Category Archives: News

Head Above Water -Preventing Fishing Injuries

From the Outside Bozeman Summer Issue 2024 by Kylie Metzger, DPT from Team Excel As the summer sun beats down, the bugs are popping, and you hit the water in earnest, injuries are likely not on your radar. But fly casting, walking in a river, and rowing puts stress and strain on your joints and muscles, […]

Complimentary Student Athlete Injury Consultations for ALL Manhattan High School, Manhattan Christian High School and Three Forks H.S. Student Athletes

Free Student Athlete Injury Consultations for ALL Manhattan High School, Manhattan Christian High School and Three Forks High School student athletes One-on-one session with Jackie Oliver, DPT, OCS or Lisa Palomaki, DPT in your local Excel Physical Therapy Manhattan, Montana clinic. Complimentary injury consultation sessions will help determine the best injury treatment options & plan to help return the […]

Consilience with John Onate Podcast – Nikki Kimball Part 2, Maintaining A Love For Running through Injury and Adversity

Please enjoy Consilience with John Onate’s Part 2 podcast with Nikki Kimball:  Maintaining A Love For Running through Injury and Adversity. Nikki uses a combination of humor, friendship, medical advice and compassion to overcome injury, aging and now the pandemic.  As John Onate says, there is a lot to learn from Nikki Kimball. The Excel PT Team completely […]

Consilience with John Onate Podcast Episode 12: Nikki Kimball Part 1, Living & Thriving With Depression

We are honoring National Suicide Prevention Week by sharing this podcast episode from Consilience with John Onate who features Nikki Kimball from the Excel PT Bozeman running clinic team. Nikki is one of the most competitive and successful Ultra-Endurance athletes in the history of Road and Mountain-Trail-Ultramarathon racing (and one of the kindest and smartest people we know). In this episode from the […]

Outside Bozeman’s “Push & Pull: Essential Ingredients for Running and Climbing” by AJ Sobrilsky, DPT, OCS

“Push & Pull…Essential ingredients for Running and Climbing” is AJ Sobrilsky’s latest article in the Outside Bozeman Summer issue. Read the article here: https://bit.ly/2EUnvJ2 AJ is a physical therapist in Excel PT’s Bozeman clinic who uses specialized gait and the Excel PT Climbing Lab to help treat injury and provide skilled performance assessments. #excelptmt #excelclimbinglab #excelrunningclinic #montana #bozeman #physicaltherapy #running […]

The Answer Is Load, What’s The Question? by AJ Sobrilsky, DPT, OCS

What unique times and circumstances we find ourselves in as climbers. The climbing gyms are closed, all the home gym products are sold out, and as a community we’ve put others best interest ahead of our passion and stayed local respecting the pleas to avoid traveling to popular climbing destinations. So it seems like no better time to take […]

Welcome Nikki Kimball, MSPT to the Excel PT Team!

Excel Physical Therapy team is proud to welcome Nikki Kimball, MSPT to the team. One-on-one specialized physical therapy with the ultra running expert dedicated to helping people. Nikki Kimball is a Physical Therapist, Runner’s World Health Advisory Board Member, 2008-2016, Professional Runner, and a RRCA Certified Running Coach. Nikki specializes in the treatment in running injuries and has […]

Jackie Oliver adds OCS to Physical Therapy Title…Team Excel is Celebrating!

Jackie Oliver, DPT, OCS passed the rigorous Orthopaedic Clinical Specialist (OCS) examination in March 2019. Orthopaedics is the specialty dealing with the musculoskeletal system: bones, muscles, cartilage, tendons, ligaments and joints. This examination covered everything pertaining to orthopaedic physical therapy from head to toe. In order to sit for the exam one must have completed at least 2,000 […]