Tried two self-pay PT clinics back to back — one finally connected something 30 years of PT never did
I’ve dealt with chronic, “out of whack” issues since a car accident almost 30 years ago. I’ve been through plenty of PT over the years, so when I started looking at self-pay/cash-based clinics (no insurance billing, so treatment isn’t limited by what a payer approves), I decided to try two different ones within a day of each other to compare.
Both did thorough evaluations and landed on pretty similar findings about my body. But the approach was completely different:
**•** The first clinic down in Katy, I believe gave me the same type of PT and exercises I’ve been given for years — competent, but nothing new.
**•** At PhysioVictory (Dr. Lindsay Kennedy in Conroe), she picked up on something I hadn’t even told her — that my system has essentially been stuck in fight-or-flight since the accident. No PT in nearly 30 years had framed it that way. Her take was that the actual work is getting my nervous system to trust movement again, not just doing more corrective exercises.
That’s the reason I chose her over the other self-pay option, even though both were similarly priced and structured. It was the first time in decades a provider connected the dots on why things have stayed “off” for so long, not just what was off.
Curious if anyone else has had a PT identify a nervous-system/fight-or-flight component to a long-standing injury — did it actually change your outcomes?