Why this.

I created Restoration Physical Therapy in response to what I see as a broken, fragmented way of healing injuries in our health care system.  I had just spent 10 years working with elite athletes at UC Berkeley as team physical therapist for football and Olympic sports - 1500 Division I athletes spanning 27 sports, working directly in the training room, at weeklong camps, gameday, on the field, on the track, on the ground.  It was the ultimate bubble of healing - cutting edge technology, a multidisciplinary team approach to whole-person wellness and limitless opportunities for continuing education and clinical growth. I could treat as creatively and scientifically as I wanted - free from typical revenue-generating or ineffective box-checking techniques.  The purpose was to give the athlete the gift of the sport - so they could do their best. As the last engineer on the line, (figuratively speaking) I discovered I excel at (and love) finding solutions to what seems like unsolvable problems. This is what I offer you in my practice.

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My training.

I was in one the lucky few University of Colorado cohorts that was taught orthopedic physical therapy practice from an osteopathic foundation rather than the traditional system. From the very beginning this taught me to approach problem solving in creative and indirect ways, to think in terms of layers. diagonals, rotations, breathing, cellular-level healing, and global vs. micro patterns. 

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Some of my additional training and certifications include: 

• Doctorate in Physical Therapy (Regis University, 2011)

• Orthopedic Clinical Specialist (OCS, 2013)

• Sports Clinical Specialist (SCS, 2012)

• Certified Athletic Trainer (ATC, 2002) which is vastly different from personal trainer

• Pilates Rehabilitation Certification (Polestar Pilates, 2005)

• Active Release Certification (upper extremity, lower extremity, spine, neuro-mobilization, 2004-2007)

• Graston Certified (2006)

• Trigger Point Dry Needling (2014) 

• Pelvic Health (Kaiser)

• Manual medicine

  • Functional Manual Therapy (Institute of Physical Art)

  • Osteopathic techniques (muscle energy, craniosacral, strain-counterstain, myofascial)

  • Maitland (Kaiser-affiliated year long manual therapy training), Mulligan, Kaltonborn

  • Exercise and Manual Medicine (Mark Boukhout)

  • Manipulation 

• Yoga Alliance Certified instructor (RYT200, 2010, Bhakti flow, Rusty Wells)

• Balance and vertigo

• Osteoporosis

• Running biomechanics

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I am on a continual path and have much to learn.

Current clinical interests are functional spine, adult scoliosis, visceral mobilization, positive psychology and lifestyle medicine - specifically the relationship between internet use/overuse and the fear drivers of chronic pain, including pelvic pain. I am constantly learning and changing. From all my teachers. From you, my teacher. 

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