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The AZPTS Difference

When you go to your physical therapist do you want to receive care from their assistant or aides? Only physical therapists treat patients at AZPTS. You will receive the undivided attention of an expert physical therapist for your entire appointment. We recognize the privilege it is to have a patient's trust in our care and we aim to provide the best care available to maintain that trust. 

A Unique Model in Physical Therapy Care

• Your entire treatment session is face to face with your Physical Therapist

• Complete focus on you the individual & your problem

• Immediate reassessment to ensure genuine therapeutic value

• No double booking of clients

• Progressive treatments that change to match your particular situation as it evolves

Four Practices One Roof

There are 4 private practices operating under the AZPTS brand

Lazarus Physical Therapy: principal is Lauri Lazarus

Roessler Physical Therapy: David Roessler principal

Valley Manual Therapy: Jenna Tabaczka prinicpal

Fearon Physical Therapy: Timothy Fearon principal

Why does this matter? Each individual is responsible and accountable for their own professional reputation. You are never treated by an employee, we work for you and our future practice health depends on delivering professional care that inspires our patients to spread the word about how we have maintained the patients as a priority of our practice without turning them into a commodity .

Choose to Experience the Best.

Physical Therapist Care Focused on Your Goals!

We are committed to delivering the best possible care in a patient centered model. The majority of our patients in the last decade have come from prior unsatisfactory experiences in their pursuit of health care, including most significantly, prior PT. Invariably the reports are of less than adequate attention, minimal attention to the details required in their specific case, rotating care givers, and lack of focused progression in their case. To be fair this happens because the majority of clinics have biased toward a business model rather than a clinical model and the previous therapists had little control. We have elected to minimize expenses, take professional responsibility and maximize our focus on your care.

Mission Statement

AZPTS collectively have committed to delivering the most appropriate care for the individual, the problem at hand and the goals of that individual. This includes but is not limited to the following:

Subjective examination: Listening to the patient intentionally to derive their experience and integrate it with our knowledge on how their particular problem behaves and hence how we should first exam it and then direct treatment.

Objective examination: Fueled by the subjective exercise in listening the therapist establishes a working hypothesis and examine in such a way as to support or reject it thereby allowing the exam to direct appropriate care fot you at this moment in time.

Reassessment: All patients have functional impairments which depict the nature of their problem. These signs are established and openly reassessed to allow both patient and therapist to see that the chosen treatment is effective or needs to be altered.

Self treatment: All physical impairments respond best to consistent delivery of corrective movement. Every day is far better than 2 or 3 times/week as long as we also prove that these motions are genuinely therapuetic. This is critical and a partnership is formed here between therapists’ intellectual focus in design and the patient personal responsibility in delivery.

Progression: Therapist and patient should share the goal of independence from care. The therapist will establish a vision and confirm that they are working toward that patient determined goal. The end goal is of course your independence.

Management plan: The therapist will educate the patient from the outset through the evolution to independence and teach them how to prevent backsliding now and in the future as well as how to continue indepent advancement of function.

The primary goal with physical therapy is to enable functional independence and self management. The process falls into one of four basic categories

Intervention: The patient needs the therapist to do something to alter the present circumstances which deprive them of function. They cannot do this alone and the therapsit does virtually all of the work.

Rehabilitation: The patient needs the therapsit to facilitate and direct a therapuetic exercise progression enabling the patient to improve their functional ability, both patient and therapist participate.

Management: The patient understands what to do & not do, applies this consistently but may need periodic assistance from the therapist. The vast majority of this is done by the patient who needs to be consistent over time to enable functionally inconsequential pathology.

Prophylaxis: The independent patient does the appropriate things to maintain healthy function while avoiding potentially threatening activities. Problems are either resolved or functionally inconsequential.

All patients are unique individuals and respond better to various measures and intensity. The naming of a pathology does little to help in the recovery of function. Establishing the rationale for functional deficts and then identifying which have the most potential for change is the starting ground for advancement. While interest in the imaging studies or diagnostic nomenclature is always present neither party enjoys the luxury of treating the picture or the name. We will focus on changing the behavior so that you can focus on recovery.

We use a lot of manual therapy but this is largely at the intervention stage. To enable you to reach independence invariably requires personal engagement in therapeutic exercise, genuinely therapeutic (think good for your problem) not some repetition of mindless exercise that everyone with this (name the diagnosis) does. We take our responsibility for designing and coaching this critical end seriously and we need our patients to take their end of delivery equally serious. The reward for both parties taking responsibility is the amelioration or elimination of your problem.