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Dual degrees, dual approach.

Alex graduated from Widener University with both a Bachelor's in Psychology and a Doctorate in Physical Therapy. That combination directly shapes how he treats the two patient populations he specializes in.

Pain is never just physical. Fear of falling isn't just a balance problem. Alex's psychology background gives him a framework for treating the whole patient — the nervous system, the fear of movement, the learned protective patterns — not just the tissue.

Chronic pain expertise and patient education.

Alex has spent years developing deep expertise in the patient populations who benefit most from a hands-on, individualized approach: people living with chronic pain and older adults concerned about balance and falls. He has authored patient guides on chronic pain available for free through the clinic's downloadable resources, so patients can start finding relief on their own terms.

An expert diagnostician.

Alex has a distinctive strength as a diagnostic thinker. He takes time to consider how strength, mobility, movement patterns, confidence, previous experiences, and the nervous system may all be contributing to a patient's symptoms. This broad approach often surfaces contributing factors that a more focused evaluation might miss — the hip driving what looks like a knee issue, the thoracic spine influencing what looks like a shoulder issue, the nervous system component to what appears purely mechanical.

When Alex's assessment reshapes the treatment plan, patients often start seeing progress they'd been waiting for. These are the cases Alex loves most — the ones where the whole path forward changes.

Challenging the "never again" narrative.

Some of Alex's most rewarding work happens with patients who arrive carrying a hard prognosis: you'll never run again. You'll never ride again. You'll never get back to lifting. He's spent his career challenging those narratives — and helping patients return to activities they'd been told were behind them.

That doesn't mean promising a full return for every patient. It means honestly reassessing what's possible, respecting the body's actual capacity, and finding a genuine path back to something the patient loves. Sometimes it's the exact activity they missed. Sometimes it's a modified version of it. Either way, the goal is helping patients find something joyful they can still do — and often it's more than they've been told.

Barbell athletes, runners & martial arts.

Alex is a Black Belt in Ryukyu Kempo, earned as the second-youngest practitioner to reach that rank in his school's history. That martial arts background shaped one of TORQ's distinctive skills: patients with fall concerns learn how to fall safely and how to get back up from the floor.

Beyond martial arts, Alex has a genuine passion for barbell athletes and runners — populations he serves as someone who trains under a loaded bar himself and logs his own miles on the road.

An educator at every level.

At his core, Alex is an educator. He serves on the physical therapy advisory board at Rowan University at Burlington County, helping shape the curriculum that trains the next generation of clinicians across South Jersey.

Inside TORQ, Alex has personally mentored multiple members of the current clinical team as students. Tanner Stover, Keith Thomson, and Sandy Palmer each completed clinical rotations at TORQ where Alex was their clinical instructor, and each of them was trained in the specific techniques and clinical philosophy that shape care at TORQ. When patients ask what makes TORQ different, one of the honest answers is this: the owner is the teacher. And the teacher is in the building.

A home health perspective you can't fake.

Before joining TORQ, Kevin spent the majority of his career as a home health physical therapist, treating patients inside their homes, meeting people at their doorsteps. That's a different kind of clinical experience. When you're the therapist in someone's living room, you see the challenges they actually face: the step into the shower, the chair they can't stand up from, the kitchen sink they stoop over.

Home health trains you to treat the person, not the diagnosis. Kevin is a Moorestown alum who now lives in Riverton. His patients are, quite literally, his neighbors.

Complex cases are the job, not the exception.

Kevin specializes in post-operative recovery and complex medical cases — patients whose situations are rarely straightforward. Kevin doesn't treat complication as a reason to lower expectations. He treats it as a reason to pay closer attention.

Complex neurological and cardiovascular expertise.

Kevin has extensive experience treating patients living with Parkinson's disease, stroke, and cardiovascular disease. These populations require different assessment, different pacing, and different expectations around progress than routine orthopedic work does. Kevin has spent years building that expertise — in part through the thousands of blood pressures he has taken and interpreted in home health settings, where recognizing a patient's cardiovascular status is not an add-on to the job. It is the job.

Golf, water sports, and the activities that drive you.

