How Our PT Team Has Adapted to Keep Our Clinics Safe

World PT Day 2020 is Tuesday, September 8th, with the focus of this year’s World PT Day being rehabilitation and COVID-19. In light of this, we wanted to take a few moments to share with you some of the recent changes that our dedicated Physical Therapy teams in Stoughton and Foxboro have made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to help keep our staff and patients healthy and safe when receiving PT care.

While the coronavirus pandemic continues to be front and center in the news and in the thoughts of many people, other health issues have not gone away. People are still getting back and neck pain, overuse injuries, and other injuries at work or while playing sports. In addition, surgeries are returning to pre-pandemic levels, and post-surgical patients are often in need of skilled physical therapy and rehabilitation.

Many of these people would benefit from seeing a physical therapist, but some of them are reluctant because of concerns over COVID-19. That’s understandable – PT clinics are often busy places, with lots of people coming and going, right? They used to be, but things are different now. Just like every other business and public place, PT clinics have made important changes to allow them to continue to serve patients while keeping both patients and staff safe. Here are some specific changes we’ve made here at Elite Physical Therapy in Stoughton and Foxboro to reduce the risk of COVID spreading among patients and staff.

Scheduling and Patient Flow

• We have reduced the total number of people our clinicians see each day to allow for safe social distancing in the clinic.
• We have switched to one-on-one patient treatments to improve the quality and efficiency of our personalized patient care while also reducing the number of patients in the clinic at one time.
• We have altered our traffic flow and entrance/exit points to maintain safe social distancing.