Testimonials

Very occasionally, I'd say every 5-6+ years, through my work life I have suffered from back pain. That has largely to do with too much sitting, as my career has revolved around computer science and software development. As you can imagine, I have nimble fingers as a result, but they are generally the only parts of my physical self that get any activity in my day-to-day work life. However, I have always put physical fitness high on my priority list outside of work, I have been an avid runner (I have participated in easily over 100 "races" - 5ks to marathons over my lifetime), triathlete (likely in the order of 60 triathlons in total, from sprints to Ironman x 3) and have been engaged in all manner of outdoor sports in the mountains (ice climbing, rock climbing, skiing, etc), virtually my entire life. In dealing with my back pain, generally it has been stretching, time, pain killers, and sometimes dry-needling that has helped me recover. In the past I have usually consulted chiropractors and physiotherapists to help out, with limited success. 

The spring of 2020 I experienced my most debilitating round of back pain. It had me literally on the floor, and for many days, and it was painful and difficult to move for many weeks. Physiotherapy had virtually no remedial effect. This time I went for an acupuncture treatment (from a Naturopathic Doctor) which worked miraculously in it's first application to get me moving moderately better and I credit it for that. Subsequent treatments didn't help, strangely. 

After that I visited an Athletic Therapist (AT), Andrea Dowd. This was my first visit to an Athletic Therapist ever. My visit was very painful, but I welcomed the attempts to relieve the tension and spasming in my muscles. The various phases of exercise, stretching, heat and cold and return visits to Andrea for movement, massage and prescriptive exercises were truly amazing in their therapeutic effect. Let me reiterate "amazing". I very (relatively, shall I say) quickly felt my pain alleviate, my deactivated muscles become engaged and my range of motion improve. My recovery was steady, and I felt that finally I had found a healthcare provider that had the training, the practical knowledge and experience and the consequential understanding of human body mechanics to truly get to the root of my problem and provide the exercises and care that would effectively treat my problem and convey the understanding that I needed to help me better manage it in the future. 

The treatment I received from Andrea, a trained and professional Athletic Therapist, dealt not only with the symptoms, but also the "disease", the root cause. This is what I believe is the ideal medical practitioner in action. In my experience, this "root cause" treatment is sadly missing in many practitioners and healthcare professions. I am now approaching 60 and an AT will be my go-to healthcare provider for bio-mechanical ailments for me in the future. I can not possibly recommend them, and Andrea Dowd in particular, highly enough. 

David Roe

Hello I would like to start off by thanking Andrea and Precision Sports Therapy. 2 years ago I broke my collarbone, after having it fully healed and was able to go back to work, I ended up reinjurying it by having 100 pounds fall on it from overhead. After living in constant pain and seeing 2 different surgeons telling me its in my head, or just wanting to do useless surgery, I was losing hope I would never get back to what I liked to do pain free. But with the help from Andrea, with only 4 sessions I was getting full movement back with extremely less pain. And now after 3 months of going to Andrea, she has helped me find a surgeon that is wanting to do the surgery I need and get me on with my life painfree. I would like to give a huge thank you to Andrea Dowd.

" Never give up hope"..........   

Brenden Healey