Feel Like You Again
Types of Rebound Coaching I Provide for Wherever You Are
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INITIAL CONSULTATIONS
Learn What Rebound Coaching Can Do for You
Not sure what a Recovery Coach is or what type of help you need? Give me 45 minutes of your time and I will answer questions and give you insights into how to make your recovery go beyond expectations. Talk to a Recovery Coach who has the health, fitness, and rehab background along with first-hand experience in reaching beyond her fullest recovery potential.
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LEARN TO EFFECTIVELY COMMUNICATE WITH DOCTORS & SPECIALISTS
Have Your Expectation Be Heard & Understood
Meeting a new doctor or surgeon can be scary especially if you are talking about surgery. Effective Communication Coaching enables you to explain your expectations confidently in your own words, record important info, and helps make a confident decision about surgery and working with this medical group.
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PHYSICAL, MENTAL, & EMOTIONAL SURGERY PREPARATION
Learn how to Be Calm & Confident the Day of Surgery
You’ll receive tips and strategies for going into surgery feeling good and ready to reach the outcomes you want. You receive checklists that help you thoroughly prepare you, your family, and home for surgery. I help you develop the best techniques for managing stress so you are thoroughly prepared for surgery
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OVERCOMING SETBACKS IN REHAB
Positive Perspective For Days When You Want to Give Up
Rehab is the most crucial part of making a full rebound. And it's where most people struggle. I will do everything I can to help you stay committed to the goals you set so that you reach the success you want. I help you see the progress you are making. Help you manage your pain. I teach you how to work around the setbacks you encounter so that you reach your goals.
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GOING FURTHER AFTER MEDICAL RELEASE
Accountability You Need to Go the Distance
I won’t let you be like most people who gradually stop working on their healing once released from medical care. I help you integrate the healing part with the rest of your body and become healthy again. You’ll assess your current starting point. Identify 1-3 focus points. Learn how to recognize progress. And discover valuable resources for continued healing, fitness, and well-being.
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JOINT REPLACEMENT COACHING
Specific Coaching Tailored to Your Surgery Recovery
Whether it is a replacement or repair, each joint repair is different. You get specific tools and recovery coaching to help you reach your fullest recovery potential. Start with clearly defined and realistic outcomes. Next, design a plan that includes swelling, exercise, and pain management charts. Learn mental and emotional techniques to stay positively focused.
Convenient Ways to Work Together
I make sure you get the help you need when and where you need it the most.
In Your Home
If you live within a 30-mile radius of Pittsburgh, PA, I can come to your home (with an additional travel charge) to work with you one-on-one covering topics like fitness training or enhanced troubleshooting.
Via Video Conferencing
I offer face-to-face video conferencing that allows us to work through home set-up situations, exercise technique concerns, ambulation, troubleshooting range of motion, swelling, or footwear issues. Or perhaps all you need is a warm friendly smile!
By Telephone
Not feeling like being seen? No problem. We can easily communicate through phone messaging or direct calls. In either case, you have my undivided attention to help you sort out the best methods for overcoming setbacks and struggles that may keep you from reaching your goals.
You’ll work with someone who knows how to make REMARKABLE comebacks
Hi there - I’m Paula Franetti, MS, CHC, CPT. I have over 30 years of experience as a rehab specialist, exercise physiologist, health coach, and personal trainer, and use this knowledge to help my clients excel in reaching their recovery goals.
In addition to my health and fitness background, I also am a health crisis survivor. Shortly after I turned 60 yrs old, I was in a horrific car accident that nearly crippled me for life.
I have firsthand experience with life-saving emergency surgeries as well as elective surgeries and have fully recovered each time to the active lifestyle I love.
Using my die-hard positive attitude and the knowledge I’ve gained in orthotics and prosthetics, cardiac rehabilitation, and health and fitness coaching, I know how to troubleshoot and find solutions that work for any goal a person may have.
I can help you find the inner strength and solutions not to give up until you reach your highest recovery potential.
Common Questions
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Yes. People graduate from PT once they reach a certain range of motion or level of function. However, this does not mean they are fully healed or healthy again. Completing the healing process may take up to a year and getting fit again needs to be done methodically and progressively. Working with an experienced fitness professional like me will ensure you work within safe parameters so that you make lasting progress.
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Surgeons today are really focused on making sure patients get good surgical results. But good surgical results do not necessarily mean you’ll start enjoying the lifestyle you want. It means your broken body part will function better. It’s YOUR responsibility to reach the lifestyle outcomes you want, NOT your surgeon’s. Providing realistic lifestyle goals and the determination to achieve them is what I deliver that sets me apart from your surgeon’s preparation.
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No, not really. All you have to do is choose a way (or a few) that is most convenient for us to communicate. This could be at your home, face-to-face on a computer screen, via Facetime, or by telephone and/or texting. I try to make it easy-peasy to connect in the ways you feel most comfortable.
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Your PT is a skilled health professional that knows specific rehabilitative exercises to specifically address your injury or surgery. What I add is different yet complementary to the medical treatment plan they provide. I help you understand the WHYs of what the exercises are meant to do. I help you understand what you should be feeling when doing the exercise. What clarifying questions you could be asking or how to recognize and track the progress you are making. I help you see the whole picture of what your PT is helping your body to recover.
Don't be the one who stops short of the finish line doing it all on your own.
Rebound Coaching helps you cross the finish line with
