Dr. Kevin J McGovern, PT

Dr. Kevin J McGovern, PT We transform people into their fittest, healthiest, and most pain-free lifestyle. I am an expert in helping Active Adults move better with less pain.

Sometimes I am the last stop or last resort to your recovery. I believe Physical Therapy can deliver amazing results when applied with innovation and science. If you hope to be more active, participate in recreational sports, and get healthier then, I can help you. For over 27 years I have led the fields of Physical Therapy and Sports Training and some of my accomplishments include:

Education:

Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Simmons University,
Bachelor of Science from Northeastern University
Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach for the NSCA


Work History:

I have been in private practice owner since 1999. I owned a very large insurance-based practice with 45 employees that I sold back in 2013. I started PERFECT MOTION Sports Therapy in 1999 as a fee-for-service or cash-based practice to be able to care for my patients free of insurance restrictions. Awards, Titles, and Designations:

PT PRACTICE of the Year
INC 5000 List for Growing Companies


Other Tidbits of Info:

I have been a Physical Therapist for 27 plus years. During this time I have helped thousands of people recover from injury or exceed their fitness goals. I have developed a functional movement test and corrective exercise system that I have G.A.M.E. which stands for Graded Active Movement Exam. This system tests and corrects the body's initial sequence of movement which everyone has in common, from the Olympic Athlete to grandma. To be healthy, one has to move correctly. I am a baseball fanatic. I teach pitching and have developed a program called Velocity RX that helps baseball pitchers stay healthy. I do freelance work for the WWE. I was involved in one of their PPVs. The YouTube clip of the scene has over 42 Million views! I have two beautiful daughters. In my free time I like to golf, cook, camp, and dabble in the occasional woodworking project. I got into PT because I had a catastrophic knee injury at just 16 years old. I was sent to PT. That experience was horrible. I vowed that when I got out of PT school, I would do my best every day to care for my clients in the best way possible. After selling my last practice I should have been semi-retired. They don't teach you a thing about business in PT school. You have to learn by doing. I certainly did not make all the best business decisions, but, I did what I thought in my heart was the best at the time. Loyalty can certainly come back to bite you. When you want to move better with less pain, you need someone you can count on when it comes to Physical Therapy and Sports Training. I will help you be more active, improve your participation in recreational sports, and/or get you healthier!

CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON.You’ve got two options when you throw a baseball:🧱 Drive the ball through the wallUsing your legs, hi...
01/28/2026

CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON.

You’ve got two options when you throw a baseball:

🧱 Drive the ball through the wall
Using your legs, hips, and trunk together
Rotating around a stable front leg
Letting the arm come last

—or—

🪢 Sling it like a slingshot
Relying on arm lag
Elastic recoil
And asking the small muscles and connective tissue of the shoulder and elbow to do a job they were never designed to do

One approach creates force through the body.
The other creates stress in the arm.

One lasts.
One breaks.

Velocity isn’t about stretching the arm like a rubber band.
It’s about driving energy forward as one unit.

Choose wisely.

— Dr. Kevin McGovern
Velocity RX | Saving 1 Million Arms

HIP–SHOULDER SEPARATION: CONTEXT MATTERSHip–shoulder separation works in sports like golf, tennis, and hitting.Why?Becau...
01/28/2026

HIP–SHOULDER SEPARATION: CONTEXT MATTERS

Hip–shoulder separation works in sports like golf, tennis, and hitting.

Why?
Because the club, racket, or bat delivers the force.

⚠️ Pitching is different.

If you rotate your hips and leave your arm lagging behind, the arm absorbs the stress.
That “lag” isn’t magic — it’s load.

And load without support = injury.

In efficient, durable pitching:
• Everything rotates together
• Around a stable front leg
• Arm, trunk, and hips move as one

Velocity doesn’t come from leaving the arm behind.
It comes from sequencing around a stable pillar.

That’s how you throw hard
and keep your arm.





Do you have neuropathy? Would you like it fixed? SHOCKWAVE!
01/28/2026

Do you have neuropathy? Would you like it fixed? SHOCKWAVE!

