Level Up Your Sports Rehab Game

Guest Faculty

Dr. Amanda Olson is a pelvic health physical therapist, entrepreneur, author, and global educator with a passion for empowering men and women and advancing conversations around pelvic health. She has dedicated her career to breaking stigmas around pelvic health, supporting patients with conditions including cancer, incontinence, pelvic pain, cancer, pelvic organ prolapse, endometriosis, and MRKH, and developing innovative solutions to improve quality of life.

Dr. Olson is the president of Intimate Rose, a successful pelvic health device company that includes tools for managing pelvic pain, holds multiple patents, and has authored six peer-reviewed journal articles as well as the book Restoring the Pelvic Floor for Women. She is also the recipient of the Elizabeth Nobel Award, the highest honor bestowed in the field of pelvic health. She has collaborated with clinics worldwide, transforming lives through her tools, teaching and consulting. As an advocate for patients with sensitive issues, and medical innovation, Dr. Olson is committed to bridging the gap in pelvic and women’s healthcare and bringing education to underserved patient populations.

Faculty Instructor, Clinical Fellowship Instructor

State: VA

Advanced Kinetics Physical Therapy
510 W Annandale Road, Suite 202
Falls Church, VA 22046
(703) 988-4664
[email protected]

Angela T. Gordon has more than 20 years of clinical experience in orthopedic and sports physical therapy. She earned her Masters of Physical Therapy from Andrews University in Dayton, Ohio 2002, and her Doctorate of Science from Andrews University in Berrin Springs, Michigan 2012. Dr. Gordon earned her orthopedic manual therapist certification through NAIOMT in 2012 and became Board Certified Orthopedic Clinical Specialist from the American Physical Therapy Association in 2014.

In April 2013 Dr. Gordon became a published author for an article in the IJSPT: Relationships between core strength, hip external rotator muscle strength, and star excursion balance test performance in female lacrosse players. Dr. Gordon’s published a book chapter “Physical Therapy considerations Following Regenerative Medicine Interventions” in September 2017 in the textbook Regenerative Treatments in Sports and Orthopedic Medicine. In February 2018, Dr. Gordon earned her fellowship status through NAIOMT and the American Academy of Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapists.

Dr. Gordon has served as the lead physical therapist for the Washington Nationals Baseball in 2005 and from 2010-2015. She works extensively with numerous professional and semi professional athletes from Major League Baseball, PGA, Canadian Football League, and European basketball players. She also works closely with many high school and collegiate overhead throwers and female athletes.

Dr. Gordon is faculty with NAIOMT, teaching core and specialty courses in addition to being invited to speak at several annual sports medicine conferences across the country.

Dr. Gordon is the owner and creator of F. A.S.T.™ (Female Athlete Sports Training program).

In 2016 Dr. Gordon co-founded a physical therapy private practice geared towards orthopedics, sports medicine and injury prevention. Advanced Kinetics Physical Therapy and Sports Performance is a highly specialized physical therapy practice dedicated helping athletes and patients restore optimal function in the Washington DC metro area.

Learn more about Angela Gordon: Meaningful Mentors: Meet NAIOMT’s Angela Gordon, Personalities in PT: Angela Gordon

Guest Faculty

Vista Physical Therapy

Bobby Curtis, PT, DPT, SCS, CSCS, RKC, is a clinic director and partner with Vista Physical Therapy, who shares over 10 years of experience and success in providing quality physical rehabilitative care.

Bobby is an Allen, Texas native and competitive athlete in both baseball and football. In fact, Bobby attended Wayland Baptist University on a baseball scholarship for all four years while earning his Bachelor’s degree in Biology. Following his studies at Wayland, Bobby attended Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock, earning a Doctorate in Physical Therapy.

Bobby is an American Board-Certified Sports Specialist, focusing on athletes and the importance of proper tri-planar, rotational movement patterns while maintaining

stability and proper alignment. He also has extensive experience with the orthopedic population including overuse injuries, acute trauma, as well as post-surgical conditions of the spine and extremities. His treatment philosophies emphasize trigger point dry needling, spinal manipulation, joint specific mobilizations, myofascial release, soft tissue specific treatments, and management of chronic cervicogenic, cluster, and tension related headaches.

Bobby has also been featured as an expert contributor to various endemic media outlets, including a recent spotlight in an athletic rehab focused story in PT Products Magazine.

Bobby believes and practices heavily in the area of Functional strength and conditioning, leading him to obtain his certification in Strength and Conditioning from the NSCA, along with Russian Kettlebell training certification. Bobby has spent significant time rehabbing Division I-III NCAA and NAIA collegiate athletes, professional athletes from the MLB and NFL, as well as Olympic athletes and Special Forces Operators in his past, thus allowing them to compete and serve at the highest level possible while accomplishing their goals.

