Dynamic Physical Therapy opened in Cottonwood Heights in 2015, built around one rule: your Doctor of Physical Therapy stays in the room for the entire appointment.
"No more aides and no more waiting to get just ten minutes with your therapist."
Dr. Matthew Nelson learned trigger point dry needling in 2007. He moved to Salt Lake City in 2009 and found a problem: Utah law did not allow physical therapists to perform it. He had a technique he believed in and no legal way to use it on the people who needed it.
Most clinicians would have moved on. From 2009 to 2014 he worked with the state of Utah and with his professional organization to change the law instead. It passed in 2014. That same year the Utah Physical Therapy Association named him Physical Therapist of the Year.
In 2015 he and his wife, Dr. Jessica Bauerkemper, opened Dynamic Physical Therapy together. The point was not another clinic. The point was to fix the other thing that bothered him: patients getting ten minutes with a therapist and the rest of the hour with an aide. So they built a clinic where the therapist spends the entire appointment with the patient. No aides. No handoffs.
In 2024 the Utah Physical Therapy Association named the clinic PT Clinic of the Year.
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"Dynamic (adj):
characterized by constant change,
activity, or progress."
That is the word we chose, and it is the standard we hold ourselves to. We strive never to become static in our treatment approach. What we used five years ago is not automatically what we use today, and the reason patients get the whole appointment is so there is time to actually change course when the evidence in front of us says to.
Your Doctor of Physical Therapy stays in the room start to finish. No aides running your program, no waiting for ten minutes of real attention. This is the reason the clinic exists.
Dr. Nelson has taught over 75 continuing education courses and keeps adding to his own training, including a therapeutic pain specialty and a Titleist Performance Institute Medical Level 3 certification. Learning is not a side project here.
Our 4-Phase Recovery Program does not stop at pain relief. Reduce the pain, prevent it coming back, prime the tissue, then perform. You leave when you can do the thing again.
Doctors of Physical Therapy, with over 40 years of combined experience between them. The therapist who evaluates you is the therapist who treats you.
Trigger point dry needling instructor since 2009 and the therapist who spent five years getting the technique legalized in Utah. Treats spine care, whiplash, chronic and complex pain, post-operative shoulder, knee and spine, and golf. Read his bio →
Born and raised in Salt Lake City, she opened Dynamic with Matt in 2015. Certified Pilates instructor and dry needling certified, focused on orthopedic care, spine, whiplash, and post-operative rehabilitation. Read her bio →
Completed an 18-month orthopedic residency after his doctorate and has worked with recreational, high school, semi-professional and professional athletes. Enjoys ACL repairs, low back pain, knee pain, tendinopathy and rotator cuff injuries. Read his bio →
Two Utah locations, Cottonwood Heights and Sugarhouse in Salt Lake City, both set up for one thing: one patient and one Doctor of Physical Therapy, working together for the whole appointment.
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They came from doing the work a different way. Here is what that has looked like since 2015.
The Utah Physical Therapy Association named Dynamic Physical Therapy its PT Clinic of the Year in 2024.
Voted one of the best in the Salt Lake Valley by the people who live here. We are grateful to everyone who voted.
Open since 2015 in Cottonwood Heights, now two Utah locations with our Sugarhouse clinic in Salt Lake City.
In network with eleven-plus carriers plus Medicare, and no referral is required to see a physical therapist in Utah.
Dr. Matthew Nelson worked from 2009 to 2014 to pass the legislation letting Utah physical therapists use trigger point dry needling. Utah named him Physical Therapist of the Year in 2014.
Over 40 years of combined experience, plus two AIB Cert-VR vestibular certifications and TPI Medical Level 3 for golfers. We are an OrthoAthlete and OrthoPatient partner, working with orthopedic surgeons along the Wasatch Front.
No referral needed. Utah has direct access to physical therapy, and we are in network with eleven-plus carriers plus Medicare.
Your first visit runs about an hour, with a Doctor of Physical Therapy, start to finish. Come in and tell us the whole history, not just the highlights. You leave with a plan built off your evaluation.
We’ll reach out within one business day to confirm your appointment. If you need to speak with us sooner, call us directly.
