Chief Medical Product Tester, Sleepopolis
DPT, OCS, ATC, CSCS
Joe is a South Florida native who relocated to North Carolina in 2007. He has been married to his wife and best friend, Lesley (also a Physical Therapist) since 2006, and they have two amazing girls, Caly and Lia. Joe grew up playing baseball and basketball, and wishes he would’ve played soccer, as both of his girls have taken a love of the sport. Joe has been a Crossfitter since 2004, and is constantly finding ways to challenge himself physically and mentally.
His varied style allows his fitness level to be ready to train for any event in two weeks. Joe recognizes the importance of living a healthy lifestyle as he tries to lead by example for his family and patients. He is also a major supporter of local charities, especially The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
On the weekends, you’ll either see him cheering for his girls at their soccer games, Florida Gator football, or finding a trail to hike. His biggest passion is traveling the world to hike the world’s tallest mountains. His goal is to hike on all seven continents with his Mom, Renee, his biggest hero.
Joe focuses on movement dysfunction, optimizing biomechanics via diverse manual therapy techniques in conjunction with therapeutic exercise to correct kinetic chain flaws. His career passions include evidence-based functional rehabilitation and spinal stability as it relates to correcting movement dysfunction for sports performance, job demands, and weight management. Joe is always a student, and seeks the most current and effective treatments for his patients. He uses this advanced knowledge to create patient-specific, sport/athlete-specific, year-round training/injury prevention programs according to age, previous injuries, competition level, position, energy system and work:rest and nutrition requirements.
While Joe is an expert in the field of orthopedic, sports physical therapy, and sports performance, he also helps guide patients’ overall wellness and has a large referral network to get them to the right specialist if surgical, medical, nutritional, sport coaching, or mental health consult is needed. Joe has treated athletes from pediatric to professional — PGA golfers, Endurance athletes, Olympic figure skaters, gymnasts, swimmers, and track athletes, tennis and pickleball players, lacrosse and soccer players, collegiate and NFL football, MLB baseball, NHL hockey, and NBA basketball players, CrossFit athletes, weekend warriors, professional ballerinas, and Broadway performers.
He currently serves as a sports medicine advisor for Lancaster, York, Union and Mecklenburg County high schools sports, Extreme Ice, Charlotte Rush Hockey, Porter Ridge Athletic Association, Lancaster Parks and Rec, Soccer Academies, Miller Street Dance Studio, Jami Masters School of Dance, Latitude 35 Crossfit, CrossFit Indian Trail, Indian Land Crossfit, CrossFit S3, CrossFit Kaiju, and Ultimate CrossFit. Joe also has a passion for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society for whom he has helped raise over $1 million in the past 8 years.
Learn more about Joe on the Athletix PT website.
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