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Where passionate physical therapists can:

📍 Treat patients at their homes, our clinics, or virtually
😎 Enjoy complete flexibility and autonomy
💰 Earn 6-figure salaries treating just 4 patients/day

Pain on the outside of your hip that travels down your leg doesn't automatically mean the problem is coming from your sp...
09/21/2026

Pain on the outside of your hip that travels down your leg doesn't automatically mean the problem is coming from your spine

Let’s look at a vignette, courtesy of Michelle Bomyea, PT, DPT.

Imaging showed degenerative disc disease, then mild hip arthritis. Neither one explained why sitting, sleeping, and walking kept getting worse, because the real driver was never on either scan.

The local tissue was under strain.

Pain along the outside of the hip, worse with sitting, sleeping on that side, and prolonged standing, pointed toward gluteal tendinopathy; irritation of the gluteal tendons rather than the spine or joint itself.

The driver was misattributed.

Degenerative disc disease and mild hip osteoarthritis were real findings, but they didn't match her symptom pattern closely enough to explain the pain, and treating them directly (core work, medication) never resolved it.

The load mattered.

An irritated tendon can be aggravated by well-intentioned "hip strengthening" exercises done at the wrong intensity or timing. The tendon needed a specific, gradually progressed load it could actually tolerate, not more exercise or less exercise, but the right exercise.

Chasing a diagnosis on an image isn't the same as understanding what's driving your pain.

Restoring what your tissue can actually tolerate is what gets you back to the life you want.

Read Michelle’s full article at the link below or book an in-home evaluation with a MovementX provider today 📅

https://movement-x.com/orthopedic-pain-and-injuries/why-does-the-outside-of-my-hip-hurt-a-common-story-for-women-getting-back-to-exercise/

📸 Michelle Bomyea, PT, DPT (MovementX in Annapolis, MD)

Growth, done wrong, is a cancer cell.Too many healthcare organizations scale by asking clinicians to see more patients, ...
09/17/2026

Growth, done wrong, is a cancer cell.

Too many healthcare organizations scale by asking clinicians to see more patients, bill more units, and produce more every year, until the values on the wall stop matching the work in the room.

Here's why MovementX is choosing to grow differently.

❤️‍🩹 To help the profession heal

Our CEO personally interviewed every applicant for nine years and heard the same story on repeat: PTs who loved the work but were worn down by productivity requirements, double-booking, and zero autonomy. Many were turned down simply because MovementX didn't yet have the infrastructure to support them. Growth means finally saying yes to more of them.

💪 To empower patients and providers

Empowered clinicians empower patients. When a PT has time, judgment, and flexibility to build care around real goals, outcomes shift, like a patient with an 11-year-old brain injury walking down to her garage and reclaiming the ability to move around.

✨ To raise the quality of care

MovementX scales through provider volume, not patient volume. Full-time clinicians treat an average of 4 patients a day. Growth here means more colleagues, stronger referral networks, and more resources for benefits and infrastructure, without recreating the volume-driven system clinicians were trying to escape.

The underlying philosophy: sustainable clinician careers and exceptional patient care aren't competing priorities, they're the same growth strategy.

What would a physical therapy career look like if it were built around your life, not the other way around?

📝 Read the full article at the link in our bio

✍️ Josh D’Angelo, PT, DPT and CEO of MovementX

Cleared by your surgeon after pelvic surgery doesn't mean your recovery is finished. It means the real work is just star...
09/16/2026

Cleared by your surgeon after pelvic surgery doesn't mean your recovery is finished. It means the real work is just starting (💬 Rachel Noyes Finley, PT, DPT)

A post-op check-up confirms healing on the surface, but it won't rebuild the breath mechanics, core coordination, and pelvic floor function you need for a full, confident return to activity.

Here's what a real post-op recovery plan looks like:

🫁 Step 1: Reconnect Your Breath

Gentle breath work is safe immediately post-op. On inhale, your diaphragm and pelvic floor should descend together; on exhale, the pelvic floor rebounds and lifts. Surgery and pain can leave the pelvic floor feeling "stuck," and breathing is the foundation for resetting that coordination.

🏃‍♀️ Step 2: Manage Pressure Through Movement

Exhaling with effort during transitions like logrolling out of bed, bracing to stand, or lifting protects incisional and healing tissue from added pressure. A Pelvic PT helps you avoid breath-holding or bulging through the core while you move.

