Physical Therapy is an Essential Service As a medical treatment, physical therapy is deemed an essential service during the Coronavirus pandemic. We have remained open through the pandemic to serve...
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Clinic Re-opening
We are happy to announce that we have re-opened our clinic and returned to providing patient care as of Monday, April 6, 2020. We have also begun offering Telehealth visits. During our inaugural...
Kathi McCoy Honored by Legacy Health
Kathi McCoy was recently honored by Legacy Health for including the Good Samaritan Foundation in her estate plan. “It was just about being practical,” says Kathi, “being a strategic planner, leaving...
Lena Thieme, PT Teaches and Dances in Brazil
Lena Thieme, a member of West Portland Physical Therapy Clinic’s dance rehabilitation team, has recently returned from Brazil where she was teaching, performing, and helping dancers dance more...
Meet Our Team: Jennifer Field, PT, DPT
Jen currently treats a wide spectrum of orthopedic conditions ranging from athletic injuries to chronic pain. She has special interest in working with runners of all levels to improve their form and...
WPPTC Now Offers Bike Fitting
Mention This Blog Post and get $50 Off Your First Bike Fit! WPPTC now offers bike fittings. Did you know there are over 22,000 people who commute by bike here in Portland? That ranks us seventh in...
WPPTC’s Dance Physical Therapist Visits Buenos Aires
This April, I was in one of my favorite cities, Buenos Aires, Argentina, to participate in the Mega Zouk Congress. Buenos Aires has one of the largest and most active communities of the dance Zouk...
Friend of the Clinic Honored as 2018 Humanitarian of the Year
Janeen McAninch, a close friend to Kathi McCoy and the West Portland Physical Therapy Clinic, was named 2018 Humanitarian of the Year by Medical Teams International. Watch this inspirational video...
Ready to Ride Pain Free?
by Blake Tucker-Jones, PTA As the warmer weather beckons us to spend more time on our bikes, overuse injuries become more prevalent. The most common injury reported is anterior knee pain. This can...
Physical Therapy as First Treatment for Low Back Pain Curbs Opioid Use
An excellent article on NPR talks about how physical therapy as the first treatment for lower back pain can help to reduce opioid use and eliminate the need for pricey procedures and surgeries that...
