Mount Pleasant, SC · For employers
Physical therapy for employers in Mount Pleasant.
If your team hurts, your profitability feels it. Musculoskeletal injuries are the number one driver of employer healthcare spend, and most wellness programs don’t touch them. A gym stipend doesn’t either.
The problem isn’t that your people get hurt. It’s what happens next.
$381B: annual U.S. medical cost of musculoskeletal conditions
Musculoskeletal injuries are the number one driver of employer healthcare spend.
16% fewer surgeries and injections when employees get PT first
Plus 7% fewer imaging episodes with direct, no-friction access to PT.
2x: early-PT patients are half as likely to hit the ER in the first 30 days
When physical therapy is the first stop instead of the last.
Sources: UnitedHealthcare 2026 Health Trends Report; Hinge Health 2025 State of Musculoskeletal Care; Duke University / ATI employer study (50,000+ beneficiaries); Johns Hopkins / BMC Health Services Research, 2022 (980,000 claims).
An employee’s back starts bothering them. They don’t say anything, because it’s not bad enough yet. They modify how they lift, how they sit, how they move through the day. Productivity quietly drops. Nobody notices, including them.
Six weeks later it’s bad enough that they call their doctor. The appointment is three weeks out. They get eleven minutes, a prescription, and a referral. By the time anyone with movement expertise looks at it, the problem has compounded, and now it’s imaging, injections, specialist visits, maybe surgery, and time off.
The cost isn’t the injury. The cost is the eight weeks of delay before anyone did anything useful.
Why don’t most workplace wellness initiatives make a difference?
- A gym stipend assumes the problem is motivation.
- A wellness portal assumes the problem is information.
- A lunch-and-learn assumes the problem is awareness.
None of those are the problem. The problem is that when something starts to hurt, or an injury occurs, there is no fast, low-friction way for an employee to get it looked at, so they wait.
Whether they wait to get it checked out in the first place, or are forced to wait to see the doctor, then get imaging and another referral after that, the fact is the same: you are down a productive employee while they work their way through the healthcare system.
What does the program include?
A construction crew and a 40-person office don’t need the same thing. Programs are built around your workforce, led by a Doctor of Physical Therapy.
On-site screenings & assessments
Catch what employees are quietly working around.
Injury prevention workshops
Including the free on-site Performance Reset.
A designated Doctor of Physical Therapy for your team
A named clinician your people can put a face to.
Direct messaging access
Employees get help early, before it becomes a claim.
Workplace & individual risk assessment
Job-specific ergonomics, where the risk actually concentrates.
Digital rehab & education platform
Support between visits.
Annual functional health screens
Objective numbers, year over year.
One-on-one treatment, on-site or in-clinic
Injury management when something does happen.
How does this help your business?
Reduced healthcare utilization
When physical therapy is the first stop instead of the last, the expensive middle of the process largely disappears. Employer data shows 16% fewer surgery and injection episodes and 7% fewer imaging episodes when employees have direct, no-friction access to PT.
Fewer workers’ compensation claims and reduced absenteeism
Most MSK claims start as something an employee worked around for weeks. Catching them early is the difference between a few sessions and a claim file, and between a modified-duty week and months of lost time.
Improved productivity and retention
Pain is a performance problem before it’s a medical one. People who can move without thinking about it work better and stay longer. This is also a benefit employees actually notice and use, unlike most of what’s in the packet.
What should you expect on your call with us?
Thirty minutes on a video call with our Doctor of Physical Therapy. We’ll briefly discuss the details of your company, your workforce, and the physical demands of the positions you staff.
If it’s a fit, we’ll discuss what our program would look like for your business: what your people actually do all day, where the risk concentrates, and what it would cost. If it isn’t, we’ll tell you that too, and you’ll still leave with a clearer picture of where your MSK spend is going than you had before the call.
Not ready to talk numbers yet? See what the free on-site Performance Reset looks like ⟶
Questions, answered plainly.
Most of those are app-based, and low engagement is where they typically fall short: people download it, use it twice, and stop. This is a named Doctor of Physical Therapy your people can put a face to, on site, who they can message directly. The differentiator isn’t the content. It’s that someone actually knows them.
We agree on what we’re tracking before we start: utilization, claims in the MSK category, workers’ comp frequency, modified duty days, whatever your data allows. If you’re self-funded, that’s straightforward. If you’re fully insured, we’ll be upfront on the call about what you will and won’t be able to see.
Our program scales down further than most employer wellness programs do, because there’s no platform license underneath it. We’ve built programs for businesses smaller than 25 employees, and we have the potential to provide for a 250+ employee company. What matters more than headcount is whether your workforce is physically loaded (construction, hospitality, food and beverage) or interested in this sort of benefit.
No. It sits in front of both. The point of this program is not only to handle things in week one after injury, at low cost, but also to catch things earlier than time-loss occurs and prevent injury overall. That prevents the high-value claims that start weeks after an injury and last for months.
It depends on headcount, on-site hours, and what your workforce does all day, so any number quoted before that conversation would be fiction. We’ll discuss this in detail on the call and you’ll get a real number before we are finished.
Ready to look at the numbers for your team?
Put it in writing.
Five short questions. We call you back to set up your free 15-minute call.
The people who end up filling this out are rarely in the worst pain of their life. They’re just done working around it, done picking the errand that doesn’t require the stairs. If that’s the stage you’re at, this is the part where you stop researching and start.
Consider it filed.
We’ll call you back to set up your free 15-minute call. Keep your phone nearby.
Can’t wait? Call (843) 595-1055 ⟶Where to find us.
One clinic, one doctor, one address. Come see the place before you commit, if you like.
The clinic · ALTR Performance & Physical Therapy
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