ABOUT OUR PROCESS
WHAT SETS PLATINUM REHAB SPECIALISTS APART
Platinum Rehab Specialists
We are a cash for service company geared towards helping YOU get out of pain and have the tools and long term plan to keep yourself away from pain and moving towards your goals.
Our goal is you will feel confident when leaving an appointment with your specialist. Confident in knowing what your diagnosis is, what the plan is to get you better, and exactly how much it will cost to get you better.
Treatment sessions with your doctor of physical therapy. Less time in therapy and more time doing what you love. The best part of all…no surprise bills. All payments are paid upfront during your first visit.
Everything at Platinum Rehab Specialists is governed by the Platinum rule. "Treat others the way they expect to be treated."
Meet Dr. Chris Long
Dr. Chris’ journey in physical therapy began many years ago with two debilitating injuries of his own. Once with a low back strain that left a 13 year old walking like an 83 year old, and secondly with a chronic history of headaches/migraines lasting for nearly 2 years. Dr. Chris understands the fear of reinjury but also the freedom that rehabilitation provides. He wants to help you achieve a pain-free life, just as he experienced.
The chronic headaches Dr. Chris had lived with affected his ability to concentrate during the necessary testing for a physical therapy education. This sent him through multiple application cycles and he started to lose the hope he had of being a PT who was going to help change other’s lives without medications or surgeries or injections.
After completing his PT degree and working in the in-network clinic setting the majority of his career, Dr. Chris found that the care he had once received as a patient himself had changed drastically. Over the years he noticed trends where the volume of patients and charging to get the best reimbursement per patient was a higher priority than actually treating the person in front of him.
More About Dr. Chris
Dr. Chris researched cash-for-services care and decided, after many long discussions with his wife and family, that a change to a new realm of care would be the best long term plan to accomplish the dream he initially had set for himself so many years ago. In 2022, Dr. Chris started Platinum Rehab Specialists and it has been a success from day one! He is so grateful for all of those who have helped him along the way and now his patients are achieving the success of becoming pain free without needing surgeries or other medications. He hopes the same can be achieved in your story as well! Dr. Chris is ready to partner with you to make the change to feel better and move better than you ever anticipated.
Education/Credentials
- B.S. Exercise Science - Georgia State University
- Doctorate in Physical Therapy - University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences
- Orthopedic Residency - Upstream Rehab Institute (removed 1 year)
- 1 year Orthopedic Residency - Upstream Rehab Institute
- Vestibular Rehab and Concussion certification - American Institute of Balance
- Electro Dry Needling trained
- Spinal Manipulation trained
- Functional Movement Screen certified
- Selective Functional Movement Assessment certified
- Blood Flow Restriction Certified
Frequently Asked Questions
Dr. Chris wanted to take his over 10 years of experience directly to the consumer/patient and not have to deal with waiting for a referral from the MD or to wait for insurance to approve your visits.
Not only efficient, but effective! Patient’s experience a reduction in pain after the first visit and continue to feel improvements as you progress throughout your plan of care.
- PRS does not take your insurance and you can be relieved about that! PRS has found that you will get the care you need and achieve the goals you want if insurance wasn’t the middle man in the equation. The denials and other hoops you have to go through to get the treatment you deserve makes it nearly impossible when insurance is in the mix. This is exactly why if you use your insurance then you will be stuck with a tech for 45 minutes and your PT for 10-15 minutes and that isn’t what we at PRS would call quality care. PRS will be more than happy to give each patient itemized bills upon request so that the patient can submit claims to their insurance for potential reimbursement.
- Yes! You can absolutely utilize both forms of payment to use toward your services at PRS. If you need more itemized bills as opposed to your receipts that are automatically emailed to you, then please ask any employee at PRS to send you itemized bills.
- Our evaluations are blocked for 1 hour and 15 minutes to allow for enough time to evaluate AND treat you within the same session. Every session after your evaluation will involve a combination of any and all services and will typically last 1 hour.
- A referral is always welcomed at PRS, but it is not necessary to be seen. Our specialists hold their doctorate in physical therapy which means we are medically trained to screen out any red flags that would otherwise make you ineligible for treatments with us and would require further medical examinations performed by your primary care or other medical specialist before starting a plan of care with PRS.