Physical Therapy
Rooted in Mindfulness and Pain Science
Physical Therapy
Rooted in Mindfulness and Pain Science
Physical Therapy
Rooted in Mindfulness and Pain Science
Explore our physical therapy options and other services tailored to your goals, pace, and needs.
Explore our physical therapy options and other services tailored to your goals, pace, and needs.
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At Mindful Motion Physical Therapy in Oak Park, IL, care begins with how your body, mind, and nervous system are responding to stress, injury, and movement. Our approach integrates one-on-one physical therapy, pain education, and mindfulness training to help calm pain and move with greater ease.
At Mindful Motion Physical Therapy in Oak Park, IL, care begins with how your body, mind, and nervous system are responding to stress, injury, and movement. Our approach integrates one-on-one physical therapy, pain education, and mindfulness training to help calm pain and move with greater ease.
Located in Oak Park, IL, our care begins with how your body, mind, and nervous system are responding to stress, injury, and movement. Our approach integrates one-on-one physical therapy, pain education, and mindfulness training to help calm pain and move with greater ease.
Our Ethos & How We're Different
Our Ethos & How We're Different
Our Ethos &
How We're Different
Our care is built entirely around you. Rather than rushing to fix symptoms, we take time to listen, understand movement patterns, and help you rebuild trust in your body.
Through our work together, you'll gain practical tools you can use daily to reduce pain, manage flare-ups, improve mobility, and prevent future injury. All in service of achieving your individual goals.
Whether you're recovering from surgery, managing chronic pain, returning to running, or working toward playing with your kids pain-free—our approach meets you where you are, blends practical rehab with mindful awareness, and supports meaningful, lasting change.
Our care is built entirely around you. Rather than rushing to fix symptoms, we take time to listen, understand movement patterns, and help you rebuild trust in your body.
Through our work together, you'll gain practical tools you can use daily to reduce pain, manage flare-ups, improve mobility, and prevent future injury. All in service of achieving your individual goals.
Whether you're recovering from surgery, managing chronic pain, returning to running, or working toward playing with your kids pain-free—our approach meets you where you are, blends practical rehab with mindful awareness, and supports meaningful, lasting change.
Our care is built entirely around you. Rather than rushing to fix symptoms, we take time to listen, understand movement patterns, and help you rebuild trust in your body.
Through our work together, you'll gain practical tools you can use daily to reduce pain, manage flare-ups, improve mobility, and prevent future injury. All in service of achieving your individual goals.
Whether you're recovering from surgery, managing chronic pain, returning to running, or working toward playing with your kids pain-free—our approach meets you where you are, blends practical rehab with mindful awareness, and supports meaningful, lasting change.
How PT and Mindfulness Coalesce
How PT and Mindfulness Coalesce
How PT and Mindfulness Coalesce
If physical therapy's main goal is to return you to your function and achieve your goals, then mindfulness can help you get there faster and more sustainably.
Mindfulness is noticing what's present in one's experience—sensations, thoughts, emotions—without reaction. When utilized in physical therapy, it becomes a powerful tool for breaking the pain cycle.
Here's how it works: pain often creates a feedback loop where fear of movement leads to tension, which intensifies pain, which reinforces the fear. Mindfulness interrupts this pattern. By learning to observe sensations with curiosity rather than alarm, you begin to distinguish between protective pain signals and unhelpful noise your nervous system has learned to produce.
The result? You move with more confidence, recover more completely, and develop lasting skills to manage your own wellbeing—not just dependence on treatment.
If physical therapy's main goal is to return you to your function and achieve your goals, then mindfulness can help you get there faster and more sustainably.
Mindfulness is noticing what's present in one's experience—sensations, thoughts, emotions—without reaction. When utilized in physical therapy, it becomes a powerful tool for breaking the pain cycle.
Here's how it works: pain often creates a feedback loop where fear of movement leads to tension, which intensifies pain, which reinforces the fear. Mindfulness interrupts this pattern. By learning to observe sensations with curiosity rather than alarm, you begin to distinguish between protective pain signals and unhelpful noise your nervous system has learned to produce.
The result? You move with more confidence, recover more completely, and develop lasting skills to manage your own wellbeing—not just dependence on treatment.
Persistent pain and stress can take a toll on both body and mind. Our mindfulness-based sessions are designed to help you calm the nervous system, reduce the intensity of pain, and ease the stress that often comes with it. You’ll learn practical tools — like breathwork, body awareness, and guided meditation — to retrain your brain’s response to pain and build resilience.
Pain Education
Pain Education
Pain Education
Pain (especially chronic pain) isn’t just a signal from the body, it’s also shaped by the brain and nervous system. The pain education integrated into your care, will help you learn how pain really works, why it sometimes lingers even after tissues have healed, and what you can do to calm an overprotective system.
By understanding the science of pain, you gain tools to move with more confidence, reduce fear, and take an active role in your recovery. These insights, combined with practical strategies, create a strong foundation for lasting change.
Pain (especially chronic pain) isn’t just a signal from the body, it’s also shaped by the brain and nervous system. The pain education integrated into your care, will help you learn how pain really works, why it sometimes lingers even after tissues have healed, and what you can do to calm an overprotective system.
