Steve Politis, DPT

As a competitive CrossFit coach and athlete, I get exposed to a lot of different variants and fads when it comes to sports medicine. Everybody seems to have a seemingly unique way of approaching injury and prevention. The problem is most of them don’t work… especially in the long term.
After a few sessions with Steve, he identified the ROOT cause of my shoulder issue and helped with both immediate pain relief and the longterm solution. I recommend him for his services and refer quite a bit of clients to him.

Steve is an incredibly talented physical therapist. I can’t recommend him enough.
I saw Steve in the latter part of 2014 for a back injury I suffered from working out a few months prior. I had been seeing some other physical therapists for the injury, but it kept recurring. I was pretty sure it was a strained muscle in my thoracic spine, and I had dull pain most of the time in my mid back that would turn into shooting pain on a regular basis. After almost four months of on-​and-​off pain wasn’t seeing much progress at all. I had difficulty sleeping, too.
Steve took a very different approach than the previous therapists. Instead of just rushing into familiar movements immediately, he spent a considerable amount of time asking me questions about the injury and other injuries I had sustained in years past, and watching my entire body when I’d walk and twist my back. This gave him a much bigger picture into my physical state than my past therapists cared to see.
After a session or two of observing and doing some basic mobility, he explained in very simple terms how he thought my injury was actually related to my lumbar spine and related to a skiing injury I had sustained a few years ago. The goal became to increase the mobility of the lumbar spine to decrease the strains on my thoracic spine, and to also increase hip mobility. His insight to connect these effects was remarkable to me.
For the remainder of my treatment, Steve worked with me to develop very specific exercises to target mobility and increasing movement. And this was also remarkable since previously I had been focusing on restricting movement.
Steve’s exercise treatments seemed, at first, elaborate and unfamiliar, as they moved in multiple planes of motion. While complex, I stuck with these exercises as best I could, and every week he had new, fresh ideas on how to improve and expand on them. Many of them focus on getting the body to move in completely new ways to energize the areas of concern and develop mental awareness of the body.
After about 2 months of weekly treatment, the pain I had experienced had all but gone, and I was able to return to my regular exercise programs.
Steve is very thorough, easy to understand, and cheerful. I’ve never quite met anybody like him, and can’t thank him enough for his help.

Steve is literally as good as it gets. If I could give Steve a single golden star, to represent the highest possible recommendation that I could give to a person on Earth — I would have given it to him in a heartbeat.
My story of how I came to work with Steve is long, and you don’t want to hear it. I was in a gnarly motorcycle accident, and had been in and out of hospitals/​Orthos/​PTs offices for 6 months. I was getting NOWHERE, and not for lack of trying. The worst part was, I was in constant, excruciating pain.
Cue Steve.
First of all — Steve gave me the most thorough evaluation I had had, out of AT LEAST 30 medical professionals. That kind of thing puts you at ease, when your neck and spine and hip are all in constant spasm, you know? You want the people touching you to BE CAREFUL.
The staff with whom he works are professional, the facility is nice and they take extra steps to make communication/​scheduling/​payments easy and accessible (email reminders/​Square pay/​etc.).
Then there’s the part where the work that we did together, and the work he assigned for me to do at home… well…it worked.
I saw him once a week, and within 2 months, the constant throbbing headache that I had — went away. Within 4 months, I was jogging. I know you cannot possibly know HOW BIG A DEAL THIS IS — but I had had doctors telling me that I *might* be able to *consider* getting back to working out — at the 1.5 YEAR mark (of working with them).
If I believed in miracles, I’d tell you he was a miracle worker. But I don’t. I believe there are people who are exceptionally talented at what they do – and sometimes you are lucky enough to cross paths with them, when you need them the most.
Throughout the course of our working together, Steve not only demonstrated himself to be a careful, thorough evaluator — but an innovative and tireless partner in my road to healing. His professionalism and genius are only underscored by his trustworthiness and empathy.
You would be hard pressed to find a more valuable asset on your road to recovery.

I have been to countless physical therapists for a chronic shoulder injury and FINALLY found Dr. Steve post-​surgery. He is by far the best physical therapist I have ever worked with and I would recommend him to anyone seeking physical therapy. I have been seeing Dr. Steve for several months now and can confidently say that my shoulders feel the strongest and most stable they have ever felt. Dr. Steve always comes up with clever exercises that are challenging and incorporate full body/​dynamic movements. Dr. Steve is an all-​around great guy and incredible physical therapist — go see him if you are in need of PT!

My involvement with Steve was after I had colon cancer surgery.
With the surgery over and successful, Steve prepared a plan of exercise and conditioning to aid in the healing process and to eliminate scar tissue issues.
He demonstrated each exercise and had me do the routine to be sure that I was doing each correctly.
Steve is the consummate professional PT Doctor as evidenced by his medical degrees and Fellowships.
Steve talks through each session in plain language and does not use long medical terms to impress his patients.
I highly recommend Steve as your go to Physical Therapist.

I have been sending my athletes to Dr. Steve for the past year. You will be hard pressed to find a better physical therapist. He is extremely knowledgeable and educates you through the process

I’ve had the pleasure to know and work professionally with Dr. Steve for about 5 years. His dual fellowship trained credentials are distinctive, his knowledge and skills are exceptional, and his caring authentic. He’s an attentive listener, capable of finding and fixing complex and stubborn biomechanical problems. He’s earned my trust and confidence. It is a privilege to recommend him.

I went to Steve for chronic intermittent hip pain that had been addressed but never eradicated by other body professionals. Our one session was in three parts: Diagnosis; Treatment; Homework. During the Diagnosis portion he observed my walk in several variations of stride and position, then in Treatment he worked on my body in ways I had never experienced (straps and range of motion) and finally in Homework he taught me exercises and stretches specific to my ailment. I’ve been performing my Homework faithfully and feel much better. The ailment is not completely gone, however, so I am looking forward to additional sessions.
His work is totally unlike any other practitioner I’ve experienced and in addition to his impressive academic resume, he demonstrates extraordinary command of anatomy, motion and exercise, It doesn’t hurt that Steve appears to practice what he preaches and has the physique of a Greek god or that he’s funny, warm, smart and compassionate. I cannot recommend him highly enough.