What we practice
- Getting up from the floor and from low chairs
- Stairs in both directions without gripping the rail
- Balance and steadiness on uneven ground
- Carrying groceries, luggage, and grandchildren
- Holding an upright position through a full day
Corrective Exercise · Private studio, Timonium
Retraining how you move.
I find the movement habits giving you trouble and we drill better ones until they take over. I work from the National Academy of Sports Medicine corrective exercise model.
The first meeting is free and runs an hour. It is an assessment: gait, standing posture, a step, a sit-to-stand, and whatever movement brought you in. If it turns up unexplained pain, a joint that gives way, or anything else outside a trainer's scope, I send you to a physician before we start.
NASM Corrective Exercise Specialist · $98/hr with your doctor involved, $129 without
The method
How the method works
Your body gets good at whatever it repeats. Years of sitting, of guarding a sore joint, of favoring one leg, all of that trains a movement habit as effectively as any exercise would. So we train a better one and repeat it until that one takes over.
We work movement in every direction ordinary life uses: forward, sideways, rotating, loaded and unloaded. I pay attention to how you are breathing the whole time, because breathing mechanics and posture are tied together and the literature suggests dysfunction in one feeds the other. Weeks of repetition are what take the corrected movement from deliberate to automatic.
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Assess
What I look at
I watch how you stand, walk, reach and bend. The joint that hurts is usually not the joint causing the problem, so I assess the whole chain, foot to shoulder.
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Rebalance
What changes first
Some muscles take on work that belongs to others. We release and lengthen the overworked ones, wake up the ones that have gone quiet, and get the load spread across the joint the way it is supposed to be.
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Integrate
Where it gets applied
Then we drill the corrected movement inside things you actually do: carrying, climbing, reaching, turning. That is the step that gets the change out of the session and into your week.
For active adults 55+
Mindful aging training
This track covers what clients in this group ask for most: yard work, travel, stairs, and picking up a grandchild. We build the strength, balance and range those take.
How sessions run
- Each session is set to what you can do that day
- One-on-one, at conversational pace
- I explain the reason for every exercise
- A short set of homework movements between sessions
The free posture guide covers five of the movements we start with.
Healing & getting ready
The next step after therapy
Physical therapy is time-limited, and what it gave you fades without something to continue it. People come to me after discharge, with their doctor's clearance, to keep building. Others come in before a scheduled surgery because their surgeon wants them stronger going in. Either way I work with your doctor and inside the limits they set, and I am glad to interface with anyone else on your care team.
Common starting points
- Physical therapy has ended and there is no plan for what follows it
- A surgery is coming, and your doctor wants you stronger first
- Aches that return in the same place every year
- Desk life: rounded shoulders, tight hips, tired back
How your doctor fits in
- Your doctor contacts me. We agree on goals and limits.
- I program inside their guidance and send progress notes whenever you or they ask
- Your rate drops from $129 to $98 an hour
I can give you a one-page summary to hand your doctor at your next visit.
Timeline
What the timeline looks like
You have moved this way for years, maybe decades, and your body is efficient at it. Replacing it takes months of concentrated work. Anybody promising you faster is not being straight with you.
If there is not much history to undo, two to three months. If you have moved this way for decades, plan on six months to a year.
Credentials
- National Academy of Sports Medicine — Corrective Exercise Specialist
- American Red Cross — First Aid, CPR and AED certified
- Fully insured on every session
- 10+ years of training experience
- I coordinate with your doctor and the rest of your care team
- One-on-one sessions only
Rates
Pricing
With a note from your doctor
$129$98 / hour
- Your doctor and I agree on goals and limits before we start
- I send your doctor progress notes whenever you or they ask
- What I ask for with every corrective client
Without a note
$129 / hour
- Same sessions, same standards, same homework
- Drops to $98 the day your doctor contacts me
Twelve sessions, paid up front
Twelve weeks is about how long it takes before the work holds on its own. I put all twelve on the calendar up front so you are not chasing me for a time slot every week.
- Sessions are good for six months
- Reschedule anything with 24 hours' notice
- Available at either hourly rate
Both rates start with the same free first meeting. If my read is that you should finish physical therapy first, or get a second opinion before you start, that is what I will tell you there.
Free posture guide
Five movements for stairs and sit-to-stand
Five movements on one page, each with a photo and two lines of instruction. All of them are done standing or seated, take about two minutes, and need nothing but a wall or a chair. Put in your email and I will send it over.
First meeting · Free · One hour
Pick a time
Orientations run Monday, Tuesday and Saturday mornings, one hour each, one person at a time. Nine slots a week. I assess how you move, tell you what I am seeing, and give you a plan with a price on it. It costs nothing.
Booking holds a card against the slot. I charge it $70 in one case: a no-show, or a cancellation inside 24 hours.
Questions
Send a question instead
Questions about the assessment, the rates, whether corrective work applies to a specific diagnosis, or what your doctor would need to send me. This comes straight to me and I answer within one business day. It does not hold a slot or a card.
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Referrals
Anyone you send gets the same free first meeting you got. Ask me about the referral thank-you at your next session.