Physical Therapy in Northwest Arkansas.
You have already rested it. You have already stretched it out. When the pain is still deciding what you can and cannot do, waiting is not a plan. Twenty years, two Northwest Arkansas clinics, and a licensed therapist who stays with your case from the evaluation to the last visit. Arkansas is a direct access state, so you do not need a referral to start.
Voted a Best of Northwest Arkansas health care provider.
Twenty years in Northwest Arkansas. Zero conveyor belts.
Joe and Rhonda Russ opened the Bentonville clinic in January 2006, later added a second clinic in Springdale, and the practice has been physical therapist owned every year since. That ownership is the difference you feel in the room. Nobody upstairs is counting how many patients fit into an hour. Your licensed therapist runs the evaluation, does the hands-on work, and writes the program, and they are the same person you see on your last visit as your first.
Real outcomes.
Real people.
These are unedited words from Russ Physical Therapy patients across Bentonville and Springdale. People who arrived with pain that had already outlasted rest, medication, and somebody else's treatment plan. Read what happened next.
Treatments built around what's actually hurting.
Back Pain & Sciatica
The reason most people walk through our door. We find the cause, not just the symptom.
Neck Pain
Neck strain, cervical stenosis, and the headaches that start at the base of your skull.
Hip & Knee Pain
The joints that carry you everywhere. We restore the mechanics before we load the strength.
Shoulder Pain
Rotator cuff, frozen shoulder, overhead pain: mobility first, then strength that holds.
A clear path from your worst day to your best.
Pain
Calm it down. Hands-on care and targeted movement get the pain out of the driver's seat, quickly and safely.
Prime
Restore full range of motion and correct the movement patterns that caused the problem in the first place.
Perform
Rebuild strength and function for your sport, your job, your life. This is where you start feeling like you again.
Prevent
Leave with the tools, the education, and the home program to stay out of the clinic. The best outcome is one that lasts.
The same face, every single visit.
No handoffs. No shared attention. No re-explaining your history to somebody new. Your therapist knows your case because they are the one who has been treating it, so progress compounds from one visit to the next instead of resetting. It is the reason Northwest Arkansas has voted us a Best of the Best health care provider every year since 2018.
A plan with your name on it, not a printout.
Your evaluation maps how your body actually moves, where it is compensating, and why the pain keeps coming back. Then the program gets built around your life, not a template: the truck you climb into before sunrise, the grandchild you want to pick up, the Razorback Greenway you miss running.
Twelve people. Twenty years. Same faces every visit.
Services we offer in Bentonville and Springdale.
Sixteen treatment options and fourteen conditions, all delivered one on one. Tap a point on the model, or a card, to see what we treat there.
Shoulder
Rotator cuff injuries, frozen shoulder, clavicle fractures, shoulder bursitis, AC joint separation
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Carpal tunnel, tennis elbow, golfer's elbow, hand and wrist arthritis, trigger finger
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Back Pain & Sciatica
Sciatica, herniated discs, scoliosis, lower back pain, spinal degeneration, chronic back pain
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Hip bursitis, labral tears, knee osteoarthritis, ACL and MCL injuries, runner's knee
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Patient paperwork, done before you arrive.
One packet, downloadable now. Fill it in at home and arrive 10 to 15 minutes early, and your first visit starts with treatment instead of a clipboard.
Find out whether physical therapy is even the right call.
Arkansas is a direct access state, so you can talk to a licensed therapist before you talk to anyone else. Bring us the problem. We will tell you honestly whether we can help, verify your benefits before you commit to anything, and send you somewhere else if that is the right answer.
Complete care for movement health.
Programs, not guesswork.
Every plan follows the four phase framework and gets re-tested against the measurements we took on day one. You should not have to wonder whether therapy is working. We show you what changed.
Live pain-free in Northwest Arkansas.
Answers before you even ask.
No. Arkansas has direct access, which means you can book an evaluation today without seeing a physician first. If your insurance requires a referral for reimbursement, we help you get it sorted during your first visit.
We accept most major plans, and we verify your benefits before your first visit so there are zero surprises. Self-pay options are available and we'll walk you through them honestly.
Most patients feel a meaningful change inside the first two or three visits. Full recovery timelines depend on the condition. We give you an honest estimate at your evaluation, in writing.
Ready when you are.
Fri: 8:00am - 1:30pm