When the tests are clear but something still isn't right.

Orthopedic and Integrative Manual Physical Therapy and Functional Medicine for concussion, injury, and recovery that stalled.

 

 

 

 

Jennifer Shepherd, PT, CFMT, FFMT, FAAOMPT, FMCP

 

 

You CAN overcome your health concerns and return to a life of vitality and resilience. There is hope for a better future.

 

 

SCHEDULE A DISCOVERY CALL

The injury healed. Function didn’t.

 

A concussion, a fall, a surgery, a difficult delivery — every one changes how your body carries load. Your body adapts. It borrows from somewhere else to keep you moving.

That works, until it doesn’t. Enough adaptations and the body runs out of room. Then symptoms appear in places that were never injured.

None of it shows up on imaging, because imaging shows structure at rest, not what happens under load. So the scan is normal, the referral runs out, and you know something still isn’t right.

My eyes and hands are trained to find what imaging misses — the subtle losses of mechanics, and the systems contributing to your symptoms.

Who this is for

People who’ve been told their labs are normal, their scans are clean, and the only options left are medication — or worse, nothing.

Concussion and post-concussion symptoms that haven’t resolved — in athletes, but also in anyone who hit their head. Car accidents, falls, workplace injuries. Adults and kids both.

Injuries that healed but left something behind. Surgeries, sprains, fractures, repetitive strain — where the tissue recovered and function didn’t.

Children and teens carrying the effects of birth trauma, early falls, or repeated injury, where posture, movement, or development isn’t tracking the way it should.

Cases nobody has been able to figure out — symptoms that don’t match the imaging, don’t fit one diagnosis, or don’t seem connected to each other.

And, selectively: complex chronic cases involving multiple systems and long histories. This work is slower, requires substantial change at home, and I take a limited number of these.

And people ready to do the work outside the clinic — because that’s most of it.

How care works here

Restoration isn’t one visit. Your body has been compensating since this started. Finding what’s driving it and restoring it takes more than a single appointment.

Care begins with:

90-minute evaluation — full history, whole-body structural assessment, and my analysis of what’s actually driving your symptoms. This is where the multiple whys get found.

The Foundations for Functional Health — the online work that makes treatment hold. Nervous system regulation first, then the movement and structural work. Required for every patient.

Six visits — weekly at first, then every other week, then a month out as your body consolidates.

$3,285

Payment plans available · Your $100 Discovery Call is credited toward enrollment

Continued care after that is per visit, based on what you need.


Why the online work isn’t optional

What I’ve learned over twenty-six years is that I can restore something on the table, and if nothing changes at home, it doesn’t hold. You come back and I’m treating the same thing again. And again. That’s not a good use of your money or my hands.

For athletes, this isn’t rehab. It’s the movement literacy nobody teaches — and it’s what prevents the next injury.


The goal is to need me less.

Care starts weekly and spaces out as your body holds the changes — every other week, then monthly, then as needed. Most patients end up checking in once or twice a year.

That’s the point. This isn’t a model built on seeing you twice a week forever.


This work requires participation outside the clinic. If you’re looking for someone to do the work for you, I’m not the right provider.

Current wait for new patients: 10-12 weeks

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Our Philosophy

LISTEN

Your story matters. Understanding your history helps us understand your body.

IDENTIFY

We quickly pinpoint which structures and systems aren’t functioning at their best.

PROBLEM SOLVE

We connect those findings to your history to understand the deeper relationships of your symptoms.

RESTORE

We restore mobility and function of your structures and pathways, integrating them into your whole body.

EQUIP & EMPOWER

We build on the awareness you’ve developed in Foundations with self-care that keeps adapting as your body — and your needs — change.

Why patients come to me after trying everyone else

Most physical therapists treat one joint, one muscle, one diagnosis at a time. Most functional medicine providers focus on labs and supplements. Doctors offer medications, surgery, injections.

My education, skillset, experience, and gifts equip me to assess and treat the whole body as one integrated system: musculoskeletal, visceral, neural, vascular — through the lens of functional medicine — together, in one visit.

There are fewer than 40 recognized Fellows of the Institute of Physical Art in the country. I’m the only one who also holds both certification in Functional Medicine and advanced training in Visceral Manipulation through the Barral Institute..

That means I can find connections between your symptoms, history, lifestyle, and structure  that other providers miss entirely. 

Jen Shepherd

Jennifer Shepherd, PT, CFMT, FFMT, FAAOMPT, FMCP

Fellowship-trained in Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapy · Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner
26 years in practice

REAL RESULTS

Without the therapy administered by Jen Shepherd and her team, my son would not be on National Honor Society, would not be an excellent student athlete and especially would never have been able to become a collegiate student athlete.  He went from an extremely angry soul that was not able to form a sentence to this successful and happy college student.  I’ve never seen him so happy and there are no words to remotely express the gratitude we have for our amazing fortune of having this therapy less than an hour from our home.”

-Barb Bouy, mother to Jake, 18

Ready to find out what’s actually driving your symptoms?

Every patient starts with a Discovery Call. 30 minutes, online, $100 — credited toward your care.

For clinicians: I mentor physical therapists in systems-based clinical reasoning.

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