Xtra Mile Physical Therapy

Xtra Mile Physical Therapy XMPT helps active people to be happy, healthy and strong without pain.
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03/06/2026

The simple routine can really help you become better with alignment while running.

I learned this from one of the best Running physical therapist around, and I like to incorporate it into a flow, and I teach it to the runners I coach at

This movement takes some practice to get down and it’s best to go small range and a better control. By the end of the season many of these runners will get better at that as they practice it more.

I’m definitely still working on it to this day and still find it challenging.

It’s pretty simple, but simple is not easy.

Give it a try as part of your warm-up for your next run and let me know how it goes.

03/05/2026

This analogy really helps me explain what’s going on in the body for folks who may tend to overextend their tissues. It was taught to me by Tom Dalonzo Baker, founder of

Many times a tendon or muscle or joint might need a limited range of motion in a temporary amount of time for it to feel better to move further later.

It seems common sense, but common sense isn’t always common practice. I’ve tried to do too much too soon as well and have learned the hard way.

So if you have an injury that you’re working through right now, move to the ability that you can, but try not to overdo it. It can be a touchy thing, but often we can get some therapeutic movement that will actually result in the long-term benefit of us moving much better through the full range.

If you’re struggling with an injury and don’t know whether you’re overextending it and causing more damage, drop me a message and I’m happy to talk to you!

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03/04/2026

Xtra Mile Physical Therapy is my creation with a simple mission: to help you heal as completely as possible.

If you have any sort of injury or have been pushed around the medical system without results, give me a message and we can talk.

03/02/2026

Awesome time with this weekend where we learned a ton to help out businesses and some next level wealth building strategies, and also had an amazing time getting outside and having fun in the desert!
Thanks so much and the team!
I’m ready to take my business to the next level this year and beyond!

03/01/2026

Why did I get a device?

It all started with a snowball.

I was playing with my kids and there was a huge ball that we rolled down the hill.

I decided to launch my body down the hill to try to break it up in half. However, the center was solid ice, and my ankle twisted pretty abruptly. By that night, I could barely walk.

I tried rehabbing it with my traditional method that I know as a physical therapist, but it was still bothering me with Running.

I found out about SoftWave, and decided to give it a try at a local wellness location, InLight Hyperbarics!

They were fantastic, and after the third or fourth visit, I could really tell a difference on how I felt and I had less pain. It really was the missing piece to the rehab I was doing.

When I learned about how other PT clinics were getting these devices for their clinic, I decided that I couldn’t and see what I saw with this amazing technology, and I had to offer to give the best results for my clients.

I’m very glad I offer this, and it takes some guts to go for the best.

If you’re struggling with an injury, drop me a message and we could set up a time to talk how SoftWave can help!

02/28/2026

Doing a simple 10 minute walk before you head into Running can make an enormous difference in how you feel as a runner, especially if you’re 40+.

Jeff Galloway, who just recently passed away popularized the notion of incorporating walks into Running, which created enormous benefit of being able to have a normal proper recovery between sessions of Running.

I’ve really tried recently to make it a mandatory part of my routine. I start with a stroll and then I build up into a pretty fast walk. The progression into Running is much more gentle that way.

So I keep seeing it again and again until you get the message!

02/27/2026

It’s important to do the upkeep needed for optimal healing, and do it daily.

This is part of my routine for my ankle issues that I’ve had. Whenever it acts up a little bit, I’ll do the compression floss and it works amazingly to improve blood flow and activate muscles to get it feeling much better.

I also have the amazing to help stimulate blood flow and activate my body’s stem cells with crazy invasive and expensive injections!

If you have ankle issues, I highly suggest you do the wrap like I show here in the video. If things are persistently inflamed, and not responding to this, drop me a message and we’ll set up a time to get you in for SoftWave!

02/26/2026

A common thing I see runners do is overdue their workout and ruined their next days or even next week’s workout.

I get it. We all want to give our best forgiven effort, especially when we feel really good and we want to give it that one extra rep or go a little bit harder than normal at the very end of the workout.

However, this often can be a little shortsighted if you have any risk of injury, because you are potentially taking away from tomorrow’s workout and your ability to accumulate training for weeks at a time if you actually end up with an injury.

It’s OK to go for it occasionally, especially in big races, but also we don’t want one day of crazy overexertion ruin the next couple months of training.

It takes so much more time to come back from injury as we get older, and the best way to get better as a runner is to keep a continuous amount of healthy training over months and years.

So the next time you feel may be a little tweak going on, and you have the thought of maybe just trying to push through it, think about how pushing it now will affect how you may handle tomorrow.

02/22/2026

I love my location in Salmon Creek inside of . It serves all the purposes I need to deliver top notch physical therapy and healing care.

I’m close to where I coach and at Skyview high school, and I live in Salmon Creek, really close to where my kids go to Alki!

I’ve learned to focus on delivering the best care, and not necessarily have the most decorative and fancy office. It’s just inside a very nice gym, and the treatment space I have is more than enough to help all my clients reach their goals!

So, even though it may not look like much from the outside, when people become clients of mine and experience it on the inside, they are happy that they are getting the best in care.

02/20/2026

Runners can be terrible clients because they don’t know their point of when they need to stop, and they are addicted to Running that actually can possibly injure them.

Though we do need to load appropriately while running, the runners ability to push through pain often becomes a hindrance in the healing process.

However, with the experience that I’ve had as an often injured runner in the past, I’ve learned a way to talk to runners on a real level. This helps me to articulate how I am on their side to get them to run more in the big picture of things.

So if you’re a runner and are struggling with some chronic injuries that you don’t seem to be able to shake, set up a consult with me so we can talk about how we can get you on a path to years of healthy, running ahead.

02/19/2026

There is a condition that gets overlooked in medicine that causes massive low back pain, hip pain, groin, pain leg numbness/pain or weakness. It doesn’t really show up on x-ray or MRI’s.

It’s a mechanical condition so you have to see it move and understand the mechanics of what is happening in the low back and sacrum to properly diagnose it.

The most common complaints patients say are:

“I can’t lie on my side at night”
“I can’t lie on my back”,
“I have trouble sleeping”,
“I can’t roll over in bed.”
“When I sit for a long period of time and then stand up it hurts so bad but when I get moving it gets better.”
“It hurts to extend back or even bend forward”
Most patients try everything for this, I specialize in this.

Patients get what is called an upslip and outflares with sacral rotation causing massive pain in their low back, hips, groin, buttocks and sciatica-like symptoms down the leg.
It is not true sciatica, it is the great imitator of sciatica.

This is a very complex area of the low back and pelvis its like a Rubik’s cube that is twisted and if you don’t know how a Rubik’s cube is twisted you can never twist it back. If you know how it is twisted and you know how to twist it back, you can twist it back then you can then glue it together with the muscles so to speak.

“It usually takes about 8 weeks with me and then I teach you how to never need me again. I don’t believe in seeing people again after I am done with them. I fix people and teach them how to stay fixed without me. Apologies to my wife Rachel for calling her “subject” 😅

02/18/2026

Over 20 years as a PT, I’ve dialed in a lot of my approach of what works without the fluff.
It’s pretty simple, and may not seem like much, but it’s very effective.
Of course, no plan works well without the accountable actions of my clients, which I structure the best I can through communicating WHY they’re doing it and making sure the work gets done.
And also there’s the tech: has been very effective for the right patients…but it’s only part of a holistic plan that gets people moving and feeling great.
If you’re looking for a “no BS” approach that gets results, send me a message and let’s talk.

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