Cathy has been in the field of sports medicine for over 30 years, working in multiple professional and collegiate sports, and most recently, working at Nike World Headquarters for 17+ years developing the corporate sports medicine program. While there, she loved treating the Nike employee/weekend warriors as they kept her busy evaluating, diagnosing, and treating a broad range of issues, from acute on-field injuries to post-operative patient care/rehabilitation, chronic overuse syndromes, and back pain.

Cathy has had years of continuing education, to name a few:

• Jones Strain Counterstrain,

• Selective Functional Movement Assessment (SFMA),

• Muscle Energy,

• Gary Gray Institute Fellow of Applied Functional Science,

• 360 Golf Analysis Certification,

• Concussion Management,

• Cranial sacral, (and various mobilization techniques),

• as well as years of Sports medicine evaluation, diagnosis and rehabilitation,

This passion for helping patients and seeking ongoing education for new treatments led Cathy to find Fascial Counterstrain (FCS). “Once I took my first class, I realized I had found the “missing link” for treating my patients.” She has completed all the Counterstrain Academy courses that are available to date and is a certified Fascial Counterstrain therapist. Cathy uses this cutting-edge technique when treating a broad range of injuries, back/neck pain, Tethered cord, migraines, digestive issues, post-Covid, tendinopathy, plantar fascitis, concussions, and pre/post-operative rehabilitation (it works great on swelling and increasing the range of motion following surgery). Cathy combines FCS with sports medicine techniques to help you reach your goals.

Fascial Counterstrain (FSC) teaches extensive, detailed anatomy and how each system (muscular, venous, visceral, nerve...) works together to make the body function at its best. When injuries, stress, inflammation, postural strain, repetitive motion, fever, inflammatory diets, etc. occur, the effects create an inflammatory source resulting in specific cytokines which excite local pain receptors and limit vascular profusion (via somato-sympathetic and viscera-sympathetic reflexes). This increases the protective response in the body that can create pain, lack of range of motion, swelling, and a multitude of symptoms. Cathy realizes each person’s body has a different story of how pain and dysfunction developed. The body’s protective restrictions of contracted fascia could have developed over years. This means you cannot use the same cookie-cutter approach to treating each individual’s symptoms. When treating with this technique, Cathy utilizes diagnostic tender points to identify reflexive guarding in the body. It relies on placing patients into positions of comfort and ease and reducing tension in the fascia for long-term results. Using this technique, Cathy combines FCS with sports medicine (Exercise prescription, injury evaluation/treatment, post-op rehabilitation) to help you reach your goals.

Cathy loves being in the outdoors whether she is hiking, skiing, biking, paddleboarding. or backpacking!