By understanding the science of pain, you gain tools to move with more confidence, reduce fear, and take an active role in your recovery. These insights, combined with practical strategies, create a strong foundation for lasting change.
Pain (especially chronic pain) isn’t just a signal from the body, it’s also shaped by the brain and nervous system. The pain education integrated into your care, will help you learn how pain really works, why it sometimes lingers even after tissues have healed, and what you can do to calm an overprotective system.
By understanding the science of pain, you gain tools to move with more confidence, reduce fear, and take an active role in your recovery. These insights, combined with practical strategies, create a strong foundation for lasting change.
Interdisciplinary Care
Interdisciplinary Care
Interdisciplinary Care
Recovery is rarely one-dimensional. At Mindful Motion PT, we believe the best outcomes come from an integrated approach. That means combining physical therapy with mindfulness practices, lifestyle strategies, and collaboration with other healthcare providers when needed.
Our interdisciplinary care model ensures that treatment is tailored to the whole person — not just the injury. Together, we’ll address movement, mindset, and long-term health, helping you move with confidence and live with greater resilience.
Recovery is rarely one-dimensional. At Mindful Motion PT, we believe the best outcomes come from an integrated approach. That means combining physical therapy with mindfulness practices, lifestyle strategies, and collaboration with other healthcare providers when needed.
Our interdisciplinary care model ensures that treatment is tailored to the whole person — not just the injury. Together, we’ll address movement, mindset, and long-term health, helping you move with confidence and live with greater resilience.
Recovery is rarely one-dimensional. At Mindful Motion PT, we believe the best outcomes come from an integrated approach. That means combining physical therapy with mindfulness practices, lifestyle strategies, and collaboration with other healthcare providers when needed.
Our interdisciplinary care model ensures that treatment is tailored to the whole person — not just the injury. Together, we’ll address movement, mindset, and long-term health, helping you move with confidence and live with greater resilience.
Your questions.
Answered.
Not sure what to expect? These answers might help you feel more confident as you begin.
Didn’t find your answer? Send us a message — we’ll respond with care and clarity.
How is this different than other physical therapy practices?
We don’t just chase symptoms, we help you understand them and find the root cause. Most PT clinics will give you a list of exercises, send you home, and hope for the best. At Mindful Motion, we slow things down. We start by listening to your story, digging into the “why” behind your pain, and creating a plan that works for your life.
How is this different than other physical therapy practices?
We don’t just chase symptoms, we help you understand them and find the root cause. Most PT clinics will give you a list of exercises, send you home, and hope for the best. At Mindful Motion, we slow things down. We start by listening to your story, digging into the “why” behind your pain, and creating a plan that works for your life.
What can I expect from the first session?
What can I expect from the first session?
The first session is all about getting a thorough background, comprehensive analysis of your strength, flexibility, and mobility, and understanding your history with pain. You’ll talk with your PT about what brings you here, what's held you back in the past, and where you'd like to go.
Do you offer both online and in-person sessions?
Do you offer both online and in-person sessions?
Yes. Whether you prefer meeting face-to-face or from the comfort of home, we offer flexible options to meet you where you are.
What treatment strategies do you employ?
What treatment strategies do you employ?
Some of the skills which we will discuss and develop are listed below.
Graded and meaningful progression into safe movement and exercise based on your initial evaluation.
Education on Pain Neuroscience and how our understanding of pain and our nervous system plays a large role in our experience of pain.
Developing Mindfulness Meditation skills as a tool to calm the nervous system, relate to your pain differently, create a deeper understanding of your thoughts, emotions, and sensations to provide a fuller experience of daily life and deepen your presence.
Identifying and developing a plan surrounding your personal values which you would like to lead life by.
Other things which we will address are adequate sleep hygiene, appropriate aerobic exercise, working with acceptance of what is, and much more.
Why Mindfulness Meditation?
Why Mindfulness Meditation?
Depending on where you want to go in your therapy, Mindfulness Meditation can act as any number of things for you and your life. Let's start with some definitions.
Mindfulness is the purposeful ability to observe one's thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations without judgment, and to be fully present in the current moment
Meditation is the tool which we use to cultivate mindfulness in our daily lives.
Okay... so why mindfulness meditation for my recovery?
The implications of practicing Mindfulness Meditation with patience and persistence can be profound to your recovery from injury or pain. It can also have an impact to your contact to the present moment, your relationships to yourself and your thoughts, to your loved ones, and the world. You can learn to deal with stress, hardships, and the ups and downs of life with more equanimity.
We're taking your body to the gym by doing the exercises we prescribe. Why not also take your mind to the gym and help create lasting habits which can improve your quality of life.
Your questions.
Answered.
Not sure what to expect? These answers might help you feel more confident as you begin.
Didn’t find your answer? Send us a message — we’ll respond with care and clarity.
How is this different than other physical therapy practices?
We don’t just chase symptoms, we help you understand them and find the root cause. Most PT clinics will give you a list of exercises, send you home, and hope for the best. At Mindful Motion, we slow things down. We start by listening to your story, digging into the “why” behind your pain, and creating a plan that works for your life.
