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This is YOUR page. In this section of the site, we’ll deliver regular, valuable information to help you manage your physical wellbeing. This information might come in the form of blog posts, videos of corrective exercises, links to cost-effective equipment for your home program or assistance in paying your bill online.

Patient Testimonial: Paige V.

Patient Testimonial: Paige V.

"Nothing but amazing feedback for Kim and the rest of the team at Alliance! I had been having back/upper body/tension headache issues for a couple years. I had previously gone through other physical therapy offices, chiropractors, primary care physicians, and etc- I...

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The World Keeps Spinning, You Shouldn’t Too

The World Keeps Spinning, You Shouldn’t Too

Vertigo Symptoms and Vestibular Rehabilitation Vertigo is defined as a sensation of whirling and loss of balance caused by disease affecting the inner ear or the vestibular nerve. Basically, this means you feel like the world around you, or yourself, are moving,...

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New Year’s Resolution? Or Lifelong Path?

New Year’s Resolution? Or Lifelong Path?

Our body is a system designed for movement. It houses our organs and our brain, it is the vehicle of what and who we are. Here in Maine, we can put our cars in garages in the winter, we wash them to keep them to keep the salt off the body and engine and we service...

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Patient Profile: Joseph G.

Patient Profile: Joseph G.

Every once in a while a challenge comes our way and our expertise is put to the test. The team at Alliance Physical Therapy always rises to meet the challenge. The human body needs time to heal, but what if you don’t have time? Joseph came to Alliance PT with such a...

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Patient Profile: Joann L.

Patient Profile: Joann L.

It can be a truly scary feeling to have your first episode of severe low back pain. Most people respond by either resting completely or pushing through it. Those who push through it will often resort to doing lots of “stretches” in an effort to make it feel better....

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Reflecting on National PT Month and the PT Profession

Reflecting on National PT Month and the PT Profession

October of each year is National Physical Therapy Month – an annual opportunity to recognize the Physical Therapy profession’s efforts to “transform society by optimizing movement to improve the human experience.” (APTA President Sharon Dunn). It’s a time that we as...

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Value 3 – Outcome Oriented Service

Value 3 – Outcome Oriented Service

Not more paperwork? If you come to Alliance Physical Therapy as a patient, you will find you have some additional paperwork to complete. Before you roll your eyes or wonder if you are buying a used car – let me show you how valuable it is to you. In today’s blog, we...

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Announcing Free Consultations!

Announcing Free Consultations!

Feeling held back by pain? Injury keeping you from recreation or sport? Day-to-day life limited by lack of mobility? Alliance Physical Therapy is happy to introduce free consultations! You may have noticed our social media posts last week or seen the tab on our...

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Patient Profile: Brooke Bickford

Patient Profile: Brooke Bickford

Here at Alliance Physical Therapy, we love working with individuals - including student-athletes - to get them back on the court, back on the field, and back on the ice. Brooke is a high school basketball player who came to us with limited motion and pain in her left...

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Get to Know Alliance PT: Interview #3, Austin

Get to Know Alliance PT: Interview #3, Austin

In our third employee interview, we wanted to focus on Austin S., PT, DPT, Cert DN, a Maine native that discovered his vocation through his own journey of rehabilitation. The physical therapists he encountered not only helped him heal, they ignited a passion in him to...

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Patient Profile: Miles Lipton

Patient Profile: Miles Lipton

We've said it many times before and we hope to say it a number of times more -- we are so very proud that treatments provided by a physical therapist here at Alliance Physical Therapy have helped a number of individuals - including student-athletes - get back to being...

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Everywhere is Walking Distance, If You Have The Time

Everywhere is Walking Distance, If You Have The Time

Winter blues got you feeling down? Mother nature has been brutal this winter season but it looks like we are finally starting to get a break. With this nicer weather just around the corner, it’s time to think about getting outdoors and getting active. Whether you have...

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Get to Know Alliance PT: Interview #2; Kim

Get to Know Alliance PT: Interview #2; Kim

In our second employee interview, we wanted to focus on Kim W., PT, DPT, a Maine native who recently graduated from the University of Vermont in 2016 with a Doctoral Degree in Physical Therapy. Drawn to physical therapy after watching her dad go through two spinal...

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Patient Profile: Meg Kelly

Patient Profile: Meg Kelly

We are proud that treatments provided by a physical therapist here at Alliance Physical Therapy has helped a number of individuals to improve or restore mobility and move forward with their lives Meg is a high school basketball player who had tried physical therapy...

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