Kreis Physical Therapy

03/26/2026

Happy Opening Day O’s fans! Anyone remember what year featured this weather on opening day?

Enjoy the game.

03/25/2026

We missed you, Catonsville! 💛 We’re gearing up and getting excited for another amazing season of the Catonsville Sunday Farmers Market in 2026!

Join us every Sunday from May 3 to November 22, 9 AM–12 PM, for fresh produce, local vendors, and a vibrant community atmosphere you know and love. 🌽🍅🌻

A heartfelt thank you to our biggest sponsor and supporter, The Shops at Mellor, and the Chertkof family for generously providing the space that makes this market possible.

We can’t wait to welcome you back—see you soon!

03/24/2026

Kreis PT is now a proud sponsor of Frederick Road Fridays! We hope to see you there for some great music.

🎶 Frederick Road Fridays Are Back! 🎶

We are thrilled to announce the lineup of incredible bands for this year’s Frederick Road Fridays! From toe-tapping tunes to soulful melodies, there’s something for everyone to enjoy.

We are so lucky to bring this music series to you, and we are incredibly grateful for the amazing support from our community and a heartfelt thank you to our biggest sponsor and supporter, The Shops at Mellor, and the Chertkof family for generously providing the space that makes this event possible.

We are incredibly blessed to have an amazing FRF Committee - Kristen Leister owner of Indigo Salon Studio, Greg Wall owner of Wall To Wall Construction, LLC, Rita Bowen, Mary Vogelpohl of Corner House Realty and Dyann Moore.

The Reagan Years - The East Coast’s Original 80s Tribute Band
Ghost Town Radio Catonsville Youth League Baseball
Controlled Chaos Mike Geist The Children's Home Fantasm Catonsville 4th of July Celebration 21228 Lithium and Candy The Y in Catonsville The Soul Magnets Maryland Search and Rescue Fizz Blind Industries and Services of Maryland Life After Dinosaurs Foster the Family Maryland Christian Athletic Association Mia Samone and Friends Music City Maryland Association Fighting Dementia, the Band Patapsco Valley Heritage Area Radio Free Baltimore Catonsville Emergency Assistance - CEA Masonic Lodge No 189, Catonsville Marquis Soul Rotary Club of Catonsville FiZZ

Your enthusiasm keeps the music alive! ❤️

Stay tuned – you won’t want to miss a single Friday!

Bands with the star are new additions.

03/23/2026

Hey everyone, how’s your NCAA bracket holding up? 🏀🏀🏀

Visit ESPN to view the 2025-26 Men's NCAA Tournament bracket for live scores and results.

03/15/2026

We haven’t caught our security intern doing this yet, but stay tuned. 🤣🤣🤣

03/14/2026

In rural South Carolina, there are no buses. No Ubers. No taxis. If you don't have a car, you don't have a way to get to work, to the doctor, or to the grocery store. You walk. Sometimes for miles. Sometimes you just don't go at all.

Eliot Middleton saw this firsthand.

In November 2019, he organized a Thanksgiving food drive from his BBQ restaurant in Awendaw. He had 250 boxes ready to give away. When they ran out, he stepped outside to apologize to those still waiting and saw a line stretching two blocks long.
Most of those people just turned around and started walking home.

When Middleton caught up with some of them, he learned they had walked three or four miles to get there. They arrived too late because they had no cars. They were leaving with nothing.

That moment changed everything.

Middleton had spent 17 years working alongside his father, Kevin Wayne Middleton Sr., as a mechanic. They opened their own shop together in 2004. When his father's health declined, Middleton shifted to running a BBQ restaurant. Then, in February 2020, his father passed away.

Weeks later, Middleton made a decision.

He would honor his father's memory by doing what his father taught him to do—fix cars. But this time, he wouldn't charge a dime. He would repair donated vehicles and give them away to people who needed them most.

To get the cars, he came up with a simple trade: bring him a broken-down vehicle, and he'll give you a plate of his famous ribs in return.

It worked.

His first recipient was a single mother of two. Within two months of receiving the car, she found a job. Eventually, she was able to buy her own vehicle and return the donated one so someone else could use it.

Middleton kept going.

He created the Middleton's Village to Village Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to restoring mobility in underserved rural communities. He works on cars during his two days off each week, sometimes late into the night, in his mother's yard in McClellanville.

