Dr. Leticia Garza Falcon began physical therapy with us when she was diagnosed with cancer. Her powerful testimonial is all about staying positive throughout her personalized treatment, & having fun while improving her health.

Thank you for being an inspiration to us all. We love working with you to help you feel your best!

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The bill enables patients to take control of their care, bypassing unnecessary doctors’ visits and additional costs and getting on a physical therapy treatment plan faster. We know this story all too well. In fact, according to a study by Health Services Research, total health care costs for patients who had early access to physical therapy were less than half the total costs paid by those who waited three months to a year to visit a PT facility.

At your visit, our expert therapists will be able to quickly understand, diagnose, and start treatment on what’s causing you pain, so you can get back to enjoying your daily activities. Give our staff a call today with any questions regarding your care, or for more details on what’s covered under the new bill.

A few things you need to know

HB 29 amends provisions of Section 453.301, Occupations Code (PT Practice Act) that includes:

• Treatment without a referral for up to ten (10) consecutive business days for a physical therapist with a doctoral degree in physical therapy or who has completed a minimum of thirty (30) continuing competence activities in the area of differential diagnosis.
• Additionally, a PT with a doctoral degree in physical therapy who has completed a residency or fellowship can treat for up to fifteen (15) consecutive business days without a referral.
• Stipulations on treatment without a referral are the PT must have been licensed to practice physical therapy for at least one (1) year and must be covered by professional liability insurance.
• Before treatment can exceed the authorized number of days, a referral must be obtained from a qualified healthcare practitioner.

Get the best Physical therapy services in McAllen, Mission, Rio Grande City, and Weslaco. Contact us today to find out how we can help you get started on the road to recovery. We run individualized programs for physical therapy in South, Texas.

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Hi my name is Emmanuel Lopez, or as people know me, my name is Manny. I am an endurance athlete, and I have practiced the swim, bike, run sport for over 14 years now. I’m a 5-time Ironman finisher. I am a 10-time half-Ironman finisher and I’ve completed what feels like a 100s sprint in Olympic distance over the 14 years.

I first came to XO back in November of 2018 and I remember that I specifically came in here looking for a man by the name of Yuzef Yarrito, who had been highly recommended to me by a close friend.

The first time we saw Manny here was due to an inflammation of one of his hip musculatures. He came to me and personally told me that he was running, or participating in the Ironman course. And was actually able to finish through the full Ironman, and paid a little price for it at the end.

Manny, being the athlete that he is, is usually taking a full throttle all the time, 24-7, non-stop, go go go. So, that was the first key component of our Physical Therapy Program here. Ensuring that Manny understood, hey, you’re hurt, let us take care of you.

Yuzef and the staff here at XO not only helped me flush out the inflammation I was dealing with in my (sports) injury. But they took the time to help me improve the muscular balance of my body. They did this through specific strengthening exercises that focused on the weakness that caused the injury in the first place.

What I liked about XO’s approach to my treatment was the level of personalized care that I received. For example, Yuzzef was quick to approach me to let me know that his goal from me was not just to heal my injury and send me back to my regular life. But his goal was to educate me on how to treat the body, and how to strengthen the body to never go through such injury again.

Here at XO we’re always researching, we’re always looking for new innovative ways to further help our patients. With Manny, being the athlete that he is again, we were able to incorporate some very distinct and new therapeutic exercises. 

What we really wanted to focus on with him towards the later stages of his rehab, was the training he had for a stable and strong core. That core wraps around all the way towards his back, so this really created a fun opportunity for us here at XO, me as a therapist and for Manny to benefit from. 

I highly recommend XO physical therapy to anybody out there dealing with an injury or just dealing with those daily pain and aches. Because the people here are highly committed to help you improve and recover from anything that you’re dealing with. 

Now that Manny is wrapping us his therapy with us here at XO, we wish him nothing but the best and his ambitious goals, and we know he’ll try out in all his Ironman competitions.

For all that Yuzzef and the XO staff has done for me, I am truly thankful.

