Manual therapy in Washington, DC.

The work this clinic is named for. Hands on the joint and the tissue the whole session, one-on-one with a licensed physical therapist, every visit.

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30-minute Discovery Session. Trupti calls you back herself.

What It Is

Hands on you. The whole session.

Manual therapy is skilled hands-on treatment, and it is specific. Joint mobilization to give a stiff joint its range back. Soft tissue work to release muscle and fascia that has been guarding so long it forgot how to stop. Then you move it, while it is open, so the change has a reason to stay.

Trupti is certified in Maitland Australian manual therapy, Mulligan Movement with Mobilization, and the McKenzie Method. When a tendon or old scar tissue needs more than hands, she uses Astym, an instrument-assisted soft tissue technique that works along the tissue to restart your body’s own remodeling. Different tool, same target: the thing that is actually restricting you.

Patients say it better than we can. “My favorite part of the treatment is the manual therapy. It’s like a massage but better,” says Hyun P. Jada Y. is blunter about it: “She calls it manual therapy for a reason. She WORKS the entire session.”

A physical therapist performing hands-on manual therapy on a patient's back Never handed off to an aide

What It Helps

Where hands beat a printout.

You’re the one everybody else leans on, which is exactly why your own shoulder has been on the list for two years. Hands-on work is for the thing that stopped improving on its own a long time ago.

A neck that’s locked when you wake up Bending you brace for before you try A hip that grips after a day at the desk Joints that need ten minutes to loosen Scar tissue from a surgery years ago Stiffness that stretching never touches

What A Session Looks Like

Three steps, one visit.

1

We find the joint or tissue that’s actually stuck.

2

Hands, and Astym when it helps, to free it.

3

You move it while it’s open, so it holds.

Why It Works

Four reasons the hands come first.

Range you can feel before you leave.

Reaches what stretching can’t.

Astym for tendon and scar tissue.

One therapist, hands on, every visit.

Pairs Well With

Hands first. Rarely hands only.

Dry Needling For the knot buried too deep for hands to reach. Always optional, never sprung on you. Spinal Manipulation When one segment of your spine needs more than soft tissue work to start moving again.

Questions, Answered

Manual therapy, no mystery.

It can be firm. Patients tell us it is nothing like a light spa massage, and more than one of our reviews uses the word painful in the same breath as better range of motion afterward. You are talking with your physical therapist the entire time, so pressure gets adjusted the moment you say so, and nothing happens that was not explained first.

A massage works on tissue to help it relax. Manual therapy works on the one joint or tissue your evaluation identified as the restriction, in a direction and a dose chosen for that finding. Trupti is certified in Maitland Australian manual therapy, Mulligan Movement with Mobilization, and the McKenzie Method, and she uses Astym when a tendon or scar needs an instrument instead of a thumb. Then you load it, so the range you gained has a reason to stay.

You get an estimate at the end of your evaluation, not a number out of a package. Your plan runs four phases, Pain, Prime, Perform, Prevent, with a reassessment at each one so you can see what changed. It is a plan with an endpoint. Plenty of our reviews open with the same regret, waiting longer than they should have. Starting is simple: a 30-minute Discovery Session, and no referral needed.

Book Your Visit

Ready when you are.

Request a time and Trupti calls you back herself. Not a front desk. Not ‘someone will reach out.’ The therapist who would actually treat you, on the phone, before you commit to anything.

  • Hours Monday–Friday: 8 AM–6 PM · Saturday & Sunday: Closed
  • (202) 670-8874 Rather just talk it through? The 15-minute phone consult is free.
  • 30-minute Discovery Session first, before you commit to anything

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