Tyler has over a decade of experience treating individuals of all ages with concussions, dizziness, joint pain, chronic pain, balance impairments, and athletic injuries. Tyler earned his Doctorate of Physical Therapy (DPT) from the University of Washington and his B.S. in Health and Exercise Science from Colorado State University.  He is continuing to develop expertise in the areas of concussion management, PRI, dental, and visual integrative medicine. 

Tyler is very active, constantly adventuring with his wife Bailey, dog Chase, and three young children. He enjoys playing golf, basketball, softball, skiing, and coaching youth sports. 

Personal Story with Physical Therapy

Have you been to physical therapy before and received generic exercises that only minimally helped your symptoms? As humans, we all live in patterns, and those patterns drive our position. Those positions can cause us to move poorly, putting extra pressure and force on our tissues and joints, which causes them to break down and leads to pain and dysfunction. As a therapist, Tyler works to return every patient to normal movement patterns and train them to stay in these patterns.  This is the key to complete healing. However, there are several suboptimal patterns that people can adopt.  Therefore, Tyler focuses on identifying each patient's unique movement patterns and creating specialized exercise regimes specifically tailored to each individual and their patterns.

The Power of Postural Restoration

Postural restoration, as developed by the Postural Restoration Institute (PRI), is focused on identifying and understanding the patterns we live in and how those affect how we interact with the world.  All the systems of the body have a purpose, and those systems are controlled through our nervous system. Our nervous system uses sensory input to tell us how to position our body against gravity. If those positions are incorrect, as they are when we have pain, we need to retrain the correct positions. We need to learn how to use the proper muscles and apply these new patterns to our daily activities. This will allow us to move with fewer symptoms and have a higher quality of life.