We recently connected with Sasha Torres and have shared our conversation below.

Sasha, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Is there a heartwarming story from your career that you look back on?

My career has always been rewarding getting athletes back to play after surgery or helping the occasional acute injury return to life. One of my most rewarding stories was a mother that was referred to me with severe low back pain and radiculopathy. After a bad experience with physical therapy, being hospitalized for an epidural and she was between needing surgery or not. After being referred to me from her pain management doctor in a last attempt we began our journey together. Over the course of 4 weeks she went from not being able to sit to driving to physical therapy herself! At home she was able to do more with her family and her children and though not completely pain free she took back her life! She was able to do functional activities again and established self measures to manage her flareups without surgery or medication! This progression and success is what makes my job so rewarding and why my career is such a huge part of my life!

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I have a small home studio where I work one on one with my patients to develop effective treatment plans as well as provide a variety of myofascial techniques, manual therapy and modalities for pain management. Some of the treatments I offer are dry needling, Graston technique and Class IV laser. My approach is a more “hands-on” approach so my patients usually come 1-2 times a week and I progress their home program as they progress through our treatment plan.

I am also an adjunct professor at my alma mater , University of Miami for 9 years now. I teach for the Kinesiology and Master’s of Athletic Training programs preparing our healthcare professionals for the future!

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

A lesson I had to unlearn was the traditional PT approach. In my previous years working as an outpatient therapist if a patient came in with a knee injury you treated that knee. Now as a professional I approach the patient from a total body perspective often performing gait analysis or pelvis symmetry assessments.

Do you think you’d choose a different profession or specialty if you were starting now?

As an undergraduate, I initially wanted to be an orthopedic surgeon. As a practitioner now though I do not regret that decision. Although I would have made significantly more haha I am fulfilled in my role to not just perform a surgery and send them on their way but rather being the one to walk with them through their recovery process.

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• Website: https://rehabconciergemiami.com/
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