Recovery and Rehabilitation
Recover More Fully After Injury or Surgery
OMT for Patients Who Were Told They Should Be Better by Now
Surgery and injury leave behind more than scars. The body adapts to trauma by tightening, guarding, and compensating. These patterns can persist for months or years after the initial healing is complete, and they rarely show up on imaging. OMT identifies and treats what conventional follow-up care often misses.
Who This Page Is For
Recovery looks different for every patient. These are the most common reasons people seek OMT-based recovery care.
Post-Surgical Recovery
After surgery, scar tissue forms, surrounding muscles guard to protect the area, and compensatory movement patterns develop. These are normal responses, but they often persist well beyond the point of structural healing. OMT identifies and treats these restrictions so your body can complete the recovery process.
Orthopedic surgery (joint replacement, rotator cuff, spinal procedures)
Abdominal or thoracic surgery
Persistent stiffness or pain after being cleared by your surgeon
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Injury and Trauma Recovery
Whether the injury happened last month or ten years ago, the body holds a record of trauma in its tissues. Untreated restrictions from car accidents, falls, sports injuries, and other physical trauma can cause chronic pain and functional limitations that imaging often cannot explain.
Motor vehicle accidents and whiplash
Sports injuries and concussion recovery
Falls, fractures, and blunt force trauma
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Chronic Unresolved Pain
Many patients arrive after years of cycling through specialists, physical therapists, and pain management programs without lasting improvement. In many of these cases, the root cause is a structural or fascial restriction that has never been identified or treated. OMT offers a different lens.
Pain that has not responded to physical therapy, injections, or medication
Stiffness or limitation with no clear diagnosis
A sense that something is “off” but no one has been able to find it
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Dr. Baltazar’s clinical background gives him a perspective on recovery that most OMT practitioners and most rehabilitation specialists do not have.
He Has Been on the Other Side of the Table
Having performed thousands of surgical procedures, Dr. Baltazar understands exactly what happens to the body during and after surgery. He knows where scar tissue forms, how tissues are handled intraoperatively, and what compensatory patterns to expect during healing.
He Built Protocols for This
At NYU Langone Health, Dr. Baltazar founded the OMT for Trauma Program, developing structured protocols for bringing hands-on treatment into the ICU, the surgical floor, and the postoperative setting. This was not a side project. It was a clinical program with published outcomes.
His Research Supports the Approach
Dr. Baltazar has published peer-reviewed studies on OMT for chronic traumatic pain, post-concussion recovery, postoperative outcomes, and rib somatic dysfunction in surgical patients. His clinical approach is grounded in evidence he helped create.
He Treats the Whole Pattern, Not Just the Symptom
A trauma-informed approach to OMT means understanding that a knee problem may stem from how the hip compensated after surgery, or that chronic headaches may trace back to a cervical restriction from a car accident years ago. Dr. Baltazar evaluates the full chain.
Find Out if OMT Can Help Your Recovery
If you are still dealing with pain, stiffness, or limitation after surgery or injury, and conventional approaches have not fully resolved it, I would welcome the chance to evaluate you. There is no obligation. The first step is a conversation about what you are experiencing and whether OMT is a good fit.
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