Xtra Mile Physical Therapy

Xtra Mile Physical Therapy XMPT helps active people to be happy, healthy and strong without pain.
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01/20/2026

This technique is absolutely mind blowing!
Who knew that stimulating a hip in a certain spot can help relieve pain in the ankle, or a spot on the leg can make your shoulder improve range of motion?
Apparently Dr Ryan Whelton of did!
I thought it was total BS but then tried it out, and I’ve been pleasantly surprised. It’s great when you don’t even have to touch the painful areas to get a good result. It’s not completely fool proof, but it’s a great tool in my toolbox.
This is why I’m so different…I look at the body as an energetic system, and apply methods that have worked for the best therapists and clinics around the world.

01/19/2026

I’m passionate about life but also just connecting through Running and relationships. It’s nice to have a reminder of this on my wall at work that I can see every day.

I love teaching ChiRunning classes because it connects to our energetic selves and how we need to move with nature and not against it. ChiWalking is actually just as fulfilling because we get folks to recognize how much they’ve been straining, and we can correct that in the class

I love to share what I’ve learned in these classes and with my experiences in life, so if you have any questions, let me know.

01/18/2026

My examination of hundreds of low back pain patients have now shown that there is a correlation with imbalance is around the tailbone and the hip bones in what is called the SI joint.

When the structures are aligned, you can create a painful bone on bone sheering which radiates and looks like sciatica.

By lining structures up, like a Rubik’s cube alignment, we can dramatically decrease pain mechanically, then work specific exercise exercises to reinforce this alignment.

If you’ve had nagging low back pain and into the tailbone and hip area, And it’s lasted for months and nobody knows what it is, drop me a message and we’ll set up a time to get your examination scheduled.

01/17/2026

This is so so simple that most people negate that this can even be helpful for their low back pain…or actually a lot of pain in the body.

I came across the method called Total Motion Release in the late 2000s, and have been dumbfounded by how simple and effective it can be.

The most common stretch that I have clients do is to test their twisting, going right and left, then to exclusively perform repetitions to the side that feels easier.

A lot of people will have an improvement in their tight side after they perform the easier side. It’s a simple case of what’s called reciprocal inhibition, where one side of the body is working and naturally the other side of the body has to relax and unwind.

You really can help to unkink a body that has impaired symmetry which limits motions in all planes.

If you’re curious how this works, I’m happy to show you the basics which I can do on a simple video call. Once you know the tools, then you can help get your body moving well for life.

Here’s to a life of better mobility and empowerment to move more intelligently!

01/16/2026

If you’re frustrated with an injury that you’ve been dealing with for some time, there’s no better time than the present to take care of it.

Many times other health providers may only look at a symptom, and not how the whole body works as an energetic system.

By employing techniques that address how the body moves as a hole and how the body heals according to the laws of nature, we get much better results in this clinic then your typical physical therapy or other healthcare practice.

We use groundbreaking tech technologies, such as SoftWave TRT, which activates your body‘s own healing mechanisms. It’s been a game changer for the last two years that I’ve had it.

So if you’re really looking to get a long-term solution and get your body back doing the things you’d like to do, drop me a message and I’m happy to talk to you about how we can help.

01/15/2026

People (especially those 40+) love SoftWave because it works. Here’s why:
It uses sound waves (traveling at 3,355 mph) to:
🔹 Wake up dormant stem cells
🔹 Stimulate blood flow
🔹 Break up scar tissue
🔹 Reduce inflammation at the source
It’s like hitting “reset” on your body’s healing system—without drugs or downtime.
📍 Join us this Saturday (January 17) from 9–12 for a focused 15-minute SoftWave treatment at Xtra Mile PT.
🎯 Just $59 (normally $200+) for newbies!
🚨 Only 9 sessions available—and they’re going fast. DM me for details!

01/14/2026

NSAIDs like ibuprofen do not help the body with full recovery from an injury… it only decreases symptoms by blocking the natural inflammatory response your body does to repair.
By looking at how your body moves, we can see where issues of strain occur and look into how we need to balance it out by getting tissues calmed down, then built up through the correct use of exercise and movement.
So I encourage my patients to get off the chronic use of ibuprofen and get into the right movement patterns that encourage health and optimal functional movement.

01/13/2026

is a great technology that I came across several years ago now when I had an ankle injury.

No matter what I did with my rehab exercising and things I know from being a physical therapist, I was still having a lot of discomfort which interfered with my running, which I love.

My first SoftWave treatment helped a little bit, but the repeated stimulation that I got after the next three or four sessions really turned the corner for me. This convinced me that this technology was doing what it claimed.

When I heard other physical therapists around the country were utilizing this software technology with great success, I knew I had to offer it to my clients.

Nearly 2 years later, I’m very glad that I get amazing results for people who may not have gotten the help without it.

01/12/2026

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.”

If you think you have this condition and I’ve been struggling for greater than six months, DM me and I’ll find a time that we can talk.

It’s a simple diagnosis, but you gotta know what you’re doing and then you need to know exactly what to do to get better. Fortunately, I know both of those.

Let’s eliminate unnecessary low back pain and get better for good.

01/12/2026

Softwave is a revolutionary treatment that stimulates your own body stem cells to be activated and heal the areas that might be stagnant and achy.

I’m super fortunate to have this technology in the clinic and so many people are gaining benefit.

Instead of spending thousands of dollars on stem cell injections, you can get this non-invasive treatment for way way less than that, and since we deliver it in the way that I can go to the pain source. People notice difference in their symptoms most often after the first visit

Curious about it? DM me and we’ll set up a time to talk about it.

01/12/2026

There is a condition that doesn’t really show up on x-rays and MRIs. It is a mechanical condition, and
the mechanical condition is that their pelvis slightly slips out of alignment and causes massive back pain.

It can cause pain across their back, it can cause
stabbing pain, buttock pain, it can cause groin pain, hip pain, and it can even go down their legs and mimic sciatica, but it’s not true sciatica.

It’s not true sciatica. It is the great imitator of sciatica. This mechanical condition can happen when someone’s back that goes out of alignment.

And it doesn’t show up on x-rays and MRIs, and they can get referred pain, numbness, weakness.
tingling, any symptoms of sciatica.

Getting up in the morning, or getting up from being in a long car ride or something like that, where they’re sitting for a long period of time, takes them a while to get their back loose again so that it doesn’t hurt so bad.
It is extraordinarily painful and debilitating condition, but I’m a specialist at it.
And what I do is I realign it. It’s like a Rubik’s Cube that twists it. You can’t realign a Rubik’s Cube if you don’t know how it twisted.

But if you can identify, like I have in my career, I’m a specialist in this, how to twist the Rubik’s Cube back into alignment.

then we can essentially glue the Rubik’s Cube together, which would be to strengthen the muscles to hold it there. So, so what I do is I realign the pelvis and the sacrum.

And that relieves the back pain immediately, usually, in my patients, and the leg pain, and then what I do is I strengthen certain muscle groups to hold it in alignment.
And…
Then when I’m done, I’m very different than the traditional medical system. I don’t ever want to see people again when I’m done with them, and I don’t. My goal, I tell all my patients, is to help you fix this problem, and then teach you how to keep it in alignment. And if it ever happens again, you don’t need me.
or anybody else like me, that’s my goal, is for you to be able to understand what happened to you, and then just fix it again. I will teach you how I do this as my patient.

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