After 24 years in outpatient practice, I started asking different questions — about inflammation, gut health, blood sugar, labs, and lifestyle. The answers changed how I practice. This is where I share what I’ve learned.
Everything in the library is organized around the systems that determine whether your patients actually heal.
Criteria-based rehab protocols with exercise libraries — the progressions I use, written so you can hand them to a student on Monday.
ApoB, hs-CRP, fasting insulin, vitamin D — what PTs should know, and how to have the conversation with patients.
Anti-inflammatory nutrition, blood glucose management, supplement frameworks, and gut health in clinical context.
Zone 2, VO₂ max, NAD+, HRV, peptides, and wearables — clinical takes on the optimization conversation.
Downloadable handouts, patient-facing explainers, and intake form templates you can use Monday morning.
De-identified clinical cases that show the functional medicine lens applied to real PT presentations.
No email gate, no trial clock. If these are useful to you, the rest of the library is written the same way.
After 24 years in outpatient PT, I started noticing something that bothered me. Patients doing everything right — showing up, trusting the process — and still not getting better. Not because of technique. Because something upstream was getting in the way. This is the framework I use to find it.
Read the articleA synthesis of the JOSPT Pain Science in Practice series, reorganized around clinical use — sensitization, descending modulation, neuropathic grading, and a one-page clinic card.
Download the guideThe structural diagnosis tells you what is inflamed. It doesn’t tell you why the patient isn’t healing.
Somewhere around year ten, I started noticing a pattern: patients who weren’t getting better — not because of technique, but because something upstream was getting in the way. Poor sleep. Systemic inflammation. Nutrients the tissue couldn’t access. A nervous system locked in fight-or-flight.
That’s what led me into functional medicine. Not as a replacement for physical therapy, but as the other half of the picture.
Both plans include everything. The only difference is how often you’re billed.
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