Richard Symister, Physiotherapist & Strength/Mobility Coach

04/11/2025

In the 30 years of being a physical therapist and strength coach, I’ve learned a great deal about health, fitness, and wellness. But I’ve not been following the essential principles of growth, healing, rest, and recovery. I have not been practicing what I preach. I’ve been skipping steps, ignoring what my body was trying to tell me during and outside of training. And so I’d repeat the same cycle — train for a few months …get injured…take time off to heal… train for a few months…get injured…

Moving forward into 2025, I am abandoning the insanity!  No more training through pain. No more dreading workouts. No more injuries.

Returning to the drawing board, I will rebuild this 57-year-old frame and once again enjoy working out. I am going to make all of my muscle and joint pain disappear.

Want to start your journey as well? Contact us today!

03/06/2024

Saturday, March 11, 2024
Time: 8:30 AM - 9 AM

BODYWORK for DANCERS
Stretching, soft/deep, friction, massage, sports taping
Thursday, March 7th - Saturday, March 9th

🕺🏾 💃 Virginia Stepper’s Education Fund (VASEF)
Chesapeake Conference Center
700 Conference Center Drive
Chesapeake, VA

Get more information ℹ️ in my bio LinkTree.

03/06/2024

Saturday, March 11, 2024
Time: 8:30 AM - 9 AM

BODYWORK for DANCERS
Stretching, soft/deep, friction, massage, sports taping
Thursday, March 7th - Saturday, March 9th

🕺🏾 💃 Virginia Stepper’s Education Fund (VASEF)
Chesapeake Conference Center
700 Conference Center Drive
Chesapeake, VA

Get more info ℹ️ in my bio LinkTree.

01/03/2024

01/02/2024

Who out there has had physical therapy? Did your physical therapist leave you by yourself, to do your exercises, checking back every few minutes to give you that quick peptalk?

👎 This isn’t VALUE

VALUE (client satisfaction and positive outcome) = EFFECTIVENESS + EFFICIENCY

Want VALUE? Schedule your one-on-one, 1-hour treatments with MovEvoution.

- Longer sessions ⏰.

- 📆 Fewer visits.

- Better VALUE 👍🏿@ MovEvolution.com.

12/31/2023

Today, I’m NOT Training Thru My Elbow Pain 💪🏿🩹!

When I was younger, I got away with it busting thru workouts with an injury. Of course, I was invincible🦸🏿‍♂️.

Now, in my 50’s, I gotta be much more sensible and 👂🏽listen to the “issues in my tissues”.

Benching was on the training 🏋🏿‍♀️itinerary for today. But pain dictated a change in plans, telling me to unload my sore elbow joint, and opt for another exercise —-push ups.

Got pain questions? We’ve got pain answers. DM us or reach out to us at movevolution.com.

Heal. Move. Evolve.


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12/31/2023

🩹Pain changes your muscle 💪🏿 performance.

Even small amounts of pain, can cause your body to compensate when you sprawl 🤼‍♀️, jump, spin 💃 run 🏃🏿‍♂️ , swing …

This is why, after educating 🧠 you about your injury, we dive right into treating your pain. This could be mobilizing soft tissue, unloading joints, increasing blood flow …. treatments to calm down pi**ed off 🤬tissue and decrease pain signals captured by your brain.

Once you deal with your painful “issues in your tissues”, you can then progress through the rest of our TREATMENT PYRAMID guidelines 🧐.

Got pain questions? We’ve got pain answers. DM us or reach out to us at movevolution.com.

Heal. Move. Evolve.


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12/24/2023

STAIR CLIMBING KNEE PAIN
How I Treated My Own Knees

There is no secret sauce or magic “blue” pill to treating knee pain. The key 🔑 here s knowing what’s “broken“, and taking the right steps to fix them. Spot 🔍 the GLITCHES in your body MATRIX!

🧐 More GLITCHES = More INJURIES 🩹

In 2021, I was limping up and down stairs because of severe knee pain. Currently, I’m running up and downstairs, almost pain-free. (There is still work 🏋🏿‍♀️to be done.)

I used the steps below to rehab my own knees, and also use this protocol with all of my clients.

- Brain 🧠: Pick out the GLITCHES in your body MATRIX.
- Pain 🩹: Unload tissues and joints.
- 🧘🏿‍♀️ Mobility: Regain normal, functional range of motion.
- 💪🏿Strength & Power: Improve “muscle performance”, specific to your sport or activity.
- Balance/proprioception 🤸🏿: Focus on symmetry between right and left limbs.

Got knee questions 🤔? We’ve got knee answers 🧐. Call us.

Heal. Move. EVOLVE.

Movevolution.com

Main office hub: New Britain, Connecticut. But we also travel 🧳 throughout the tri-state area for VIPs and group treatments.


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12/23/2023

My primary role as a physical therapist/strength coach is to remove any obstacles in my clients’ path to better performance. This means clearing as many “glitches” or risk factors that increase the chance of injury.

Your BODY MATRIX ✅ LIST
(🚨Make sure you clear all glitches!)

- Pain 🩹
- Proper 😮‍💨 breathwork
- 🧘🏿‍♀️ Mobilty
- 💪🏿Strength & Power
- Balance/proprioception 🤸🏿

More GLITCHES = More INJURIES 🩹

There is an Uber amount research 🔬 on this!

My client, Joshua, is a fitness model. Aesthetically, this guy is chiseled 💪🏿. But you can see that trying to maintain balance 🤸🏿in and out of a quadruped (on all 4’s) position presents a great challenge🥵.

🤔 Think about this. If Joshua is this unstable in a supported position, what happens when he goes vertical …or adds a load 🏋🏿‍♀️ ? How does his body compensate for this GLITCH?


Take the time to set up a sports injury screening. Catch any GLITCHES in your BODY MATRIX to avoid sports injuries.

Reach out to us at MovEvolution.com or DM us to find out more about our SPORT INJURY SCREENs.

🗺️ 🚗 🧳 We travel for group SPORTS INJURY SCREENINGS throughout the tri-state

Heal. Move. Evolve.

injury screening

12/15/2023

We ♥️ treating anyone who moves for a living, and lives to move. 🏃‍♀️🏊🏾‍♀️🧗‍♀️⛹️‍♀️🥋🤼🕺🏾🏋🏼‍♂️.
Heal. Move. Evolve.

12/14/2023

5-Star ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Google Review

“I’m a Jiu jitsu athlete that consistently is training and putting my body through vigorous workouts. MovEvolution helped me regain an incredible amount of mobility in my shoulder after an injury! Highly recommended!! Best in the industry ever👌” —- Rolling Stonerz

We love MMA/BJJ Movevolution Physical & Performance Therapy. Did you know we travel throughout the Tri State are for VIPs, workshops and group injury screening?

Heal. Move. ROLL. Evolve.

★★★★★ "I’m a Jiu jitsu athlete that consistently is training and putting my body through vigorous workouts. MovEvolution helped me regain an incredible amount of mobility in my shoulder after an injury! Highly recommended!! Best in the industry ever👌"