I didn’t come to this as a clinician who read about sports. I came to it as an athlete.

I played Division I football. And like a lot of athletes, my career was shaped less by how hard I trained than by an injury nobody properly figured out. I did the rehab I was told to do. I came back when I was told I was ready. And I was never quite the same. That experience is the reason this practice exists — and it’s the reason I built the Gray Method™ around finding the cause of a problem instead of chasing the symptom.

Since then I’ve spent my career as a sports physical therapist, working with athletes at every level to get them back on the field and keep them there but also improving their confidence, first step quickness, speed and agility, and resilience to injuries.

I’m also a coach at Canterbury School, which means I’m not just seeing athletes in a clinic — I’m on the field with them. I see what a real season demands. I see what happens to a kid who’s carrying a limitation nobody screened for. And I see the difference in the athletes who built a foundation early.

And I’m a parent. So I understand the part that doesn’t show up in any training program: you’re not just trying to make your kid faster. You’re trying to make sure the thing they love doesn’t end early, and that the money and the weekends you’re putting in actually amount to something.

That’s what we built here. Not a gym that added an athlete program — a physical therapy practice that trains athletes, where the person designing the program has been the injured athlete, treated the injured athlete, coached the athlete, and driven the athlete to practice.

Founder, Back In Motion Physical Therapy & Performance