Questions?

I offer both in-person and online coaching. If you live close enough, I would recommend in-person. It is easier to assess your biomechanics and teach proper movement face-to-face. That said, I don’t want to make travel a barrier. If you live far away, there is still a lot of benefit I can offer via online coaching. You can also do your first few sessions in person, then transition to online coaching. I currently work out of C3 Performance off of Hampden and I-25 in Denver, CO. I will be offering a second location near West Highlands soon. See my contact page for more information.

No. I’m not a doctor or a physical therapist. I am a personal trainer who specializes in corrective exercise. Some insurances may offer reimbursement for personal training, so you can look into this. If you have an HSA, you can ask your doctor about getting a Letter of Medical Necessity to use your HSA funds.

There is a very big difference between acute pain and chronic pain, but the treatment strategies often get lumped together. Our medical system is designed to treat worst case scenarios, and it is very good at that. Everyone is human, even doctors. Expecting them to understand how to diagnose musculoskeletal conditions and perform orthopaedic surgery, while also understanding the nuanced and diverse ways that chronic suboptimal positioning can contribute to slow-onset chronic pain, and knowing functional training techniques to fix them, is asking a lot.

The truth is that everyone in the healthcare space has something useful to offer you. In my life, I’ve been to every specialist you can imagine. Doctors, physical therapists, athletic trainers, strength trainers, chiropractors, massage therapists, and acupuncturists. I’ve tried cryotherapy, PRP, cortisone injections, dry needling, gua sha, cupping, muscle activation techniques (MAT), active release therapy (ART), meditation, tai chi, yoga, and pilates. I’ve read countless books and taken courses on pain science and the psychosomatic elements of pain.

But it wasn’t until I worked with corrective exercise specialists who had personally recovered from chronic pain that I finally started to see progress. The key element was a belief that I could get better and a dose of reality of the personal effort required to get there. It was a paradigm shift in my recovery. I was no longer searching for people to diagnosis my one issue and fix it. I was invested in a lifelong body maintenance program, developing an understanding of what I was doing and why. I still use many of the tools listed above to help me along the way.

I don’t want to convince you that it’s “my way or the highway” and that everyone else’s approach is wrong. Rather, I want to teach you my framework to proper movement and pain education, while also sharing the benefits of all the other approaches out there. A mentor once told me that the best practitioners in the industry have exposure to many different modalities. Instead of getting wrapped up in a single technique, I strive to understand the subtleties of various methodologies, so we can figure out together which ones are right for you in this moment in time. As you progress, this will change and other strategies will become available to you.

And I can coach you with empathy and compassion throughout the ups and downs, because I’ve been there myself. It’s easy to give recommendations based on what you read in a book that you studied in a class at school, but it’s much different to understand how hard those steps really are for clients.

I specialize in helping people with chronic hip and low back pain. This is what I have the most experience in, because this is what I went through. That said, the solutions to developing better movement strategies applies to the whole body, so many of the strategies I employ will also help chronic issues in other areas of the body, such as the knee, ankle, shoulders, and neck. I personally have dealt with pain in those areas as well. The human body is a kinetic chain. As you start unpacking layers of compensatory patterns and making progress on them, the pain may move around to other areas of your body before finding homeostasis and balance in a pain-free manner.

Chronic pain has so many different potential causes and influences. I don’t claim to have the answers for all chronic pain. I also do not treat pain directly. My certifications provide me with tools to assess and correct muscle imbalances and movement compensations throughout the entire body. My goal is to help you find your pain-free abilities. I am not here to diagnose a specific condition.

My personal experience deals with pain itself, as do a lot of the mental strategies I have learned. I feel confident in my understanding of certain types of pain experiences, and that has been validated by clients I have helped. That said, I will refer out as appropriate.