Vermont Pain Relief

11/05/2025

We welcome you to come check out our new space Thursday November 6th 3-7pm! Try the sauna & cold plunge (bring a towel!). Learn about HBOT. Try red light therapy. Ask questions! Meet the team! #

11/02/2025

You are invited!

Vermont Pain Relief Physical Therapy & Massage has expanded its East Burke health and recovery center, now offering Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT)—one of the most advanced healing tools available today. This marks a major addition to health and wellness options in the NEK.

Open House & HBOT Info Night
To introduce the community to the new services, Vermont Pain Relief will host a Community Open House and HBOT Information Event on Thursday November 6 from 3pm to 7pm at 83 Kirby Road, East Burke. Attendees can:
-Tour the facility and HBOT chamber
-Try red light therapy and recovery tools including sauna & cold plunge (bring your own towel!)
-Meet Dr. Duniho and the wellness team
-Learn who HBOT can help and how to get started

Vermont Pain Relief Physical Therapy and Massage's recent expansion includes:

-Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy treatment, in affiliation with Hyperbaric Vermont
-An expanded physical therapy and performance training gym
-An outdoor recovery lounge featuring sauna & cold plunge overlooking a mountain brook
-Red light therapy
-Membership-based wellness access

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is a medical technology that increases oxygen supply to tissues in the body, accelerating repair, reducing inflammation, and stimulating the body's natural healing process. HBOT requires a prescription, which Vermont Pain Relief helps patients obtain through partnering medical providers.

Research supports the use of HBOT for:
Concussion, depression and traumatic brain injury recovery
Long COVID, chronic fatigue, and brain fog
Lyme disease and chronic inflammation
Sports injuries and post-surgical recovery
Peripheral neuropathy and nerve injuries
Soft tissue injuries and non-healing wounds
Stroke recovery support
Arthritis and chronic pain conditions

"Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is a game-changer," says clinic owner Dr. Kevin Duniho, DPT. "For years, patients had to travel hours away to access this level of healing technology."

PTnVT.com (http://www.PTnVT.com) 802-752-7990

Check out our event on Thursday, Nov 6, 2025.

Click here for event details from Vermont Pain Relief Physical Therapy & Massage!

10/12/2025

We just got this 8-person sauna & cold plunge just in time for chilly days! Yes, you can rent sauna time, get memberships or add it on to PT or massage! We’ll be having community sauna events, private sauna times and even renting for your private event with all your friends!
We went all out with this and built a Himalayan salt wall too! The entire outdoor lounge isn’t totally done yet but the sauna and cold plunge are all set! There’s a great view of the brook too!

06/05/2025

Loup-Garou is humbled by this great honor 😸
Read his acceptance speech below👇
“I was just out bird watching and somehow made it into Vermont’s weekly newspaper without even trying, yawn…” L-G

04/27/2025

Dry tool free soloing Central Gully with skis on my back and ski poles in hand was definitely one of the trickiest things I think I’ve ever done and is dumber and less appealing than it sounds. Not something I will repeat but i’m kind of in awe looking back that after 2+ hours of being absolutely gripped I actually topped out and survived. I forgot to turn GoPro off so I have a ton of horrible footy like this first video and then my battery died just as I was dropping The Lip skiing 🙄
It was a fun adventure though and a route I’d like to follow with full coverage snow.
Hopefully headed back to soon for a more straight forward
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03/31/2025

Still recovering from our 9th Chic Choc trip! Its always a good time for many reasons: getting away from the US, shopping in Quebec grocery stores, the exchange rate, but foremost getting an extension of winter and skiing novel lines in a quieter place with amazing views!

