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About BARR PHYSICAL THERAPY

Choose Barr Physical Therapy

Dr. John Barr PT, DPT, ATC is able to deliver personal and precise therapeutic services built on over 30 years of manual therapy and therapeutic exercise experience, ongoing continuing education of current evidence-based research and knowledge in physical therapy and athletic training. Specialties include spinal and postural movement dysfunctions, pelvic and scapular complex assessments and treatments, spinal and orthopedic post-operative status rehabilitation, progression of recovery from sports related injuries into return to sport testing and training, personal athletic/fitness enhancement training.

Where and When Can Help You

Dr. Barr's services cater to a wide range of patient/client needs and requirements from short to long term goals, scheduling time limitations, traveling difficulties, etc. Appointments scheduling is made easy having your choice to be treated at your convenience-where and when.

Locations include: San Jose clinical office - your in-home services, job site, or gym/recreational facilities.

Weekday and evening appointments available: 6AM-8PM

Weekend appointments available

760-670-6564

drbarrdpt@barrphysicaltherapy.com

john6274barr@sbcglobal.net

Now, Experience the Difference in Personalized Care

By listening to your needs, requirements and current status we will work together to reduce your pain and resolve your musculoskeletal impairments and imbalances. Design an individualized specific and progressive therapeutic exercise plan of care based on educating you with the association of each exercise and restoring your postural awareness and muscle control, movement symmetry and achieving your specific short or long term goals.

Specialty Services

Cervical and Lumbar Spine Pain Management

Movement and postural dysfunctions of the cervical and lumbar spine are very common among the active and not so active lifestyles and typically present at first as a one-sided muscle weakness, a joint tightness, or episodes of "your back going out" throughout the year. A great percentage of these dysfunctions can be considered to be wake-up calls and can be resolved, but if gone un-diagnosed can lead to a sequel of events including: progression of spinal and extremity pain and daily/work functional limitations, decreased sport performance, undue damage to spinal supportive structures and neurological impingement symptoms resulting in cervical and lumbar spine radicular pain, extremity muscle weakness and increasing disability.

Dr. Barr's approach includes accurate movement assessment of each of your articulating spinal segment and the associated extremity complex, evaluation of myofascial tissue tension length, core muscle strength testing and postural movement deviation evaluation. Manual therapy techniques are performed to restore normal segmental mobility and tissue tension length symmetry. Your specific therapeutic spinal stabilization exercises are designed to increase core and extremity muscle control, awareness and strength with a progression of education and understanding of the association of each exercise with the correction and re-establishing your normal postural and movement control, thus eliminating the sequel to disability.

Return to Sport - Performance Enhancement

Since 1991 Dr. Barr has worked with athletes from multitudes of different sports and levels of competition and within sports medicine it is well understood that immediate and proper management of sport injuries either an acute/chronic tendonitis, sprain/strain , fracture or surgical intervention is mandatory. If your goal after an injury is to return athletic competition there must be a completion of each stage of recovery to build a solid foundation prior to advancing to the next. Intricate deficits in either mobility, flexibility or strength, even without experiencing pain symptoms, will limit normal progression and eventually present again, as an old or new pain site somewhere else.

Being able to reproduce the speed, stability, agility, power, endurance, accuracy etc., that is required for your full return starts with precise bi-lateral assessment to find and manual techniques to resolve these intricate weaknesses and tightness is a professional specialty of Dr. Barr. These altered movement patterns may have been adapted since the onset of injury/pain or were the original root causes of of your pain and performance limitations.

Return to running and throwing programs are a valuable component and are designed to gradually retrain and detail your musculoskeletal system for the demands that are required for a successful return.

