About Us

    I have never been willing to accept that training cannot be advanced, improved, or made more effective. Yes, there are aspects of training that have stood the test of time. Other components, however, have been in desperate need of remodeling for far too long. To do this requires new modes of thinking. I have always enjoyed thinking outside the box. It is an intuitive characteristic that lent itself well to my research into Recovery. It has helped me to shift my mindset from previous models towards what I believe it deserves to be.  

 

      At a certain point in my academic career, I saw that the field of Sports Medicine was beginning to shift. Even now, years later, I see it continuing to turn such that the standards for what previously passed as “recovery” no longer suffice. This means that for far too long, the needs of athletes often exceeded the abilities and available resources of many institutions and professionals working with them. For this reason, I was driven to find new ways to improve upon our current understandings and offer a more complete form of recovery work. These desires to seek out new knowledge were influential times in my development as a practitioner, and would later become the inspiration needed to found Elite Recovery Sports Therapy. 

 

          Previously, as a Strength and Conditioning coach, I worked with high school and collegiate athletes from numerous sports. Day after day, I saw that they were in need of more beneficial recovery tactics than any I had at my disposal. Up to that point in my academic career, I hadn't been taught enough to help them in the way I knew they deserved. I determined that learning what I needed to know meant going out of my way to be educated in other formats.

 

          I began an educational journey that would eventually be the genesis of an entirely new field within Sports Medicine. I first became licensed in Massage Therapy with additional certifications in Sports Massage. I began my own massage practice working solely with athletes and active individuals shortly after graduating. I was fortunate to find myself surrounded by coaches, trainers, and medical professionals who shared similar perspectives to mine regarding Recovery.

 

          As that network of professionals organically developed, I came to an important realization:

 

Sports Medicine was slowly realizing the absence of a critical piece within the puzzle of human performance. The void that others were finally waking up to started to take the form of Recovery as I knew it always could be.

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          I knew that I needed to contribute to this growing awareness in Sports Medicine. However, if I were to do so, I would need to further my education in a meaningful way. I decided to enter into graduate school, where I focused my studies on cardiac physiology, neurobiology, and athlete development. Upon completing my Masters, I transitioned into a doctoral program within Biology to earn my PhD in Integrative Biosciences. My singular goal was use those studies and research opportunities to develop an entirely new field of Sport Medicine research and practice:

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Human Performance Recovery

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          From my time as a strength coach, to the discovery of this new field, and all the way to the birth of Nervous System Management; I have had only one mission in mind: 

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The continuous advancement of athletic recovery and its accessibility to the athletes who need it.

 

I endeavor to educate my clients on the importance that recovery plays in their overall success as a competitor as well as in everyday life. With all of this in mind, the mission of Elite Recovery has always been to offer the highest level of recovery that for athletes of every age and discipline.