After CBS News featured his story, his phone exploded. He received offers for more than 800 donated cars and over $100,000 in donations.

As of late 2024, Middleton has repaired and donated more than 140 vehicles.
Single mothers. Job seekers. Elderly residents with medical appointments. People who were invisible to the system but not to him.

One recipient, Melanie Lee, had spent four months driving back and forth to visit her dying son. A week after burying him, her car broke down. Middleton gave her a new one.

"I got my freedom back," she said. "Eliot is a godsend."

Middleton doesn't see himself as a hero. He sees himself as a neighbor.

"You don't have a car, you don't have a career," he says. "People can't walk 40, 50, 60 miles to great jobs. They have to settle for small-end jobs that pay well below what they need to survive."

So he keeps fixing. Keeps giving. Keeps proving that one person, with one skill, in one small town, can change everything.

We may not be able to change the world, but we can change the communities we live in. One person, one car, one meal, one spare moment at a time.

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03/14/2026

The UMBC men’s basketball team defeated Vermont in the 2026 America East tournament today to return to the NCAA Tournament for the third time in program history.

DJ Armstrong led the team with a whopping 33 points, including 7 baskets from 3-point range. CONGRATULATIONS RETRIEVERS!!!

03/14/2026

Kreis Physical Therapy accepts a variety of insurance plans for Medicare, private non-Medicare, Auto, Workers Compensation, Medicaid and Military participants. We've listed some of the plans below, but others may also be available. Please call our office at (410)744-8698 to check specific coverage. Thank you!

Medicare plans include traditional Medicare Part B (outpatient), Medicare Advantage and supplemental plans including AARP, Aetna, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, Cigna, Humana, UnitedHealthcare and Alterwood Advantage.

Non-Medicare plans accepted include Aetna, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, Cigna and UnitedHealthcare.

Medicaid plans accepted include Maryland Medicaid, Aetna Better Health of Maryland, Maryland Physicians Care and Wellpoint.

Military plans accepted include ChampVA and TriCare.

We're happy to answer any insurance questions you may have.

03/13/2026

03/12/2026

Hey Baltimore, remember this? Well guess what? Your UMBC Retrievers are on the brink of more greatness. The men’s basketball team claimed the 2026 regular season title and will play for the America East Conference Tournament championship and a trip to the Big Dance this Saturday at 11am.

Best of luck to Coach Jim Ferry and the team.
U-M-B-C!

03/08/2026

On this International Women's Day 2026 Kreis Physical Therapy would like to celebrate the career and accomplishments of the woman often called "The Mother of Physical Therapy." Mary McMillan was the first recognized physical therapist in the United States and she later founded the organization which became today's APTA, the American Physical Therapy Association.

Inspired by the loss of family members in her early life to pursue a career easing the suffering of others with medical challenges, Mary worked with pediatric polio patients in the early 1900s, providing mobilization, massage and exercise therapy. With the advent of World War I, her skills really came into focus. Over 200,000 wounded soldiers returned from the war to the US, many requiring extensive medical rehabilitation. McMillan was the first physical therapy aide sworn into the US Army. She served the United States Medical Corps as Head Reconstruction Aide at Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington, DC. While working at Walter Reed, she also taught and began work on a textbook, Massage and Therapeutic Exercise, which is still in print today.

She set a goal of forming a national organization to standardize the discipline she had been building and sought to provide professionally trained women therapists with the skills needed to practice in general hospitals and clinics. The American Women's Physical Therapeutics Association (AWPT) elected her its first president on March 24, 1921. In her later career, she worked in China and the Pacific, teaching and growing the discipline of physical therapy, She became a prisoner of war in the Philippines during World War II, where she continued to provide comfort and aid to other prisoners. McMillan spoke about this time of her career during a speech on the 25th anniversary of the American Physical Therapy Association.

This amazing woman was a tireless and compassionate advocate for the benefits of rehabilitative therapy. Her belief in the value of exercise and physical therapy is as relevant today as it was when she began this discipline. Today's PTs provide patients with the tools they need to regain strength and mobility, avoid future injuries and retain their health and well being.

Happy International Women's Day!

03/06/2026

Chuck loves baseball! Looking forward to watching the World Baseball Classic. (Really think they should a picture of Gunnar Henderson though…Let’s Go Os!