Xtra Mile Physical Therapy

Xtra Mile Physical Therapy XMPT helps active people to be happy, healthy and strong without pain.
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It’s been nice getting to know my new healing neighbors Andrew and Iku at Recovery Space here in Salmon Creek, right ac...
01/27/2026

It’s been nice getting to know my new healing neighbors Andrew and Iku at Recovery Space here in Salmon Creek, right across the way from my abode here inside .
They have two hyperbaric chambers: one that goes up to 2 atm of pressure and one that goes to 1.5.

They also have an awesome powerful red light panel that I had time to spend under there today. It is super relaxing and energizing! My friend Dr. Chris .chrisgosselin came with me and tried their very comfortable “hard shell” chamber.

I highly recommend that people go check this place out and support this local business. If you tell them I sent you, you get a significant discount on your first session.

Iku is also a health coach and can counsel you through improving your health using some special tests that they have in their space. Her husband, Andrew is an amazing advocate for health and optimizing our bodies capacities.

Check them out. You’ll be glad you did!

01/27/2026

I see it… most people have been diagnosed with herniated discs, they have arthritis, or something that is found on an x-ray and MRI, but there is a condition that doesn’t really show up on x-rays and MRIs. It is a mechanical condition, and
the mechanical condition is that their pelvis slightly slips out of alignment and causes massive back pain, and then show them massive back pain. It can cause pain across their back, and can cause pain.
It can cause buttock pain, it can cause groin pain, hip pain, and it can even
go down their legs and mimic sciatica, but it’s not true sciatica. It’s not true sciatica. It is the great imitator of sciatica. In a referred pain chart of this condition, of this mechanical condition in someone’s back that goes out of alignment.
And it doesn’t show up on x-rays and MRIs, and they can get referred pain, numbness, weakness.
tingling, any symptoms of sciatica.

If this is happening for you potentially, please let me know and I can help figure out if this is actually what is going on. Usually, within a minute, I can get the mechanical block to decrease your pain with movement, validating my diagnosis and getting you on the right path to feeling much better.

Had a great class on Saturday!I’m going to do more of these the next few Saturdays, hope to see some more walkers and r...
01/26/2026

Had a great class on Saturday!
I’m going to do more of these the next few Saturdays, hope to see some more walkers and runners join us!

01/23/2026

In this close-up view of SoftWave, you can see how the membrane contains water, and that water is pushed to that membrane and creates electro hydraulic waves that go into the body about 12 cm.

This physical phenomenon that occurs creates a shearing force at the cellular level to scar tissue and inflamed tissue, stimulating your body‘s own healing response.

This response includes the migration of stem cells to the area, actually healing the area and not just covering up pain. However, a nice side benefit Is that people generally leave the clinic feeling quite a bit better…without spending thousands for invasive stem cell injections.

It’s hard to really completely explain. Soft wave until you get to try it yourself and feel it in person if you’d like to give it a try drop me a message or call me at the clinic at 360-8002799

01/22/2026

There are a lot of cool things that I’m working on right now behind the scenes that I can’t wait to share with many of you.

It’s gonna change the way that I can help you and it’s gonna be so much better.

Be on the lookout for an announcement coming soon, I’m so excited to share it with you and I think you’re gonna love it.

01/21/2026

A common thing I see with people back and buttock pain is torsion of the sacrum.

This is just a fancy way of saying that your tailbone is twisted a bit.

Normally, this is due to an imbalance between hip muscles that attach the tailbone and are pulling at different strengths: one side is stronger, and the other side is weaker.

A simple thing to do to help with this is the exercise I show here in the video. By doing a simple hip, external rotation exercise with band, we activate the muscles on One side of the tailbone to help coax it back into a better position.

This is all part of my SI joint and sick rotation protocol that I learned from Dr. Ryan Whelton of . He has some amazing practical stuff that works in my clinic and clinics around the world.

Give this exercise a try and be consistent for a while and see how that can help improve your back pain or sciatic symptoms. It may not be the whole picture, but it could be a good start.

01/20/2026

This technique is absolutely mind blowing!
Who knew that stimulating a hip in a certain spot can help relieve pain in the ankle, or a spot on the leg can make your shoulder improve range of motion?
Apparently Dr Ryan Whelton of did!
I thought it was total BS but then tried it out, and I’ve been pleasantly surprised. It’s great when you don’t even have to touch the painful areas to get a good result. It’s not completely fool proof, but it’s a great tool in my toolbox.
This is why I’m so different…I look at the body as an energetic system, and apply methods that have worked for the best therapists and clinics around the world.

01/19/2026

I’m passionate about life but also just connecting through Running and relationships. It’s nice to have a reminder of this on my wall at work that I can see every day.

I love teaching ChiRunning classes because it connects to our energetic selves and how we need to move with nature and not against it. ChiWalking is actually just as fulfilling because we get folks to recognize how much they’ve been straining, and we can correct that in the class

I love to share what I’ve learned in these classes and with my experiences in life, so if you have any questions, let me know.

01/18/2026

My examination of hundreds of low back pain patients have now shown that there is a correlation with imbalance is around the tailbone and the hip bones in what is called the SI joint.

When the structures are aligned, you can create a painful bone on bone sheering which radiates and looks like sciatica.

By lining structures up, like a Rubik’s cube alignment, we can dramatically decrease pain mechanically, then work specific exercise exercises to reinforce this alignment.

If you’ve had nagging low back pain and into the tailbone and hip area, And it’s lasted for months and nobody knows what it is, drop me a message and we’ll set up a time to get your examination scheduled.

01/17/2026

This is so so simple that most people negate that this can even be helpful for their low back pain…or actually a lot of pain in the body.

I came across the method called Total Motion Release in the late 2000s, and have been dumbfounded by how simple and effective it can be.

The most common stretch that I have clients do is to test their twisting, going right and left, then to exclusively perform repetitions to the side that feels easier.

A lot of people will have an improvement in their tight side after they perform the easier side. It’s a simple case of what’s called reciprocal inhibition, where one side of the body is working and naturally the other side of the body has to relax and unwind.

You really can help to unkink a body that has impaired symmetry which limits motions in all planes.

If you’re curious how this works, I’m happy to show you the basics which I can do on a simple video call. Once you know the tools, then you can help get your body moving well for life.

Here’s to a life of better mobility and empowerment to move more intelligently!

01/16/2026

If you’re frustrated with an injury that you’ve been dealing with for some time, there’s no better time than the present to take care of it.

Many times other health providers may only look at a symptom, and not how the whole body works as an energetic system.

By employing techniques that address how the body moves as a hole and how the body heals according to the laws of nature, we get much better results in this clinic then your typical physical therapy or other healthcare practice.

We use groundbreaking tech technologies, such as SoftWave TRT, which activates your body‘s own healing mechanisms. It’s been a game changer for the last two years that I’ve had it.

So if you’re really looking to get a long-term solution and get your body back doing the things you’d like to do, drop me a message and I’m happy to talk to you about how we can help.

01/15/2026

People (especially those 40+) love SoftWave because it works. Here’s why:
It uses sound waves (traveling at 3,355 mph) to:
🔹 Wake up dormant stem cells
🔹 Stimulate blood flow
🔹 Break up scar tissue
🔹 Reduce inflammation at the source
It’s like hitting “reset” on your body’s healing system—without drugs or downtime.
📍 Join us this Saturday (January 17) from 9–12 for a focused 15-minute SoftWave treatment at Xtra Mile PT.
🎯 Just $59 (normally $200+) for newbies!
🚨 Only 9 sessions available—and they’re going fast. DM me for details!

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