MEET THE BALANCE PHYSICAL THERAPY TEAM
Chris Pierce, MSPT, CSCS. Chris Pierce, Balance co-founder, earned his master’s in Physical Therapy at Ithaca College. At Balance, Chris works with a variety of people, including children with physical challenges, competitive athletes who have experienced injuries, and healthy adults seeking to enhance their strength and conditioning. His goal is to help every client perform at his or her highest ability, both in sports and in their overall lives. He loves being outdoors, exercising with his family and friends all seasons of the year.
Peter Olson, MPT, OMT, ATC. Pete Olson, Balance co-founder, is a physical therapist and athletic trainer. Pete works with a broad spectrumof patients, including children with muscular dystrophy, seniors with gait problems, competitive athletes, and everyone in between. Pete partners with every patient to achieve success. He encourages patients to be active participants in the process, teaching them how their bodies work and how they can be involved in every aspect of therapy and training. With aspirations to sail the globe with his wife Cassandra, Pete is set to push off shore in 2021.
Nancy Manchester, MSPT. At Balance Physical Therapy, Nancy works with the full spectrum of patients. Her ongoing interests include manual therapy and women’s health. Through her continued education, Nancy has enhanced her expertise in treating shoulder injuries, as well as treatment of the spine and core stabilization. Nancy loves having a hands-on role in helping patients recover from pain and injuries. She enjoys helping patients improve their functionality and showing patients how to reclaim their independence and overall lives. She believes that an important part of her role as a physical therapist is to educate her patients about their bodies so that they are empowered to further their own healing. Nancy is the Balance “Mom” and enjoys actively supporting and photographing her 3 daughters in the theatre and on the playing fields.
Cathy Schilling, PT. Cathy Schilling has spent her professional career developing a specialty in orthopedics. With extensive coursework and practice in treatment of the musculoskeletal system, she enjoys helping people with injuries, pain, and disabilities return to their optimum level of functionality and independence. Cathy excels at head and neck pain treatments (including TMJ dysfunction), sprain and strain treatments, joint replacement rehabilitation and is also certified in the Graston Technique. Cathy enjoys spending time with her growing family, especially her grandchildren. Kathy Cortelyou, PT, SCS, ITPT. Over the past 18 years, Kathy has concentrated in the orthopedic and sports setting of physical therapy. With a team approach to
treating her patients at Balance, Kathy enjoys working with cases of post-concussion syndrome, running injuries, and shoulder instability. She loves helping her patients return to the lifestyle they love to live. Outside of Balance and local to Windham, NH, Kathy likes to cook, run, hike, paddle board, and spend time with her husband and daughter. Michelle Fecteau, PT. Michelle Fecteau is a physical therapist and certified in Manual Therapy. Michelle has gained vast experience in different roles within the physical therapy community including inpatient and outpatient, orthopedic private practice, acute care, rehab, nursing home, day rehab, and homecare. She treats people with neurological disorders with diagnoses of spinal cord injuries, CVAs, Parkinsons, MS, geriatrics with falls, balance issues, COPD, vertigo, vestibular hypofunction and CHF. She has advanced her manual skills to include Trigger Point Dry Needling with Balance Physical Therapy. Michelle’s goal is to help people to heal and encourage them along the way so they can reach their highest potential. Michelle enjoys life with her 2 daughters, exercise and boisterous laughter. Stephen “Doc” Ellis, PT. He spent over 29 years working with all types of orthopedic patients including sports injuries, total joint replacement rehab, Industrial medicine, Spine and Sacroiliac joint management, Biomechanical evaluation for Orthotics and is certified in Dry Needling. He encourages laughter throughout treatment and often engages in it himself. He recently was a patient at Balance for rehab following his ACL and meniscal repair after a soccer injury. He also had to rehab a separated shoulder from a motorcycle accident, so he understands the importance of hard work in therapy but that you can have fun along the way.
Call Balance Rehab at 603.890.8844 , or visit our website at balance-rehab.com to schedule your appointment today!
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