I won’t say anything more about this line other than that I’ve wanted to ski it for years and it was really difficult and long to get into on a suboptimal day. 3” of fluff on no-fall steep ice made the photos look fluffy but the videos tell another story! The pitch is definitely steeper than resources say and the entry was a bit puckering. As I approached the line I recorded a video of my feelings about it which is not something I normally do. Given the significance, effort and risk I felt it was appropriate to document how I felt and what it meant to me.
A note on the risk: It may be nothing to some skiers but on this day it definitely seemed scary because of the ice and how steep the entry was. I was solo and had skied 6 miles but had 8.5 miles to get back to the Ski Van. I didn’t see anyone the whole tour. I enjoy going out by myself getting to go as fast or slow as I want and being able to really focus on a mission. Its hard to find people that match with all the characteristics needed and our schedules. I know that I could get into trouble but part of the challenge is the fine line between risk and staying safe. I definitely had an internal dialogue going on that was verging on physical expression of my anxiety. It spiked when I got above treeline and saw the enormity of the objective and how committing it was. I was telling myself it was ok even though I knew it might not be. Fortunately, through many years of biking, skiing, climbing and other random things somehow I’ve made the right decisions and the right actions to back it up. I’ve imagined what it would be like to f**k up, get injured, be unprepared and be faced with an epic battle for survival. Hopefully I will never have to experience such a thing.
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03/21/2025

My from other lenses. Thanks Dan Houde and .j.bennett
I wasn’t the fastest so all cameras weren’t pointed at me. I wasn’t the slowest so they were still out on the mountain. Happy to see a few and appreciate that they were posted for posterity.

03/15/2025

I don’t have any video or pix that could do this effort justice. Definitely the hardest thing I’ve done in a long while! I was intrigued that it sounded like a “real” skimo race. Most skimo races are just running around on little skis and transitioning alot. This one promised to be legit if weather cooperated. We had an absolutely perfect weekend for it with deep snowpack, full sun and temps above freezing at the summit.
It started with a 2500’ vert skin up to the base of the Headwall where we clipped into a fixed line. Definitely needed ice axe, crampons and the line! There was a bit of an ice bulge that created a short near vertical section. The woman below me got to test how well her prusik knot worked! The guy above me lost his skis off his pack just after starting and had to start over. This definitely caused a delay but I just rested and drank more. After the climb we skinned towards the summit before a little more booting. There was a wind whipping up and just after a summit building I heard a godawful sound like an airbus coming over the ridge for a crash landing! A gust up to 100mph pelted me with rime ice from a tower! The struggle through the wind was real. Touched the summit and started running back down to the alpine descent with gates down the Lip. Mashed potatoes were really hard to ski here with skimo skis. Once in the bowl we headed down Little Headwall over to Hillmans. At this point, I was really done, ready to quit but had another 1000’+ vert to boot. Sun was out and I was overheating most of the day. Never seen Hillmans so full. It was really nice. The final descent was over 3100’ from the top of Hillmans down the Sherb to Pinkham. I had to stop multiple times because my legs hurt so much! Thanks to Mount Washington Avalanche Center for putting this on!

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02/17/2025

Can’t remember having a better ski tour than this! Seemed like a couple feet of fresh back here around the corner from Alpental. In the trees it was steep and deep but higher up it was mellow and very aesthetic. Thanks to for showing us a classic tour and for being an indefatigable ski buddy.
First time skiing the PNW and hope to be back! Fortunately returning to an epic east coast winter if we can just get a flight. Our scheduled flight was cancelled but too late to stay in the mountains for another day of touring:(

02/16/2025

Snowgoat Vertfest skimo race start and preliminary results.
It was a spicy course we set yesterday! Anyone finishing this race is a good skier. Even the uphill was tricky. Dropping into the first downhill was a crux in a half.
Most of the penalties assessed were for not having beacon in suit/harness or missing mandatory items. One guy just overtly refused to transition inside the transition zone after multiple instructions so we had to add 30 sec to his time. As referees, we’re not interested in creating a bad vibe especially for recreational level athletes but every rule has a reason that is usually for safety or to keep things fair for everyone. A lot of people got warnings about poles not being placed down on snow at transitions. Poles get easily knocked over and potentially broken by other skiers or simply interfere. Its also much quicker to transition if you’re not holding onto your poles which plenty of people were doing. Being fully inside the transition zone is important so that incoming skiers don’t start piling up in the pre-transition area.
Overall, everything went well from cooperation with the venue, organizer, and volunteers. Conversations about what we can do to improve are already happening!

02/15/2025

Vertfest skimo race course setting and inspection with
Big day yesterday on 4 hours of sleep after a late night flight from Boston. Today is race day!

12/13/2024

Its -21f real feel. Do you sleep in with your partner and cat or go catch alpenglow? Haven’t skied in 5 days so…