What to Expect
The Initial Evaluation
Your first visit is a comprehensive evaluation designed to identify the root causes of your pain, movement limitations, and postural dysfunction.
During your examination, we will take a thorough history of your symptoms, medical history, previous injuries, and current functional limitations. We then use research-validated clinical diagnostic and assessment tools, including the Selective Functional Movement Assessment (SFMA), to evaluate movement quality, fascial chain length - stabilizer strength balance.
These findings are compared to established developmental movement patterns that naturally emerge during infancy and early childhood. These foundational movement patterns form the basis of efficient posture, balance, coordination, and movement throughout life.
Finding the Source
of the Problem
Many pain and movement problems are not simply the result of weak muscles, tight tissues, or structural abnormalities. They are often the result of faulty neurological programming—automatic movement and postural patterns that the brain has learned over time.
Think of these dysfunctional patterns as bugs in a computer program. The body continues to run the same inefficient movement loops, leading to abnormal loading, compensation patterns, tissue stress, and pain.
In some cases, the nervous system becomes overly protective. The brain may continue to generate pain signals or protective movement strategies because it perceives threat or danger even when tissues are no longer being damaged. When this occurs, the nervous system can become stuck in a cycle of pain, guarding, compensation, and altered movement patterns. When these systems become dysregulated, the brain may perceive a threat where none exists and respond with pain, muscle tension, altered posture, or movement compensation. While these responses are intended to be protective, they can become maladaptive and contribute to ongoing symptoms.
Our goal is to identify these faulty neural loops, determine why they developed, and create a treatment plan that helps retrain the nervous system to restore more efficient movement, posture, force distribution throughout the body and pain processing.
How Treatment
Creates Change
Your treatment plan is designed to create change in both the body and the brain.
Treatment focuses on stimulating and retraining:
The systems responsible for muscle strength, flexibility, endurance, and balance
The parts of the brain responsible for automatic posture and movement control
The parts of the brain and nervous system that regulate pain perception and threat detection
The subconscious protective responses that influence how the brain interprets loads, forces, movement, and physical stress
Through specific exercises, movement retraining, education, pain reprocessing and progressive loading strategies, treatment helps recalibrate these systems so the brain can more accurately interpret movement, force, and sensation. As the nervous system becomes more efficient, movement patterns improve, protective responses decrease, and the body is better able to distribute forces evenly and function optimally.
Your Personalized
Treatment Plan
Based on your examination findings, a customized treatment plan will be developed specifically for your needs.
Your treatment plan is prescribed in a way that provides the type and amount of stimulation necessary to create meaningful neurological and structural change. Just as learning a new skill requires repetition and reinforcement, changing movement patterns and pain-processing pathways requires consistent practice over time.
Adequate stimulation delivered over a specific period is necessary for the nervous system to adapt and create lasting change.
After Your First Visit
Creating lasting change requires consistent and repeated reinforcement.
Most patients follow a structured treatment plan consisting of approximately 12 visits over four months. These visits are strategically scheduled to provide the repetition, progression, and troubleshooting necessary to facilitate change within the nervous system and movement system.
Follow-up visits allow for:
Reinforcement of new movement patterns
Retraining of pain-perception and threat-detection responses
Progression of exercises and activities
Troubleshooting challenges or setbacks
Ongoing education and support
Objective measurement of improvement
Treatment Timeline
Month 1
Weekly visits for 1–2 weeks
Then every other week
Month 2
One weekly follow-up visit
Then every other week
Month 3
Then two visits approximately three weeks apart
Month 4
One final follow-up visit
Treatment schedules may be adjusted based on individual needs, complexity of the condition, and rate of progress.
Measurable neurological and movement-based changes typically occur in approximately six-week intervals.
For this reason, comprehensive progress assessments are performed every six weeks. During these visits, movement patterns are remeasured, improvements are documented, and your treatment plan is updated based on your progress.
These reassessments ensure that treatment remains individualized, targeted, and effective as your body and nervous system adapt.
Progress Assessments
Who You Will Be Working With
Initial evaluations and six-week progress assessments are performed by Kim
Follow-up treatment visits are delegated to highly trained physical therapy assistants who execute the treatment plan developed during your examination and reassessments.
Kim's assistants are extensively trained in her research-based treatment protocols and are skilled in exercise instruction, troubleshooting, progression of care, and patient education. They work closely with Kim to ensure consistency and continuity throughout your treatment journey.
Our Goal
The ultimate goal of treatment is not simply symptom relief—it is restoring efficient movement, posture, balanced force distribution, and healthy nervous system function. We are teach you to fish providers.
By improving the way your nervous system controls movement, posture, and pain perception, we help create a more resilient and adaptable movement system that functions efficiently and responds appropriately to the demands of daily life.
When the brain can accurately distinguish between true threat and normal activity, unnecessary protective responses diminish, movement becomes more natural, confidence improves, and lasting change becomes possible.