Why did you choose the name The Kilo Physio?

I chose the name The Kilo Physio because I want to be the go-to physical therapists for strength and barbell athletes, namely, Olympic weightlifters, CrossFit athletes, powerlifters, bodybuilders, throwers, and other sports with a high strength and explosiveness aspect.

The name “kilo” is short for kilogram, which is the unit of measurement for weight used for competing in powerlifting and Olympic weightlifting. Physio is short for physiotherapist, another term for physical therapist.

I chose this name because of my history in strength sports, starting in 2011 when I immediately fell in love with the power, strength, and athleticism of Olympic weightlifting. Over the years I have competed in both Olympic weightlifting and powerlifting.

During training in Olympic weightlifting, I was often injured, and about ⅓ of my time was spent rehabilitating or training around an injury. The worst injury I had was a right calf injury; I strained a calf muscle and my coach at the time told me to push through it. This turned a mild muscle strain into a more severe strain that caused me to be unable to do anything explosive, such as snatching, power cleaning, and sometimes even squatting, because it would result in significant pain and limping after the set. This essentially laid me off from training for almost a year and it still affected my training for the rest of the time I trained seriously in weightlifting. I honestly believe if I had a physical therapist knowledgeable in Olympic weightlifting, I could have returned to Olympic weightlifting much faster and rehabilitated it from interfering with my training for so long.

The experience with the injury, and the extreme difficulty of finding a physical therapist knowledgeable in Olympic weightlifting, caused me to decide to become a physical therapist for strength athletes, to help people like me.

During my physical therapy program, I learned how most outpatient physical therapy clinics operate. Because of how insurance works, to stay profitable, physical therapists see multiple patients at once, and often the physical therapist will only see the patient for 15 minutes before passing them to aide.

I did not want to work in a clinic like that, and be beholden to insurance. I decided to start a fee-for-service physical therapy clinic so I can provide excellent physical therapy care with one-on-one sessions to produce great results with fewer visits. This often creates less cost to the patient in the long-run because of high copay costs, needing to spend more time and money traveling to more appointments, and getting healthier faster.

This has resulted in me opening a physical therapy clinic in January 2020, out of Liberation Barbell Club, in southeast Austin, Texas.

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