A cutting-edge treatment for those who’ve experiences musculoskeletal injury or surgery, Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) therapy can offer incredible advantages to the rehabilitation process.

The use of BFR can speed up healing and recovery while minimizing the potential for muscle loss, all while minimizing the training load, and overall stress, required at the site of your injury or surgery.

How Blood Flow Restriction Therapy works

Blood Flow Restriction therapy is a rehabilitation tool that combines the use of a tourniquet and Doppler system placed on the arm or thigh that restricts blood flow to the spot where injury and/or surgery took place. By restricting blood flow, the muscles aren’t required to work as hard (20 to 30 percent loads vs. the normal 70 percent load) in order to strengthen muscles.

This is an important breakthrough because, through BFR, patients no longer need to wait for the affected joint or limb to heal before it can physically handle the level of resistance typically needed to build strength. Thus, healing and recovery is expedited.

Getting started

If you’ve suffered an injury or have an orthopedic surgery scheduled, and you’re wondering if BFR Therapy could work for you, contact us to set up an evaluation of your condition and your quickest, safest and most direct path toward healing.

The Clinicians at Next Generation Physical Therapy are Blood Flow Restriction Training through Owens Recovery Science, the leading company in Blood Flow Restriction Training, Certification, and Research. For more information on Owens Recovery Science, the Mechanisms of Blood Flow Restriction Training, and the equipment used at Next Generation, please visit www.owensrecoveryscience.com