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[Music] Hey guys my name is Yusef Yarrito, physical therapist here at XOPT. Hey guys Luis Garza, I’m the aquatic physical therapist assistant here at XO orthopedics. Fantastic my name is dr. Chapel, I’m an upper extremity specialist and I’m just honored to be here the guys from XO orthopedics decided to have me down to talk a little bit about what we do and how we can help patients here in the valley and what we have to offer. Well just a little bit about, where are you from. yeah been around everywhere for my training all over the United States but born and raised in Louisiana and the world is where I grew up I’m an LSU Tiger. I went to Baton Rouge from my undergraduate and then I went to University of Texas at Houston for my medical school. Did my general surgery here in South Carolina, in Greenville and then from there I went over to Oklahoma and that’s where I fell in love with shoulder elbow and hand surgery. From there I did a one-year fellowship in Mississippi with dr. William Geisler he’s a world-famous hand surgeon. Came back to the valley and practice orthopedics for two years but I realized that they really needed a specialist for shoulders and elbows. And I’m just honored to bring that down to the valley. What’s the most popular general population that you normally. Sure yeah so I take essentially almost all of the trauma call at Rio Grande Regional Hospital car crashes, hip fractures, ankle fractures, wrist fractures, you name it, so I do a little bit of everything when I’m on trauma car call. But my passion for elective practice is shoulder elbow and hand surgery and I love helping people with my tactics for shoulder surgery here in physical therapy. I mean we have the pleasure of you know helping a lot of your patients as well and every patient that comes into my clinic with shoulder pain my first priority is to get them better without surgery yeah nobody can do that without the effects or the help of a good physical therapist, a good high quality team, a multidisciplinary approach. Surgery is only half the battle, therapies the other half. And a good therapist with a good surgeon will give you the best likelihood of a good outcome. I think aquatic therapy is a good segway to get those patients back to their full activities on dry land. what is the most common and or your fear procedure? I had the honor of training with dr. Markman one of the best shoulder surgeons in the world. I learned exactly his techniques and I’m bringing those techniques down to the valley. There’s just so many different options and things that I’m bringing to the table that weren’t here before I came and I’m just so excited about that. So if a patient wants to reach out to you you know where exactly are you located or how exactly can they go about that. One of the things that I love about my location is I can literally walk from my office to this facility and that is just huge for patient care. I think having access to to both of us, is very good for patient outcomes. My office is located right across from Rio Grande Regional Hospital. The entire patient experience there is fantastic and I am all about good outcomes and patient experience, and I wouldn’t change a thing about what patients are going through over there. Doctor whenever anybody goes through clinic, what kind of experience would they be getting from your staff? I have really got a team of people surrounding me that makes me able to do my job. I mean from the moment you walk through the door and you meet Adriana, my front desk lady, you’ll you’ll meet Eliana, my practice manager, Michelle, my MA, who god, she’s my right-hand girl, there’s no way I could do my job without her in the back. Pablo, my x-ray person, we’ve got supporting cast with Julio, we’ve got verismo. Everybody in that clinic is just as passionate and just as dedicated to patient care as I am. Alright guys so we’re gonna be signing off here from XO Orthopedics where today it hurts, tomorrow it works, that’s right excellent let’s do it!

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Hello everyone, I’m Maiela and this is Laura. you may remember her from one of our last videos where she was a few months pregnant. but now she’s got this little guy. Before, when she was pregnant, she was having a little bit of back pain, and from time to time, even though she’s already had a baby, she still gets a little back pain here and there.

We want to show you today are three really good exercises to help tighten everything up after the baby, and help eliminate any back pain that you might have been having postpartum.

The first exercise we’re going to show you is called ta activation, TA stands for the transverse abdominis, that’s just a fancy name for your ab muscles here. The best position to do this exercise is laying flat on your back, with your knees bent, and what you want to do is put your hands on your belly here, this is going to help give you some feedback so that you know if you’re actually contracting those muscles that you should. What you want to do with your hands here, you want to take a deep breath in, and as you exhale, you’re going to tighten your belly muscles. and your hands here will help you feel if you’re actually contracting those muscles there. Good, let’s try that one more time, inhale in and as you exhale and try and hold that for 5 seconds 3 4 5, and relax. Very good. This exercise is an easy one that can be done laying on the floor, on a yoga mat, or laying on the bed. you can start with 5 Second holds and as you get a little better, increase to 10-30 second holds.

Another exercise that we’re going to show you it’s called the sideline clam exercise. Sideline means you’re lying on your side, and you’re going to be working the muscle that’s on the top tier. Laura is in a good position here. ankles together, knees bent, knees together, and to start this exercise, you want to make sure that your hips are in the right place, by doing that you want to make sure you have a good line from your shoulder to your hip, to your ankle here.

Everything has to be in line. If the hips are too far forward, or too far back, then you’re not in a good starting position. Once you get that really good starting position, you have your bottom half, nice and relaxed, your top hands on your side here, just relax, there, resting. What you want to do, this is going to work the glutes. You’re going to keep your ankles together. Lift up the top knee, and you’re going to feel right here on the side of those glute muscles contracting, and go ahead and bring down, good.

You can start with sets of 10, and each set that you do, you want to hold for at least 3 seconds. Go ahead and bring it up. Holds 1, 2, 3, and slowly lower it down. What you want to avoid, is also going too fast. If you start kind of flapping the legs like this, you’re not really working the muscle properly. Okay. Again, this is called the sideline clam exercise to help strengthen up the hips, the glutes, and the back.

Another exercise that we’re going to show you, it’s called quad leg extension. I’m going to show Laura how to get into the position for this exercise. Quad is short for quadrupeds, and what that means is, on all fours and on your hands and knees. Go ahead Laura.

For this exercise I recommend doing it, either on the floor, if you have a yoga mat, or on a soft mat like this, if you have one of these at home. Now that Laura is in the proper starting position, you want to make sure that your back is straight, and that your hips and your knees are in line. Move back, just a little bit here. Hands are shoulder width apart and you have a good stable base. From here what you’re going to do is start with one leg, and then the other. We’ll start with your left leg here Laura. You want to stabilize the back. Use the core muscles, and extend the leg here. She’s got nice long legs, and then slowly brings it back. Key things to remember here, is to keep your back straight, keep your hips in line. You want to avoid any swing here. Let’s do the right, here. good. She’s engaging the back muscles, engaging the core muscles, and also the glutes here. And then slowly bring it back. This exercise can be done in three sets of 10, with 5 second holds, and then as you get a little more comfortable with this exercise, you can always increase the number of reps, and increase the seconds, on the hold there. This is a quadruped leg extension exercise.

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