Direct Access to Oxford Physical Therapy

Matt and Allie visit Julie Alder Colvin at the Montgomery center to celebrate her Certification in Advanced Practice in Pelvic Health Therapy AND her birthday! Julie recaps her history with Oxford PT stating as a student in her clinical rotation, the many weekends she spent beyond clinic hours in continuing education over the years, and her thesis/case study on post-menopausal women linked to urinary incontinence/pelvic pain, to now and how she's using her education and certification in her everyday practice. She shares her advice to younger/aspiring PTs to dig into their passions in the field and to never stop learning!

Oxford PT Pelvic Floor specialists treat both men and women! Learn more here.

Did you know that you don’t need a doctor’s prescription to receive physical therapy?  You can schedule here . The laws of Direct Access allow you to receive physical therapy without a referral and still use your insurance benefits! Learn more on how Direct Access can help YOU! Our website: https://www.oxfordphysicaltherapy.com/

Matt and Allie are back on site in the Hamilton clinic to talk to Clinic Manager Lisa DeBord and her patient Rob Snyder. You'll hear about Rob, his background as a PTA and Police officer, and all about his achilles injury AND his total knee replacement. Lisa shares her experience in treating someone who knows the field closely, as well as treatments used to get Rob to recovery. Rob mentions his determination and the work he put into his pre-hab and expectations for post-surgery rehab and goals he wanted to accomplish. 

Did you know that you don’t need a doctor’s prescription to receive physical therapy?  You can schedule here . The laws of Direct Access allow you to receive physical therapy without a referral and still use your insurance benefits! Learn more on how Direct Access can help YOU! Our website: https://www.oxfordphysicaltherapy.com/

Back for her annual episode, Lesley Allen joins Matt and Allie to talk about this year's Tunnel to Towers 5k in memory of 9/11 on the 25th anniversary. Lesley shares the story of Stephen Siller, the details of the upcoming event, and the many updates on how the Tunnel to Towers Foundation is supporting the families of fallen first responders, military heroes, those who were catastrophically injured, and the surrounding communities. Oxford PT is a proud sponsor of T2T and encourages everyone to join in support, or even observe this moving event- and NEVER FORGET!

Sign up for the race, or donate: https://runwalknorthernky.t2t.org/Race/KY/CrescentSprings/TunneltoTowers5KRunWalkNorthernKY

Did you know that you don’t need a doctor’s prescription to receive physical therapy?  You can schedule here . The laws of Direct Access allow you to receive physical therapy without a referral and still use your insurance benefits! Learn more on how Direct Access can help YOU! Our website: https://www.oxfordphysicaltherapy.com/

Matt and Allie are onsite at our Dry Ridge location to talk virtual reality with Zoë Luebbe, PT DPT AIB-VRC. Zoë brings two articles on how VR can be used in treatment for concussion/ vestibular patients and also poses the student PT question! VR has quickly evolved and is used medically across many different practices, these articles discuss clinical trials and their outcomes using VR. Being certified and specializing in vestibular/ concussion treatments, Zoë shares her thoughts and ideas for the future of using VR in a PT setting

Read the articles here:

Central and Peripheral Attention in Virtual Reality: Test of Visual Efficiency for Concussion Detection

Virtual reality-based interventions for the rehabilitation of vestibular and balance impairments post-concussion: a scoping review

Did you know that you don’t need a doctor’s prescription to receive physical therapy?  You can schedule here . The laws of Direct Access allow you to receive physical therapy without a referral and still use your insurance benefits! Learn more on how Direct Access can help YOU! Our website: https://www.oxfordphysicaltherapy.com/

Student PT Maddie and her CI (and clinic manager) Rob Schwab, PT DPT join Matt and Allie for a student spotlight episode on her last day of her clinical rotation. Maddie shares her background, PT school experience and previous clinical round stories, as well as her interest in gross anatomy.
Matt asks Maddie to share what she learned most through her experience and her thoughts on using our Ai assisted documentation system. Maddie speaks to her past self, and shares advice on how she would approach starting as a new PT student and how to be more confident.

Did you know that you don’t need a doctor’s prescription to receive physical therapy?  You can schedule here . The laws of Direct Access allow you to receive physical therapy without a referral and still use your insurance benefits! Learn more on how Direct Access can help YOU! Our website: https://www.oxfordphysicaltherapy.com/

Matt and Allie sit down with patient Josh Purnell to talk about his experience in physical therapy, as well as the injury and journey with other physicians that got him here. Josh shares his background and his love of playing softball and other sports as he walks us through all the treatments and different doctors he visited to find relief from his foot pain. Josh gives a shout out to Dr. Bryan Fallis who ultimately referred him to our Physical Therapist and Florence Clinic Manager, Marie Graves, who both worked together to get Josh back on the softball field. Now knowing his Direct Access rights, Josh wishes he had just skipped all the previous doctors visits and came straight to PT first.

Did you know that you don’t need a doctor’s prescription to receive physical therapy?  You can schedule here . The laws of Direct Access allow you to receive physical therapy without a referral and still use your insurance benefits! Learn more on how Direct Access can help YOU! Our website: https://www.oxfordphysicaltherapy.com/

Matt and Allie on site at our Montgomery center to interview student PT, Tanner Johnson. Tanner shares his background, PT school experience and previous clinical round stories, as well as his interest in being more involved in sports for his future career. 
Matt asks him to share his experience in Dry Needling, seeing Direct Access patients, and using Ai assisted documentation. Tanner also gives his advice to aspiring PTs and even to Tanner’s past self now that he’s almost completed his second clinical round.

Did you know that you don’t need a doctor’s prescription to receive physical therapy?  You can schedule here . The laws of Direct Access allow you to receive physical therapy without a referral and still use your insurance benefits! Learn more on how Direct Access can help YOU! Our website: https://www.oxfordphysicaltherapy.com/

Matt and Allie are reunited on the Pod! Back for this month's clinical corner, Matt introduces the article and poses his question to the student PTs listening. Matt dives into the two similar cases of adults in their 50s who are post-op from rotator cuff repair and are experiencing shoulder stiffness after routine physical therapy. Hear how integrating flossing into their treatments helped them progress in therapy and relieve their stiffness.

Read the article here: https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/josptcases.2026.0209

Did you know that you don’t need a doctor’s prescription to receive physical therapy?  You can schedule here . The laws of Direct Access allow you to receive physical therapy without a referral and still use your insurance benefits! Learn more on how Direct Access can help YOU! Our website: https://www.oxfordphysicaltherapy.com/

Matt sits down with Charley Meade, manager of our Independence and Dry Ridge locations to discuss Lumbar Motor Control. With new research in hand that describes the best way to test and also measure over time to track improvement. Learn how the six Item test can help even predict potential people who could have issues with Low Back Pain. Get the articles discussed here: Validity of a 6-item movement control test battery for evaluation of movement control impairment in the lumbar spine | PLOS One and Components of Standardized Motor Control and Movement Quality Measures in Low Back Pain: A Framework-Based Scoping Review | JOSPT Methods

Did you know that you don’t need a doctor’s prescription to receive physical therapy?  You can schedule here . The laws of Direct Access allow you to receive physical therapy without a referral and still use your insurance benefits! Learn more on how Direct Access can help YOU! Our website: https://www.oxfordphysicaltherapy.com/

Did you know that you don’t need a doctor’s prescription to receive physical therapy?  You can schedule here . The laws of Direct Access allow you to receive physical therapy without a referral and still use your insurance benefits! Learn more on how Direct Access can help YOU! Our website: https://www.oxfordphysicaltherapy.com/