Your hour. Not shared.
No techs bouncing between rooms, no handoffs mid-visit. Just you and a Doctor of PT, the whole time.
About RCA Physical Therapy
The clinic that treats the cause.
Most clinics manage your symptoms and call it a plan. We built this place to end them: one-on-one, with a Doctor of Physical Therapy, every single visit.
Our Story
This isn’t our story. It’s yours.
Dr. Abdul-Fatai B. Adisa, PT, DPT, Founder
Dr. Abdul-Fatai Adisa started his career in physiotherapy at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, then went on to earn an MBA and a Doctorate in Physical Therapy from the University of St. Augustine in Florida. He built RCA Physical Therapy in Merrillville around one-on-one, cause-first care.
He never stopped training. Dr. Adisa is fellowship trained with the American Academy of Manipulative Therapy and certified in spinal manipulative therapy, dry needling, and vestibular rehabilitation. His focus is the hard cases: complex back and neck pain, injured workers getting back on the job, athletes chasing their next season, and patients recovering from joint replacement.
Patients know him for gentle, effective hands-on care and for making them feel at ease from the first visit. The people who do best here are the ones who fix things: their houses, their teams, their families. This is where they finally fix the thing they’ve been putting off: themselves.
What We Believe
Four things we’ll never compromise.
Cause first. Symptoms follow.
You’ve probably chased the pain itself before and never found why it started. We find the why, then the ache stops coming back.
Plans end. That’s the point.
You shouldn’t need a punch card. Every plan comes with a graduation date, so you always know how close you are.
You’re not a protocol.
Your job, your body, your goals: that’s what your plan is built around, never pulled from a generic sheet.
The Difference
Not your typical clinic.
A typical clinic
- You explain your pain to a different aide every visit
- Your hour gets split with two other patients
- The same pain creeps back in a few months
- No graduation date, just book again next week
RCA Physical Therapy
- One-on-one with a Doctor of Physical Therapy, every visit
- Your full hour, uninterrupted, every time
- A cause-first evaluation before we treat anything
- A plan with an endpoint, mapped out on day one
Feel the difference in your first visit.
Book My Free ConsultThe Team
The people behind your recovery.
Inside the Clinic
Where the work happens.
Rooted in Merrillville
This is our neighborhood too.
We’ve been treating Merrillville and the surrounding area: your neighbors, your teammates, your kids’ coaches. The mom who’s been pushing through it so nobody else has to worry? She’s probably on our schedule too. Recovery is a lot more personal when it’s local.
- Merrillville
- Crown Point
- Hobart
- Gary
- Schererville
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Book Your Visit
Ready when you are.
Request a time and a real person calls you back, usually within two business hours. No phone tree. No ‘someone will reach out.’ Just a plan.
- Hours Mon, Wed, Fri: 8:00am–6:00pm
- (219) 525-4176 Prefer to talk now? Call us.
- Same-week appointments available
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Typical response: under 2 business hours
Step 1 of 5
Request sent.
That’s the hard part done. We’ll call during business hours to lock in your time. Most people are on the schedule same week.
Visit Us
Care this good, this close.
RCA Physical Therapy
- 8687 Connecticut St, Ste F, Merrillville, Indiana 46410
- (219) 525-4176
- Fax: (219) 427-0841
- rcaphysicaltherapy@gmail.com
- Mon, Wed, Fri: 8:00am–6:00pm