Post-Operative Spinal and Orthopedic Rehabilitation

Dr. Barr has over 20 years clinical experience with post-operative rehabilitation of orthopedic and spinal traumatic, chronic or sport related origins. Ongoing continuing education and training of current surgical techniques and rehabilitation time schedules for individual stage of recovery for a spectrum of spinal and extremity conditions and procedures. Including but not limited to:

Cervical and Lumbar Spine:

Fusions, stenosis, discectomies, laminectomies, foraminotomies, cystectomies, HNP

Extremity:

Rotator cuff repair, Biceps tendon repair/tenodesis, SLAP/labral repairs, Bankart repair, AC-joint resection, ORIF, ACL/ligament reconstructions, minesectomies, ankle fracture/ORIF, total hip/knee/shoulder replacements

ABOUT DR. JOHN BARR, PT, DPT, ATC

Education

Graduate San Diego State University 1991 - BS in Athletic Training

1992 - NATABOC Certification (ATC)

Graduate University of St. Augustine Health Services - 2012

Doctoral of Physical Therapy (DPT)

2012 - CA State Board Licensed of Physical Therapy

Beginning in 1992 Dr. Barr has exceeded the required amount of continuing education required to maintain the approved status of an Athletic Training through the NATABOC. Courses focused on manual therapy techniques, therapeutic exercises and return to sport specific rehabilitation and training.

Post-graduate evidence-based research courses for maintaining CA State Boards License have been focused on spinal and extremity manipulation, myofascial mobilization,Pre and Post-operative spinal rehabilitation, pelvic and scapular complex movement dysfunctions.

Work Experience

Dr. Barr's work experience spans over 30 years within athletic training, sports medicine, team and individual fitness or performance enhancement training. Orthopedic sports injury related rehabilitation with progression into return to sport testing and training.

Levels of athletic training experience and competition coverage include individual and team association at the professional, university, collegiate, high school Jr. Olympic and national club.

Clinical experience includes over 20 years within hospital out-patient rehabilitation services and private owned PT facilities. Patients included traumatic orthopedic and neurological origin, sports related orthopedic rehabilitation and return to sport testing and training.

Personal

Being a South Bay Area native as a child Dr. Barr participated in local AYSO/CYSA soccer leagues and becoming an avid bike rider of the local Santa Cruz Coastal Mountain Range. This interest lead into participating with the SDSU bike racing club and organized bike tours. Dr. Barr still enjoys bike riding and has recently rode up Maui's Haleakala Volcano.

Dr. Barr became interested in kayak fishing when living in San Diego area and is now involved with rescue kayaking for swimming and triathlon race events that occur within the San Francisco Bay and other locations that Water World Swim, Envirosports or Sharkfest events promote.

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BARR PHYSICAL THERAPY TESTIMONIALS

Let me be very clear, I feel very fortunate to have found John Barr at Barr Physical Therapy. I have a long history of physical deterioration and physical therapy from others beginning in 2002, but those visits only provided temporary solutions for my symptoms. When John and I first met in August 2019 for an evaluation, I was hardly walking. He explained that some time ago, probably 20 years or more ago, I had fallen and and altered the movement of my pelvis and have been compensating since then. This made perfect sense. I had been a very active person all my life and have fallen a number of times in many different sporting activities. John Barr said I have a lumbopelvichip complex movement dysfunction and that this is can be reversible and that running again could be possible. In 6 short weeks I am not only walking normal without pain, I believe I will be able to resume many of the activities I had long ago given up. Yes I do believe I will be able to run again. So let me be your referral. If you have a disability you have been living with, or being told you have to learn to live with, get an opinion of John Barr right away.

Christine G.-patient of Dr. Barr

BARR PHYSICAL THERAPY

3851 Charter Park Drive, Suite U, San Jose, California 95136

APPOINTMENTS AVAILABLE NOW (760) 670-6564 drbarrdpt@barrphysicaltherapy.com john6274barr@sbcglobal.net

When and Where

Monday - Friday: 7am - 7pm

Saturday - Sunday: appointments times available at

San Jose clinic office, your in-house, work site or gym/recreational facility