How is this different than other physical therapy practices?
We don’t just chase symptoms, we help you understand them and find the root cause. Most PT clinics will give you a list of exercises, send you home, and hope for the best. At Mindful Motion, we slow things down. We start by listening to your story, digging into the “why” behind your pain, and creating a plan that works for your life.
What can I expect from the first session?
What can I expect from the first session?
The first session is all about getting a thorough background, comprehensive analysis of your strength, flexibility, and mobility, and understanding your history with pain. You’ll talk with your PT about what brings you here, what's held you back in the past, and where you'd like to go.
Do you offer both online and in-person sessions?
Do you offer both online and in-person sessions?
Yes. Whether you prefer meeting face-to-face or from the comfort of home, we offer flexible options to meet you where you are.
What treatment strategies do you employ?
What treatment strategies do you employ?
Some of the skills which we will discuss and develop are listed below.
Graded and meaningful progression into safe movement and exercise based on your initial evaluation.
Education on Pain Neuroscience and how our understanding of pain and our nervous system plays a large role in our experience of pain.
Developing Mindfulness Meditation skills as a tool to calm the nervous system, relate to your pain differently, create a deeper understanding of your thoughts, emotions, and sensations to provide a fuller experience of daily life and deepen your presence.
Identifying and developing a plan surrounding your personal values which you would like to lead life by.
Other things which we will address are adequate sleep hygiene, appropriate aerobic exercise, working with acceptance of what is, and much more.
Why Mindfulness Meditation?
Why Mindfulness Meditation?
Depending on where you want to go in your therapy, Mindfulness Meditation can act as any number of things for you and your life. Let's start with some definitions.
Mindfulness is the purposeful ability to observe one's thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations without judgment, and to be fully present in the current moment
Meditation is the tool which we use to cultivate mindfulness in our daily lives.
Okay... so why mindfulness meditation for my recovery?
The implications of practicing Mindfulness Meditation with patience and persistence can be profound to your recovery from injury or pain. It can also have an impact to your contact to the present moment, your relationships to yourself and your thoughts, to your loved ones, and the world. You can learn to deal with stress, hardships, and the ups and downs of life with more equanimity.
We're taking your body to the gym by doing the exercises we prescribe. Why not also take your mind to the gym and help create lasting habits which can improve your quality of life.
Your questions.
Answered.
Not sure what to expect? These answers might help you feel more confident as you begin.
How is this different than other physical therapy practices?
We don’t just chase symptoms, we help you understand them and find the root cause. Most PT clinics will give you a list of exercises, send you home, and hope for the best. At Mindful Motion, we slow things down. We start by listening to your story, digging into the “why” behind your pain, and creating a plan that works for your life.
How is this different than other physical therapy practices?
We don’t just chase symptoms, we help you understand them and find the root cause. Most PT clinics will give you a list of exercises, send you home, and hope for the best. At Mindful Motion, we slow things down. We start by listening to your story, digging into the “why” behind your pain, and creating a plan that works for your life.
What can I expect from the first session?
What can I expect from the first session?
The first session is all about getting a thorough background, comprehensive analysis of your strength, flexibility, and mobility, and understanding your history with pain. You’ll talk with your PT about what brings you here, what's held you back in the past, and where you'd like to go.
Do you offer both online and in-person sessions?
Do you offer both online and in-person sessions?
Yes. Whether you prefer meeting face-to-face or from the comfort of home, we offer flexible options to meet you where you are.
What treatment strategies do you employ?
What treatment strategies do you employ?
Some of the skills which we will discuss and develop are listed below.
Graded and meaningful progression into safe movement and exercise based on your initial evaluation.
Education on Pain Neuroscience and how our understanding of pain and our nervous system plays a large role in our experience of pain.
Developing Mindfulness Meditation skills as a tool to calm the nervous system, relate to your pain differently, create a deeper understanding of your thoughts, emotions, and sensations to provide a fuller experience of daily life and deepen your presence.
Identifying and developing a plan surrounding your personal values which you would like to lead life by.
Other things which we will address are adequate sleep hygiene, appropriate aerobic exercise, working with acceptance of what is, and much more.
Why Mindfulness Meditation?
Why Mindfulness Meditation?
Depending on where you want to go in your therapy, Mindfulness Meditation can act as any number of things for you and your life. Let's start with some definitions.
Mindfulness is the purposeful ability to observe one's thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations without judgment, and to be fully present in the current moment
Meditation is the tool which we use to cultivate mindfulness in our daily lives.
Okay... so why mindfulness meditation for my recovery?
The implications of practicing Mindfulness Meditation with patience and persistence can be profound to your recovery from injury or pain. It can also have an impact to your contact to the present moment, your relationships to yourself and your thoughts, to your loved ones, and the world. You can learn to deal with stress, hardships, and the ups and downs of life with more equanimity.
We're taking your body to the gym by doing the exercises we prescribe. Why not also take your mind to the gym and help create lasting habits which can improve your quality of life.
Didn’t find your answer? Send us a message — we’ll respond with care and clarity.