We live and breath motion, movement and function.
Achieving patients performance goals and living a life without pain is our passion!

Each patient and each case is unique. The field of medicine is changing and we are rapidly seeing the formation of big corporation’s making it more and more difficult to find quality affordable care. Physical therapy is no different.

That’s why we staff our clinic with highly trained and experienced clinicians who continuously collaborate with researchers and physicians to establish cutting edge, individualized treatment plans.

From the moment you start therapy, you will feel comfortable with our staff and clinic. We work to schedule appointments with the same therapist to provide better continuity of care each visit. We believe the best comprehensive care is derived from the synergy between patient and clinician — A level of excellence and care, tailored to each individual in a friendly supportive environment.

Mark Baldwin, PT, CSCS, Owner

Mark is a highly regarded expert in orthopedic and sports rehabilitation, with particular specialization in ACL and shoulder injury recovery. He is known for helping athletes and active individuals of all ages return to high-level performance through personalized, progressive, and evidence-based care. Mark’s experience working with overhead athletes, post-surgical shoulders, and ACL reconstructions has made him a trusted resource for athletes, physicians, and coaches throughout the region.

Mark has an extensive background in treating performing artists, runners, and pediatric/adolescent athletes. He also continues to treat athletic hip cases—including labral injuries, dysplasia, psoas dysfunction, and post-operative hip arthroscopy—and remains active in research and education focused on reducing hip injuries in hockey players.

Mark has been a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) since 2001 and is active in the local athletic community. He regularly works with school teams and individual athletes, providing injury prevention strategies and performance enhancement training.

James Sanderson DPT, PT, Owner

James has extensive experience treating a variety of orthopedic, post-surgical, overuse, traumatic and athletic injuries whether it be the weekend warrior to professional athletes. His expertise is in Post-operative ACL Reconstruction, Sports Medicine, Vestibular Rehabilitation, Concussion Management, and Post-operative total joint replacement surgeries.

James has worked in several private and hospital-based outpatient clinics, and uses the combination of manual techniques, therapeutic exercises and functional/sport training activities to help improve his patient’s knowledge to become more functional, ensure they are able to live a healthy lifestyle, and to educate with a goal of injury prevention.

James is also proud to be a part of Move Together, a non-profit company that works to bring quality rehabilitation medicine to undeserved communities across the country and the world, by volunteering in the administration and program development of the company. James serves as the Director of Impact, which helps improve each program Move Together organizes each year. He also has a special interest in their Clinic Development programs and continues to travel to Guatemala to help build physical therapy clinics. While in Guatemala, his work with the Move Together aims to improve education for local physical therapists to create a sustainable change for better access to quality care in this underserved community.

Joe Adams, DPT, PT, Lead Physical Therapist

For the past 5 years, Joe has had experience treating a variety of orthopedic and sport injuries, as well as operative cases of the knee and shoulder. Surgeries that Joe enjoys treating include rotator cuff and shoulder labral repairs as well as ACL and MPFL reconstructions.

He has had past internships working in the strength and conditioning field with collegiate hockey, football and soccer players during their off-season training. Joe additionally observed several knee and hip joint surgeries during his inpatient clinical placement while also performing weekly rounds with physician assistants.

Joe played 4 years of club hockey at Sacred Heart University and also has experience coaching youth hockey. He continues to stay active by skiing and playing golf and ice hockey throughout the year. Joe focuses not only treating a patient’s symptoms but addressing all movement patterns to help them return to their activity and sport of choice.

Joe is passionate about treating an active population, and thinks one of the most important parts of rehab is assessing where a patient’s current abilities are, and making sure they are being adequately challenged at the first session.

Dave Barbato, PTA, CSCS, Certified Personal Trainer

Dave graduated from Framingham State with a bachelor’s in business administration management in 2006. He then pursued his passion for physical therapy and graduated the North Shore Community College Physical Therapy Assistant Program in 2015.

Dave prides himself on attention to detail in regards to proper movement patterns, technique and muscular synergy. Dave ‘s manual specialties include: instrument assisted soft tissue mobilization (IASTM), myofascial release, active release (ART) and trigger point release.

Dave has a background in powerlifting and enjoys using this knowledge to work with these types of patients. He has well over a decade of personal training experience and continues to train clients during the week. Dave’s goal is to give you the tools you need to correct your movement patterns in order to restore strength and function. It’s time to approach physical therapy smarter, so you can train harder!

Leah Jacobson, PT, DPT

Leah earned her Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Northeastern University, where she completed a six-year combined undergraduate and graduate program with a concentration in sports physical therapy. Throughout her academic career, Leah gained valuable hands-on experience working with athletes, serving as Assistant General Manager and Director of Operations for the Boston Pride of the Premier Hockey Federation (PHF) from 2018 to 2023.

Her clinical interests focus on working with middle school, high school, and collegiate athletes. While at Northeastern, she spent time in the athletic training room and collaborated closely with strength and conditioning coaches across several university sports teams. She also had the unique opportunity to shadow the athletic training staff for Northeastern’s men’s and women’s hockey teams.

Leah completed her final clinical rotation at our clinic and has been a dedicated member of our physical therapy team ever since. She is passionate about helping young, active individuals stay healthy, recover from injury, and return to peak performance.

In her free time, Leah enjoys running, lifting, and playing softball, tennis, and hockey.

JT LaPusata DPT, PT, CSCS

JT received his Bachelor of Science degree in Exercise Physiology in 2019 from the University of Massachusetts Lowell where he then went on to receive his Doctorate in Physical Therapy in 2022, finishing at the top of his class. Prior to that he became a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) through the National Strength and Conditioning Association and completed an internship at Mike Boyle’s Strength & Conditioning in 2018.

Over the years, throughout his clinical rotations, JT has treated a wide variety of patients including, collegiate, semi-professional, and recreational athletes as well as general population of all ages. He has a special interest in treatment of sports injuries, both surgical and non-surgical; biomechanical dysfunctions, and acute & chronic pain of major joints. He utilizes a wide array of corrective exercises and manual techniques to return his patients to high activity levels safely and quickly.

JT strongly believes in high quality, individualized care with effective communication to get patients back to doing what they love. His career is driven by the quote “The person with their health has 1,000 wishes, the person without it only has 1”.