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Pivot Physical Therapy Celebrates Roddy Creek Automotive Now
Te n Ye a rs in E m m its b u r g Complete Auto Diagnostics

Pivot Physical Therapy’s Therapy, who received the highest James Rada, Jr.
Emmitsburg clinic recently honor bestowed by the American
celebrated its 10th anniversary, a Physical Therapy Association: the You may have noticed Photo by Allison Rostad
proud moment for the office and Mary McMillan Lecturer Award. the new sign and name for
the employees, who have become a The screening tests an individual’s Roddy Creek Automotive in we are the best alignment shop
staple of the community. static and dynamic balance, posture, Thurmont. It is now Complete around,” Brown said.
flexibility, and static and dynamic Auto Diagnostics. Although
The clinic has been at the same strength and endurance. Each of the name is new, the faces Complete Auto Diagnostics,
location, at 17750 Creamery Road, the tests is based on age-related you’ll see inside and the located at 7702 Roddy Creek Road
Suite B7 in Emmitsburg, the entire norms established by Carol that service you receive remain the in Thurmont, is open 8:30 a.m.-6:00
time. The two familiar faces, Carol can benchmark where the patient same. p.m. They will also stay late for
Krietz, who works in the front office is functionally, and where they can customer pick-up if needed. You can
greeting patients, and Dawn Krietz, improve. Former manager Rob
a physical therapy assistant, have “Champ” Brown, who is an T&Mreach them at 240-288-8320.
been there since day one. Another Dry Needling: Dry Needling is ASE-certified mechanic with Crane Rentals, Inc.
employee has worked there for four a physical therapy technique that more than twenty-five years
years. decreases pain in the muscles. This experience, is now the owner
is a western medicine approach; as of November 1.
Being part of the community it is not acupuncture. The goal,
matters. Patients often need physical as musculoskeletal specialists, “You can expect to get
therapy while they are recovering is to restore normal muscle and the best service that you have
from an injury, or they have some joint function. Importantly—and probably ever received at a
type of chronic discomfort. They one of the reasons this clinic is quality price,” Brown said.
are looking to return to health or of such importance to the local “You will not get ripped off.”
regain as much pain-free movement community—dry needling is not
as possible. As a result, they don’t available across the state line Complete Auto Diagnostics can
want to travel far. They want to in nearby Pennsylvania. Pivot’s provide just about any service your
see a familiar face. They want the Emmitsburg clinic is one of the few car might need, from plugging a flat
experience to be comfortable, so locations in the area that can do dry tire to taking care of the engine.
they can be comfortable. needling.
“We don’t really specialize since
Over the years, the Emmitsburg But being part of the community we can do just about everything
Pivot office has helped some 3,000 goes beyond just offering important for your car, but we have been told
patients—a remarkable number and services. The people in this clinic
a testament to the quality of care the actively support community events. Em1mCitrsebaumrge,rMy DWa21y727
clinic provides. For example, team members have
participated at the Emmitsburg 301-447-3718
In fact, this particular office Community Day, joined the FAX: 301-447-1722
provides several unique offerings, Emmitsburg Health Fair, and
including geriatric functional screen, collected money to wear jeans and
a wellness program, dry needling, a pink for Breast Cancer in October.
concussion program, FMS (Functional
Movement Screen) testing, and more. The clinic also consistently treats
Below are descriptions of two of the patients from the local Mount St.
unique offerings at the Emmitsburg Mary’s athletic teams. They even get
Pivot office. into the team spirit, attending several
Mount St. Mary’s games each year to
Geriatric functional screen: This support the school and athletes.
15-item examination was created by
the world-renowned Carol Lewis, a Pivot Physical Therapy’s
private practitioner and consulting Emmitsburg clinic is proud to
clinical specialist for Pivot Physical celebrate its 10th anniversary at
the same location, and they look
forward to being a part of the
community (and serving members
of the community) for at least ten
more.

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