Portsmouth Clinic
Seacoast · New Hampshire
Athlete-grade chiropractic care and physical therapy in Portsmouth, NH.
Seacoast care
Musculoskeletal care for the Seacoast's daily demands
The Portsmouth clinic serves people whose goals range from getting through a workday without escalating pain to returning to running, field sports, lifting, cycling, or time on the water. Care begins by defining the task that is limited and examining the movement, tissue, and neurologic findings that can change the plan.
Chiropractic care and physical therapy are the clinic's core disciplines. Providers may add soft-tissue care, taping, dry needling, radial pressure wave therapy, or cold laser when a specific finding supports that choice. A device or technique is never the diagnosis.
Between visits
Turning a Portsmouth clinic plan into Seacoast activity
The work between appointments should be specific enough to follow without recreating the entire clinic. Early assignments may focus on a symptom-calming movement, a short mobility drill, or one strength exercise. Later work should increase the range, resistance, duration, speed, or complexity that the final activity demands.
Seacoast goals often involve surfaces and conditions that are difficult to copy indoors. A runner may need gradual road volume and hills. A cyclist may need time in riding posture before longer miles. Someone returning to work may need repeated lifting, carrying, reaching, or standing rather than a single successful repetition in the clinic.
Symptom response helps set the dose. A temporary, manageable increase can differ from rapidly escalating pain, new neurologic symptoms, or a loss of function. The provider should explain which response is acceptable for the diagnosis, how long it should settle, and when to contact the clinic before progressing.
Access and records
Insurance, scheduling, and care coordination in Portsmouth
New Hampshire law authorizes licensed physical therapists to practice and requires referral when a condition is outside physical therapy scope or the treatment is contraindicated. An insurance plan can still impose its own coverage, network, authorization, or referral rules. Confirm benefits with the plan and clinic rather than assuming direct clinical access guarantees payment.
If you are traveling from Maine, the appointment takes place at the New Hampshire clinic, but your insurance contract and any later telehealth or cross-state care may involve different rules. Tell the scheduling team where you live and which service you are requesting so it can identify questions that need to be checked before the visit.
Coordination matters after surgery, significant trauma, or care from another clinician. Bring the operative note, current precautions, imaging report, and relevant contact information when available. The clinic cannot guarantee outside records will arrive automatically, and a report is more useful when it is reviewed alongside current symptoms and function.
Planning a visit to Greenleaf Woods Drive
The clinic is at 8 Greenleaf Woods Drive, Suite 203, Portsmouth, New Hampshire 03801. Use the address-based map on this page for navigation, and call the Portsmouth office at (603) 431-4200 if you need help locating the suite or confirming an appointment.
The Portsmouth office is open Monday through Thursday from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM and Friday from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, and is closed Saturday and Sunday. Holiday schedules and individual provider availability change through the year, so confirm the exact appointment time when you book.
Phone
(603) 431-4200Hours
| Monday | 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM |
| Wednesday | 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM |
| Thursday | 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM |
| Friday | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM |
| Saturday | Closed |
| Sunday | Closed |
What to bring and what the first visit should answer
Your symptom timeline
Bring the approximate onset, injury mechanism, changes over time, prior episodes, and the movements or positions that alter symptoms.
Relevant medical information
A current medication list, imaging reports, surgery dates, and details about major diagnoses can change testing and treatment safety.
A concrete movement goal
Name the task you want back, such as sleeping comfortably, lifting at work, running a route, or completing practice.
A plan you can explain
Before leaving, you should understand the working diagnosis, warning signs, first treatment priorities, and how progress will be measured.
Care available in Portsmouth.
Our full toolkit runs at both clinics, and you are welcome at either one. These are the therapies patients ask for by name.
Why a Seacoast location changes the return plan
The Seacoast shapes the surfaces, seasons, and tasks patients want to return to.
Portsmouth and nearby Seacoast communities place people on brick sidewalks, roads, trails, courts, fields, docks, and job sites. Those surfaces and tasks create different demands. Later rehabilitation should reproduce the pace, repetition, balance, or load that a patient will actually encounter.
The location page lists surrounding communities as geography, not as a promised drive time or exclusive service area. Patients from Maine should check their insurance and referral requirements because licensing and plan rules can differ across state lines even when the clinic itself is in New Hampshire.
Communities we see patients from
Visit details
Questions about the Portsmouth clinic
City of Portsmouth, New Hampshire (opens in a new tab)What is the Portsmouth clinic phone number?
Call (603) 431-4200 for the Portsmouth office. The clinic fax is (603) 431-4202.
What are the Portsmouth clinic hours?
Monday through Thursday, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM, and Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. The Portsmouth clinic is closed Saturday and Sunday. For Saturday morning appointments, see the Alton clinic. Confirm holiday and provider schedules when booking.
Can I request physical therapy in Portsmouth?
Yes. Physical therapy is one of the clinic's core services. The online physical therapy scheduler and clinic team can help identify current provider availability.
Is the Portsmouth clinic only for athletes?
No. The sports-medicine framework is used for everyday pain, work demands, recreation, and competitive sport. Your own function and goals shape the plan.
After the appointment
A useful visit should leave you with more than a treatment
A working explanation
You should understand what the provider thinks is involved, which findings support that view, and what uncertainty remains.
A manageable next step
The home plan should identify the movement, activity adjustment, or exercise dose to complete before the next visit.
A reason to reassess
Know which warning signs need medical attention and which progress marker will determine whether the plan advances or changes.
Useful follow-up
What to track before the next Portsmouth visit
A simple record can make the next decision more precise. Track the response that was discussed at the evaluation rather than trying to document every sensation throughout the day. Bring questions that came up while completing the plan, along with any important medication or health changes since the prior visit.
The task and dose
Record the exercise, work, walking, training, or daily task, including enough detail about repetitions, time, distance, resistance, or pace to compare one attempt with another.
The response and recovery
Note what changed during the task, later that day, and by the next morning. Include how long an increase lasted and whether function returned to its prior level.
Any reason to contact sooner
Report a major new symptom, progressive weakness or numbness, unexpected swelling, fever, breathing trouble, or another change the provider identified as a reason to pause and seek help.
Bring the record in whatever format is easiest to maintain. A few consistent notes are more useful than a detailed tracker that is abandoned. The provider can use the pattern to adjust load, exercise selection, visit frequency, or the working diagnosis.
Book at our Portsmouth clinic.
Call (603) 431-4200 or request an appointment online. The clinic can help you check plan-specific referral or insurance requirements.
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