Direct Performance Physical Therapy

Jun 2024

This was my first experience with physical therapy and my therapists blew all expectations out of the water. I started with Kate before her maternity leave, she was so attentive to everything i had to say about how i was feeling and what I was experiencing as far as pain and discomfort; she was thorough in her physical evaluations and tailored each session to my needs no matter how much they changed. If there were exercises i didn’t feel comfortable doing or didn’t feel like they were benefitting me she was stocked with backup options and was so quick to pivot on notice. It was really one of only a few interactions with a medical professional I truly felt heard and supported. She was the perfect mixture of feeling safe while pushing me out of my comfort zone to trust the process. She never strayed from my desire to understand the technical aspect of the work we were doing, the muscles/strength we were targeting and how to build on that growth. She made the first half of this experience so educational and comfortable. After Kate went on maternity leave i was able to see Colby who couldn’t have come at a better time in transition. We had gotten the core building blocks in place and my strength was returning, Colby really kicked it up a notch. As an athlete himself, he is passionate about the intensity that come along with sports and weightlifting and he encouraged me to not be scared of return from injury, he challenged me to increase the weights and lower the reps striving for strength levels equivalent or better to before injury. He was attentive in the areas I had room for improvement and challenged me in the exercises he gave me to do outside of therapy. Both therapists were able to utilize the strength testing to provide analytical data associated with my progress which gave me fun targets and numbers to hit, while I’ve officially tested “out” of therapy, I’ll be back in a short month to continue to try to beat my prior test scores and maybe even pick their brain about other muscle groups unrelated to my injury! Performance Therapy as a whole comes highly recommended by me because this was hands down the best experience I could have ever asked for!!

Oct 2023

Fantastic practice, cannot recommend highly enough. I’ve been to a few different PT’s in the area within the last 5 years for various injuries, and this place, and Dr Andy Deck in particular, are just different. If you’re an athlete, an aspiring athlete, a former athlete, or anyone with active hobbies or aspirations, this is the PT practice for you. I came in after suffering a grade 2 tear of my rotator cuff and saw Andy for my PT over the last few months. His approach, his techniques, the exercises he gave me to do throughout the week, the dry needling, it led to rapid improvement. He encouraged me to put the extra work in, advised me on knowing how and when to push thru soreness/new ROM vs true pain (stop!), and he walked me thru every next movement in my homework regimen. He also encouraged me to make more appts as needed but once we saw all the metrics we were striving for on day 1, he didn’t get salesy and try to convince me to keep coming regularly when the value was not quite gonna be there. Refreshing approach. Will recommend all of my friends, family, and clients to these guys. 👌🏽👌🏽

Nov 2022

Had a wonderful experience at Direct Performance PT. Dr. Andy Deck is extremely professional & knowledgeable and helped me rehab a foot injury 10 weeks out from my marathon in order to finish strong with zero foot pain. He explained to me which muscles in the ankles and calves attach to the feet and gave me a variety of ways to strengthen and stretch all those muscles. I highly recommend Direct Performance and Dr. Andy Deck.