039 Spooner Physical Therapy with Tim Spooner, PT & LaRissa Shaps, PT : Ahwatukee Uncensored with Howard Farran

Ahwatukee Uncensored with Howard Farran

Tim Spooner, PT, FAFS is the owner and CEO of Spooner Physical Therapy, an 18-location outpatient private practice in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Tim opened Spooner Physical Therapy in 1990 with the philosophy that every patient should be empowered with the knowledge and ability to function at their highest level and promote healing. Over time, Health in Motion has become the Spooner tagline. Tim has deeply embedded the idea of clinical and conceptual motion into the vision and the culture of the organization, embracing motion as being healthy in all aspects. Tim maintains a Bachelor of Science degree in Physical Therapy from the University of North Dakota, along with a completed Fellowship of Applied Functional Science (AFS) through the Gray Institute. He has been using AFS strategies for nearly 30 years to treat his patients, as well as to coach, mentor and train the therapists within his company.

LaRissa has four years of clinical experience with treating individuals with breast cancer. She graduated from Creighton University with a Doctorate in Physical Therapy in 2010. Upon her graduation LaRissa possessed a passion to make a difference in people’s lives, being on the cutting edge of cancer and orthopedic rehabilitation, and acting as an advocate for her patients. She possesses an in-depth knowledge of and empathy for the emotional and psychological stresses that can accompany the diagnosis of breast cancer. Her passion is to revolutionize the way that women recover from mastectomies, lumpectomies and diagnosis of breast cancer. She pursues this through innovative education, evidence based rehabilitation, advanced manual therapy techniques, and return to fitness programs that promote three dimensional training. LaRissa is a Fellow of Applied Functional Science from the Gary Gray Institute and is trained in assessing the body three dimensionally to achieve lasting results for her patients. While she is trying to change the world one breast at a time, she is also focused on her other passions: running, hiking and spending time with her family and husband Benjamin.

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