Alongside his commitment to Vista Physical Therapy, Bobby also serves at the local level as the Team Physical Therapist for McKinney Boyd Broncos. Also worth mentioning, earlier in his career, Bobby provided rehabilitation services to PGA professionals at his previous locations in Arizona as well as local golf professionals in the Collin County area, leading him to obtain his Titleist Performance Institute certification.

He believes local relationships with referral sources are the backbone to a successful practice as well as a thriving company and has had extensive experience building strong networks while pushing a customer service-based mindset with successful patient outcomes as the forefront to growth.

Guest Faculty

Sebastiano was born in Turin, Italy, in 1980.

Always into sports, with alpine skiing and soccer, then semi-professionally with futsal, he initially studied IT & Digital Communication and worked for a major Italian IT company as Web Accessibility Engineer until 2007.

Then, his life took a complete u-turn due to a complex knee injury, that forced him to stop any activity for more than 4 years, to dedicate all his efforts to the recovery from knee arthrofibrosis, undergoing multiple surgeries and daily PT 365 days a year.

Through an extended stay in the United States for knee specialized care, he had the opportunity to experience the differences between the EU and U.S. clinical-rehabilitative approaches.

This led him to choose to pursue a new path once back on his feet. He enrolled for a 4-year BSc in Physical Therapy in Switzerland with clinical rotation in the U.S., that he graduated from with the highest GPA of his course.

Afterwards he completed:

– a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Sports Physical Therapy at SUPSI University (Lugano, Switzerland)

– a Master’s degree in Biomechanics at San Raffaele University (Rome, Italy)

– a postgraduate stand-alone ‘Statistics in Health Research’ module (University of Oxford, UK)

– a Certificate of Advanced Studies in ‘Clinical Research’ (University of Basel, Switzerland)

– the MET Medical Exercise Therapy Program (Holten Institute, Sweden)

– multiple Strength and Conditioning certifications (Italy/UK)

– the Sportsmetrics™ Certification program, as certified Sportsmetrics™ instructor (United States)

He’s currently a PhD Candidate at University College Dublin (Dublin, Ireland) on the ACL rehabilitation of the knee.

Sebastiano also is the Coordinator for all the courses of the ‘Sports Rehab/Medicine, Exercise, and Scientific Research’ area for PhisioVit (CPD courses organizer, Italy) and Scientific Coordinator for English to Italian translations for Piccin Nuova Libraria (Italy).

He is the Coordinator of the Master’s Program in Clinical & Sport Biomechanics and Associate Professor (subjects: ‘Sports Biomechanics of the Lower Quadrant’ + ‘Biomechanical Assessment of Movement in Sport’) at the University of Camerino in Italy, and he’s been teaching courses internationally for physical therapists, athletic trainers, and health professionals on knee and lower limb injuries, and injury risk reduction.

He started practicing as a Physical Therapist in Switzerland and co-founded the ‘Sports Rehab’ PT & sports medicine clinics in 2018, launched the European Knee Arthrofibrosis Center (EUKAF) in 2021, and was the team physical therapist for the Swiss National Swimming Team from 2018 to the Tokyo Olympics 2020 (2021 due to the pandemic).

Since the beginning of 2020, he has been hired as a part-time clinical researcher at the EOC Clinical Research Orthopaedic & Traumatology Unit, in Lugano (Switzerland).

Sebastiano is a strong supporter of the evidence-informed practice in rehabilitation, and he takes care of the standardization of the clinical practice within Sports Rehab & EUKAF, where he works daily with patients and athletes.

Guest Faculty

Jamie is currently the Director of Sports Medicine Education for the Boston Red Sox
and spent eight years as Senior Physical Therapist and Clinical Specialist for the club.
He also serves as technical advisor and board member for VKTRY insoles, producer of
high-performance carbon fiber insoles. Prior to joining the Red Sox, he owned two
private physical therapy practices and was an Associate Professor in the Physical
Therapy Program for the University of Michigan. In addition, he developed and
administered Michigan’s Orthopedic Physical Therapy Residency Program housed at
MedSport, the University of Michigan’s premier sports medicine facility. Jamie is a
board certified Orthopedic Clinical Specialist through the American Physical Therapy
Association, and a certified Manual Physical Therapist through the North American
Institute of Orthopedic Manual Therapy. In addition to his professional degree in
physical therapy, he has two post-graduate degrees. A Masters and Doctoral degree in
Orthopedic Physical Therapy from Andrews University. He and his wife, Sandy, reside in
Lovells, Michigan.