Our “Expert of the Month” is Melissa Escobar, owner of Complete Body Physical Therapy. Melissa has worked in northern RI since 2003. During her time in the area, she noticed a need for a physical therapy facility. In 2009, she opened Complete Body Physical Therapy. Their focus is to provide physical therapy to patients in the area for orthopedics, neurological pediatrics, massage therapy, and local athletes (both adults and kids). Melissa also does Kinesio Taping with her patients to help improve their bio-mechanics. With this, depending what the patient needs, the taping can make a muscle work harder or less or even reduce bruising and swelling. She also provides help with posture and core stabilization.
“I tend to look at the whole person. If someone comes in for their knee, I want to look at how they walk, their strength, their flexibility, I look at everything when I see my patients,” says Escobar. “If a patient has knee or ankle pain, I’m gonna look at their posture and their core because a lot of times, they have weakness in their core like not standing upright and that impacts their shoulders too. I have to address everything.”
Complete Body Physical Therapy is active in the community as well, sponsoring a local softball team and donating massage gift cards to local teams and fundraisers.
When Melissa first opened CBPT, she needed someone local to take care of the business’s computer and security needs. Because they are medical, it was important to have someone that would help them stay within HIPAA guidelines. That’s when she reached out to IT Support RI. “Right from the beginning, everybody was great. They made sure that we were taken care of and all the stuff we didn’t know or understand, they explained to us. Any problems we had, they were right on top of it, all the time. When we moved, they helped us transition and upgrade to a bigger database. There were no hiccups in our system, and that was great,” states Escobar.
For more information, you can contact Complete Body Physical Therapy at 401-371-2890 or via email at
[email protected]. You can also check them out on Facebook.