Kevin brings personal experience across a wide range of activities — golf, sailing, crew, swimming, and water polo. That firsthand experience shapes how he treats athletes and active adults, because he understands both the joys and the specific pains that go along with each — the golf swing that catches a low back, the shoulder wear from years of stroke work in the pool, the hip and thoracic demands of a rowing seat.

Whatever activity drives you, Kevin is driven to help you get back to it.

Educators run in the family — patient education is core to the work.

One of the most important parts of a physical therapist's job is education: helping patients understand their bodies, their movement, and the specific strategies they can use to self-manage their condition between visits. Kevin comes to this with a real belief in the value of teaching — his mom and aunt are both career teachers, and his wife Danielle teaches first grade.

That proximity to educators also gives Kevin firsthand insight into the physical realities of the profession. Along with the many teachers he has treated in clinical practice, he has plenty of experience with the specific neck, back, and foot pain that comes with the job.

The therapist who reads the psychology books.

Tanner brings something distinctive to TORQ: a deep, self-driven curiosity about the psychological side of recovery. Outside of his clinical work, Tanner studies textbooks and current research on patient motivation, stress management, and self-image.

Pain, fear, and lost motivation aren't separate problems from stiffness, weakness, and instability. They're the same problem, seen from different angles. Tanner's job is to treat all of it at the same time.

For the patient ready to try a different approach.

Some patients come to TORQ having been through physical therapy before, feeling like they didn't fully connect with the work or didn't get the results they were hoping for. They often arrive with careful optimism, wondering if this time will be different.

Tanner is often the right therapist for those patients — not through pressure or pep talks, but through honest conversations, small measurable wins, and an approach that feels like a partnership rather than a prescription.

Measurement-driven, research-based.

Tanner is relentlessly results-driven. He takes measurements consistently, using each data point to fine-tune what's working and to show patients the progress they often can't feel yet. You will know whether you're making progress, in numbers, week over week.

Vestibular, balance & gait specialist.

Clinically, Tanner specializes in vestibular rehabilitation, balance disorders, and gait training. That includes dizziness and vertigo (including BPPV and post-concussion vestibular dysfunction), unsteadiness when walking, and history of falls or near-falls.

Chronic pain, explained in language you can act on.

Tanner has a particular gift for explaining chronic pain in ways that make sense to the patient. He walks patients through what's happening in their nervous system in language that respects their intelligence and restores their sense of agency.

Two decades of clinical range.

Jim brings more than 20 years of clinical experience to TORQ. And more importantly, he brings it across nearly every setting a physical therapist assistant can work in: skilled nursing (where he progressed from staff clinician to lead PTA to assistant director to rehab director), acute care hospital, sub-acute rehabilitation, pediatrics, and outpatient orthopedics. Very few clinicians have that kind of breadth. It shows in how he thinks about each patient in front of him.

Jim has treated patients at almost every point on the spectrum — from the elite athlete who wants to compete again to the post-op patient just relearning how to stand up from a chair.

Strength is how you keep your recovery.

Jim has spent two decades blending personal training and physical therapy, treating pain not just as a symptom to resolve, but as a signal that the body needs to become stronger and more resilient. Reducing pain is the start of Jim's work, not the finish.

Outpatient ortho, neuro, vestibular & headaches.

At TORQ, Jim brings this deep clinical background to outpatient orthopedic care, with particular emphasis on four areas: general orthopedics (spine, joints, post-op recovery, lower back pain refined over hundreds of patients), neurological rehab (stroke, MS, and complex neuro cases), vestibular therapy (dizziness, vertigo, and BPPV), and headaches — a specialty most PT clinics don't specifically address, but one that responds remarkably well to targeted manual and postural work.

Wrestling, martial arts & combat-sport rehab.

Jim has a genuine passion for wrestling and martial arts. He's helped many wrestlers and martial artists work through the specific demands and injuries of their sports — a distinctive population that Jim has genuinely helped.

The lightness in the room.

The room is just more fun when Jim is in it. Patients laugh. They relax. They come back because they want to, not just because they're supposed to. A lot of the reason TORQ patients describe the clinic as feeling like family is Jim.