No, I'm not going to try and reel you in by dropping some gimmicky, cliche, marketing phrase to begin my introduction. How many physical therapy clinic websites have you visited where the first words you see are, “Do you have pain?” or everywhere you scroll you can't seem to escape the giant “SCHEDULE NOW” button. We all have had pain, currently have pain, or will have some type of pain in our lives, and you wouldn't be on the website in the first place if you weren't dealing with some sort of pain. The pain you are dealing with is most likely affecting your way of life in some regard, or preventing you from participating in the things that you truly love to do. 

Throughout my life and all of the little jobs I have had from my teen years to my undergraduate career, I have always been very detail oriented and never understood why various tasks were drawn out for days or even weeks at a time. I have learned that with everything in life, if you truly care, and there is a reason behind what you are doing, you are bound to get positive results in a much shorter time frame. So why not apply this to everything in life, including physical therapy?

Physical therapy is not about simply going through the motions just to check the boxes, or to look pretty during. Rather, it is about challenging yourself in order to break free from the constraints that your body has placed on you which is preventing you from doing what you love. It isn't about filling time, just for the sake of filling time to be able to bill more, with 10-minute warm ups and 10-minute cool downs eating 20 minutes of your typical 1 hour treatment sessions, followed by generic exercises that every other patient/client in the clinic is doing at the same time. It is about making the most of your time down to every minute because time is money, and time is LIFE. Throughout my professional training and exposure to various physical therapy practices and businesses around the country, I have become frustrated with the current typical model of physical therapy and the direction that it is headed, which is towards failed potential and lazy care. Why are we not providing the best possible care to our patients/clients? Why are we being lazy as clinicians? Why are we settling for the current system and the stranglehold that insurance companies have on our profession, and why aren't we striving to get better? Why are we wasting the 7+ years of education and skills that we have earned as physical therapists? This is why I am taking a leap of faith in order to motivate one life at a time to take control of their pain, and get back to doing what they love, in the city that I have grown to love. 

Cheers,

Cage