Empower Physical Therapy Bellingham

04/12/2026

04/12/2026

Upper neck manipulation for headache, neck, and jaw pain relief. A quick input to the nervous system reduces muscle guarding, improves mobility, and facilitates improved muscle recruitment allowing for exercise with fewer symptoms and a quicker overall physical therapy process!

04/04/2026

Most people don’t realize that physical therapist can do manipulations in Bellingham because most physical therapist in Bellingham do not do them. Washington requires a Spinal Manipulation Endorsement to be able to perform them, which entails a lot of class and practice hours making it prohibitive for PTs. It’s a quick and easy treatment that when combined with exercise can make powerful changes to the nervous system. We’ve been using them to help people for 10 years!

Coach of woke up with some neck pain. Thanks Derek of .agency for the cameraman commentary 😅

04/03/2026

Hopefully there’s not a poor elephant with a snout ache out there! Dry needling with E-stim to reduce pain and muscle guarding in the neck and shoulder.

04/01/2026

player continuing to iron out some of her inefficiencies around old injuries to get ready for the upcoming season!

03/23/2026

Build the foundation - and you won’t fail. Regaining athletic function after an ACL injury is no joke, we’re here to support and coach you through the process every step… and jump of the way.

03/21/2026

Any lifters working through some back pain??? This one’s for you!

5-8 rounds
• 500m ski erg (cardio + trains into flexion rather than avoid it and get stuck not having access to it = chronic pain)
• 90/90 hip hinge (mobility) x10 e/s
• Loaded Chinese Plank (posterior chain stability) x45sec
• Offset PVC chaos carry x30sec e/s (reactive lateral core stability - this one smokes). If you lack space an offset kettlebell chaos carry would substitute
• Box lateral step downs - single leg hip hinge control x20 e/s

From significant back trauma from a bad fall on concrete to deadlifting and squatting flares to disc pain bending over to pick up my kids, I’ve experienced them all. Bad medical advice left me with chronic pain for 7 years. The positive - working through my experiences enabled me to help hundreds get out of back pain and restore full functional capacity. It’s always a journey and it can be more complicated and debilitating than many other injuries, we understand it, we’ve gotten past it multiple times. You want us in your corner 👊

03/17/2026

putting in the work! Trying to sure up some motor control about the hip and ankle

03/13/2026

Environment matters.

Being located inside means we get to work alongside a community that truly values strength, movement, and long-term performance.

We have access to an incredible facility loaded with fun tools to engineer durability.

It creates the perfect bridge between training and rehab — helping people stay in the gym and in the outdoors doing what they love.

Grateful for the partnership and the people who make this place what it is.