Carleen Lindsey, PT, MScAH, GCS, CEEAA Welcomes You!

What is a Physical Therapist (PT)? Physical Therapists specialize in helping people by providing services that restore function, improve mobility, relieve pain, and prevent or limit permanent physical disabilities. Through physical therapy overall fitness and health is restored and can be maintained.

Who needs a Physical Therapist? Anyone who is unable to move or exercise with comfort and ease or is concerned about their fitness, postural, balance or osteoporosis prevention exercise program can benefit from a “physical therapy tune-up.” Physical therapy is well-known to benefit accident victims and individuals with disabling conditions such as low-back pain, arthritis, heart disease, fractures, head injuries and neurological dysfunctions such as stroke and Parkinson’s disease.

Wellness physical therapy, as a one-on-one physical therapy hands-on and exercise program empowers the body-owner to achieve and embrace mechanical well-being and the joy of simple physical movement in every day life and exercise. Optimal mechanical wellness and comfort for people with old or recurring “knots,” trigger points, or frustration finding a properly individualized exercise program can be achieved.

How can Carleen Help?

Carleen has many years experience treating patients and teaching professionals. She has degrees in Physical Education and Physical Therapy from the University of California, and an advanced musculoskeletal Master’s in Allied Health from the University of Connecticut. She currently works at Canton PT Winsted office, located at 140 Willow Street in Winsted, CT, where she treats an outpatient caseload with musculoskeletal problems of all types. She specializes in the treatment of foot problems including custom orthotic fabrication, back and neck pain, osteoporosis, kyphosis and scoliosis. She also teaches continuing education courses for rehabilitation professionals on a wide variety of topics including: Geriatric Exercise, Osteoporosis, Geriatric Manual Therapy, Osteopathic Muscle Energy, and Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation. She is a board-certified Geriatric Specialist, and an APTA Section on Geriatrics Certified Exercise Expert for Aging Adults.

Carleen has been an adjunct instructor for the University of Connecticut School of Allied Health for many years, and a consultant at the Nayden Rehabilitation Clinic at the University of Connecticut. She was the Rehab Services Osteoporosis Team Leader at the University of Connecticut Health Center for 26 years, and was the primary developer of the UCHC Rehab Services Osteoporosis Prevention Program.

Carleen’s continuing education is extensive in exercise science, manual therapy, geriatrics and PNF. She has participated in research and publications on osteoporosis and balance, produced a professional flexicurve CD, three patient home exercise videos, and presented numerous lectures and courses to professional and lay audiences locally and internationally. She has also written chapters for two major Geriatric Rehabilitation text books, and co-authored an osteoporosis home study module for the APTA Section on Women’s Health. She has served as expert clinician, contributing to the Too Fit To Fracture Delphi Consensus (Giangregorio, L 2015). She is a member of the Evidence Based Documents/Clinical Practice Guidelines for Osteoporosis Workgroup, for the APTA Practice Department with whom she co-authored the award-winning 2022 Osteoporosis Clinical Practice Guideline in the Journal of Geriatric PT.

In addition to her clinical work, Carleen has been co-chair for the Bone Health and Osteoporosis Foundation’s Committee on Continuing Education for Physical Therapists, and for the APTA Geriatrics Section Balance and Falls Special Interest Group. She is a member of the APTA Connecticut chapter, as well as a contributing member of national APTA Special Interest Groups especially the Bone Health SIG and several others. She has received the AGPT 2016 Award for Excellence in Geriatric Physical Therapy, the 2008 APTA AGPT President’s Award for Outstanding Service, the 2001 UConn Allied Health Research Award for Excellence, and the 1999 AGPT Lynn Phillippi Advocacy for Older Adults Award.