I have been practicing physical therapy for 16 years with a strong focus in outpatient orthopedics. The human body is my obsession...the joints, muscles and the movements they create. Being an avid athlete throughout my youth fueled a desire to know EVERYTHING about how the body works and what happens when it's not working. Early on, I truly thought every injury was isolated...a sprained ankle was from rolling it during a soccer game, a pulled muscle was from over exerting yourself in a race, a shoulder injury was from pitching too much during baseball practice. To an extent, this train of thought was nourished throughout my undergraduate education.

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Through continuing education, collaboration with colleagues, and years and years of experience treating patients, I fine tuned my treatment philosophy and have come to appreciate and thrive on figuring out the complex puzzle that truly causes symptoms. Analyzing movement and assessing the ENTIRE body is the best way to truly treat and prevent injuries. The distance runner with chronic knee pain may not have a "knee problem" but probably an "ankle/hip problem". This approach is vital to effectively understanding and ultimately "fixing" dysfunction which leads to pain/problems.