Element Performance & Physical Therapy

Element Performance & Physical Therapy Physical Therapists who specialize in helping active adults be pain free. Tired of not seeing results? https://www.element-physicaltherapy.com/contact-us

We always hear that clients are in therapy for months at a time without seeing progress. You should be seeing a change i...
04/23/2026

We always hear that clients are in therapy for months at a time without seeing progress. You should be seeing a change in symptoms within 2 to 3 weeks. Often times, we can get changes within the first day.

No magic. Just a system that gives YOU enough time to explain what’s going on. A system that prioritizes your care. A system that has specialized clinicians.

Follow for more tips on moving/working out pain free!

💪🏾Element is a private-based physical therapy group who specializes in helping active adults workout, run, or play sports pain free. From weekend warriors to marathon runners and iron man participants, we have you covered. Located in Northfield + Lincoln Park!

✅If you’re looking to get out of pain asap, you’re tired of not seeing results, you don’t like the traditional therapy system, or you want to work with people who specialize in active adults….we have your answer. Our clients see results every week. Invest in your health.

📬DM us if you want to get out of pain! Email info@element-physicaltherapy.com

Improve your shoulder health and longevity by bracing appropriately during your lifts. We always talk about reducing pai...
04/19/2026

Improve your shoulder health and longevity by bracing appropriately during your lifts. We always talk about reducing pain is step 1. Optimizing your movement is step 2.

This bracing strategy is also called “screwing in” your shoulder. It engages your rotator cuff and improves stability at the shoulder. Your rotator cuff’s job is to allow for normal joint movement and improve stability.

You can use a band to passively pull your arm forward, then screw the shoulder in AGAINST the band. Think of getting your elbow crease towards the ceiling.

Follow for more tips on moving/working out pain free!

💪🏾Element is a private-based physical therapy group who specializes in helping active adults workout, run, or play sports pain free. From weekend warriors to marathon runners and iron man participants, we have you covered. Located in Northfield + Lincoln Park!

✅If you’re looking to get out of pain asap, you’re tired of not seeing results, you don’t like the traditional therapy system, or you want to work with people who specialize in active adults….we have your answer. Our clients see results every week. Invest in your health.

📬DM us if you want to get out of pain! Email info@element-physicaltherapy.com

04/16/2026

Here’s 3 exercises that have MANY roles in rehab. When we talk about healthy knees, these are your 3:

1. Single leg step down: get the knee over your toe. Focus on knee stability and the control!
2. Side plank with hip abduction: should be an absolute staple for any active adult. We use this frequently in our runners and individuals with back pain
3. ISO lunge lifts: phenomenal way to load the quads. Maintain an upright posture so your back leg’s quads are working.

Follow for more tips on moving/working out pain free!

💪🏾Element is a private-based physical therapy group who specializes in helping active adults workout, run, or play sports pain free. From weekend warriors to marathon runners and iron man participants, we have you covered. Located in Northfield + Lincoln Park!

✅If you’re looking to get out of pain asap, you’re tired of not seeing results, you don’t like the traditional therapy system, or you want to work with people who specialize in active adults….we have your answer. Our clients see results every week. Invest in your health.

📬DM us if you want to get out of pain! Email info@element-physicaltherapy.com

Sciatica is always a hot topic. Not all sciatica is treated the same. The same RULES apply, but the INTERVENTIONS are di...
04/14/2026

Sciatica is always a hot topic. Not all sciatica is treated the same. The same RULES apply, but the INTERVENTIONS are different.

Think about a house with “a leak”. Not all leaks are treated the same. The same rules apply, but different things are needed to fix each leak.

Here are 5 facts about your sciatica

1. Respect the tingles - don’t try to push through positions that produce and worsen the tingles. Modify your position
2. If you have symptoms that go past the knee, we know it’s a “larger leak”. Larger leaks are sometimes harder/longer to fix.
3. More back pain might be a good thing. If you have radiating pain, we want to move the pain TO the spine. In that process you may have more spinal pain.
4. Physical therapy is the FIRST step. People often go to urgent care or see their primary care doc. It wastes valuable time that you can be healing. IF the symptoms are so unbearable (or you have symptoms in #5), you may need your doc to prescribe meds or do an injection to calm things down. Typically though, the primary will refer to PT.
5. You should be concerned if you’re falling, having foot weakness, having bowel/bladder changes. Touch base with your physician (primary or a neurosurgeon) to discuss next steps. Sometimes a course of PT is still done during this process.

Follow for more tips on moving/working out pain free!

💪🏾Element is a private-based physical therapy group who specializes in helping active adults workout, run, or play sports pain free. From weekend warriors to marathon runners and iron man participants, we have you covered. Located in Northfield + Lincoln Park!

✅If you’re looking to get out of pain asap, you’re tired of not seeing results, you don’t like the traditional therapy system, or you want to work with people who specialize in active adults….we have your answer. Our clients see results every week. Invest in your health.

📬DM us if you want to get out of pain! Email info@element-physicaltherapy.com

Element is looking for a full time PT at our clinic in LINCOLN PARK. $3,000 if you REFER someone who signs on! Tired of ...
04/13/2026

Element is looking for a full time PT at our clinic in LINCOLN PARK. $3,000 if you REFER someone who signs on!

Tired of seeing 20 patients per day? Or maybe you’re tired of worrying what units to bill? Wish you could see 32-34 clients per WEEK? Would you like 1:1, 60 minute appointments?

