Good PTs follow protocols. Great PTs think.
ACE helps physical therapists build the reasoning, confidence, and specialty skills to become the clinician patients seek out and colleagues refer to.
You already know there's more.
School gave you the foundation. Then real patients showed up: the headache that won't quit, the jaw pain nobody can explain, the case you quietly referred out. Great PTs aren't born knowing how to handle those. They're trained by people who do it every day.
The skills that set the best clinicians apart.
And how ACE helps you build every one.
They think, not just follow protocols
Great PTs reason through every case and know why each treatment works.
They take the tough cases
Headache, TMD, complex spine, kids, older adults. They're the PT others refer to.
They never stop growing
They learn from mentors who are still treating, not from slides.
Dr. Nick Rainey, PT, DPT
Nick is a board certified orthopaedic physical therapist, a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapists, and a Certified Cervical and Temporomandibular Therapist, with additional certification in pelvic health.
- Owner of three private practices in Sierra Vista, Arizona: Rainey Pain & Performance, Sierra Vista Headache and TMJ Specialists, and Access Therapy
- Mentor to students, residents, and fellows
- Adjunct faculty at Tufts University, Phoenix
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