Head to Toh Physical Therapy

Head to Toh Physical Therapy I help active adults resolve the root cause of their pain and live the active life they desire.

Are you ready to overcome the pain or injury holding you back from living the active life you want? At Head to Toh Physical Therapy we empower adults in Colorado Springs, CO with the assistance, knowledge, and guidance they need to stay active without wasted time or money.

12/04/2025

I’ve been talking about leg extensions for a bit.

I used to rag on them like everybody else calling them “not functional”.

But I’ve learned that is nonsense, and that isolating quad strength can be a really powerful tool for both rehab and performance.

I definitely love all compound lifts as well for the quads including all squat variations, lunges, split squats, step downs etc. But sometimes with injury our bodies can be really creative in working around painful areas during compound movements.

Enter leg extensions.

As some have said, leg extensions leave nowhere for the quad to hide. You can’t really compensate on this one. So it can be a great tool for that reason.

In the world of rehab, quad strength is SUPER important when it comes to ACL rehab. But it also can be a real big one in many types of knee pains and injuries.

It is not uncommon for pain or injury to cause quad inhibition and weakness, which can often bleed over into compensations elsewhere in the hip, foot and lower back.

So for a variety of lower body and low back issues, restoring confidence and strength in the quad can be huge.

And that is why I decided to get this leg extension/leg curl machine from

Let’s work on getting them quads and hammies nice and beefy and resilient 😎

12/03/2025

Learn more about Head to Toh Physical Therapy and how we can help you with your pain or injury and getting back to your active and healthy lifestyle.

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11/21/2025

Don’t mind my bed head 😜. Just sharing some morning thoughts about the differences between short and long term approaches in rehab.

I think it is a very important distinction to make as the approaches will often look very different.

Often I hear people tell me this one treatment whether it be dry needling, a form of massage, foam rolling, cupping, or some unique exercise helped their pain a lot, which is great. But often they take that to mean that they need that same thing ongoing to prevent the pain from coming back, and I would argue that is pretty rarely the case.

Nothing inherently wrong with using these things on an ongoing basis. But if it is clear from a persons history that movement stress is a trigger for their pain (and sometimes even when it’s not), using a progressive movement based approach can be super important to build a long term strategy and prevent future recurrence of pain or injury.

I am always in the works of empowering my patients to find long term solutions that not only prevent injury, but improve their long term health.

Disclaimer: I’m not a health insurance professional and you should definitely seek the advice of a health insurance prof...
11/14/2025

Disclaimer: I’m not a health insurance professional and you should definitely seek the advice of a health insurance professional such as or .

I’m just sharing my own experience. These are numbers drawn up for my exact situation.

I do have a strong general sentiment that health insurance sucks. They are companies whose only concern is their bottom line, and they have WAY too much sway in health care decision making in our major medical health system today.

That being said, everyone needs catastrophic coverage. And everyone has different medical needs.

But for a person who is generally healthy and is mostly just looking for reasonable catastrophic coverage, a reliable health share paired with an accident plan and a Direct Primary Care Provider can be a NO BRAINER for some.

Important caveat here, a health share is technically and legally not insurance. And so they are not legally required to reimburse you for your medical bills. But this is where good research on companies that are legit is important. I personally use Zion and know they are well vetted and have a reliable reputation.

When I pair a health share with an accident plan, the accident plan would reimburse me for any incurred medical expenses caused by an accident, making my effective cost of an accident related medical incident effectively $0. (This includes reimbursing for the deductible).

And those two alone can provide incredible catastrophic coverage for a much lower cost than what is on the marketplace.

But if you want to take it a step further and add direct Primary care provider, you now have unlimited visits and access to a doctor you choose who will actually take the time to get to know you and be through. No red tape, no long waits, no BS. Just great primary care accessible to you at an extremely affordable rate.

Again, I’m not a health insurance professional, but I just wish more people knew these amazing options existed.

11/06/2025

Thank you to for the shoutout!

Honored to help you reach your health and fitness goals. It’s what we do. And we love it. And grateful for the opportunity.

11/05/2025

Being injured sucks.

Not just because pain sucks, but because you can’t do stuff in your life you want to do!

The mental burden of that can sometimes be the worst part about it.

I’ve been experiencing this myself over the past year coming back from 2 bad ankle sprains and not being able to play basketball.

