Bodies in Motion Physical Therapy

Home
United States
Falls Church, VA
Bodies in Motion Physical Therapy

Bodies in Motion Physical Therapy delivers excellence in rehabilitative care to Northern Virginia.

09/01/2026

In this video, Michael Wirtz PT, DPT, OCS, CDNS explains that above 150 degrees your thoracic extensors assist in shoulder elevation by creating ipsilateral rotation and side bending in the upper thoracic spine. When this combined motion occurs, it will allow the manubrium and clavicle to move in a way that limits deep cervical fascial tension, thus allowing full elevation. If this joint is not moving as well as it should, the functional shoulder girdle may become inhibited, possibly causing pain. Along with pain, you may notice a difference in the elevation ROM compared to the uninvolved side. A manipulation to reset the neurological tone of the joint may provide a window of opportunity to reeducate the upper thoracic spine with exercises. If you have pain reaching overhead, call one of our clinics to have an evaluation completed.

Mike is currently pursuing another certification to add to his incredible skills working towards his Certified Orthopedic Manual Therapist with Aspire OMT. He is treating out of our Reston office. You can schedule a consult with him calling 703-230-1760.

08/03/2026

Follow along with our PT, Taylor, as she explains an important exercise!

Let’s talk about the hip hinge! 💪🏻

The hip hinge is a great exercise for:
-Strengthening the posterior chain (low back, glutes, hamstrings)
-Improving your ability to perform everyday tasks like lifting boxes or picking up your grandchildren
-Improving hip stability and posture
-Preventing and rehabilitating low back pain
-Athletic performance

The hip hinge is often performed incorrectly, therefore watch this video for some helpful tips and tricks to improve your hinge form. 🔥

07/14/2026

This September, join Laura von Wullerstorff, DScPT, OCS, COMT, FAAOMPT, at Bodies In Motion Physical Therapy in Reston, Virginia, for two lab-intensive COMT courses built around skills you can apply directly in clinical practice.

COMT-3 | Sept. 12–13
Build hands-on assessment and management skills for the shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hand, with emphasis on biomechanics, differential diagnosis, manual therapy, manipulation, neuromuscular reeducation, and therapeutic exercise.

COMT-1 | Sept. 26–27
Strengthen your approach to lumbar spine evaluation and treatment through clinical reasoning, differential diagnosis, pain science, hands-on assessment, manual techniques, and therapeutic exercise.

Courses can be taken in any order. Visit aspireomt.com to learn more and register!

07/05/2026

We are so excited to announce that our team has two more dry needle specialists! Dry needling is a powerful tool that out PTs use to help patients move better.

Congratulations Matt and Liz on earning your Certified Dry Needle Specialists (CDNS)! We are so proud of you and your pursuit of clinical excellence! 🎉

To schedule with Matt or Liz, call our Falls Church office at:
📍 Bodies In Motion Physical Therapy
80 E. Jefferson Street
Suite 200
Falls Church, VA 22046
(P) 703–237-2000

Thank you Aspire OMT | Manual Physical Therapy and Nelson Min MSPT CMPT OCS for providing top notch training and education! 🧠

06/29/2026

Bodies in Motion was proud to host Bret Swigard and Connective Strength to offer the their Hypermobile EDS (hEDS) Lumbar and Cervical Spine courses. Thank you for sharing tour knowledge with our staff and helping us serve this community.

How does this version of the march test confirm that the SIJ is moving in a patient with EDS?
This version of the march test uses hip flexion to assess innominate and soft-tissue mobility at the sacroiliac joint. By bringing the knee toward the chest, Bret can monitor whether the innominate is actually rotating at the SIJ, rather than the motion being compensated for through the lumbar spine, hip, or surrounding soft tissues.

