Christopher John Burton is a Washington, District Of Columbia based male physical therapist with 8 years of experience in Sports Physical Therapy. He completed his graduation from Other in 2016. He accepts the Medicare-approved amount. Patients will not be billed for any more than the Medicare deductible and coinsurance. Christopher John Burton evaluate and treat people with health problems resulting from injury or disease. He is mainly involved in the care and well being of athletes including recreational, semi-professional (paid) and professional (full-time employment) participants.
Sports physical therapists area of practice encompasses athletic injury management under:
1) Acute care - assessment and diagnosis of an initial injury.
2) Treatment - application of specialist advice and techniques to encourage healing.
3) Rehabilitation - progressive management for full return to sport.
4) Prevention - identification and address of deficiencies known to directly result in, or act as precursors to injury, such as movement assessment.
5) Education - sharing of specialist knowledge to individual athletes, teams or clubs to assist in prevention or management of injury.