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YOUR HEALTH

IS OUR FOCUS

Working together to achieve optimum health.

YOUR HEALTH

IS OUR FOCUS

Working together to achieve optimum health.

Physical Therapy

Our focus is to reduce pain, improve mobility, and return you to your best level of functioning.

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Recovery

No matter how small your injury seemed, we are here to provide you with adequate recovery so that you are able to get back to doing the things you love to do.

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Meet The Team

Best Physical Therapy Minnesota

Kara grew up just West of the Metro, in Waconia. She attended undergraduate at Concordia University in St. Paul where she played on the volleyball team and studied biology.

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Hannah grew up in Fargo, ND and attended the University of North Dakota to complete her undergraduate degree and Doctor of Physical Therapy degree.  Hannah enjoys spending time getting to know her patients to help them get back to doing what they love.

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In Network Insurance

Aetna     Blue Cross Blue Shield        Blue Plus     Cigna     Health Partners     Humana     Medica     Medicare     Multiplan     Minnesota Health Care Programs     TriCare     UMR     United Health Care

Auto/Personal Injury and Worker’s Compensation Cases

Clinic Hours

Monday: 7:30am – 6:00pm

Tuesday: 7:00am – 3:30pm

Wednesday: 7:30am – 6:00pm

Thursday: 7:30am – 6:00pm

Friday: 7:00am – 12:00pm

Relax and Rejuvenate
With Massage Therapy

Massage is a great support to your physical therapy treatments, helping muscles accept the adjustments and avoid the tendency to revert to old movement habits and pain patterns.

By definition, massage is the application of various soft-tissue manipulation techniques to the body, generally intended to reduce stress and fatigue while improving circulation.

Benefits of massage can be both physical and mental.  These can include:

  • Alleviate lower back pain and improve range of motion, assist with shorter, easier labor for expectant mothers and shorten maternity hospital stays, ease medication dependence, enhance immunity by stimulating lymph flow (the body’s natural defense system), exercise and stretch weak, tight, or atrophied muscles, increase joint flexibility, promote tissue regeneration, reducing scar tissue and stretch marks, improve circulation, reduce spasms and cramping and relieve migraine pain.
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Changing Lives
With Laser Therapy

K-laser is a class IV medical laser that has many physiological and biological effects on the human body.  K-Laser is very beneficial in treating musculoskeletal pain of all types.

Laser therapy provides the following: Acceleration of Tissue Repair and Cell Growth, Faster Wound Healing, Reduces Scar Tissue Formation, Reduces Inflammation, Analgesic, Improves Vascular Activity, Increases Metabolic Activity and Improves Nerve Function.

Research has shown that a number of different conditions have improved from the use of laser therapy such as:

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Tennis Elbow, Ligament Sprains, Muscle Strains, Repetitive Stress Injuries, Plantar Fasciitis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Osteoarthritis, Shoulder, Back and Knee Pain, Fibromyalgia, Diabetic Neuropathy, Edema, Sports injuries and more.

What our patients say

I injured my knee a couple months ago and was referred by my primary care doctor for an MRI and physical therapy. The MRI revealed some tearing to the meniscus and some additional issues. I wanted to avoid surgery so I have been pursuing physical services from Kara Niver, at Dakota County Physical Therapy, for the past month. I’m pleased to say that my pain level has decreased remarkably as the knee has been carefully treated and strengthened. Kara is an extremely knowledgeable and skillful physical therapist.  With her assistance, I’m confident that I’ll not only avoid surgery, but that I’ll be able to resume all my activities without pain and discomfort.

Dennis M.

Physical therapy is not fun but Kara’s enthusiasm and professionalism made it easy.  She took the time by asking questions to determine the source of where my pain was originating from.  The exercises Kara taught me helped to remove the pain caused by a recent surgery.  I would recommend Kara 100% to anyone needing physical therapy!

Nancy B.

A wonderful experience! I feel like someone really cares about me and I’m just not another patient. I matter!

Shelley N.

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Our Mission

At Dakota County Physical Therapy, our goal is to provide our community with physical therapy health care to allow them the opportunity to achieve optimal body through physical therapy rehabilitation. We are here to help members of our community by providing non-surgical, drug-free options for musculoskeletal pain at less cost to the patient.  Here at Dakota County Physical Therapy we can aid in alleviation of symptoms for acute and chronic injuries, speed the healing process, and strengthen injured areas to prevent future injury for musculoskeletal conditions such as knee and ankle injuries, wrist and elbow pain, shoulder pain, back pain, and neck pain.