I remember now honestly how bummed out I was the first month or two not being able to play. I kind of forgot about that and tried to cope and do what I could by doing the work and finding other outlets. But none of them ever hit the same.

But this morning I got to just play a few simple one on one games for the first time in almost 9 months, and the change in my mood and energy is just astounding.

I forgot how much I missed the game.

I’m sharing this to just say that I get it. Being injured sucks! But it’s part of why I love doing what I do, so I can help you get back to the things you miss doing, the things that keep you sane, relieve your stress and give you life.

And special shout to Adam with for being my own PT in my process with this ankle rehab. His support and insights and advice has been invaluable.

And I’m just pumped to have had that one small, but what feels like a huge win this morning of just starting to have a semblance of playing basketball again.

New office, new year, and about to put the mission picture frame back up on the wall, I figured it was a good time to r...
11/04/2025

New office, new year, and about to put the mission picture frame back up on the wall, I figured it was a good time to review the Mission of Head to Toh.

Our values are the same, and our vision is the same. And the mission has the same themes, but is more up to date with who I am now and where I want to take this business.

Let me know what you think!

10/30/2025

💣It’s simple, but not easy.

🔑Good rehab has 2 key components. And they both start with a “P”.

🔥It’s personalized, and it’s progressed over time.

👎If you are getting, or have done rehab in the past that was generic exercises and was the same for months and months, don’t be surprised if you don’t get better.

💩This is the type of “rehab” if we can even call it that, that makes people think “Physical Therapy didn’t work for me” or worse yet, end up getting avoidable surgery.

➡️Find someone who can make your rehab personalized to your unique needs and goals, and progressed over time to build up your body’s capacity to do what you want it to do.

Posting a lot today but it’s national cat day so I literally had no choice but to add another. Also don’t ask my how man...
10/29/2025

Posting a lot today but it’s national cat day so I literally had no choice but to add another.

Also don’t ask my how many photos of my cat I have on my phone. It’s top secret.

Where my cat people at!?

Biomechanics is just one piece of the puzzle. For some it’s the biggest piece, for some it’s a partial piece, and for so...
10/29/2025

Biomechanics is just one piece of the puzzle.

For some it’s the biggest piece, for some it’s a partial piece, and for some it might not even be a piece at all.

Pain is complex in the variety of factors that can potentially affect it. And this is why going and doing surgery for discovered tissue damage is not always the answer!

This is the chart I use with a lot of my clients to help to conceptualize their pain experience and try and make some sense of it.

This isn’t a perfect chart by the way. It’s a visual representation of concepts that aims to summarize what we have learned about pain from research. We definitely don’t have all the answers. But my goal with this chart is to help people understand the concepts we do know, and use it to map out a plan for them that makes sense.

10/29/2025

Orthopedic surgeons are experts in biomechanics, not necessarily in pain.

I know they went to a lot of school and training, and I do not doubt their expertise when it comes to actually doing surgery and an understanding of the physical structures of the body.

However, and this is super important, pain is not always directly related to physical structure damage!

Maybe I need to say it a little louder for those in the back.

Structural damage shown on an Xray or MRI is not always directly correlated with pain. Sometimes it is. Very often it’s not.

Pain is more complex that just physical structure. And biomechanicd is just one piece of this puzzle.

For some individuals, pain can be very much so biomechanically driven. For others, it might only be part of the picture, and for others it might not be a factor at all.

So when it comes to deciding on surgery, if we cannot say for sure that the said physical structure is causing the pain, or even have good reason to believe its unrelated, why would we go and do surgery on that? It makes no sense.

But because orthopedics very often only look at the lens of biomechanics exclusively, this is why orthopedic surgeries for pain are over recommended and over done.

I am sure this is not all orthos, but I have heard it and seen it too many times. And performing expensive and risky surgeries on people where it’s not appropriate is just too costly a decision to miss.

I don’t doubt their intensions. I am sure most of them mean well.

But if they are only looking at it with the tunnel vision of biomechanics only, and there was no clear mechanism of injury, this approach will yield bad advice.

And as a result, way too many people are getting surgery they don’t need. And it’s a big problem. And it’s my mission to help prevent that for as many people as possible by educating and empowering people about their pain and making a decision on whether or not to get surgery for pain.

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10/28/2025

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