“As a non-surgical sports and spine physician, I focus on the whole individual, not just the injured part. I take into consideration all the factors that may be contributing to a patient's symptoms or prolonging their recovery--this is especially important when a condition is chronic or recurrent. I look at a person's structural alignment, posture, areas of muscle tightness or weakness, and I review their activities to understand the positions, motions, and demands that the injured area is subjected to throughout the day.”

“When a person is dealing with an injury it can affect their life, their vitality, and their sense of identity. I try to support my patients through their recovery process and I work with them to come up with different ways of performing their activities or alternative ways to keep active while they're recovering. Patient education is an integral part of my practice. It's my experience that when patients are able to understand their condition, they tend to feel more in control of their symptoms and less disabled or victimized by their condition.”

“As a sports medicine physician, I also see non-musculoskeletal conditions such as exercise-induced asthma, I perform pre-participation screening exams for school sports, and I help people get started in exercise programs specific to their fitness level or fine-tune their skills with sport-specific conditioning.”