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At Roper Physical Therapy, we offer telehealth services to be able to treat our patients from their own home. As with our traditional office visits, during our telehealth call we will cover detailed health and social history, set appropriate goals, and perform an examination and evaluation. We will introduce you […]

New: TeleHealth Services at Roper PT

At Roper Physical Therapy, we are focused on the importance of physical well-being for overall health, productivity, and happiness as part of the Pentagon of Wellness. The Pentagon of Wellness is a bio-psycho-social model that includes the intellectual, physical, psycho-social-emotional, energetic, and spiritual aspects of ourselves. Through our patient appointments, […]

Increase Your Overall Wellness!

The Self-Myofascial Release (self-MFR) workshop is a great way for patients to learn tools and techniques for treating themselves at home. This can extend the benefit of their manual work they receive in the clinic and will help them become more independent long-term. We start with the basics of self-MFR and the […]

Self-Myofascial Release Workshop is Every Friday at Roper PT!

At Roper Physical Therapy, we believe that with awareness, there is choice, especially when it comes to your health and overall wellness. This is why we offer group and private classes of Medical Therapeutic Yoga to complement our myofascial release appointments and to aid you in your wellness journey. In […]

One-on-One Medical Therapeutic Yoga at Roper PT!

At Roper Physical Therapy, we believe that with awareness, there is choice, especially when it comes to your health and overall wellness! Therefore, we offer several options in classes such as our Medical Therapeutic Yoga classes to complement our myofascial release appointments. Medical Therapeutic Yoga (MTY) may sound foreign to […]

Learn How Medical Therapeutic Yoga Can Benefit You!

An integrated physical therapy approach called Postural Restoration (PR) is an alignment-based approach geared at reducing asymmetry in our movement and breathing patterns. When coupled with myofascial release, PR is effective for “tech neck” or neck tension, scoliosis, osteoporosis, joint degeneration, chronic inflammation, migraines, and pain. PR addresses a common […]

PR and Self-Myofascial Release: How to Relieve and Correct Tech ...

As peak season for golfing ramps back up this September, Roper PT wants to help our golfers stay ahead of the game! By focusing on body maintenance and injury prevention, our PTs can help ensure you are at your best. Whether you’ve had an injury in the past or not, Myofascial Release […]

Myofascial Release for Roper PT’s Golfers

At Roper Physical Therapy, we believe that awareness is choice, especially when it comes to your health and overall wellness. Therefore, we offer several options in classes to compliment our myofascial release appointments as well as the different bodies with different goals that come through our doors. For Pilates, we […]

Why Should You Try a One-on-One Pilates Session at Roper ...

We all have that one area (or more!) where we hold tension and stress. Maybe you’ve had a recent injury or you work at a desk all day. There can be many reasons you feel muscular pain; dry needling is one option for helping alleviate it. Although it is becoming […]

Dry Needling: How It Fits Into Your Treatment Plan

Athletes come in all ages, sizes, genders, and physical abilities. Our desire to stay physically active, competitive, and healthy as well as our love of sport and activities binds us together. Additionally, the need for some form of physical therapy during different points in our lives. As we work to […]

Myofascial Release Benefits Athletes of All Kinds!

You’ve heard of Pilates. You kind of understand what it is, but have yet to experienced it. Or perhaps you popped into a group mat class with thirty other people, but left feeling baffled by what just happened. Your doctor recommends it for core strength, but does not help navigate […]

Pilates at Roper Physical Therapy

Do you have a flexible spending account or an FSA? Did you know that you can use your FSA funds at Roper PT? FSAs are generally use it or lose it plans. This means that amounts in the FSA at the end of the plan year generally cannot be carried […]

Flexible Spending Accounts and Roper PT

When was the last time you had a headache? Overall, it is estimated that almost half the population has had at least one headache in the last year. This equals to about 50% to 67% of adults between the ages of 18 and 65 world-wide have had a headache in the […]

Do You Suffer From Headaches? Here’s How Roper PT Can ...

Carolina Breast Friends was the vision of Kristy Adams-Ebel, who was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 32. She established the nonprofit in 2003 as a way to unite women in all stages of breast cancer survival together. Adams-Ebel lost her battle with breast cancer in 2006, but Carolina Breast […]

Helping Our Neighbors in Need at the Pink House

Hello, Roper PT patients! Who here is a runner or a want-to-be runner? Or a used-to-be runner that has been looking for some motivation to get those running shoes out again? If you fit into one of these categories, then you should know about runCLTrun, founded by Lisa Landrum. Lisa is […]

Run Charlotte Run!!

I have a standard go to line: Some kids went to summer camp, I went to rehab and physical therapy. I was born early, under mysterious circumstances, and with bumbling hospital staff forgetting to plug in the incubator. My life has been centered around men in white coats and physical […]

A Stroke Of Luck

March 11th to 17th was National Sleep Awareness Week and Roper Physical Therapy wants our patients to examine their sleep habits! As we say in our mission, we recognize the 5 pentagons of wellness: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects that must be addressed for long-term healing and on-going wellness” […]

Sleep and Wellness

Get Your Rear in Gear!

Christine Roper, MSPT, PYT opened her private practice in 2003 and has served over 25 years as a licensed physical therapist. In pursuit of combining traditional physical therapy with alternative modalities for the treatment of pain and dysfunction, she became an expert myofascial release practitioner completing her training under John […]

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