🤗 Step 3: Restore Pelvic Floor and Core Function

Once cleared for internal assessment, a Pelvic PT evaluates superficial and deeper pelvic floor muscles to guide targeted treatment, then progressively rebuilds bowel/bladder habits, scar tissue mobility, and core strength as you work back toward your daily and functional goals.

Gradual, individualized progression (not a generic timeline) is what safely rebuilds strength and confidence after pelvic surgery.

Read Dr. Rachel’s guide (link in our bio) or schedule with a MovementX pelvic provider today.

📸 Rachel Noyes Finley, PT, DPT (MovementX in Zionsville, IN)

If you roll consistently, your joints are constantly being taken to their absolute limits. That’s just the sport. But ge...
09/03/2026

If you roll consistently, your joints are constantly being taken to their absolute limits. That’s just the sport. But getting hurt doesn't always come down to a bad submission. A lot of the time, it comes down to running your body on an empty tank (💬 Bri Wynn, PT, DPT).

When you overtrain, you lose your available strength. Your muscles get too tired to guard your joints, and suddenly an armbar or guard pass does way more damage than it should.

You can’t make your ligaments stronger, but you can build up the armor around them.

Balancing 2 to 3 solid rolling sessions with 3 to 4 smart lifting days, working through real joint mobility instead of just passive stretching, and checking your ego enough to tap early all keep you on the mats for the long haul.

Training hard is great. Building a body that can actually handle it is better.

Check out Bri’s full article (link in bio) for a deeper look at managing your BJJ volume, mobility, and joint health

📸 Jillian Chiappisi, PT, DPT (MovementX in Knoxville, TN)
✍️ Bri Wynn, PT, DPT (MovementX in Alexandria, VA)

"Wait and see." That's the advice most parents hear about bedwetting until age 6. Twice as long as it took their child t...
09/02/2026

"Wait and see." That's the advice most parents hear about bedwetting until age 6. Twice as long as it took their child to master daytime potty training (💬 Sarah Pizzey, PT)

About 15% of 5-year-olds wet the bed. By age 10, that's down to 5%. But 1-2% of adults still experience it. Waiting passively isn't the only option, and it's not the child's fault.

Here's what most families don't know:

Constipation is often the hidden driver. A 2011 study found 64% of clinically constipated kids reported "normal" stool frequency. Kids can't always tell you what's actually going on.

It's rarely a pelvic floor strength issue. Bedwetting happens involuntarily during sleep, before the brain even registers the signal. Kegels aren't the answer here.

Genetics play a real role. One parent with a history of bedwetting means a 44% chance for their child. Two parents pushes that to 77%.

Bedwetting alarms work, but timing matters. Many families see them "fail" simply because constipation wasn't ruled out first.

The fix isn't waiting. It's building a team, with the child at the center, to investigate what's actually happening and address it with curiosity instead of blame.

Read Sarah’s full article at the link in our bio to understand the real story behind bedwetting and how pediatric pelvic health therapy can help

📸 Mackenzie Van Loo, PT, DPT (MovementX in Oregon)
✍️ Sarah Pizzey, PT (MovementX in California)

Sprinting to the bathroom the moment you pull into the driveway. Crossing your legs when you sneeze. Waking up multiple ...
08/28/2026

Sprinting to the bathroom the moment you pull into the driveway. Crossing your legs when you sneeze. Waking up multiple times a night to p*e. Common? Yes. Something you have to live with? No.

Your bladder is actually a two-way conversation with your brain. That's why you can feel completely fine and suddenly desperate the second you put your key in the door. Your brain has simply learned that cue.

Here's what most people don't realize:

Urgency doesn't mean your bladder is full. Stress, caffeine, and learned habits can trigger the same "gotta go" feeling regardless of volume.

"Just in case" p*eing backfires. Emptying your bladder before it's actually full can train it to hold less over time.

Leaking isn't always a strength problem. More Kegels aren't automatically the answer. Some people need to learn how to relax an overactive pelvic floor instead

Nocturia has many causes. Fluids, caffeine, hormones, and sleep disorders can all play a role, and it deserves real evaluation rather than just drinking less water.

The fix starts with understanding what's actually driving your symptoms; whether that's urgency, frequency, incontinence, or nighttime waking.

Your bladder shouldn't run your life.