If you’re looking to just cruise by with a short term job, this isn’t for you. If you’re interested in long term growth professionally, financially, in your communication skills, networking, and you want to be part of a team aiming to be Illinois’ leading physical therapy group for active adults….this is for you.

Element is a private practice that specializes in helping active adults workout and run pain free. We take pride in providing a premium experience of physical therapy. No cookie cutter exercises, no stopping rehab at what’s “medically necessary,” no worrying about billing specific units… As an out of network provider, you’ll have the opportunity to help your clients achieve ANY of their goals. We offer prehab, rehab, maintenance, membership, and performance services for our clients. The road SHOULDN’T stop at the end of rehab.

DM or email info@element-physicaltherapy.com for more

💪🏾Element is a private-based physical therapy group who specializes in helping active adults workout, run, or play sports pain free. From weekend warriors to marathon runners and iron man participants, we have you covered. Located in Northfield + Lincoln Park!

✅If you’re looking to get out of pain asap, you’re tired of not seeing results, you don’t like the traditional therapy system, or you want to work with people who specialize in active adults….we have your answer. Our clients see results every week. Invest in your health.

📬DM us if you want to get out of pain! Email info@element-physicaltherapy.com

10/24/2025

Element is looking for a full time PT at our clinic in NORTHFIELD.

Tired of seeing 20 patients per day? Or are you tired of working with clients who don’t even want to be there? Wish you could see 7-8 clients per day? Wish appointments were 1:1 for 60 minutes?

Element is a private practice that provides our clients with specialized care. We take pride in providing a premium experience of physical therapy. No cookie cutter exercises, no stopping rehab at what’s “medically necessary”. As an out of network provider, you’ll have the opportunity to help your clients achieve any of their goals. We offer prehab, rehab, maintenance, and performance services for our clients. The road SHOULDN’T stop at the end of rehab.

We’re looking for a motivated PT who’s looking to grow professionally, clinically, and personally. Mentorship includes: communication, sales training, clinical reasoning (plans of care, differential Dx, progressions/regressions etc). Ideal candidate is someone who is residency or fellowship trained.

DM or email info@element-physicaltherapy.com for more info!

10/20/2025

Our approach is simple: let’s find WHERE your pain is coming from, THEN we find your deficits that may be contributing to your pain.

Our client is a long distance runner, and she came in after seeing multiple providers, and underwent months of rehab with no real progress.

On her own, she was performing loaded interventions + speed interventions without having some of the minimum requirements to MAXIMIZE her function.

We found limitations in her ankle range of motion, knee mobility, hip strength, and single leg stability. We start addressing these deficits in a STEP-BY-STEP fashion, and she’s starting to see results 💪🏾. Sometimes people progress things too quickly, leading to continued pain.

Tired of not seeing results? The traditional physical therapy system is not meant to maximize results. That’s where we come in. Our clients see results every week. Invest in your health.

📬DM us if you want to get out of pain! Email info@element-physicaltherapy.com

10/10/2025

Not all PT is the same. Here is a testimonial from just ONE visit. When was the last time you had ONE visit with a provider, and it left that much of an impact to leave a review?

We take pride in offering specialized care to our clients. We help you find the source of pain; why you’re experiencing pain; we give you a timeline of recovery; offer preventative care; help you understand what’s safe pain vs harmful pain; and we get you results. What’s more important than getting out of pain?

✅Tired of not seeing results? The traditional physical therapy system is not meant to maximize results. That’s where we come in. Our clients see results every week. Invest in your health.

📬DM us if you want to get out of pain! Email info@element-physicaltherapy.com

10/08/2025

Definitely not for everyone with knee pain, but here’s a strategy we sometimes use for individuals experiencing joint-related pain with bending the knee.

A towel behind the knee helps to create some space in the joint as you sit your hips back towards your feet. The strap helps to stabilize the towel + create a little more force with the mobilization.

Typically right after this, we recheck the painful movement (squatting or just bending the knee) to see what changes were made 🙏🏾

✅Tired of not seeing results? The traditional physical therapy system is not meant to maximize results. That’s where we come in. Our clients see results every week. Invest in your health.

📬DM us if you want to get out of pain! Email info@element-physicaltherapy.com

09/30/2025

Our eval process is 1 on 1 with our docs for an hour. The MOST important part though is the first 20 minutes. We sit and chat with you about your symptoms, what you’re experiencing, what you’ve tried to treat it, your workout routine, etc. That actually gives us an 80% idea of what’s going on.

THEN we look at movement. Watching your movement helps us determine which areas to examine in detail; what areas may be tight/weak/hypermobile; and what movements potentially produce your pain.

This is an example for someone with hip pain. Our upper extremity or spinal evaluations look very different. Not pictured are manual joint assessments to the hip, knee, and ankle, some plank assessments, and our breakdown of what’s going on + the timeline of recovery.

✅Tired of not seeing results? The traditional physical therapy system is not meant to maximize results. That’s where we come in. Our clients see results every week. Invest in your health.

📬DM us if you want to get out of pain! Email info@element-physicaltherapy.com

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193 Northfield Road
Northfield, IL
60093

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Monday 7am - 7pm
Tuesday 7am - 7pm
Wednesday 7am - 7pm
Thursday 7am - 7pm
Friday 7am - 7pm
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