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Your body has the potential to do amazing things every day! But sometimes an injury, surgery, diagnosis, or repetitive, painful daily tasks get in the way of living your life to its fullest potential. The Joy of Therapy offers functional manual therapy that uses movement as medicine, and scoliosis treatment for kids, teens and adults.

It’s not about giving you exercises and adjustments to make you feel better temporarily. It’s about realigning and restoring your body to its fullest potential to make long-term changes in your body.

You deserve to not be limited by pain or a diagnosis.

Imagine not having pain hold you back from doing your best at work, school, sports or simply enjoying being with friends and family. You can reach your goal of running a race, playing with your children or friends and getting through your day and night feeling ‘lighter’ and stronger. That is what makes the Joy of Therapy different from standard care physical therapy.

Come on in for a movement and posture assessment to find out just what your body needs to be at its best. Let the Joy of Therapy be your PT for life!

What We Treat

MISSION STATEMENT “The Joy of Therapy is founded with a healing and joyful spirit. We offer highly skilled, hands-on physical therapy to the community so that our clients can return to living their best quality of life. We strive to achieve and maintain optimal health of our clients by using movement to restore strength and… Continue reading What We Treat

Scoliosis

Joy Smith, PT is the ONLY specialist in the Florida Panhandle to treat scoliosis with the Schroth Method. It is a unique 3D treatment approach that helps to elongate, de-rotate and strengthen the scoliotic spine. Joy is a Barcelona-Schroth C1 Certified Physical Therapist. What is Scoliosis? Scoliosis is a “complex 3 dimensional curvature of the… Continue reading Scoliosis

My Philosophy

Have you spent too much time trying to figure out where your physical pain is coming from on the internet? Are you searching for ways to help yourself or your child who is newly diagnosed with scoliosis ? Are your time and money valuable to you? Have you tried other therapies with little or no… Continue reading My Philosophy

“Joy offered instant relief to my hamstring! My leg had the feeling of an over-stretched rubber band. I could not get my legs to relax in order to stretch and loosen my hamstring. When Joy “opened up” the nerve, my leg instantly calmed down. I had a feeling of success. I now am able to stretch as I had in the past. I didn’t realize that I had to allow my leg to slowly progress, but it was so worth the wait.”

-M.B.

Testimonial 9

Joy was able to diagnose an injury that I’d been ignoring as more serious than I realized. The MRI confirmed her exact diagnosis. She also does more treatment of pain than recommendation of repetitive exercises which I really liked.

-Client F