New physical therapist joins Balance & Hearing Institute
“I love it so far,” said Phelps, a Georgia native who traveled from Washington state, where she worked at an outpatient orthopedics clinic, to East Tennessee, a move closer to family, to take on the role.
Coming to Farragut, “I had an interest in working with vestibular disorders and balance,” she said.
At Balance & Hearing Institute, “we treat disorders of the inner ear, and we also treat just general balance disorders as well,” Phelps added. “I feel like I brought a fresh set of eyes because I’m the first (physical therapist) who worked here since the PT who started the program, about five years ago, and I pretty recently graduated,” bringing knowledge of up-to-date education to the table.
Balance & Hearing Institute, 11000 Kingston Pike Suite 5, is a new physical therapy arm of Farragut ENT & Allergy, which provides ear, nose and throat testing and care at 144 Concord Road in Farragut.
“They didn’t have any physical therapy treatment before they started the new (vestibular) program five years ago,” Phelps said. “They had the testing for vestibular disfunction, but they didn’t have a way to rehab patients on site, That’s what I bring to the table. I can take patients through rehab that corrects the issue.”