When the right hip is brought into flexion, the ischiofemoral ligament becomes taut and pulls the right innominate into posterior rotation. By monitoring the sacrum during this motion, Bret can feel whether the right SIJ is allowing posterior rotation of the right innominate.
To assess anterior rotation of the right innominate, the left knee is brought toward the chest. As the left hip flexes, the left ischiofemoral ligament becomes taut and pulls the left innominate into posterior rotation. Once the left SIJ reaches end range, the sacrum begins to rotate posteriorly.
That posterior rotation of the sacrum creates the same relative motion at the right SIJ as the right innominate rotating anteriorly. In other words, Bret can assess right-sided SIJ motion in both directions: directly through right innominate posterior rotation, and indirectly through relative anterior rotation of the right innominate as the sacrum moves.
This helps confirm that the SIJ is indeed moving in a patient with EDS, rather than the motion being masked by generalized tissue laxity or compensatory movement elsewhere.

06/23/2026

We are excited to announce that Robin Lee has successfully earned her Orthopedic Clinical Specialist OCS). We are so proud of Robin for all of her accomplishments while she continues to strive for clinical expertise also working on her Certified Orthopedic Manual Therapy Certification (COMT) and Hypermobility certifications.

Congratulations, Robin! 🎊👏🎉

You can schedule a consult with Robin at our Reston office at:
📍 Bodies In Motion Physical Therapy
1760 Reston Parkway
Suite 403
Reston, VA 20190
(P) 703-230-1760

06/01/2026

Check out this video to see how our therapist, Liz, utilizes dry needling to improve her patients’ shoulder range of motion! “I often get asked about dry needling and how it helps. Here we can see that Jenny has decreased motion on her left shoulder. I decided to needle her supraspinatus and infraspinatus, two rotator cuff muscles, in order to help improve her motion. If a muscle is not strong enough to support our joints as we go into a position, our brain will limit us to protect the joint. I used a PENS Unit (Percutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation) which helps by creating a circuit with your nerves to help recruit larger muscle fibers and remind them to help out. Afterwards we can see that Jenny’s range of motion improves!” If you are experiencing a shoulder issue, call one of our 4 offices to get scheduled!

05/04/2026

Bodies in Motion is proud to announce that Olivia Seneff has successfully earned her certification in Spinal Manipulative Therapy. Way to go, Olivia!

Olivia has added this amazing certification to her already impressive body of work that includes her Certification in Manual Therapy (COMT) and her Certification in Dry Needling (CDNS).

She is also pursuing her Fellowship in Orthopedic Manual Therapy (FAAOMPT).

We are so blessed to have her on our team in Reston.

04/14/2026

Exercise: Do you have pain or tightness in your anterior hip and thigh? The following exercises are helpful in strengthening your posterior hip. The posterior hip muscles are important lateral rotators, responsible for keeping your entire lower limb in a favorable position for ambulation. Without proper balance in these hip stabilizers, many people deal with knee or foot pain as a result. Following a manual therapy assessment and treatment of the hip, the exercises shown in the video are useful in retraining these muscles to allow for proper tracking of the hip, knee, and foot. If you are dealing with pain in your lower extremity, schedule an evaluation with a Bodies In Motion therapist.

exercise rehab

04/03/2026

Special thank you to Dr. Bobby Kalantar, Spine Surgeon.

Dr. Kalantar, thank you for doing an inservice on your surgical specialties. It was highly informative and engaging. We learned so much on your specialty procedures, thought process, and gained valuable insight on how to approach with physical therapy.

Dr. Kalantar is seeing patients at these Medstar locations:

1420 Beverly Rd
Ste 210 Fl 2
McLean, VA, 22101

3800 Reservoir Rd NW
1 Gorman
Washington, DC, 20007

5454 Wisconsin Ave
Ste 1100
Chevy Chase, MD, 20815

Address

80 East Jefferson Street, Ste. 200
Falls Church, VA
22046

Website

http://www.bodiesinmotionpt.com/

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Bodies in Motion Physical Therapy posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Practice

Send a message to Bodies in Motion Physical Therapy:

Want your practice to be the top-listed Clinic in Falls Church?