01/27/2026

Dragging the back leg inhibits proper hip turn. This sends stress up the kinetic chain into the shoulder and the elbow. I have no idea why anyone would teach that. It’s against the bodies natural inclination to continue to move the hip forward as if it were walking. It goes against the bodies, natural movement and usually when you do that in Jury is around the corner. .

“Perfect your functional movement first and watch your athleticism explode.Take shortcuts around that journey and you’ll...
01/26/2026

“Perfect your functional movement first and watch your athleticism explode.
Take shortcuts around that journey and you’ll end up on the trainer’s table.
It’s only a matter of time.”

— Dr. Kevin J. McGovern, PT

Mechanics don’t save athletes.
Movement does.

🚨 Stop Living in Pain — The Future of Healing Is HereYou’ve tried it all — pills, injections, endless stretching, “cooki...
01/26/2026

🚨 Stop Living in Pain — The Future of Healing Is Here

You’ve tried it all — pills, injections, endless stretching, “cookie-cutter” PT.
But if you’re still in pain, here’s the truth: none of that actually heals damaged tissue.

At Perfect Motion Sports Therapy, we use Shockwave Therapy — the same technology trusted by elite athletes — to activate your body’s own stem cells and flood damaged areas with blood flow for 10X faster healing.

Chronic knee pain? Gone.
Shoulder or back pain that keeps coming back? Fixed.
Even nerve pain and neuropathy are improving when nothing else worked.

But here’s what makes us different…
We don’t just stop your pain — we fix the root cause through our one-of-a-kind movement-based physical therapy system.
That combination — Shockwave + Perfect Motion — doesn’t exist anywhere else. There’s no comparison. No competition.

If you’ve been told “you just have to live with it,” they were wrong.
👉 Text “SHOCKWAVE” to 978-651-1812 right now to see if you qualify for our program.
Spots this week are almost gone — and so is your chance to finally live pain-free.

Perfect Motion Sports Therapy
All physical therapy is not the same. We change lives.

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Dr. Kevin McGovern is here to help Acton recover faster, heal naturally, and live pain-free.Call to schedule an appointm...
01/26/2026

Dr. Kevin McGovern is here to help Acton recover faster, heal naturally, and live pain-free.
Call to schedule an appointment today: (978) 651-1812

01/26/2026

FUNCTIONAL MOVEMENT FIRST. MECHANICS SECOND.

Here’s a clear example.

Using Aroldis Chapman as a real-world case study.

On his first move toward home plate, Chapman breaks a fundamental kinesiological principle:

➡️ Movement should occur proximal → distal
(spinal cord → hips → knees → feet)

Rather than initiating with a true hip hinge, the knee translates forward over the toe.

This does not shut the posterior kinetic chain down —
but it fails to fully utilize its available strength and force-production capacity.

What it does do:

It places tremendous and unnecessary load on the patellofemoral joint.

• Increased anterior knee shear
• Elevated compressive forces at the patella
• Force being absorbed where it shouldn’t be

This is force that should be:
➡️ Distributed through the hips and posterior chain
➡️ Not concentrated at the front of the knee

Over millions of repetitions, the body adapts — not by moving better, but by protecting itself.

That protection often shows up as:
• Pain
• Compensation
• Bracing

This is not a mechanical flaw.
It is a functional movement and neurological sequencing issue.

And this is measurable, not theoretical:

✔ Manual muscle testing
✔ Force plate analysis
✔ Ground reaction force timing

You would see:
• Reduced posterior chain contribution
• Altered knee loading patterns
• Inefficient force transfer up the chain

You would never jump, land, or absorb force
by intentionally driving the knee forward over the toe.

Pitching follows the same neurological rules.

The fix isn’t cues. It’s sequence.

Restore:
✔ Proper hip hinge
✔ Posterior chain engagement
✔ Correct drop-and-drive timing

Fix functional movement first.
Mechanics follow.

Here we go. Another preventable injury—after a warning.A coach I respect told me about one of his players.He explicitly ...
01/26/2026

Here we go. Another preventable injury—after a warning.

A coach I respect told me about one of his players.

He explicitly warned the kid and parents not to attend a certain “pitching program.”
The kind with all the bells and whistles—iPads, tech, weighted balls.