Read Dr. Sarah Taylor, PT, DPT’s full article at the link in our bio to learn practical strategies and know when it's time to see a pelvic health PT

📸 Sarah Taylor, PT, DPT (MovementX in Virginia)

Honored to be named to the list of America’s fastest growing companies for the 4th consecutive year.Four years running...
08/14/2026

Honored to be named to the list of America’s fastest growing companies for the 4th consecutive year.

Four years running comes down to one thing — our team. 🙌

Our providers and staff give their all, every single day. We do it for our patients, because we believe that when you can move better, you can live your best life.

Amazing things happen when a mission-driven team moves together. 🎉

Cleared for exercise. Ready to run, lift, or feel like yourself again. And then that heaviness, bulge, or dragging sensa...
08/04/2026

Cleared for exercise. Ready to run, lift, or feel like yourself again. And then that heaviness, bulge, or dragging sensation shows up instead

Pelvic organ prolapse affects 1 in 5 women worldwide, yet it's rarely talked about openly.

Here's what most people don't know (💬 Avelina Vilas, PT, DPT):

Symptoms fluctuate without stage worsening. Better in the morning, worse by evening. Better lying down, worse with lifting. This is normal, not a sign things are getting worse.

Bracing constantly backfires. A pelvic floor that's always tense can't function, just like shoulders held tight all day become sore and fatigued.

Gravity is a tool, not just a problem. Positioning during exercise, intimacy, and end-of-day relief can make a real difference in how you feel.

There are also concrete tools that help: internal support like pessaries, external support garments, breathing strategies like 360 breathing, and techniques like the Knack for protecting your pelvic floor during lifts.

This isn’t the end of your recovery, it’s the start of more functional freedom

Get more knowledge on how to reclaim the activities you love in Dr. Avelina’s blog post, link in our bio 🔗

📸 Laura Garrison, PT, DPT (MovementX in Haymarket, VA)
📝 Avelina Vilas, PT, DPT (MovementX in Cary, NC)

“Who do I want to be surrounded by?” For our co-founder Josh D’Angelo, this question has shaped MovementX from the begin...
07/28/2026

“Who do I want to be surrounded by?” For our co-founder Josh D’Angelo, this question has shaped MovementX from the beginning.

The industry average for PT turnover sits around 20-30%. A healthy, above-average organization lands around 10-15%. MovementX’s target is 5%

For our first 5 years as a company, it was zero. Not a single full-time PT left.

To us, that’s not an HR statistic. It’s the foundation for everything else.

Research consistently shows that teams who stay together longer perform better, even in high-stakes fields. Chemistry, trust, and rhythm are built over time, the same way Jordan and Pippen or Duncan and Ginóbili built theirs.

Retention matters more than most healthcare organizations realize, and it directly informs our philosophy of how we hire, invest in, and build careers around our people.

Read Josh’s article to get a closer look at how MovementX benchmarks and tracks turnover (and the actual data behind it) 🔗 in bio

📸 Josh D’Angelo, PT, DPT, Co-Founder and CEO of MovementX

"I have to scale this again?" If overhead movements in CrossFit make you cringe, the fix probably isn't more stretching....
07/24/2026

"I have to scale this again?" If overhead movements in CrossFit make you cringe, the fix probably isn't more stretching.

Snatches, jerks, thrusters, handstand pushups... your shoulders take the brunt of CrossFit's demands. And the common assumption is that mobility work means one static stretch on repeat.

Here's what's actually limiting most CrossFitters overhead:

🏋️ Shoulder blade mobility. When the blade doesn't move well, all the motion gets forced through the joint alone

🎡 Rotational control. Poor rotator cuff stability shows up as that familiar pinch when reaching overhead

🦴 Upper back mobility. A stiff thoracic spine limits your entire shoulder girdle, no matter how strong your shoulder is

Doing metcons for shoulder mobility doesn't work. Mobility is a skill, just like a muscle-up, and it requires the same structured practice separate from your workouts.

If you've tried the basics and you're still stuck, it might not be pure mobility. Sometimes it's mechanical sequencing in a lift that needs a trained eye to spot.

Read Dr. Caleb Overholser, DC, CSCS's full breakdown at the link in our bio to understand what's really limiting your overhead position and how to fix it

📸 Romin Ghassemi, PT, DPT
📝 Caleb Overholser, DC, CSCS

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