About Elevate Physical Therapy and Fitness

The clinic that treats the cause.

Most clinics manage your symptoms and call it a plan. We built this place to end them: one-on-one, with a Doctor of Physical Therapy, every single visit.

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Our Story

This isn’t our story. It’s yours.

Dr. Sean McInerney, PT, DPT, OCS, co-owner of Elevate Physical Therapy and Fitness
Dr. Sean McInerney
Dr. Daniel Wrzosek, PT, DPT, OCS, co-owner of Elevate Physical Therapy and Fitness
Dr. Daniel Wrzosek

PT, DPT, OCS · Co-Owners

Elevate started because we kept watching good people get handed the same plan. Three patients to a therapist, an aide running the exercises, and a discharge date that arrived when the visits ran out instead of when the problem was solved.

So we built the opposite. One patient, one Doctor of Physical Therapy, the full hour, every visit. Nobody gets passed off. The person who evaluated you on day one is the person adjusting your plan in week six.

The other half is the part people notice later: we test, and we write the numbers down. Range of motion, strength, how far you can go before it talks back. That is how you know the plan is working, and it is how we know when you are done. The people who do best here are the ones who fix things: their houses, their teams, their families. This is where they finally fix the thing they’ve been putting off: themselves.

“If we cannot measure it, we cannot tell you it is working. So we measure it.”

What We Believe

Four things we’ll never compromise.

Your hour. Not shared.

No techs bouncing between rooms, no handoffs mid-visit. Just you and a Doctor of PT, the whole time.

Cause first. Symptoms follow.

You’ve probably chased the pain itself before and never found why it started. We find the why, then the ache stops coming back.

Plans end. That’s the point.

You shouldn’t need a punch card. Every plan comes with a graduation date, so you always know how close you are.

You’re not a protocol.

Your job, your body, your goals: that’s what your plan is built around, never pulled from a generic sheet.

The Difference

Not your typical clinic.

A typical clinic

  • You explain your pain to a different aide every visit
  • Your hour gets split with two other patients
  • The same pain creeps back in a few months
  • No graduation date, just book again next week

Elevate Physical Therapy and Fitness

  • One-on-one with a Doctor of Physical Therapy, every visit
  • Your full hour, uninterrupted, every time
  • A cause-first evaluation before we treat anything
  • A plan with an endpoint, mapped out on day one

Feel the difference in your first visit.

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The Team

The people behind your recovery.

Four clinicians, four doctorates. Whichever one you see, you see them for the whole visit.

Dr. Sean McInerney, PT, DPT, OCS

Dr. Sean McInerney

  • PT, DPT
  • OCS
  • Residency Trained

Co-owner. Orthopedic residency trained at UIC, board certified, and published in the Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy. Ask him about shoulders and post-surgical returns.

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Dr. Daniel Wrzosek, PT, DPT, OCS

Dr. Daniel Wrzosek

  • PT, DPT
  • OCS
  • Dry Needling

Co-owner. Board certified in orthopaedics, trained in dry needling, SFMA and video gait analysis. Ask him about running mechanics and low backs that will not settle.

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Dr. Rachel Richard, PT, DPT

Dr. Rachel Richard

  • PT, DPT
  • Pelvic Health
  • ASTYM

Herman & Wallace trained through Pelvic Floor Level 2 and a certified ASTYM provider. Ask her about pelvic health, postpartum return to running, and the questions nobody wants to ask out loud.

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Dr. Kaylee Piven, PT, DPT

Dr. Kaylee Piven

  • PT, DPT
  • Orthopedics

Doctorate from Tufts University, with clinical experience in orthopedic and pediatric settings. She works with patients of all ages and loves the variety of outpatient orthopedics.

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Rooted in River Forest

This is our neighborhood too.

We’ve been treating River Forest for 7+ years: your neighbors, your teammates, your kids’ coaches. The mom who’s been pushing through it so nobody else has to worry? She’s probably on our schedule too. Recovery is a lot more personal when it’s local.

  • Oak Park
  • Forest Park
  • Elmwood Park
  • River Grove
  • Berwyn
  • Maywood

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Book Your Visit

Ready when you are.

Request a time and a real person calls you back. No phone tree. No ‘someone will reach out.’ Just a plan.

  • Hours Mon–Thu 7am–7pm · Fri 7am–5pm
  • (708) 657-4038 Prefer to talk now? Call us.
  • No referral needed in Illinois

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