Connellsville, PA · The staff
The people holding the plan.
Nine treating clinicians and four people at the desk, across Connellsville and Scottdale. Every visit is one-on-one with a licensed physical therapist, start to finish, no rotating cast of aides.
The standard we hire to.
This practice has been family owned since 2000, and three of the owners are family. That shapes hiring more than a policy document ever would. Nobody on this list is a temporary body filling a slot on a schedule, and nobody was hired to raise the number of patients one person can see in an hour.
Look at the roster and a pattern shows up on its own. Several of the therapists grew up in Scottdale and went to school within a short drive of the building. One of them started here in 2016, left to finish her doctorate, and came back to the same practice in 2022. Our physical therapist assistant has been here since 2003. That is not a recruiting pitch. It is just what the list looks like when people stay.
The license is the entry fee, not the interview. What we watch for after that is whether a candidate can explain, in plain language, what is actually wrong and why, to someone who has never heard the word “biomechanics” in their life. If they cannot do that across a table from us, they cannot do it for a patient at 7am on a Tuesday.
Left alone, the thing you keep putting off rarely gets worse in a dramatic way. It gets worse in a quiet way: one more chair you stop sitting in, one more errand you hand to somebody else, one more month of assuming this is just how it is now. The people below are the ones who take that apart.
The physical therapy team in Connellsville and Scottdale.
Twelve people, two clinics, one phone number each. Click any name for the longer version.
Treating clinicians.
The eight people who evaluate you, write the plan, and put hands on the problem.
Physical Therapist · PT, DPT, OCS, Pn-L1, CF-L1
A Connellsville native and the owner of the practice his parents opened in 2000. He won the 2009 NCAA Division I national wrestling title at Edinboro, earned his doctorate at the University of Pittsburgh in 2013, and is an Orthopedic Certified Specialist and Primary Spine Practitioner. Spine and orthopedics are his focus.
Physical Therapist · PT, DPT
He grew up in Scottdale and earned his doctorate at Saint Francis University with a minor in exercise physiology, which is the study of what a body actually does under load. He played on the men’s soccer team there.
Physical Therapist · PT, DPT
She grew up in Davidsville and earned a Bachelor of Science in Exercise Physiology before her Doctorate in Physical Therapy at Slippery Rock University. Her focus is orthopedic conditions, post-op rehab, and balance and sports injuries.
Physical Therapist · PT, DPT
She grew up in San Jose, California, and earned her Doctorate in Physical Therapy at the University of Pittsburgh after clinical rotations in outpatient orthopedics and sports PT. ACL and rotator cuff injuries are what she treats most.
Physical Therapist · PT, DPT, MTC
She started here in 2016, left to finish her doctorate at the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences in 2021, and rejoined the practice in 2022. Her MTC is a Manual Therapy Certification, the tested, hands-on end of the work. Before all of it she read Psychology at Washington & Jefferson College.
Physical Therapist · PT, DPT
He spent 2008 to 2014 at Wheeling Jesuit University, first for a bachelor of science in athletic training and then for the doctorate he finished in late 2014. He grew up in Greensburg and swam the 50, 100, and 200 yard freestyle in college.
Physical Therapist · PT, DPT
Health Sciences with a Psychology minor at PennWest Edinboro, then her doctorate at Chatham University, with rotations in acute care at Uniontown Hospital and outpatient orthopedics and neurology at a VA. She grew up in Scottdale, went to Southmoreland, played collegiate softball, and is a “PT Moves Me” ambassador.
Physical Therapist Assistant · BS, PTA
A physical therapist assistant with a Penn State bachelor’s degree and a PTA associate’s degree from 1996. She has been here since 2003, the longest tenure of anyone on this list, and she carries out a licensed physical therapist’s plan of care visit by visit.
The support team.
The four people who handle the desk, the scheduling, and the billing. They do not treat patients, and that line is drawn on purpose: it is what keeps your hour on the floor about you.
Billing and Office Coordinator
She joined in 2022 on the front desk and as a PT aide, then moved into billing and office coordination in 2023. If your question is about what a visit costs, it lands with her.
Front Desk and Receptionist
Front desk and receptionist at the Connellsville clinic, with twelve years of administrative experience behind her. Check-in, scheduling, and the questions you have before you have met anyone.
Front Desk and Receptionist
Front desk and receptionist, and a Mt. Pleasant native. Scheduling, check-in, and a straight answer when you call to ask what happens first.
Patient Care Coordinator
Patient Care Coordinator at the Scottdale clinic since 2022. Scheduling, intake, and the twenty small logistics that decide whether your first visit starts on time or starts twenty minutes late.
What they have in common.
If you read a staff page before you book anything, that is not fussiness. That is good judgment. Hands-on care means an actual person’s hands, and knowing whose they are before you show up is a reasonable thing to want. It is exactly why this page exists.
Past the letters after their names, the clinicians here run the same way. Every evaluation starts cause-first, not symptom-first: test, not guess. Every plan moves through the same four phases, Pain, Prime, Perform, Prevent. Calm it down, restore what is stuck, build strength you trust, make it stay fixed. Every visit is hands-on and one-on-one with a licensed physical therapist, the whole session, with no handoff to somebody else partway through.
And every one of them will tell you out loud, at the evaluation, roughly how many visits this should take and what finished is going to look like. A plan with an endpoint is the whole point. You do not need a referral to start; Pennsylvania allows direct access, so you can call us first.
“Very friendly, knowledgeable staff. Therapists truly listen to problems and actively work to resolve them! Highly recommended!”Camille S. · Patient review
Pick a name. Or let the evaluation pick for you.
Put it in writing.
Six short questions. A real person calls you back, usually within two business hours, with times that fit your week.
The people who end up filling this out are rarely in the worst pain of their life. They’re just done working around it, done picking the errand that doesn’t require the stairs. If that’s the stage you’re at, this is the part where you stop researching and start.
Consider it filed.
A real person will call you back, usually within two business hours, with appointment times that fit your week. Keep your phone nearby.
Can’t wait? Call (724) 628-7288 ⟶Two clinics. Same standard in both.
Connellsville and Scottdale, both fully staffed, both easy to park at. Come see either one before you commit, if you like.
Clinic 01 · Connellsville
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Clinic 02 · Scottdale
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