Like any good idea, it all started at a bar: I was grabbing some wings with my older brother one night while I was in grad school, and he started asking how my clinical rotation was going. I was at a small private practice owned by a husband and wife. “It’s great,” I told him. “My instructors own the clinic and do physical therapy exactly how they envision it.” My brother, always the idea-generator, quickly turned my endorsement back at me. “Do you think you could own your ow

While I did not always know that I would be a physical therapist, I always knew that I was going to have to play a big role in changing physical therapy. Like many physical therapists, I was once the injured athlete. That is not entirely true. During my competitive running career at Xavier University, I was just plain “injury prone”. Unlike other physical therapists, however, I was not inspired to become one as a result of the excellent therapy I received. On the contrary