Physical therapy is care that can help ease or prevent injury, pain, and dysfunction through the use of a variety of modalities including exercise, movement, manual therapy, and electrotherapy. More and more individuals are turning to PT to avoid surgery, injections, opioid use, and other traditional and invasive medical-model interventions.
If you’ve been to physical therapy before, you may have an image in your mind of a large open gym with many patients doing exercises with varying levels of supervision from distracted and overstretched PTs and assistants. We want to do PT better. At College Hill Pilates and Physical Therapy we believe that each patient deserves our full attention. Therefore, all of our PT services are provided one-on-one with individualized treatment plans taking advantage of everything that contemporary physical therapy has to offer. This includes many forms manual therapy and modalities and of course purposefully prescribed exercise.
Mindy Nagel, PT, DPT, OCS
All physical therapy services at CHPPT are provided by Mindy Nagel, PT, DPT, OCS. Dr. Nagel earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Otterbein College and, after working for several years with Cincinnati-area dance companies, went on to earn her Master of Physical Therapy degree from the University of Cincinnati and her Doctor of Physical Therapy from Alabama State University. Dr. Nagel holds the professional designation of board-certified clinical specialist in orthopaedic physical therapy by the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties (ABPTS) of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA).
Her interest in physical therapy began as a child when she often found herself under the care of physical therapists for dance-related injuries. Eventually a professor in PT school suggested that she fit the diagnostic criteria for hypermobility spectrum disorder. Realizing that her dance injuries had all been HSD-related, Dr. Nagel chose to specialize in hypermobility in her practice. She treats all types of orthopaedic and musculoskeletal conditions for all ages and activity levels as well as specializing in hypermobility including Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and other connective tissue disorders, and in dance injury screening, prevention and rehabilitation.
Dr. Nagel is a certified Pilates Instructor and has also studied Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization (DNS) through the Prague School of Rehabilitation and is a DNS Certified Exercise Trainer. She has performed with Northeast Ohio Dance Ensemble, MamLuft&Co. Dance, and Reflect Dance Company. She enjoys serving as an adjunct instructor at the University of Cincinnati where she has taught several courses including Anatomy and Injury Prevention for Dancers and Musculoskeletal Anatomy in the College of Allied Health Sciences. Dr. Nagel has also participated in continuing education in sports medicine, muscle energy techniques, women’s health, microcurrent point stimulation, kinesiotaping, dry needling, and a wide variety of orthopaedic topics.