Sara KE Slack, PT, DPT earned her Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from the University of Puget Sound in 2006 after studying dance and exercise science at the University of Oregon. She has over ten years of experience as a licensed physical therapist with a broad scope of experience from which to draw including acute care, skilled nursing, orthopedics, neurological rehab, vestibular rehab and balance training, and persistent pain. She practices at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center where her current focus is combining the tools of manual therapy, individualized therapeutic exercise programs, and holistic, patient-centered education in treating the root cause of pain, limited function, and disability. She is partnering with her colleagues throughout Samaritan to provide high-quality care for those suffering from persistent pain. Sara is also a STOTT PILATES ® Certified Rehabilitation Instructor with over 200 hours of training with emphasis on the application of therapeutic Pilates for injuries, special populations, and movement dysfunction. This training informs her style of exercise prescription and offers a sound framework from which to create exercise programs tailored to an individual's needs. In 2014 she completed an apprenticeship of supervised teaching from STOTT PILATES ® Instructor Trainers in the Train to Teach program at Pacific NW Pilates in Portland, OR and continues to train and study with her mentors there. Outside of her busy life as a physical therapist, Sara dances with Downtown Dance in Corvallis, knits for various causes, volunteers for her high school alma mater dance program, walks, reads, hikes, snowboards, and throws in a bit of yoga whenever she can.
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STOTT PILATES® is a contemporary approach to the original exercise method pioneered by the late Joseph Pilates. Lindsay and Moira
Merrithew, along with a team of physical therapists, sports medicine and fitness professionals, have spent over two decades refining the acclaimed STOTT PILATES method of exercise. The refined method resulted in the inclusion of modern principles of exercise science and rehabilitation—making it one of the safest and most effective methods available. STOTT PILATES is recognized as The Professional’s Choice™ by studios, fitness facilities, fitness professionals and the consumer
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