His advice was simple and sound:

Be careful.
Throw naturally.
Avoid reverse throws.
And remember the golden rule:

👉 The arm must accelerate DOWNWARD and IN FRONT of the body.

Fast forward to practice yesterday.

The kid shows up with a side strain.
Can’t take ground balls.
Says he’s been “shut down.”

The coach asked one question:

“By who?”

Answer:
The same coach who ran the program he warned them about.

This is the cycle that keeps repeating.

Good coaches get ignored.
Flashy programs get chosen.
And kids pay the price.

Technology doesn’t replace understanding.
Tools don’t replace movement literacy.

When basic human movement is ignored, the body eventually shuts things down on its own.

Once again—
this was preventable.

— Dr. Kevin J. McGovern, PT
Saving 1 Million Arms

PSA. This has to stop.A torn labrum in a young athlete is not bad luck.It’s not “part of the game.”And it’s not unavoida...
01/24/2026

PSA. This has to stop.

A torn labrum in a young athlete is not bad luck.
It’s not “part of the game.”
And it’s not unavoidable.

It is completely preventable.

The only way this arm-injury epidemic ends is real accountability—and that will eventually happen in the court system.

I look forward to the day I sit as an expert witness and say:

“These are basic movement patterns.
They were known.
And they were ignored.”

When coaches, programs, and organizations start facing serious consequences for preventable injuries, this nonsense stops.

Until then, kids keep paying with their arms.

This isn’t advanced theory.
This is basic human movement.

And ignoring it is no longer ignorance—it’s negligence.

— Dr. Kevin J. McGovern, PT
Saving 1 Million Arms

🚨 PSA: Coming Back From Tommy John or a Serious Elbow Injury?If you’re rehabbing from Tommy John or a major elbow injury...
01/24/2026

🚨 PSA: Coming Back From Tommy John or a Serious Elbow Injury?

If you’re rehabbing from Tommy John or a major elbow injury, here’s a truth most people miss:

Your body remembers pain.
And it will avoid positions that once caused it.

That mental block is one of the biggest reasons athletes struggle to regain full elbow extension — even when the tissue is healed.

So here’s a simple, effective solution:

🏀 Switch sports. Shoot a basketball.

There is no better way to promote:
• Fluid elbow extension
• Arm strength
• Confidence through range of motion

…without triggering the fear response tied to throwing a baseball.

How to do it correctly:
• Start at the free-throw line
• Shoot set shots only (no jump shots)
• Stay connected to the ground
• Let the legs, trunk, and arm work together
• Progress backward to the three-point line
• Focus on smooth, full extension

What happens?
• Elbow extension returns faster
• Arm stiffness drops
• Pain decreases
• Confidence comes back

And yes — for healthy throwers, this improves velocity too.

The prescription:

👉 50 shots per day

Watch arm strength go up.
Watch stiffness and pain go down.

Simple. Effective. Proven.

— Dr. Kevin J. McGovern, PT
Velocity RX | Mound Ready
Saving 1 Million Arms

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Dr. Kevin J McGovern, PT, CSCS is a practicing physical therapist and strength coach. His Practice, PERFECT MOTION Sports Therapy is dedicated to the management, treatment, correction, and prevention of baseball pitching injuries. He has over 25 years of experiencing treating orthopedic and sports related injury and dysfunction. He has owned and operated two private practices for the last 15 years treating 1000's of patients. His life's work is an evaluative tool: Graded Active Movement Exam or GAME for short. GAME is able to quantify dysfunction in the body's most basic or foundations of movement. "If the foundation of your movement is wrong, then every movement you add on from there further damages that foundation causing injury, a lack of performance or both" -Kevin McGovern GAME is not only able to diagnose one's current dysfunction but the results can accurately predict future injury. Kevin's treatment solutions are so simple and show immediate results that can actually be measured. Dr. McGovern is a 1994 graduate of Northeastern University and a 2006 Doctoral graduate of Simmons College. He has had the pleasure of working with many athletes including those from the WWE, former Olympians, Collegiate and Professional Baseball Players and Collegiate and Professional Golfers to name a few.