Xtra Mile Physical Therapy

Xtra Mile Physical Therapy XMPT helps active people to be happy, healthy and strong without pain.
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12/10/2025

Are you at your wits’ end living with constant lower back, hip or leg pain? Have you been misdiagnosed with conditions like sciatica, pelvic floor issues, degenerative disc disease and even hip issues like bursitis that no treatments are solving? 😔 Have you spent years (and 💵) for relief, seen multiple healthcare professionals only to find temporary solutions that never address the root cause of your pain and provide long-term relief? 😢

I found a process that works really well to help align things better so you’re not in pain anymore. It doesn’t show up on MRI, so many people are suffering unnecessarily.

The best news for you is you will know RIGHT away if we can help you based on your response to treatment at your first visit. We will NOT accept you as a patient if we cannot significantly relieve or eliminate your pain at your consultation! 🤝

Sound good? Reply “back“ and we can arrange a time that you can come into the clinic.

12/09/2025

Here’s a clip from a recent episode of Healthy and Active in the Couve, a podcast I’m doing with of Do you have pain:
- Sitting (or on certain surfaces hurts)
- Rolling over in bed
- Bending back or forward
- If mornings start with pain and the need to move around before your back loosens up to relieve the pain
- Standing after sitting for awhile
There is a condition that doesn’t show up on X-rays and MRI’s that the medical system often overlooks.
Dr. Trent’s philosophy is simple: real care means empowering patients to stay well on their own. His goal is to fix the problem at its root—then teach you how to stay better, so you don’t need to keep coming back after your rehabilitation program.
Limited spots available.
Book your appointment here today! Link in bio

12/08/2025

Do you have pain:
- Sitting (or on certain surfaces hurts)
- Rolling over in bed
- Bending back or forward
- If mornings start with pain and the need to move around before your back loosens up to relieve the pain
- Standing after sitting for awhile
There is a condition that doesn’t show up on X-rays and MRI’s that the medical system often overlooks.

Dr. Trent’s philosophy is simple: real care means empowering patients to stay well on their own. His goal is to fix the problem at its root—then teach you how to stay better, so you don’t need to keep coming back after your rehabilitation program.
Limited spots available.
Book your appointment today! I can see you as early as tomorrow! Link in Bio

12/05/2025

The cartoony version of me discusses how chronic lower back, hip, and SI joint pain is often misdiagnosed, and share a personalized approach to identifying and resolving the root causes of persistent pain without generic treatments.

12/03/2025

After nearly 20 years in PT, I’ve found that many things I assigned to clients were superfluous—-aka not necessary! Plus they didn’t do them anyway!
By paring down to the things that moved the needle the most, I got more success in helping my clients heal.
It’s all about learning from experience. What’s great now is that I can get results and help my clients get back to the life they love…and not depend on me.

12/01/2025

Ankle mobility is such an important part about human motion, because if you don’t move from your ankle, then other parts have to move more.

The exercises that Tanner is demonstrating get him to move a little bit more through the ankle, and also helps open up the hips.

Also by standing on single leg or having the back foot propped, it helps challenge single leg stability for when we’re walking running or jumping.

Plus Michael Scott loves it! So give these a try!

12/01/2025

Stubborn lower back pain which should be lasting more than six months can be often treated to an issue at the SI joint, where part of the pelvic bone presses up against the tailbone.

People with this kind of pain have difficulty standing after sitting for a while, also after getting out of bed or rolling in bed. They can also have issues sitting on certain surfaces.

Unfortunately, this doesn’t show up on MRI, and many people have unnecessary injections or surgery to try to help this issue. However, most of the time it doesn’t work.

By looking at some simple movements in the exam room, I can figure out if the SI joint is the reason why your pain is persisting, and we were too realign issues so the compression isn’t causing the pain anymore

Such a great feeling to help people get out of pain the first visit. However, it takes time for muscles to work and realign the bones in the pelvis, so this compression doesn’t persist.

If you have any issues with the lower back and you’ve been to other PT‘s or lower back professionals,drop me a message and I’m happy to set up a time we can get you in for an exam.

11/18/2025

It’s great when we don’t have a lot of pain anymore with having an injury, but it also is a dangerous time where we may overdue in advertently.

We all want to go out and run or Lyft or go fallout on our sport, but often times are tissues need a little more time before we can give it 100%.

So it’s important to continue to work with your rehab process and do the tedious but meaningful work that helps make your tissue stronger.

That’s why the folks who sign up for a full plan of care with me do way better than those who are going visit to visit and just “see how it goes“.

10/28/2025

A simple lateral step down is such a basic way to improve single leg dynamic balance, hip and quad strength while encouraging ankle mobility with proper alignment.
Simple, but not easy!
Give it a simple try like I did in the video, and if it’s too easy, then go from a steeper step like an 8 inch step., Or even further!

10/17/2025

Runners can be the worst patients, but I understand that unique nature of a runner to be able to speak to their challenges and issues.

The endorphin rush we get from running makes us deal with pain in a different way than most of the normal population does.

This leads to neurotic behavior where we do irrational things such as run on an injury.

From experience, I’ve had the same issue with ignoring my body signals to just plow through that next run or workout.

We behave like addicts many times!

So as a physical therapist who deals with runners’ issues all day, it’s important to have a runner to runner conversation on what activities are OK and which ones are not.

It’s this relationship that separates me from the normal run of the mill physical therapist, and what helps me get better results.

10/16/2025

All your desk workers out there, listen up.

By getting up from your chair routinely and doing a couple stretches like shown here in the video, you will find that you feel better in general after doing this for just a week or so.

The first exercise demo is to try to create some passive extension of your thoracic spine, which tends to get really flexed forward with your head and shoulders, leaning towards the screen all day.

The second exercise is actually for strengthening the muscles in the mid back that tend to get lengthened and weakened over extended periods of time slumping.

By doing simple exercises like this, you can feel better with your daily function, but also with your exercising such as running.

For further tips and exercise ideas, be sure to follow me and DM me if you have any questions.

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