Your hour. Not shared.
No techs bouncing between rooms, no handoffs mid-visit. Just you and a Doctor of PT, the whole time.
About Elevate Physical Therapy and Fitness
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.
Our Story
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
No techs bouncing between rooms, no handoffs mid-visit. Just you and a Doctor of PT, the whole time.
You’ve probably chased the pain itself before and never found why it started. We find the why, then the ache stops coming back.
You shouldn’t need a punch card. Every plan comes with a graduation date, so you always know how close you are.
Your job, your body, your goals: that’s what your plan is built around, never pulled from a generic sheet.
The Difference
Feel the difference in your first visit.
Schedule AppointmentThe Team
Four clinicians, four doctorates. Whichever one you see, you see them for the whole visit.
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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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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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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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.
Read Kaylee’s bioInside the Clinic
Rooted in River Forest
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.
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Request a time and a real person calls you back. No phone tree. No ‘someone will reach out.’ Just a plan.
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That’s the hard part done. We’ll call during business hours to lock in your time.
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