The Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Center

Recovery can be facilitated at The OSM Therapy Center located at 888 White Plains Road, Trumbull, 100 Beard Saw Mill Road, Shelton and 1055 Post Road, Fairfield. Services include physical therapy, occupational therapy, and hand therapy.

Aquatic Therapy

Aquatic Therapy is a form of rehabilitation in water. It is often used for treatment after an injury or when the body is weak after illness or surgery. Considered safer than many land-based therapies. it comes highly recommended as an addition to the overall treatment approach to rehabilitation. Water exercise improves flexibility, range of motion, and strengthens and tones muscles without hurting vulnerable joints. Water exercise also increases blood flow to muscles, ligaments, and tendons and helps to eliminate substances that build up with inflammation. When you exercise in water, you're working with buoyancy, not gravity. There isn't much compression(stress) with buoyancy, so you can do more for a longer time.

Anita Eisenhauer, ATC

Anita Eisenhauer is a Certified Athletic Trainer. She specializes in the treatment and rehabilitation of surgical and non-surgical musculoskeletal injuries. Anita operates the Aqua Therapy Program for OSM. As a Certified Specialist in Functional Assessment, she provides functional capacity evaluations and injury management return to work programs.

Ashley Batchelder, ATC

Ashley Batchelder graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Athletic Training from Ohio University. She received her Master’s degree in Health and Human Performance from Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN. She is a certified athletic trainer and works as the Sports Medicine Coordinator for OSM. Ashley works closely with the athletic trainers and athletes of Sacred Heart University, University of Bridgeport, and local high schools which OSM are the team physician’s for, to help facilitate the different aspects of their care.