an art.
Manual therapy has been shown in research to provide benefits such as:
✔️Relaxation of “tense” muscles
✔️Pain reduction
✔️Improved motion
✔️Improved circulation
✔️Full body relaxation
✔️Reduction of swelling
If rest and general exercises alone are not getting you where you want to be in your , manual therapy may be the missing piece. Reach out to Body Gears if you’re interested in what manual can do for you!
23/12/2021
Wishing everyone a happy and healthy holiday season!
One of the many factors that goes into low back pain is the inability to dissociate your hip from the lumbar spine and pelvic complex, and as a result puts large amounts of force through your low back.
A hip CAR can help you improve the ability to dissociate your hip from your low back and minimize injury risk.
Benefits:
✨Improved motor control
✨Improved strength
✨Improved range of motion
Although an effective exercise, it can easily be done inappropriately and create further problems. Click below to connect with one of our experienced physical therapists who will coach you through the proper technique to optimize your performance!
https://bodygears.com/request-appointment/
15/12/2021
Dry Needling 411 from Kyle at Body Gears ⬇️
🤔 How is dry needling different than acupuncture?
Dry needling is a skilled intervention using fusiform needles to treat and by modulating the from within muscles and connective tissues using nerve distribution maps for guidance. Acupuncture is a part of traditional eastern medicine and involves the balancing of life energy or Chi through channels to diminish pain and dysfunction.
🤔 What is the benefit of in conjunction w/ dry needling?
While traditional is very effective, electrical stimulation has greater impact on the nervous system to further improve pain modulation.
🤔 What are indications for using dry needling?
✔️
✔️ Limited motion
✔️ Dysfunctional motion
BTW, Body Gears is now offering dry needling!
13/12/2021
We are applauding Alliance for Physical Therapy Quality and Innovation and everyone who raised their voice to support our fight against CMS cuts 👏 👏 👏
https://www.aptqi.com/news/aptqi-applauds-congress-for-passing-legislation-to-mitigate-2022-medicare-pfs-cuts/
APTQI Applauds Congress for Passing Legislation to Mitigate 2022 Medicare PFS Cuts - Alliance for Physical Therapy Quality and Innovation Advocacy efforts of therapy community help to secure three percent payment adjustment and extended sequester relief for six month Washington, D.C. –– The Alliance for Physical Therapy Quality and Innovation (APTQI) today applauded lawmakers in Congress for passing the Protecting Medicare and Ame...
07/12/2021
We're asking for you to help us make some noise! CMS cuts will severely limit access to care for seniors, minorities, and rural communities. Click below to ask your legislators to stop the cuts!
APTQI, Provider Groups Urge Congress to Stop January 1 Medicare Cuts - Alliance for Physical Therapy Quality and Innovation Since Medicare finalized the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) for calendar year (CY) 2022, specialty provider groups—including APTQI—have pushed for a Congressional solution to looming cuts in order to help avoid significant disruptions to providers and care for Medicare beneficiaries. As ...
29/11/2021
In September, NASA made “one giant leap” for the health and safety of its astronaut corps, adding a full-time physical therapist position to its Astronaut Strength, Conditioning and Rehabilitation team.. PT, to infinity and beyond!
https://bodygears.com/physical-therapy-enters-the-final-frontier/
Physical Therapy Enters the Final Frontier - Body Gears With NASA adding its first physical therapist to treat the astronaut corps, it’s time to consider the benefits of PT much closer to home.
24/11/2021
Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy a happy, healthy, and active holiday.. with some tips from our friends at the CDC!
https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/library/features/holidays-healthy-eating.html
5 Healthy Eating Tips for the Holidays Family, festivities, and food … LOTS of food. This holiday season, try these 5 tips for eating healthy while still enjoying your favorite treats.
22/11/2021
"Despite an overall lack of evidence to support its efficacy, opioids continue to be prescribed to treat acute LBP when patients seek medical evaluation." - CDC
Choose PT, not opioids.
https://bodygears.com/physical-therapy-services/back-pain-relief/
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Our Approach
We have answers based on our Unique Culture of Inquiry.
We draw you in as an active piece of the recovery puzzle, answering your unsolved questions, using your condition as a springboard for creating new techniques, all the while, explaining your anatomy/diagnosis in language that make sense to you. We collaborate with all of your health providers — from physicians to personal trainers to yoga instructors — to craft the best plan for moving forward.
Our team of physical therapists works as an integrated unit. We routinely collaborate about your condition to determine how to speed progress, and are constantly “hands on” — engaging several therapists to perform two or more techniques simultaneously for greater effect. We discuss our clients’ conditions well beyond clinic hours, and thoroughly research appropriate interventions. We’re physical therapy geeks. It’s not just that we take five times more continuing education classes than required, it’s that as a company, we have determined that “Best Practice” means treating fewer patients each hour so that our therapists can effectively employ the very best, and newest, technical skills. Knowledge application means successful treatment.
For more information, Contact Us at West Loop, Lincoln Park, Oak Brook, Oak Park, Wheaton, and Winnetka, IL Centers.
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