About Peak Performance Therapy
My name is Meredith, and I am the founder of Peak Performance Therapy Services, LLC. I am a physical therapist by trade, and a mom/wife/retired-swimmer/amateur-triathlete/CrossFit-enthusiast by day. Peak Performance Therapy for me is a way to fit together my profession with my vision of what it should be.
Growing up, I knew from a very young age that I wanted to be a physical therapist, but my view of what a physical therapist should be was very different from the reality that I discovered on internships and on my first foray into the corporate work force. My first year, I was lucky enough to work for a private, therapist-owned PT clinic in the back of an orthopedists’ office. I had the opportunity of working with a great group of experienced PTs, PTAs and an OT, and they helped instill the basic confidence and knowledge that I needed as a new grad PT. After my first year, our company as well as our neighboring orthopedists’ office was bought by a local hospital.
We were lucky enough to be able to continue doing most things the way that we always had with some small changes, so it was really a pretty easy transition over to a corporate environment. Over the next 5 years, as I gained confidence and established a niche in my setting, I began to get restless and frustrated with the constraints of being a very small fish in a big pond. I watched too many insurances force patients out of physical therapy because of lack of “medical necessity,” even though they still couldn’t reach up into their cabinet to get a plate down, or safely get around their house without a walker, or walk in the community to get their own groceries. I saw too many cases of kids with insane visit limits on PT (often limited to 15 visits for a year) who needed to rehabilitate from an ACL reconstruction, which is a 9 month process, to be able to return to football, soccer, and basketball. And I saw too many patients be discharged from physical therapy, but still not be able to do the things that they loved.
Don’t get me wrong, I really could not have asked for a better work environment or company, especially as a first job, but given the limitations imposed by insurance agencies on a physical therapist in a hospital-based setting, I knew I could never truly do what I envisioned for my career. A passion for injury prevention was what truly got me into physical therapy, and there was no place for that in the corporate world of physical therapy.
This is why I created Peak Performance. I want for people to be able to do the things that they enjoy for as long as they want to, and without pain or fear of injury/re-injury. I want to see volleyball coaches not be reminded of their shoulder surgery every time they demonstrate proper spiking technique in practice. I want for the 40 year old Mom who hurt her knee to go back to heavy lifting, or CrossFit, or triathlons, or whatever it is that she wants to do, because that is what life is about. If you are 50 and can’t pick up your grandchild because of back pain, what kind of life is that? If you are 30 and live in constant fear of hurting your knee again, that is no quality of life. My goal is to help people live a more active, more meaningful, and healthier life, and injury prevention and through rehabilitation is at the heart of that. Let me help you.
